WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR…
Obviously the classic song ends that phrase with “your dreams come true.” Then, as I’m sure you’ve seen, some smartass decided to put a modern and more cynical spin on…
Obviously the classic song ends that phrase with “your dreams come true.” Then, as I’m sure you’ve seen, some smartass decided to put a modern and more cynical spin on…
A while ago, a friend sent me a joke that her British friends had been circulating around Facebook entitled “A Message from the Queen.” It starts like this: To the…
UPDATE: I came back in this morning and elaborated. I was being pretty lazy with explaining the math when I wrote this, but I’ve expanded it a bit. This is…
As I’m pretty sure everyone on the internet knows by now, Bill Nye recently had a debate with Ken Ham about whether creationism was a viable explanation for the origins…
A little over 18 months ago, this baffling object popped up on Memebase, well known for contributing nothing of value to the Internet ever. The caption that they gave for…
Hello ladies! As you may know, if a man in your life has informed you or you overheard it somewhere, this Sunday is the Super Bowl. That’s when two football…
A while ago, several news outlets of varying degrees of reputability reported on the intentions of a company called Liftport to build a space elevator, but not on the Earth…
So apparently I missed out on this, because none of my friends are stupid enough to believe it, but there’s an image that’s been making the rounds on social media,…
In April of 2009, I started this blog to give myself an outlet for the stupidity and irrationality of the world. I get angry about a lot of things in…
Two weeks ago, in my triumphant return to writing, as I am determined to keep calling it, I wrote a piece called Six Reasons You Shouldn’t Take Dietary Advice From Cavemen.…
EDIT: I’ve written a followup to this post here. Today, to kick off my triumphant return to writing, we’re going to talk about the so-called “paleo” diet. At least four people…
It’s hard to say what inspires me to write this blog, but obviously whatever I’ve been doing since October isn’t it. I’ve only written three things in the last eight…
Hey there! You know how, each morning, you have a cup of hot coffee and then mess around on your phone, reading Facebook updates or whatever? And you know how,…
There’s a lot of science that’s kind of boring if you don’t understand it or its implications. I get that. But there’s also a lot of stuff that’s awesome in…
First of all, the first sentence of this post’s title is taken from Phil Plait’s book of the same name, which is awesome. It looks like this. You should buy…