It’s ba-ack! Just in time for Darwin’s 200th birthday celebration worldwide. . . Past snook-cocking on evolution under attack by the Discovery Institute’s secret-agent spyscope Wedge Strategy: Florida Follies: Billions of Years and Dollars VANISH! Let’s Play Lose Ben Stein...

Words matter and statistics don’t lie, says the managing editor of Political Base. Then I ran Word’s readability tool. Guess what? Bush’s answers were spoken at 7th grade level. Obama’s at a 10th grade level. He’s got charts too, go see! This seems to bear out in cold h...

One-Sided Magnets, Ballsy Mice, Algae Genes, Blowing Hard, Cosmic Extremes, Froggy Discoveries, and the Minion Mailbag....

Just drove Young Son to Irish dance and musical theatre. Their performing arts studio is in a neighborhood shopping center with a sandwich shop and pizza place, a chinese food restaurant, a small computer shop — and a huge, very busy martial arts place with big glass walls across the front so ...

Frisky cock of the snook to Chris O’Donnell for flagging this as fascinating – “This seems like a really clever way of using data that is created unintentionally by the users of Google to see patterns in the world that would otherwise be invisible,â€� said Thomas W. Malone, a professor...

School IS Out of Control! No, this isn’t about the shocking stuff that happens in public elementary, middle and high schools, that’s old news. It’s about the education we all respect, even homeschool libertarians, you know, college! Pick a frame, any frame. What is a public univers...

I've been meaning to post about this set of studies for a while, but because it's relevant to Chapter 4 of Lakoff's The Political Mind, I figured I'd better get around to it before I write the review of that chapter. It's been a while, but in the past, I've talked a lot about new theories of moral j...

I swear I just saw this on cable news — Shepard Smith and some expert analyzing clips of her dishing on The View today, in her so-called “soft debut” for the general election. The video clips from the signature fun fist-bump and Go Beavers, to recounting her 10-year-old daughter...

Science doesn’t require “belief,” it just is. Whether or not I “believe” in gravity, we’re all still stuck to the Earth. I find it hard to “believe” that energy from the sun can travel through the vacuum of space, through the layers of atmosphere aroun...

Florida’s academic freedom bill is dead; long live academic freedom! I heard the good news on local public radio coverage of the end of session. Here’s the Discovery Institute’s version, poor things, bet they’re cross: Are Florida’s House Republicans Trying to Sabotage ...