I'm in love. With Tim Minchin. Of Storm fame. When his previous creations left me a big fan, of the opinion that he should be POTUS, and...

In eight grade a teacher of mine highly recommended Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance . I never read it, thou...

Idiotic is the key word in the title. Perry S. Marshall had a Google ad here on the left, and it led to his Random Mutation Generator . Ente...

Here's a small sample of the ridiculous spam I get on a daily basis. I just deleted 56 comments that were entirely off-topic, many of wh...

Not only does Jefferson indeed pwn Palin so hard on the issue of America being a Christian nation, as highlighted in this clip of Countdown ...

These are going to be fun times. Monday April 26th is Boobquake day . Women, join in showing off some cleavage to set off an earthquake. Or ...

Pleiotropy made a list! Not ResearchBlogging Awards, or anything that fancy, but on a blog. Just some blog. *sigh* A blog on a site that ped...

Rush Limbaugh would - and then he did - blame Obama's health care reform for the volcanic ash cloud over Europe. Simple idea: God hates ...

Wulfmorgenthaler again get the facts wrong (previously on evolution ) Einstein did get very popular with the ladies as a result of his fame...

Bonus: homemade video included! Years ago I was vexed by creationists claiming that because most mutations (that aren't neutral) are del...

I have a definition for art that I think always works. I'm not an artist, I'm not knowledgeable about art, and I frankly don't c...

Out of the blue, someone going by Techieguy is liveblogging some talk somewhere by someone who is a creationist. Initially posted here on P...

Satoshi Kanazawa runs an interesting blog that has one major, major flaw: you cannot comment on his posts. That is in addition to whatever e...

American helicopter opens fire on twelve men standing in broad daylight in a square in Baghdad. Video released on Wikileaks (news story). S...

The new edition(s) of the general science blog carnival Scientia Pro Publica is up today, on Andrew's blog, 360 Degree Skeptic , and on...

Reminder to self that I may want to apply for this scholarship once I am at the postdoctoral level: Erasmus Mundus scholarships for visiting...

Paleontologists a little busy-bodies. Within the last couple of weeks several new finds of fossils have been reported: Seitaad ruessi In Uta...

Denyse O'Leary is not just a teedy old granny with a penchant for ID and any other kind of creationism that "disproves" evolut...

One extremist islamist "group" has ordered radio stations in the Somali capital of Mogadishu to stop playing music. It is against ...

Carnival of Evolution #22 is now live at Beetles In The Bush . Go enjoy the 26 posts on evolution. If everyone (or, alternatively, just PZ) ...