Back to the 1950sfreethoughtblogs.com Here’s another blast from the past — my mother was on the junior high “yell squad” when she was 13 or 14 years old (she’s the one on the far left). Once again, as I…
PZ Myers
Biologist at the University of Minnesota Morris.
STEAM Education: Putting an A in your STEMwww.youtube.com Education Week Project 2025 post: https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/project-2025-and-the-gop-platform-what-each-says-about-k-12-in-a-2nd-trump-term/2024/07
Really, I’m expected to go through all this now?freethoughtblogs.com Yesterday, I spent hours going through massive piles of photo albums, gathering images to put on display at a memorial service. I learned a couple of things. Cheap mass market cameras from anytime …
That web is not tangled at allfreethoughtblogs.com I was up early, watching this juvenile Cross Orbweaver shuttling about, at work building her web. Meanwhile, the full-grown big mama spider above her had already constructed the classic spider web.…
I think I need to lie downfreethoughtblogs.com On a personal note, I was on a long drive today, from Morris to Minneapolis, and in particular, from St. Cloud to Minneapolis. Simultaneously, one of those massive monster midwest thunderstorms was…
Anyone else curious what the final solution might be?freethoughtblogs.com I haven’t read this new book by Jack Posobiec, so I don’t know how it ends. Can you guess? While you’re at it, maybe you can identify who the Unhumans are. If you don’t unde…
I found a friend in the kitchen sinkfreethoughtblogs.com Sinks are dangerous places for small creatures — they stumble in and then they can’t climb up and out over the smooth vertical walls. This little guy was fortunate that I found them and…
If it’s not one thing, it’s anotherfreethoughtblogs.com I woke up this morning with terrible sharp pains in my knee — I guess I’d been sleeping too hard. Naturally, an article titled Assessment of the efficacy of alkaline water in conjunctio…
Matthew “Choad” Walther gets a free pass at the NY Timesfreethoughtblogs.com Matthew Walther looks worse when he tries to clean himself up. The scrubby mustache, the sweater vest and tweedy suit, the necktie, the sloppy part — I’m no fashion plate myself, but ev…
These monsters are all deadfreethoughtblogs.com I hope you all like long tubular creatures, because that’s all I’ve got for you today. Maybe they’d be less horrifying if they had lots of legs? Here’s a 4-meter long salama…
Congratulations, UK!freethoughtblogs.com This has been a strange election to witness from our side of the pond. The polls were saying way in advance that Labour was going to win, but nobody quite believed it. I know I was cynical. Right u…
An outpost of reason in a county of conservativesfreethoughtblogs.com That’s my town! Unfortunately, they cropped out the university, which would be to the left of the top of the photo. I say unfortunately, because it comes from an article that’s all abou…
I have a phenomenal idea for a horror movie!freethoughtblogs.com It would much scarier and less stupid than this one, and much cheaper to make. Imagine a world in which most of the insects are dying, told from the perspective of the perpetrators, not the victims…
Ian Hislop on William Hogarth’s ‘Humours of an Election’www.youtube.com YouTube video by SoaneMuseum
A disappointing observationfreethoughtblogs.com Tonight, I set up a white sheet in my yard, with a bright LED pointing at it, to see what insects would be attracted to it. It was pathetic. After 45 minutes, 10pm to 10:45, all I found was a handf…
The A.I. Bubble is Bursting with Ed Zitronwww.youtube.com YouTube video by Adam Conover
I’ve read a few romance novels, some fantasy, and a lot of bad science fictionfreethoughtblogs.com I prefer all of them to loony flat earth trash. Candace Owens tries so hard to make women who read silly romance novels sound stupid, while she pretends to be an intellectual. Can you guys imagine …