We can learn much from our animal friends. Sadly, most of the really the fun stuff (like sitting on power lines or trying to fly off a roof or in anything that’s not huge, pressurized, and shitting fuel across the sky) is generally admonished against attempting. But aside from dancing across the clouds, hunting a blissfully unaware still breathing dinner from afar, or screwing shamelessly in public, one of the.. Read More
McDonalds is erasing your faves: Time to taper, McJunkies.
So, McDonald’s is losing money. No, not dead, my loves. Not yet. But it did take about a 4.7% kick in the cheeseburger buns this year, which has led to them taking some serious action. Some seriously counterintuitive, doesn’t-make-sense, action – by removing a bunch of stuff from their menu. It’d be more like downgrading from five types of the same burger to just one. I mean, it sounds good.. Read More
Timex for your ticker organ, anyone?
They say that time mends a broken heart. But soon, a time-keeper might be able to as well. (Such an OG genius he doesn’t need a big hand or little hand.) My little mind was just blown a moment ago as I thumbed through this SciAm piece on pacemakers (ya know the thing that keeps grand pop’s life organ gushing survival oil to all his various bits of body?). Because,.. Read More
Dude demolishes home trying to propose. Chick still says “yes”.
What’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever done in the name of love? This story about a Dutch dude’s proposal fail (that I’m just now seeing after, like, a week) may just take the wedding cake. Armed with more good intentions and money than numbers in his I.Q., this guy hired someone to help him carry out the dumbest proposal ever. His plan was to suspend himself from a crane in.. Read More
New life origin theory = light + hot water + time.
So, a new theory about how life started has landed just like our astral ancestors did on earth eons ago. Jeremy England’s theory doesn’t challenge Darwin. “On the contrary,” he says, “I am just saying that from the perspective of the physics, you might call Darwinian evolution a special case of a more general phenomenon.”. It just kinda zooms out on the bigger picture of why and how it was.. Read More
A wrench was emailed to the Space Station… Emailed?!
For some reason, I got more excited about this 3D printer NASA story than I should have. 3D printing’s not a terribly new technology – it’s been around for 30 years or so. But hearing that an astronaut who needed a wrench received one from NASA via email… into outer space… was just too many layers of cosmic awesome for me to handle. Maybe it’s because – here on earth.. Read More