As if I needed any justification, here is SCIENTIFIC PROOF that being a crankypants is GOOD for you.
Meanwhile, Improbable Research.com, the same people who present the IgNobel Prizes (and who did NOT give an award to Barack Obama this year), looked into the question “Is Kansas flatter than a pancake?” and have come up with irrefutable SCIENTIFIC proof! You won’t see stuff like this on MythBusters, lemme tell ya. (Mostly because it doesn’t involve anything blowing up.)
“Dammit Jim! I’m a doctor not a….oh, wait… Barack Obama will probably cancel funding for further testing of the Ares rocket (here’s the video of the most-recent test, in case you missed it), but even if NASA does get to continue with preparations for sending a manned mission to Mars, they may not be able to overcome a newly-discovered hurdle: long-term spaceflight puts astronauts at greater risk for developing diseases.
And this story made the rounds the other day: naked mole rats do not get cancer. But they still go through life looking like giant, self-propelling penises with claws and teeth, so that’s a pretty fair tradeoff.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
