"Airplanes do not "fly"! They are held aloft through the divine intervention of heavenly angels!""I'll notify the Texas Board of Education at once!" I wonder whether such dark levity is the last…

A New Round Of Controversy Saw it. Liked it. Shared it. Enjoy!

You have to love a company that not only treats its employees well but can have fun and laugh at itself. (Hint, hint, Microsoft.) Today, Google changed their name to Topeka (see link for proper uses…

Toyota's sticky accelerators could be caused by a concerted attack by evil cosmic rays. Toyota has kept quiet about these malicious forces but this puff piece may have unmasked a sinister force that…

Here's a short sequence of art videos, which made me smile This line is just a space-filler to move the embedded screen down ;-) Noteboek from Evelien Lohbeck on Vimeo. It's by Evelien Lohbeck from…

One of CERN's liquid containment units - a coffee mug - is shown to leak profusely when an attempt is made to put it into commission. A hapless pair of PR gurus bought their mugs at CERN's gift shop…

Don't Say Cheese Following a thorough scientific assessment of the risks involved in an experiment in the effects of gravity on round cheeses, a 200 year long experiment has been brought to a…

Two songs and videos about science for children, written and performed by They Might Be Giants. The almost anthemic "Science is Real" and a stroll through the periodic table in "Meet the Elements".…

This made me laugh today. I heart xkcd... Link to the xkcd page

This has nothing to do with science, unless you count sci-fi as science. But I loved it, which is reason enough for me to post it. "Using a ring to bind someone you covet into your dark and twisted…