Humor

If you lived in 1844 and were a follower of American Baptist preacher William Miller, today would forever be marked as "The Great Disappointment." The world was expected to come to an end on this date. Guess they hadn't heard of the Mayan ca ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Oct 22 2009 - 1:31pm

Which religion should I follow?

In a religious quandary? Don't know which traditional/cult/New Age group to join? Fear not, the Holy Taco has worked it out for you. Simply follow the flow chart to your transcendental bliss: The only problem: I don't see the Flying Spaghetti Mon ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Oct 26 2009 - 8:39am

An exoplanet or fruit fly by any other name...

What is in a name? Juliet, you may have a point- a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Two very different items- exoplanets and fruit flie ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Oct 28 2009 - 9:20am

Heartless gravity

One of my favorite lines from The Big Bang Theory. ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Oct 28 2009 - 9:56am

When geeks have twins

Awesome. H/t to The Daily What and the huz. ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Oct 29 2009 - 8:43am

People Do Not Love Vampire Squid As Much As I Think They Do

Today I was dewildered (or belighted) to discover that visits to my blog had skyrocketed overnight. But why? What could thirteen hundred and forty-one visitors have found so riveting about yesterday's post? Was it the zombie fungus? The carrion plant? ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 31 2009 - 7:54pm

For chemists, infectious disease folks/techies, and Josh

For chemists For ID and IT For Josh (and other Ohio natives) ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Nov 4 2009 - 9:28pm

The Dragons I’ve Eaten: Speculations on the Existence of Human Intelligence

Carl Sagan conjectured that early diurnal mammals feasted on the eggs of nocturnal dinosaurs. He remarked whimsically that a modern breakfast of chicken eggs is among the few relics of our immemorial joust against the dragons. So I think he wouldn’t mind t ...

Blog Post - Fred Phillips - Nov 6 2009 - 7:31pm

Social Media Webtoons

A friend, John Kovalic, once quipped "I now have more social networks than I have friends." So for today, a trio of social media webtoons. The first is Cat and Girl, the other two are from ThisIsIndexed.com. Enjoy! Alex, the Daytime Astronomer ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Nov 6 2009 - 10:13am

Looking at the world through aldehyde-covered glasses

I don't know what it says about me that I love this stuff. Probably nothing good. Perhaps Weird Al Yankovic could do a rendition of CCR's Fortunate Son. Some folks are born to test emission spectrums Ooh, those flames are red, white and blue And ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Nov 6 2009 - 11:18am