Dog eugenics

The local news today filled their “human interest” slot at the end of the noon broadcast with a fascinating story about a new technology. Turns out that DNA testing is now available for household pets, and lots of people are paying through the nose for these kits you can order online to “find out” the [...]

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The End of the World As We Know It

I was recently watching this amazing hip-hop video about the now-broken piece-of-crap super collider. And yes, the video has already been circulated all over the Internets before, so you’ve probably already seen it. But it still carries with it the glimmer of a shred of a possibility of the capacity to amuse. And in this [...]

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Eating for Idiots

A few years ago, there was a string of repulsive Hardee’s commercials (are there any other kind?). The ads showed inept men bumbling through attempts to fix breakfast. One slob stood in front of an empty fridge as the narrator noted the universality of the inability of single men to acquire basic breakfast groceries. One [...]

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Bee Aware

Feeling a little under the weather today, so I’ll just leave you with this great (and long) piece from The Guardian about honeybees and colony collapse disorder. I’d consider it a vital read for all who are interested in the survival of the human species. Off to put some fresh honey in my TheraFlu…

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The War on Wind

Who knew that wind power was so subversive? Sure, those evil windmills were the arch-enemies of our boy from La Mancha. Sure, it has the potential to destroy those companies that utterly and totally had nothing to do with the unprovoked war that our nation just waged (is waging). But who knew that wind farms [...]

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The Internets Are Stoopid

The IANA is operated by ICANN and .xxx is a top level domain. Make sense? No? Well if it is weird to you to think about the Internet, including this web page, being run by a bunch of suits in “LA’s only yacht harbor resort,” well, then, you might just be Ted Stevens. Otherwise, get [...]

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NAS courage; Creationism…again?

This week the National Academy of Sciences released a report on evolution and creationism that takes a very strong stance against the teaching of creationism (and its wishy-washy cousin, intelligent design) in schools. In doing so, the NAS joins up with the Kitzmiller decision (a must-read – really. Well worth the time.) to refute the [...]

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Slow on the uptake

As Stephen will happily tell you, I’m often out of the pop culture loop. Way out. Even though the internets allow us to gather information from the far corners of the earth, I still didn’t know that Britney even had a sister (much less that the sister had a TV show, and much less that [...]

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The Nudge

There’s a very important conference coming up tomorrow. One that could potentially change the fate of the entire world. You’d think (reasonably) that everyone would be talking about this one. But not in this country. Here, it’s a conference of the type usually convened by American Presidents trying to Cement Their Legacy. The thing is [...]

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