Yes, yes. We haven’t posted since homo erectus scrawled a cave painting. Sorry. We’re like that big booger-lookin’ thing that the Mogwai turns into if you feed it after midnight.
However, we couldn’t see this and not take a shot at our favorite genus of punching bag.

Hm, looks like the Lower East Side’ll get the […]

Alert Reader “minouette” alerted us to the following tidbit from The Independent:

In December 2006, Wisconsin hunter Rick Lisko ran over and killed a seven-legged hermaphroditic deer. “It’s a pretty weird deer,” he said before eating it, later adding: “It was tasty.”

The Portage Daily Register has the full story:

Warden Doug Bilgo of the state Department of […]

You’d think the natives of Easter Island would be grateful that their home was made famous by a giant viking of a white man named for the Norse god of thunder, but Nooooo… now they’re “fatigued” by all the attention they’ve been getting from “archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, musicologists, botanists, biologists and art historians.”
Apparently they’d rather, […]

What is up with the skanktastic science news this week? First we hear about Toxoplasma gondii, the friendly cyst-borne parasite that “turns women into sex kittens.” (Screw fluoride: who’s the civic genius to start putting this in the water supply?) Then there’s the discovery a set of genes that directly tracks the likelihood of your […]

I was furiously downloading the photographic gorgeosity from Michael Poliza’s Flickr page, when I found this awesome photo called, um, “hard work.” Think Nat Geo crossed with Boogie Nights outtakes. SFW, but only b/c it’s Science.
Oh, and he’s got a bit of snuff too. Elton John, eat your bloody baby elephant trunk out.

You may have missed this, since it was announced on Jesus’s birthday, but apparently the Healthy Penis campaign–an effort to alert gays that getting syphilis is no mere tragic anachronism–was a resounding success.
That’s great and all, but mostly I’m just glad someone finally dug up an excuse to send a cock & syphilis sore marching […]

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Oh geez, Seed Magazine EIC and Peter Principle posterboy Adam Bly is talking again, and we, like untold dozens of others, are listening—mostly to see if he actually says anything relevant, or just repeats his little catchphrase “science is culture” over and over again like a less-dapper Rain Man with echolalia.
Bly’s latest editor’s letter was […]

Easily-abused-if-taken-out-of-context News Alert: “Men who father daughters, not sons, may be at a greater risk of developing prostate cancer, researchers have said.”
Or, if you prefer the Braveheart version: Those feudal lords unlucky to sire only daughters are not only consigning the future of their clan line to death, but probably their own underperforming loins as […]