As most readers know by nowHili—the beloved cat of Andrzej and Malgorzata, and then of Andrzej after Malgorzata passed away—died yesterday afternoon, or rather was “put to sleep” by ...

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.

The movie “Paging Hezbollah” came out two days ago, and it’s a film worth noting, as Liel Leibovitz has done at the Free ...

I was going to put this in my critique of Abdul El-Sayed yesterday, but forgot. Fortunately, Bret Stephens, in his latest NYT column, alludes to something like what I’m about to say: This is ...

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 ...

Welcome to CaturSaturday, October 31, 2026: shabbos for Jewish cats, the last day of the month and Halloween! Here’s a short Tik Tok video from The Quack House featuring ducks and an appropriately ...

Caturday felid is moribund, but we continue today with three items and lagniappe. First, a professor found a kitten at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, and I didn’t hear of it until a ...

UC Davis math professor Abby Thompson has sent us a batch of lovely marine invertebrate photos from California.  Abby’s captions and IDs are indented, and you can enlarge her photos by ...

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 ...

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

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 ...