Shit. The Religious Right couldn’t have scripted this better: after voting down a draconian anti-abortion law and helping flip control of the Senate to Democrats this past November, South Dakotan voters are now seeing their stem-cell-lovin’ Democratic congressman struck down with “an intracerebral bleed caused by a congenital arteriovenous malformation”.
Senator Tim Johnson had surgery […]

Remember the Curse of King Tut? It’s baaaaaaack. Consider the bone-chilling facts: on their way to examine the boy king’s mummy with a CT machine recently, a University of Cairo research team struck a child with their vehicle…almost. Then…a huge storm hit. Should I go on? Very well…next, one scientist was afflicted with a coughing […]

On November 1 British medical journal The Lancet published a series of papers deconstructing global sexual and reproductive health issues, with an emphasis on the subjugation of developing nations to ideologically implacable American policies such as the president’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Gag Rule. As bleak as the outlook sometimes is, […]

There’s this hot new sports drink on the market called Fabuloso. Just kidding, it’s actually a cleaning product used to sanitize floors and toilets that happens to look and smell a helluva lot like Gatorade, which is probably why over 100 people in Texas—mostly kids—mistakenly drank the stuff. Deceptive packaging for medicines and cleaning agents […]

Sorry for the lack of …stuff… this week, y’all. Why were we so vacant? Well, sometimes you stumble upon something that - much like the movie in “Infinite Jest” that’s so entertaining that people eschew working, eating, and eventually breathing in order to fill all their time watching and re-watching it - just makes activities […]

Some scientist in Japan went out a few nights ago and got absolutely hammered. What else, besides karaoke, could possible ensue? That’s right, hilarity! Deadly, deadly hilarity:
Police have launched a frantic search for three bottles of potentially deadly poison lost after a Shimonoseki Mitsui Chemicals official who had been carrying them went […]

Sorry, world.

According to the BBC, all healthy cells have an internal hara-kiri circuit that automagically compels them to pull a Mishima if anything goes wrong. Cancer cells, uppity bitches that they are, ignore this directive, which is why they form tumors and kill you.
Solution? If the cancer cell ain’t gonna kill itself, send in a […]

Let’s face it, heavy metal dudes are a geeky breed. Now I love me some blast beats, double bass and gutturals as much as the next hair-farming, grape-smuggling, collectible battle axe-wielding, flaming skull on the neck-sporting, leather jacket and wrestling shoes-wearing metal maniac, but I do tend to draw the line at allowing my most […]