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The “Get a life” edition On July 24, 2014, Daily Kos observed the forty-fifth anniversary of the conclusion of the Apollo 11 moon miss...

Praying instead of studying? I'm not sure what Bob Christopher was doing in college during his years as a biology major, but it sure...

Idiots write letters There's nothing like a successful space mission to set off the smugly ignorant. “Think about the children !” th...

Ommmmmmmmmmmm Leon Lederman has a lot to answer for. He famously branded the hypothetical Higgs boson as the “God particle” in the titl...

Odd man out in the cold John Christy's research paper made it into the news media. Most scientists get to work in obscurity, but clima...

A left-handed backhand tribute David Berlinski has brilliantly resolved the sovereign conundrum of his existence: How can he remain mod...

The meanies justify their ends Someone had been busy. Each car in the parking lot had its own copy of an anonymous flier. I pulled the doc...

Bringing reason to a full stop The back page of a recent Answers Update (Vol. 18, No. 6) carries a bright little apologetic nugget by Ken...

The power of truncated quotes I was browsing through Orac's Respectful Insolence when I stumbled across his post on the latest inanit...

The Sunday funnies Sunday mornings are a good time for enjoying the funnies. I am not, however, limiting myself to what I discover in the ...

Irrelevant ancient history Today is July 20. Remember when Olin Teague kept trying to make a national holiday of it? Of course you don...

It blows through Joe's ears Everyone knows Joe Barton now. He's the Republican congressman who apologized to British Petroleum be...

Founder of the modern skeptics movement Sometimes little fragments of memory get stuck in your mind with preternatural clarity. I recall o...

The Q&A session Sacramento City College has pride of place as one of the oldest community colleges in California. The campus is full of ...

PZ is wrapping it up The frenetic California tour is in its final stages. PZ Myers was booked into Sacramento City College for today, Stanfo...

The Q&A session You may have heard the expression that some town is merely a “wide place in the road.” This applies in a major way to th...