Why Evolution Is True – 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.

Did you spot the frog in the photo by Bob Woolley this morning? I’ll put the original photo up first, and then the reveal:

Of course newspapers are allowed to have editorial opinions, usually expressed in op-eds written by the editors, but good newspapers are supposed to remain ideologically and politically neutral in their coverage of the news itself.  And in America the supposedly best newspaper, the New York Times (NYT), expresses its philosophy in a famous motto: “All the news that’s...

This is going to be a hard one.  Reader Bob Woolley emailed me on Saturday with photos and the following information:

I was hiking yesterday at the “Blue Wall Preserve,” a joint project of The Nature Conservancy and vari...

Welcome to Sunday, September 20. Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, begins at sundown tonight. If you’re an observant Jew, you can’t drink or eat (not even water), nor can you ykiss your wife. ...

We have three items this week, though Caturday Felids is moribud because of lack of interest. If comments are not in the two figures here, I’m giving up, and for real.

First, we have a short report from Canada of two “adventure cats”, Fitz and Vlad.  These are now becoming so common that I think that many cats can, with proper training, can become Adventure Cats.