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 […]

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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 […]

Professor Murder has returned after a long and ambitious slog through the frozen, wasted parts of the world, bringing tidings of sheer importance just as “science news” dries up, according to Alexander B. Methinks just Blaisdell’s dried up, what with all the pre-holiday Meatspin (NSFW!!) action. How else would you expect him to get through […]

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 […]

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, […]

Attention everyone, there is an emergency situation happening in South Florida as you read this. The Sun-Sentinel informs us, in a breezy 3,000 words, that faulty remote car locks are denying countless Floridians vehicular ingress. A harsh and fickle mistress, technology thinks nothing of singeing tallywackers and decimating cities, but now she’s just being petty, […]

¡Dios mio! El chupacabra is on the loose is Johnson County, Arkansas! Or at least that’s what some folks think. According to the irreproachable 5 News KFSM of Ft. Smith-Fayetteville, residents believe the mythical goat sucker has invaded their humble home. A dread pall of impending desanguination has enveloped the area. But not everyone is […]