Pharyngula has unearthed a nice little creationist rip-off, this time by The Other Side.

Lying, stealing, and misrepresentation are common creationist values, I guess — Allah must endorse theft. They have no intellectual merit that they can contribute, so they have to resort to pilfering from ev...

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Back, and while I catch my breath and write something about it, here’s a little something to be getting on with.

What is your favourite song?
‘Expresse Yowerselfe’ by NWA.

Geoffrey Chaucer answers Norman Geras' penetrating questions.

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A gentle stroll among the seed of his seed was just what he needed. He called out for Jesus, and the Bolivian manservant appeared at his elbow.

Thanks, Luigi, for feeding my codophobia: Closing the book on the lousiest story ever sold.

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Some excellent hauls from the latest Tangled Bank. I've chosen two to share.

• Circadiana has a gentle, but extremely perceptive, assessment of a paper that, as he put it, “got some traction” because it deals with the sexy subject of circadian rhythms. Except that it doesn’t, as he explains so...

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That much-limned innate Italian sense of style was greatly in evidence last weekend, in the beautiful little hill-top town of Sermonetta. It seems to be the time of year for first communions, about which I know only what I just read in Wikipedia, which doesn’t tell me whether this is in fact a t...

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