Don’t you see? They removed the word “monkey” because that’s not actually the reservoir of concern (and it also gives a false sense of security to people from countries with rodents but no monkeys). Death, doom, and sex are even less accurate than monkey. Too many people can’t understand biology.

No, that was a different congressman from Louisiana (John Fleming). He doesn’t currently hold any role in any government or public service agency.

This trope needs to go. There is real, genuine bias against gay people. When you brush it off as, “The real bigots are gay people,” you yourself are being a bigot.

He’s probably required to have direct deposit, and just one or two of his paychecks would build him up above the reportable limit. There’s no possible way that he hasn’t already violated the rules. He’s hiding income... so it’s very weird that this Jezebel writer took all of his statements at face value, as if that…

I do hope that most readers agree with you. Most readers here never study birds... and they can’t even identify more than a few obvious ones like turkeys and blue jays.

You’re writing about scientific names (“Homo sapiens”) but this article is solely about common names used by English-language speakers (“human”). 

The hyperlinked press release is very direct about this. “Scientific names will not be changed.” The whole point of this effort is to find new English language names, which is why they use the phrase “English bird names” and other similar phrases many, many, many times throughout. They also explain that they’re not…

Let’s all stop doing the same with “our forefathers” and “what would Jesus do?” People pull these supposed heroes into their arguments without first doing the littlest bit of research.

This story is a mess.  If she said “n-word” then she did not say the word itself.  This looks like it was written in less than five minutes and with almost no thought.  Y’all just really desperately need more page views, huh?

I used to work for my state’s environmental agency. A few times a week, I would receive an email from a public relations specialist or an attorney from one of the big industry trade associations: “Please repeal the current regulation and replace it with the following language,” and then there would be a whole…

The only people you have on your side are religious zealots. The science says you’re wrong. Trans people are real. Gay and lesbian people are real too. They’re all minorities, but they are indeed a natural part of human diversity. If you want to argue that your religion considers them sinners, go ahead. But you can’t…

Escaping a planet’s gravity is harder (and more resource-expensive) than just using gravity to your advantage.

Yikes, no. We are tired of people with no science background pretending to be scientists. We already had to watch covid, the treatments, and the vaccines. And with abortion, fetuses, the FDA, and more, it just never ends. Just stop. Please give biologists a break. (It’s noted: many of your other comments are nonsense…

“Never again” is a great slogan, but it’s only a slogan. It’s also completely insincere. Israel just funded and supplied the genocide against Armenians, and then less than a month later they begin targeting hospitals and mosques in a second genocide. Twice in a month! “Never again” my butt. They’re such complete…

I just watched another interview with him in which he blames gun violence on... teaching evolution in high school biology classes.

Nonsense. The actual political spectrum is skewed. The right is farther to the right than the left is to the left. Also, AOC has never been speaker, has never been nominated as speaker, has never tried to be speaker. My god, you’re dumb. We do need more sanity!

Is Montana allowed to ban travel by 19- and 20-yr. olds who want to drink in Saskatchewan? Is there any precedent for any border state from Washington to Maine doing anything like this in the last 200 years?

It doesn’t necessarily mean that, but it can sometimes mean that. Congress has passed laws like that many dozens of times. Taxpayers cover corporate debt so that there are fewer disruptions. (Supposedly, the “benefit” to us is more stability in the economy. But there are plenty of arguments to use that money in other…

That’s the thing — the original website was an all-Harvard version of HotOrNot. He wanted to be able to rate and rank the women at his university based on their appearance (the “face book” of the freshman class had already been published by Harvard) all from the convenience of his year dorm room. The origin is…

That looks like the Sinai Peninsula and the Suez Canal.