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…
EAT IT, BRITAIN
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…
KICKSTARTER, MEET SCIENCE.
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…
22 STUPID PEOPLE HOLDING SIGNS
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…
THE TRANSPARENT TOASTER
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…
COSMO’S GUIDE TO THE SUPER BOWL (FOR LADIES)
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…
SIX REASONS WE’RE NOT GETTING A MOON ELEVATOR
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…
THAT’S NO SQUID…
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,…
DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK
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…
18 REASONS WHY I AM WRONG: A RESPONSE
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.…
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…
A NOTE ON MY LONG ABSENCE
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…
HERE IS A STUPID IDEA THAT IS STUPID
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,…
THE MOST AWESOME THING IN SPACE (IF YOU HAVE THE MATURITY OF A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD)
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…
DEATH FROM THE SKIES! OR SOMETHING.
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…
Unreasonably Dangerous Onion Rings 