Why Evolution Is True

Today we have part 2 of Jan Malik’s photos from New York State (part 1 is here).

Welcome to Thursday, October 29, 2026 and it’s National Cat Day!

Curiously, yesterday my spam email included an announcement of Jesus’s return.

In my critique yesterday of Nathaniel Comfort’s take on The Selfish Gene, I forgot to mention one important supplement to evolution’s “Modern Synthesis,” though I believe a reader caught it.

We are of course lacking readers’ wildlife photos, though I don’t know why.

Today’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “charming,” came with a reference: Here’s the article about AI religio-bots.

Welcome to a Hump Day (“Il giro di boa della settimana” in Italian): Wednesday, October 28, 2026 and National Chocolate Day.

Nathaniel Comfort is identified by Wikipedia as “an American historian specializing in the history of biology.

Welcome to The Cruelest Day: Tuesday, October 27, 2026 and National American Beer Day.

There are a number of signs that the email below is a scam, including this one: . . . but the funniest one is the name.

Dogs are used by first responders and the military for a number of tasks.

Welcome to another “work” week: it’s Monday, October 26, 2026, and National Pumpkin Day.

This keeps happening to me and, I suspect, to anyone who’s written a book that’s gotten some notice.

The other day I expressed dismay that NYT writer John McWhorter produced a piece heartily endorsing land acknowledgments (“LA”s).

Welcome to Sunday, October 25: the Sabbath for goyische cats and National Greasy Foods Day.

We have the usual three items today plus a bit of lagniappe.

Yes, yes, a Caturday felid post is coming. . .

Welcome to Catur Saturday, October 24, 2026, shabbos for Jewish cats and Food Day, during which you’re suppose to think about stuff like a healthy diet, starvation in parts of the world, animal welfare, and so on.

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 Black America?)

Welcome to Friday, October 23, 2026, with November coming on fast.

Welcome to Thursday, October 22, 2026 and National Nut Day.

Since I had my first disastrous cataract operation on Sept. 22 (not the doctor’s fault!)

Today’s new Jesus and Mo strip, called “spying”, breaks the wall to bring the artist right into the strip.

Welcome to a Hump Day (“El ombligo de la semana” in Spanish): Wednesday, October 21, 2026, and National Reptile Awareness Day.

As I’ve mentioned, posting will be light for a week or so as I have to deal with eye issues.

Welcome to The Cruelest Day: Tuesday, October 20, 2026, and it’s National Chicken and Waffles Day, celebrating a dish that is purely American, and arose in kitchens of the Pennsylvania Dutch.

. . . seem to be getting worse.

All the ducks have gone, and the sky is gray.

Welcome to another damn week: it’s Monday, October 19, 2026, and it’s Rainforest Day.

Welcome to Sunday, October 18, 2026, sabbath for goyische cats, and National Exascale Day, which celebrates this: Founded by CRAY, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, National Exascale Day takes place on October 18—1018 (one followed by 18 zeros).

We have three items today.

Welcome to Catur Saturday, October 17, 2026, shabbos for Jewish cats, and International Raw Milk Cheese Appreciation Day.

Yesterday, New York City’s Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, issued a statement commemorating the October 7, 2023 attack of Hamas on Israel.

Just about an hour ago, the Nobel folks gave the 2026 Literature Prize to Canadian writer and poet Anne Carson, and I admit I’d never heard of her.

There will be a shortish version of Hili today as I’m not feeling that well (yes, the eye, which is ok but focusing makes me nauseated).

Here are three videos and several articles on October 7 that are worth watching and reading.

Today’s Jesus and Mo cartoon, called “winners” , came with the statement, “He wouldn’t have minded a bit of luxury.”

Just recently we were talking about chirality (“handedness”) in the molecules of life: organisms use only L amino acids in proteins and D sugars in the DNA ladder, although opposite-handed molecules exist.

Welcome to Wednesday, October 7, 2026 a Hump Day (“Dita e mesit të javës” in Albanian), as well as Random Acts of Poetry Day.

In the past few years these contests often lacked winners, so I’m increasing your chances this year by eliminating the sciences and economics from the guesses (two science prizes have already been awarded).

I completely missed the Nobel award in biology yesterday, but I see that one has been awarded this morning in physics.

Welcome to The Cruelest Day, Tuesday, October 6, 2026, and National Noodle Day.

Remember the “Dire Wolves” that Colossal Biosciences pretended to have brought back from extinction?

You heard it here first, and only now, nearly three years later, the Free Press has reported on this.

Welcome to another work week, with classes in full swing at the University of Chicago: it’s Monday, October 5, 2026, and Global James Bond Day, celebrating the “Bond franchise and is held on the anniversary of the date on which the first Bond film, Dr.

“TMZ” of course, is an entertainment news network, including a TV show and a website.

Bruce Lyon, who’s now retired and is an emeritus professor of Ecology and Evolution at UC Santa Cruz, sent a batch of bird photos.

Welcome to Welcome to Sunday, October 4, 2026, Sabbath for goyische cats and National Taco Day.

Thanks to readers, we’ve scraped up enough cat-related articles to have another Caturday felid post.

Welcome to Catur Saturday, October 3, 2026: shabbos for Jewish cats and, importantly, the birthday of Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938), one of my favorite authors, and one who is much denigrated by the literati for “overwriting.”