Last spring, cartoonist Jack Pollock and I attended the 25th annual Northwest Creationist Conference and were surprised to discover that our regional band of creationists are planning to build the nation’s largest Bible-based science museum right here in the northwest! Woohoo! The museum, if you recall, will be a life size replica of Noah’s Ark […]
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Today In Humiliating Ways To Die…
learningdoterra.com Reese Witherspoon Model has apparently not been informed of the dangers of nasal irrigation. Hey, did you know your neti pot could be giving you a bad case of brain-eating amoebas? IT’S TRUE! Here are some other things from Whole Foods that could kill you: 1. Kool Ranch Kale Chips, if you are allergic […]
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I Have a DeLorean. Whose Desk Should I Light On Fire?
DELOREAN You bet your ass it works. Thanks to my buddy Dave, I am now the proud owner of a 1/24 scale replica of the DeLorean from Back to the Future Part II. (Note the Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor.) Obviously, Dave is now better than all of my other friends and my clear favorite, […]
Posted inFashion
Model Watch: Digital Bodies and Maimings
The latest hoopla in the wild and woolly world of fashion models is that H&M got “busted” Photoshopping actual, alive models’ faces onto what are basically digital mannequins: Buzzfeed Other than the fact that the fake apparently only has one pose, there’s no way I would notice this, and I’m not sure it matters that […]
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Today in Understated Space News
NASA may have found another Earth. Although it’s 600 light years away and considerably larger than our own planet, Kepler-22b (we win with the catchier name) maintains a 72-degree climate, marking it as a “habitable planet.” The NASA scientists behind the discovery remain vague about the distant planet, suggesting a lot more research and investigation […]
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Art Will Find a Way
John Larriva, Via This past weekend in Los Angeles, artist Brandon Bird—whose excellent work graced a Mercury cover a few years ago—co-curated a Jurassic Park-themed art show… except without any dinosaurs. The JP Show (Just People) was “dedicated to what people love & remember most about the Jurassic Park film series: the human characters.” I […]
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Plumbing the Cracks of the Unknown
No, I don’t know why Riann Wilson is wearing Asimov muttonchops and playing some dude named “Xanthony O’Harbinger” and acting all mysterious and shit. All I know is it has something to do with the St. Johns Bridge. And maybe something to do with why “Rainn” is such a goofy name. “Rainn” is a stripper […]
Posted inPolitics
LNG Export Could Move to Oregon
Okay, so this post is about Coos Bay. But it’s still important. When people think of liquefied natural gas and fracking – tapping natural gas reserves in shale rock, a technique that has made headlines for its water-polluting methods — most minds are drawn to the Northeast. The Northwest has its own dirty energy and […]
Posted inHealth
Mapping the Superbug
Modern medicine is both a blessing and a curse. While we create new drugs to battle diseases, over time, germs develop immunities to such antibiotics. This vicious cycle has led to one slightly terrifying trend: the rise of drug-resistant germs. The global health nonprofit Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy has created the “ResistanceMap” […]
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I Love When Science Involves “Rocket Sperm”
This article about the sex lives of deep sea squid gets crazier and crazier the more of it you read: Squid sex facts revealed! • The squid, Octopoteuthis deletron, don’t discriminate between squid-sexes when mating. Because they live solitary lives in the dark, the male squid take their chances by shooting their rocket sperm at […]
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Starring Don Cheadle as Captain Planet
Don Cheadle is Captain Planet from Don Cheadle Ha ha and trees and etc., but sobering reminder: Transformers producer Don Murphy is actually trying to get a live-action Captain Planet movie off the ground. So… that’ll be fuckin’ awful.
Posted inAstronomy
This Is What the End of the World Will Look Like
This is an animated video that NASA has produced, after recently observing a black hole by the name of Swift J1644+57 devour a giant star in the Draco constellation—the first time such an event has actually been witnessed as it occurs. In other words, when a black hole swallows our galaxy hole (it will happen, […]