Caturday felid is moribund, but we continue today with three items and lagniappe. First, a professor found a kitten at ...

One of the most-cited empirical achievements of indigenous peoples is the ability of Polynesians, Melanesians, and Micronesians to navigate their way across vast, unmarked expanses of the Pacific ...

Nathaniel Comfort is identified by Wikipedia as “an American historian specializing in the history of biology. He is an associate professor in the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins ...

In my critique yesterday of Nathaniel Comfort’s take on The Selfish Gene, I forgot to mention one important supplement to evolution’s “Modern Synthesis,” though I believe a reader caught it. This is ...

Welcome to a Hump Day (“Il giro di boa della settimana” in Italian): Wednesday, October 28, 2026 and National Chocolate Day .

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 ...

Dogs are used by first responders and the military for a number of tasks. Their keen sense of smell, speed, and keen hearing give them advantages over even drones or robots, and, according to Grok, ...

Tuesday, October 27, 2026 and National American Beer Day. Here are the 10 top-rated American beers from the reliable Beer ...

We are of course lacking readers’ wildlife photos, though I don’t know why. If you have some good ones, please send them in.

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