Jerry Coyne
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In the latest "Jesus and Mo," Mo speaks wisely but then immediately becomes a hypocrite.
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Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ the argumentum ad hominem
Today’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “tricksy”, features a trademark tendency of Mo: he criticizes something, and then Jesus then points out Mo’s hypocrisy, for what he’…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In the latest "Jesus and Mo," Mo speaks wisely but then immediately becomes a hypocrite.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, Hili is being extra cuddly.
Hili: I’m not here to convert you.
Andrzej: But…
Hili: I only came to sit beside you.
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Hili: I’m not here to convert you.
Andrzej: But…
Hili: I only came to sit beside you.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, Hili is being extra cuddly.
Hili: I’m not here to convert you.
Andrzej: But…
Hili: I only came to sit beside you.
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Hili: I’m not here to convert you.
Andrzej: But…
Hili: I only came to sit beside you.
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This Fench Jewish boy was gassed to death as soon as he arrived in Auschwitz. He was four years old. Had he lived he would be 88 today.
26 November 1937 | French Jewish boy, Samek Erlich, was born in Paris.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 16 August 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 16 August 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
This Fench Jewish boy was gassed to death as soon as he arrived in Auschwitz. He was four years old. Had he lived he would be 88 today.
Steve Pinker and Marian Tupy go after the notion that we need religion to have good modern societies, and also after the claim that things were better in the olden days than they are now.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Steve Pinker and Marian Tupy go after the notion that we need religion to have good modern societies, and also after the claim that things were better in the olden days than they are now.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili pretends to be helping out Andrzej (look at that tongue!):
Hili: Don’t you think it’s time for a break from work?
Andrzej: Maybe that’s a good idea.
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Hili: Don’t you think it’s time for a break from work?
Andrzej: Maybe that’s a good idea.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili pretends to be helping out Andrzej (look at that tongue!):
Hili: Don’t you think it’s time for a break from work?
Andrzej: Maybe that’s a good idea.
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Hili: Don’t you think it’s time for a break from work?
Andrzej: Maybe that’s a good idea.
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It was a hungry squirrel that bit me, a bloody byproduct of it trying to grab a hazelnut.
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It was a hungry squirrel. . .
Trigger warning: blood! Yesterday I posted this photo of an injury I sustained, and asked readers to guess what caused it: Given what readers know of me, the most common answers were “bit by …
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November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It was a hungry squirrel that bit me, a bloody byproduct of it trying to grab a hazelnut.
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Nathan Lents and Agustín Fuentes use the "Argument from Complexity" to claim that sex isn't binary. It's the same old tired and misguided claims that Fuentes has been making for aeons, but there is no new biology (or philosophy) here.
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Surprise! Agustín Fuentes and Nathan Lents criticize the sex binary
I don’t know how many times Agustín Fuentes, an anthropology professor at Princeton, will keep repeating the same arguments about why biological sex isn’t binary (see these posts on my …
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November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Nathan Lents and Agustín Fuentes use the "Argument from Complexity" to claim that sex isn't binary. It's the same old tired and misguided claims that Fuentes has been making for aeons, but there is no new biology (or philosophy) here.
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Only one species of cockroach in a hundred is associated with humans, but they still inspire disgust. Yet many serve a valuable function in nature: they are pollinators. An explanation buy Athayde Tonhasca Júnior.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Only one species of cockroach in a hundred is associated with humans, but they still inspire disgust. Yet many serve a valuable function in nature: they are pollinators. An explanation buy Athayde Tonhasca Júnior.
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All the news that's fit to print and, in Dobrzyn, Hili huddles under Andrzej's jacket (he reports that she's getting "very cuddly"):
Hili: I know you have to concentrate;that’s why I’m trying not to disturb you.
Andrzej: Thank you, sweetheart.
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Hili: I know you have to concentrate;that’s why I’m trying not to disturb you.
Andrzej: Thank you, sweetheart.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
All the news that's fit to print and, in Dobrzyn, Hili huddles under Andrzej's jacket (he reports that she's getting "very cuddly"):
Hili: I know you have to concentrate;that’s why I’m trying not to disturb you.
Andrzej: Thank you, sweetheart.
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Hili: I know you have to concentrate;that’s why I’m trying not to disturb you.
Andrzej: Thank you, sweetheart.
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This is a good one!
"It really is a travesty that England, named after the Angles, speaks English and speakers are called Anglophone, when it could have been Sexland, named after the Saxons, speaking Sexish and speakers are called Saxophone"
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This is a good one!
