Back in the second century AD, when geocentric Aristotelian astronomy enjoyed widespread traction within scientific circles, Claudius Ptolemy, with a tip of the hat to the miscalculations of Hipparchus, proclaimed that the universe revolved around us. Fourteen centuries later, Copernicus would correct the error, humbling those whose solipsism placed Earth at the center of an […]

Notice the track listing.

Cognitive dissonance: pound this Pitchfork-reading nance, or applaud his anti-creationist accessorizing?
His noodly appendage touched my iPod | TUAW
–>Related: It’s not funny, it never was, so please shut the fuck up before the ghost of Eazy-E comes by to break a ukelele off in your cracka ass.

As we recently reported, data seems to suggest that - at least in Scotland - having a PhD doesn’t really go over very well with the bar sluts. But here in America, the story may be different, according to Ian Brooks, who handily breaks down scientific disciplines by how likely they are to attract top-shelf […]

Now, I don’t know how well versed he is in the tenets of Intelligent Design, but methinks even Richard “Heathenator” Dawkins would have to bow down:

“The Devil is a motherfuckin’ liar, so I ain’t worried. BEEEYOTCH!” Ermmm…heh. Quite.
thanks to Jeff G.

“I got a feelin’ that somethin’ ain’t right”… that’s for fuckin’ sure. According to the Beeb, “Police in Sierra Leone are on the hunt for a group of chimpanzees, who escaped from their wildlife sanctuary after a fatal attack on construction workers… Angry chimps killed and mutilated the driver. The two Americans are in a […]

Memo to editors: When you use the term “DNA” as a non-scientific metaphor it will never lend your puff piece any gravity or subtext, and may look something akin to what Mike Tyson and some overzealous Pitchfork reviewer might coauthor two minutes before deadline.
So when the esteemed South Bend Tribune of Indiana ran […]

Contrary to the widely-held view of Early Man as a bone-wielding, chest-beating shitkicker, science is warming up to idea that homo sapiens v1.0 spent most of his time getting Treadwelled instead.
…I’m sorry. That was inappropriate.
Humans as Prey | Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Grizzly Bear Man [.mov] | Travis and Jonathan.com

The fact that someone like this was elected “by the will of the people” makes me want to give up on democracy:

“If China beats us to the moon, we will have lost the space program,” Wolf said in an interview.

That’s representative Frank Wolf, R-Virginia, a man who, as the chair of the house appropriations […]

OK, OK…we’re like a week late on this one. So fuckin’ sue us. We didn’t get to where we are by following orders or reading directions, y’know. And did you ever consider, for just one second, that maybe we were out there busting our asses for you, so that maybe you could get some […]