The other day I expressed dismay that NYT writer John McWhorter produced a piece heartily endorsing land acknowledgments (“LA ...

Welcome to Sunday, October 25: the Sabbath for goyische cats and National Greasy Foods Day. Below you see your choice of meat ...

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 Friday, October 23, 2026, with November coming on fast. And it’s National Mole Day, celebrating not the animal but the unit of measurement. Note that the holiday is time-specific, spanning ...

Since I had my first disastrous cataract operation on Sept. 22 (not the doctor’s fault!), I haven’t been able to read a book on paper. I can read the computer if I close my right eye because the right ...

As I’ve mentioned, posting will be light for a week or so as I have to deal with eye issues. Today I go to the retinologist and have little time to post, but as I was perusing my list of favorite ...

Welcome to Sunday, October 18, 2026, sabbath for goyische cats, and National Exascale Day, which celebrates this: Founded by CRAY, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, National Exascale Day takes ...

If you have good photos or videos with a wildlive/biology theme, send them in. Today we have a short but lovely video from ...

Welcome to Friday, October 16, 2026 and it’s Global Cat Day! Here is a celebratory drawing, courtesy of ChatGPT, and below it ...

Here I contend that although there is no “genocide” being committed by Israel against Gaza or Palestinians as a whole, Russia is committing genocide of the Ukrainians. That the former ...

Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats. *Several readers have sent me articles ...