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.
This is one of the worst papers on genetics I’ve seen in the last 15 years, and although it’s from 2019, this same kind of palaver keeps coming around again and again, and in exactly the same form. And so when a reader sent me the link, I reacted instinctively. The laws of physics mandated … Continue reading In an abysmal article, Nautilus dismisses the importance of genes
Greetings on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, a Hump Day, or, as they say in Nepali, “हम्प दिन”. It’s National Jelly-Filled Donut Day, a decent pastry so long as the filling is good. The best version I’ve had is actually the Polish variant, pączki. You can get them in Chicago since we’re the second largest Polish town … Continue reading Wednesday: Hili dialogue
Good morning on the first Sunday of the month, February 6, 2022: National Chopsticks Day. The Chinese don’t use knives or similar implements because of the way the food is prepared: you don’t need to “butcher at the table.” In fact, I always eat rice from a bowl with chopsticks, even if I’m not eating … Continue reading Sunday: Hili dialogue
In today’s Easter edition of the NYT, Anglican priest Tish Harrison Warren interviews the Jesus expert and Anglican bishop, N. T. Wright, introduced this way: Perhaps no one on earth has studied that event [the Resurrection] and the subsequent responses to it more than N.T. Wright. He serves as senior research fellow at Wycliffe Hall, … Continue reading Tish Harrison Warren interviews an Anglican bishop who says the Resurrection was real, and he has evidence
At this link you’ll find two letters from Harvard administrators about the war. The first, from October 9, is signed by virtually all Harvard administrators and is what the tweet by Pinker below, with the linked letter, is aimed at. Harvard faculty have taken severe issue with what the Harvard administrators said. The second statement, … Continue reading Harvard weasels on the Israel/Palestine conflict; many of its scholars push back
I was deeply disturbed to read that James Lindsay, who styled himself a liberal, was so incensed at wokeness that he declared he was voting for Trump. I called this “cutting off his nose to spite his face.” But according to this new Atlantic article by Yascha Mounk, Lindsay’s not the only one who did … Continue reading Yes, wokeness drove people to Trump. But will it decrease under Biden?
In a new piece in the Dailiy Beast, authors Komi German and Greg Lukianoff define what they mean by cancel culture (the best definition I’ve yet seen), show how pervasive cancel culture is (and worsening), and identify the Perpetrators of Cancellation. There is, however, one flaw connected with identifying the perps. Both authors work for … Continue reading What on earth is “cancel culture”?
We’re past the apogee of the week, so it’s now Thursday, June 3, 2021, National Egg Day. Eggs are good for you! If you want something not so good for you, it’s also National Moonshine Day (in the U.S., “moonshine” is illegally distilled and usually vile whiskey. Further, it’s Chimborazo Day, celebrating the mountain in … Continue reading Thursday: Hili dialogue
