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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

That pile of trilobite offal known as Seed Magazine has hit newsstands once again, and only a month late. Nothing on the cover indicates whether it’s backing off from bimonthly to quarterly, but either way the world can’t wait long enough for another edition of this over-designed yawnfest to go over like a lead balloon.
Here’s […]

Those nerdy nymphets at Inky Circus up and launched an online magamazine when we weren’t looking. It’s slick and smart and profesh-looking, and y’all should go give them some traffic-love. But something about it still says “beta” to us. To wit, from an article about cognitive psychology:
Made you look! A naked body, flashed for an […]

During the course of everyday life one tends to pick up all sorts of factual tidbits from the unlikeliest of places. For instance, prior to watching 12 Monkeys on TBS one Wednesday afternoon, I had no idea that 19th century physician Ignaz Phillipp Semmelweis, who expired within a Viennese sanatorium after suffering a prolonged spell […]

Peals of hyena-style laughter, numerous spit-takes, and effluviated Bronx cheers erupted throughout the FrinkCave when we read this:
Blogs and other internet sites should be covered by a voluntary code of practice similar to that for newspapers in the UK, a conference has been told. …unless there was a voluntary code of conduct there would be […]