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grrlscientist | April 25, 2007tags: streaming video, humor, animation
For you exercise buffs out there, this video shows the hazards of getting your exercise using modern technology, instead of getting out there for a run in the park.
pharyngula | April 23, 2007It's not what I would have picked if I had a choice, but it seems that my amazing mutant superpower is the ability to effortlessly drive people insane. I guess it's not surprising that my talent would be both sinister and Lovecraftian, but I'd rather be able to fly or fire lasers out of my eyes — heck, even Aquaman's powers would be kind of cool.
Ah, well … with great power comes great responsibility. Rather than afflicting innocent cognitive psychologists, who should I reduce to gibbering madness next? I tried doing a mind blast on Osama Bin Laden and GW Bush, but it didn't seem to make any…
j7uy5 | April 23, 2007
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evolvingthoughts | April 20, 2007
Lewis Carroll, AKA Charles Dodgson, was a philosopher's dream author. Indeed, it is almost formally impossible to complete a philosophy degree and not quote him on some subject or another. Now Strange Maps publishes the Bellman's Map from Hunting of the Snark, which accompanies the following stanzas:
He had bought a large map representing the sea,
Without the least vestige of land:
And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be
A map they could all understand.
"What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators,
Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?"
So the Bellman would cry:…
j7uy5 | April 19, 2007"My
job is a job to make decisions. I'm a decision -- if the job
description were, what do you do -- it's decision-maker. And I make a
lot of big ones, and I make a lot of little ones."
href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20070419-3.html">source
mementomori | April 19, 20071981, Columbus, Ohio: Third year medical student Bryan Sasser begins his radiology rotation at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He is assigned to Dr. Lloyd Vanderspiegle, Professor of Radiology, who has been working alone the past four years studying a new type of x-ray called "CT scanning." For the next two weeks Sasser works side by side with Dr. Vanderspiegle in his small reading room, learning the arcana of these mysterious scans. At the end of the rotation, without any warning according to archived police reports, Bryan Sasser is arrested for starting a fire in the…
pharyngula | April 19, 2007It was a tough decision in the contest to design a fabulous new Darwin Fish. I admit that I was partial to the designs that included cephalopods, but the other judges (who I was tempted to call Paula and Randy) kept coming back to those chordate-derived designs. We did finally achieve consensus, however, on an excellent fishy logo that I would be proud to slap on my car. And the winner is…
You'll just have to go look to find out.
evolvingthoughts | April 18, 2007
By the end of today, we will have over 200,000 visits to Evolving Thoughts. That's in not quite two years, ever since PZ Myers outed me back in June 2004. On average around 5000 visits and 8000 page reads a week. Assuming nobody visits more than once a day, that's a thousand readers. PZ might sneer at such low figures, but then I don't try to earn a second income from blogging, and besides, I try to steer clear of politics, which is where the audience is. So to you faithful 1000, thanks! Most philosophers would kill for an audience of that size.
grrlscientist | April 18, 2007
This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow [Bigger and more readable].
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tags: Modern World cartoon, politics, humor
vhughes | April 18, 2007
Meet freelance journalist Enrique J. Gili of commonground, who'd like to remind everyone that Payment Must Be Received Within 30 Days of Date on Invoice.
What's your name?
Enrique J. Gili, third in a long line of Enriques.
What do you do when you're not blogging?
I'm a gainfully under-employed freelance writer covering LOHAS (Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability) issues for regional magazines in the Southland and beyond.
What is your blog called?
commonground
What's up with that name?
Blogs are heavily politicized forums, whereas environmental issues ought not to be. The tagline is…
mikethemadbiologist | April 18, 2007The hilarious picture below accompanied a very interesting NY Times article about chimpanzee intelligence:
(from here)
The taller ape is Jane Goodall. Funny picture.
pharyngula | April 17, 2007But why should that reduce The Comics Curmudgeon to a "quivering, urine-soaked lump of fear"?
vhughes | April 16, 2007
Alan Saunders, a.k.a. Kaptain Kobold, is a 42-year-old computer programmer and former biology student from Staines, England. He uses Lego blocks to depict famous scientists at work.
"I have no idea why I started making Lego scientist scenes," says Saunders, who's married with two children, one cat, two guinea pigs, "and couple of cockroaches." His children like the scientist figures, though they have no idea yet who they are.
At top right, Gregor Mendel cultivates his pea plants. Next, Charles Darwin stands in a "family portrait" with a yellow Neanderthal, an angry-faced Lucy, and an…
pharyngula | April 14, 2007I'd watch this.
Hey, can we get a pairing of Celine Dion with Larry Moran?
oracknows | April 14, 2007It's been a long time since I saw something like this. I remember back in the 1980's, I saw an utterly hysterically funny series on a religious cable outlet about the evils of rock 'n' roll, complete with dire warnings about how rock 'n' roll was a one-way ticket straight to hell. Well, it turns out that they're still making such amusingly over-the-top videos. Some of the targets haven't changed, many have. These are parts 1 and 2 of a four part series. Part I reveals Satan's true conspiracy that is rock 'n' roll, particularly the evil of George Harrison's My Sweet Lord. So, check out Part 1…
pharyngula | April 14, 2007Thank you, Alun Salt, for introducing me to Mark Steel and wonderful lectures on the BBC—enjoy his version of Darwin and evolution, which combines information and humor.
pharyngula | April 13, 2007Dang, Jim Kakalios outranks us all. After I mentioned my oblique appearance in a comic book, he responded with a promise to verify his appearances, and he has come through.
He's the Secretary of State in the DC universe:
Even more impressive, he's a god-like physicist who can manipulate universal constants in the Marvel universe:
Now if Phil Plait can verify his claims, we can all get some brightly colored leotards and funny pseudonyms, and we'll be ready to fight for truth, justice, and invertebrates.
Oh, and I already designed my costume long ago.
oracknows | April 13, 2007...and how!
Who knew our intrepid mascot liked hockey so much? I wonder if he's Canadian. Maybe so.