The Wit and Wisdom of Cornellians

The right of Big Red Bears to babble shall not be infringed

The Wit and Wisdom of Cornellians

The right of Big Red Bears to babble shall not be infringed

End Times

End Times

Let's get serious. The end times are here. On January 21, 2019, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez warned us...

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Laughter

Laughter

TRIGGER WARNING: GEEK ALERT! The start codon is the first codon of a messenger RNA transcript...

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Neanderthal Day

by C. Columbo Columbus Day was removed from the academic calendar and replaced with Indigenous People's Day in 2017. Our woke ideologues falsely turned the intrepid explorer into a villain and indigenous people into his victims. After 10,000 years of separation, his...

Legal Name Change Clinic

Dear readers, The Babbling Bear thought about seeking a legal name change to the Babbling Chipmunk when I saw that Cornell was having a Legal Name Change Clinic. However, I did not realize that the clinic was only for transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

The female cuckoo is far from a tradwife. She shows no signs of "toxic feminity" or internalized sexism, having no need to conform to rigid female gender roles due to social pressure. The female cuckoo lives the most fulfilling life of all birds while maintaining her...

Help the Bear Find the Missing Link

The link is missing--the link that leads to the document that so eloquently states the reasons we should be transforming the Amerikan universities from institutions whose mission is the search for truth into institutions that train social justice warriors:...

The Slippery Slope of Neurodiversity

Today, I am writing about the dangers of neurodiversity and how the term can be coopted by the basket of deplorables that we do not wish to see at Cornell University. Cornell’s diversity includes neurodiversity. Many students identify as “neurotypical”–they showed a...

The Litmus Test

The word litmus comes from Old Norse litmosi, which means “moss used for dyeing”. The dye was used by the Vikings to dye their clothes blue. The dye actually comes from lichens not mosses. In the 14th century, Arnaldus de Villa Nova, a physician, alchemist, and...

Woke up! “Citizen science” is Harmful to Non-Citizens

I am calling out the Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell University for doing "Citizen Science." The Lab of O is falling behind the growing commitment to inclusion in ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB). The EEB Language Project along with other efforts have...

End Times

Let's get serious. The end times are here. On January 21, 2019, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez warned us that  "The World is Going to End In Twelve Years If We Don’t Address Climate Change."  That was four years ago, which means that we only have eight years left. Let's get...

Power and Privilege

OK, it happened again. I am at my parent's house for winter break and I picked up one of those top of the toilet tank-sized books. It was called The Secular Creed by Rebecca McLaughlin. Besides the fact that the book is not secular at all, it really opened my eyes....