They laugh now, but within 10 years the city's entire criminal class will have quit to work on space research. See more excellence at xkcd.

There was an interesting article "'Significant Amount' of Water Found on Moon" which was also followed by "Water on Moon Propaganda". While the former is interesting, the latter is quite entertaining…

An article entitled "Humans Still Evolving as Our Brains Shrink" was simply too good to pass up.  At first I looked for a correlation with news reporting (thinking about a station named after…

*Laws that should be formally on the books but sadly are only known in the collective Geek conscious. Matt Blum of Wired writes, "There are many, many laws having nothing to do with government, that…

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…

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…

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…

For chemists For ID and IT For Josh (and other Ohio natives) H/T to TFD.

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…

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