A fair number of people think there's good evidence of UFOs, with some maintaining that the US government actually HAS alien spaceships. There's a new documentary out about this, but I won't believe it until they actually show us a flying saucer.
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The new kerfuffle about UFOs, and why believers resemble religionists
I’ve recently heard a lot about UFOs, mainly because I have a friend who seems to think they’re real. I’ve watched the videos taken from planes supposedly showing alien craft, and…
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November 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
A fair number of people think there's good evidence of UFOs, with some maintaining that the US government actually HAS alien spaceships. There's a new documentary out about this, but I won't believe it until they actually show us a flying saucer.
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Bill Maher's latest politics-and-comedy bit once again wonders why we have to ghost people on the other side of the political spectrum.
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Bill Maher’s New Rule: let’s try to get along without effacing our differences
Here’s Bill Maher’s latest comedy-and-politics bit from “Real Time,” called “New Rule: The Banishing Act.” It is part of a series he’s made asking for comi…
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November 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Bill Maher's latest politics-and-comedy bit once again wonders why we have to ghost people on the other side of the political spectrum.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, the discussion gets confusing.
Hili: I’m not sure we really need to import everything from China.
Andrzej: We do, because we believe we’re fighting climate change.
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Hili: I’m not sure we really need to import everything from China.
Andrzej: We do, because we believe we’re fighting climate change.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, the discussion gets confusing.
Hili: I’m not sure we really need to import everything from China.
Andrzej: We do, because we believe we’re fighting climate change.
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Hili: I’m not sure we really need to import everything from China.
Andrzej: We do, because we believe we’re fighting climate change.
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This post gives recordings of three great poets--Yeats, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas--reading their stuff, but in a monotone without expression or feeling. I'm baffled by this, as the three poems shown COULD be read much better.
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Why can’t poets read their stuff properly?
I don’t go to poetry readings, but I read a fair amount of poetry—mostly older stuff. (To me, poetry ceased to be good when it became unrhymed prose with variable line spacing.) So my title …
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November 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This post gives recordings of three great poets--Yeats, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas--reading their stuff, but in a monotone without expression or feeling. I'm baffled by this, as the three poems shown COULD be read much better.
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Three--count them, three--cat-related items, plus lagniappe, all for a sunny Caturday.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Three--count them, three--cat-related items, plus lagniappe, all for a sunny Caturday.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
All the news that's fit to print, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili has turned killer:
Hili: I killed a mouse.
Andrzej: Why?
Hili: You could call it a conflict of interest.
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Hili: I killed a mouse.
Andrzej: Why?
Hili: You could call it a conflict of interest.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
All the news that's fit to print, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili has turned killer:
Hili: I killed a mouse.
Andrzej: Why?
Hili: You could call it a conflict of interest.
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Hili: I killed a mouse.
Andrzej: Why?
Hili: You could call it a conflict of interest.
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Thrushes from British Columbia and Ireland, photographed by Paul Handford.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Thrushes from British Columbia and Ireland, photographed by Paul Handford.
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All the news that's fit to print and, in Dobrazyn, Hili's environment has changed.
Hili: What’s this?
Andrzej: A new cover for the old sofa.
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Hili: What’s this?
Andrzej: A new cover for the old sofa.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
All the news that's fit to print and, in Dobrazyn, Hili's environment has changed.
Hili: What’s this?
Andrzej: A new cover for the old sofa.
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Hili: What’s this?
Andrzej: A new cover for the old sofa.
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Natasha Hausdorff on the U.N.'s approval of Trump's Gaza plan.
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Natasha Hausdorff explains the UN resolution approving Trump’s plan for Gaza
Here’s Natasha Hausdorff (legal director of the UK Lawyers for Israel) explaining, in an 11-minute video, the U.N. Security Council’s resolution approving Trump’s plan for ending …
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November 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Natasha Hausdorff on the U.N.'s approval of Trump's Gaza plan.
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It also smells REALLY BAD.
Earlier on the expedition we found the most beautiful flower, and here, my friends, is the biggest: Rafflesia arnoldi seen in full bloom today in the Sumatran jungle. This is the largest flower on earth and one of the greatest wonders of the natural world.
November 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
It also smells REALLY BAD.
Photos by Ephriam Heller on the Aurora Borealis taken in Alaska (and a few mammals):
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November 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Photos by Ephriam Heller on the Aurora Borealis taken in Alaska (and a few mammals):
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