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.
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Monday: Hili dialogue
Welcome to the first Monday of the month: it’s November 2, 2026, the last day before the Midterm Elections, and Plan Your Epitaph Day. I’m going to be incinerated, so I won’t have one, but have a look at the gravestone of Mel Blanc as shown in Wikipedia. As Wikipedia notes:…
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Movie: “Paging Hezbollah”
The movie “Paging Hezbollah” came out two days ago, and it’s a film worth noting, as Liel Leibovitz has done at the Free Press. I don’t know if it will be available on Netflix, but for sure you won’t find it at the local theater, nor will you see it reviewed in the NYT (I ……
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Readers’ wildlife photos
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 clicking on them. The October low tides had some challenging features. There was a strong wind…
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Sunday: Hili dialogue
NOTE: Did you set your clocks back last night? Daylight Savings Time ended at 1 a.m., which became midnight. You either got an extra hour of sleep (as I did, thank Ceiling Cat) or you’ll get an extra hour of leisure or work. Welcome to Sunday, November 1, 2026: we are now…
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Caturday felid trifecta: Man adopts kitten found at O’Hare airport; a jump-scaring Sphynx cat; a scientific study of cats, toxoplasmosis, and happiness
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 reader told me. First, the news headlines from NBC 5 (note the “cat distribution system”). Click…
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Saturday: Hili dialogue
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 carved pumpkin: It’s also Carve a Pumpkin Day, Girl Scout Founder’s Day, National…
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Polynesian navigation and Indigenous “ways of knowing”
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 Ocean to get to small, uninhabited islands. How did they do it? And, regardless of…
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Friday: Hili dialogue
Welcome to the end of the work week and the penultimate day of the month: Friday, October 30, 2026, the day before Halloween, and National Buy a Doughnut Day (note that it says nothing about eating them. But here’s a special doughnut I bought in 2005, along with 0thers for the…
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Readers’ wildlife photos
Today we have part 2 of Jan Malik’s photos from New York State (part 1 is here). Jan’s captions and IDs are indented, and you can enlarge his photos by clicking on them. Here’s his intro to both sets: It is a little tradition of mine to spend at least one day each fall watching…
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Thursday: Hili dialogue
Welcome to Thursday, October 29, 2026 and it’s National Cat Day! Here is a reader’s cat: Jango, staffed by Divy and Ivan in Florida. He is a male rescue tabby with a lovely ticked coat. Here he crosses his paws for you. It’s also International Carignan Day (that’s a wine grape)…
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Is Jesus back?
Curiously, yesterday my spam email included an announcement of Jesus’s return. The email was very long, so I’ll give about a quarter of it below. The funny thing is that I saw Jesus in the CVS store on the very same day! (See below; I had the presence of mind to take a photo.)…