A recent listing of the “Top 87 Bad Predictions About the Future” features a few choice understatements and miscalculations from such science God-heads as Darwin, Einstein, and Lord Kelvin, to namedrop just a few. Darwin, in those halcyon days before publishing The Origin of Species, declares in the foreward:
“I see no good reasons why […]

As many a wit has observed, news about cuckoldry will always sell, especially to the business crowd. You know - the ones who have taken that gold band off their ring finger on enough boys’ nights out that it’s not much of a stretch to imagine the wifey doing it, too:

Past research has suggested that, […]

HO. SHNAP!
(OK, is it just me, or does that part of the world seem to have a hammerlock on “fucked up baby” news? It’s like they’re running puppy farms for mutants.)
Baby INSIDE a Baby! | Sploid

This has nothing to do with science, per se, and McSweeney’s needs traffic like I need a Seed Media Group clusterfuck, but he’s saying what we’re all thinking, so there.

McSweeney’s
(Real ’science’ on the way….)

From an otherwise dull-as-dirt feature on transgenic lawncare:
A boxy-looking, foot-tall machine, the biolistic gun (from biology and ballistic) inserts genes into plants. Fragile genes are bound to tiny bits of tungsten and gold … and then fired into plant cells. Most shots miss … If you repeat the process enough times, though, a few rounds […]

You know, it’s comforting to wake up from a particularly bad nightmare, sigh, and remember that your awful night terror, however frightening, remains safely in the realm of fiction.
But sometimes Mother Nature beats that hellish vision to a bloody pulp, rapes it to death, and then gives birth to something like this:

Now if you don’t […]

So our brief, torrid affair with Science Blogs all started so nicely, with a little slow dance, a little dinner, maybe a little tongue. Despite our acidic exteriors, she touched us in, y’know, the soft parts. And with the sudden surge of attention, it was nice.
But then it went South. Way South. Someone started […]

Sorry about the state of this place… when we moved to Gaylordville ScienceBlogs a month ago, we sorta treated our old home like a rock band would a hotel room. (That right-side linkblog especially reeks. Blagh.)
Anyway, we’ll spruce the joint up again as soon as we can, but we’ll keep posting as we go […]

…or is it just “Destroyer of gas-headed vanity media brands?”
So, as we already stated, FrinkTank and ScienceBlogs are parting ways. Now, we were gonna go out like gentlemen - well, at least attempt to - until we found out that the skirts who run the joint considered FrinkTank to be the legal-liability equivalent of a […]