Those wags at The Economist have done it again! In a move sure to infuriate Harry Potter fans to no end, today’s article details the method by which Dr. Paolo Fril (get it? get it?) and his “biotech pet” company GeneDupe (get it? get it?) are planning to create a line of mythical creatures. […]

So, we give Ol’ Sally and Slate a good ribbing whenever they deserve it (always), but you can’t say we don’t give the boil-on-the-ass-of-the-WaPo’s-profit-margin credit when credit’s due. David Plotz busts an enlightening run-down on all the specific reasons why South Korea, defying all Western logic, leads the world in cloning.
Besides being masters of […]

While weighing our, oh, 8 quillion options for mocking the purported “rebirth” of science-n-culture mag Seed next month, we stumbled upon this interview with the jackanapes behind Cracked–that erstwhile Mad manque, which is also relaunching.
To demonstrate the painfully apt convergence between these two publishing albatrosses, we’ve strategically replaced the key Cracked-related terms in the […]

In a turn of events no doubt inspired by tabloid coverage of Ellen DeGeneres, countless Club International spreads, and the wisdom of seminal sitcom My Two Dads, British scientists have won permission to create a human embryo using the genetic material of two women. Calm down FFM fans, this pro-nuclei transfer merely places the embryo […]

We here at the ‘Tank like to kick ol’ Sally around: for his generally leaden prose, or because his science “columns” could often just as easily be generated by a Google News robot.
But when he does deign to cogitate on his own, he drops serious doozies. Like last week, when he unleashed a cold-blooded, […]

By now I’m sure you’ve heard that a God-complex-having collection loose canons has gone and cloned a dog. Known by the public affectionately as “Korean scientists” and by the Pope as “arrogant,” these researchers, led by cloning enthusiast Hwang Woo-suk, or as George W. Bush reportedly refers to him, “Dang, You Suck,” have created an […]