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 ...

NOTE: Did you set your clocks back last night? Daylight Savings Time ended at 1 a.m., which became midnight. You either got ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...