The movie “Paging Hezbollah” came out two days ago, and it’s a film worth noting, as Liel Leibovitz has done at the Free ...

UC Davis math professor Abby Thompson has sent us a batch of lovely marine invertebrate photos from California.  Abby’s captions and IDs are indented, and you can enlarge her photos by ...

Caturday felid is moribund, but we continue today with three items and lagniappe. First, a professor found a kitten at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, and I didn’t hear of it until a ...

One of the most-cited empirical achievements of indigenous peoples is the ability of Polynesians, Melanesians, and Micronesians to navigate their way across vast, unmarked expanses of the Pacific ...

Nathaniel Comfort is identified by Wikipedia as “an American historian specializing in the history of biology. He is an associate professor in the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins ...

Curiously, yesterday my spam email included an announcement of Jesus’s return. The email was very long, so I’ll give about a quarter of it below. The funny thing is that I saw Jesus in the CVS store ...

Welcome to a Hump Day (“Il giro di boa della settimana” in Italian): Wednesday, October 28, 2026 and National Chocolate Day . Here are some profiteroles from one of my favorite restaurants in Paris, ...

In my critique yesterday of Nathaniel Comfort’s take on The Selfish Gene, I forgot to mention one important supplement to evolution’s “Modern Synthesis,” though I believe a reader caught it. This is ...

Although John McWhorter may have been taken on board the New York Times as a reliably “heterodox” columnist (remember his bestselling critique of wokeism Woke Racism: How a New Religion has Betrayed ...

It’s also Boxer Shorts Day, National Black Cat Day (in the UK), National Parmigiano Reggiano Day, National Potato Day, and Sylvia Plath Day, celebrating the poet’s birthday. Here’s an interview with ...

Dogs are used by first responders and the military for a number of tasks. Their keen sense of smell, speed, and keen hearing give them advantages over even drones or robots, and, according to Grok, ...