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 ...

Caturday felid is moribund, but we continue today with three items and lagniappe. First, a professor found a kitten at ...

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 ...

Welcome to CaturSaturday, October 31, 2026: shabbos for Jewish cats, the last day of the month and Halloween! Here’s a short Tik Tok video from The Quack House featuring ducks and an appropriately ...

Nathaniel Comfort is identified by Wikipedia as “an American historian specializing in the history of biology. He is an ...

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, ...

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 ...

Welcome to a Hump Day (“Il giro di boa della settimana” in Italian): Wednesday, October 28, 2026 and National Chocolate Day .

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 ...