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The Science of the Christmas Truce
Trench warfare in WWI Ninety-six years ago on Christmas eve, amidst the trench-fighting carnage and machine-gun slaughter so bitterly remembered as the War to End All Wars, German, Scottish and French...
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Rape-whistling in the Dark
Credit: Richard Wheeler (Zephyris), via Wikipedia Not that the title “Darwin’s Rape Whistle” gave me much cause for hope, but I knew that Jesse Bering’s new article on Slate would end in a mess when...
View ArticleMore Criticism of Anti-rape “Adaptations”
My previous post found fault with Jesse Bering’s over-enthusiastic Slate review of scattered evolutionary psychology papers that might suggest women had evolved certain traits that might help safeguard...
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Bin Laden Deathers: The Next New Thing in Denial
Jamie L. Vernon, who has been a terrific recent addition to Chris Mooney’s The Intersection as a guest blogger, has a new post that should intrigue any of us who have been exasperated by the...
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The Rapture of Daylight Saving Time
It's 6 p.m. Do you know where your Rapture is? (via Wikipedia; Free Art License) So much has already been written and ridiculed about the prediction that this coming Saturday, May 21st, will be the...
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The Inhuman Response to Rebecca Watson
Next time you’re in an elevator, don’t stare at the other passengers—especially if they’re strangers. Even if you think you’ve noticed some spark of connection and that your unblinking gaze conveys...
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The Rat’s Revenge
Give the people what they want, I say. And so in that spirit, I’m happy to now be able to present something for which my critics have long clamored: video of me being attacked by angry rats. Well, not...
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2011: The Year in Me
Having misplaced my anti-narcissism drugs earlier this week, I can’t see any reason not to usurp the year-end retrospective trope and look back at some of what I’ve most enjoyed writing in 2011. I...
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The cultural challenge to climate science writing
Credit: woodleywonderworks, via Flickr (CC-BY) My previous posts on the inevitable politics of climate science, I was flattered to see, figured into a terrific article this week by David Roberts of...
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