So, NASA’s paying someone to lay down for three months. As fun as remaining in a catatonic torpor may sound, I invite you all to think about the reality of how bad this’d suck if you actually did it. Remember that scene in the movie Se7en? No, not the memorable one with the bound up fatty (who totally could’a broken those restraints and eaten his captor to escape). And not.. Read More
New antibiotic-alternative trolls bacteria into dying.
Ever go to the doctor and he’s like, “Nah, man, we can’t give you the antibiotic because we don’t know what it is?” So you’re like, “Dude, why not just do it anyway – in case? Get a head start?” And he starts talking some shiz about “overprescription” like you’re a junkie asking for narcos? Then you leave feeling equal parts confused but too exhausted from sickness to care about.. Read More
WTF are these sky holes?
Is there finally something more terrifying in Australia than wolf spiders? Like – aliens Chuck Norrising through the sky and leaving rainbow laden Donnie Darko portals ? When the poor frightened Aussie townspeople gazed above to witness this phenemoena, they took to twitter to marvel in shared amusement. Was the rapture finally here? Did I make the cut? Am I going to get last minute cut because I think the.. Read More
NASA nanny boo boo: more majestic sights I’ll never see IRL
Great. One more thing that I have to add to my celestial bucket list along with all the other shiz I’m probably never gonna get to witness but totally will drone on about seeing right up until the day I die. But this one I may hafta wait until I actually die to observe in all its beauty. Because you have to be situated somewhere in the heavens (Yes. Presumptuous.. Read More
Jump Dispersal: Another Darwinian win.
It’s almost strange to think there was a time that evolution wasn’t widely accepted. As ya know, other stuff. (But only in that looking-back-at-Steve-Jobs-present-WiFi-for-the-first-time-in-1999 sort of way.) People didn’t know any better. While religious zealots were the ones who most saw it as a steaming batch of blasphemy in Darwin’s day, the scientific community also wasn’t that open to it initially. Then, as he carried on with his work, it.. Read More
ROV finds ROVing sea creature with a chainsaw face.
I seriously figured this had to be a hoax when I saw it: Really, nature? This mother effer looks like the lost aqueous cousin from Puppet Master’s horror collection. And the diving scientists who were submerged for research (not really them, but their Nautilus Live expedition ROV) were about as surprised as I was to see this swimming machete meandering along through the watery depths too, according to the video.. Read More
Should we walk for climate change? Or just start walking to Mars?
You know, I’m all for these “fight climate change” events. There’s no “but” to that. I’m just sad I can’t be a part of the ones like the international walk that happened this past Sunday in New York and a katrillion other places around the globe. And, no it’s not because the likes of Mark Ruffalo or Leonardo Dicaprio make an appearance to fight fracking and other enviro rapery, using.. Read More
Science kills people to study out of body experiences? Awesome.
Ever had an out of body experience? No, not one’a those. I mean a legit, can’t-blame-the-drugs-for-this-one style “is this real life?” moment. My first one came about a week or two ago while waking up. And my best non-dramatic description for a holy-fckk experience like that which you can’t well put into words is this: It was brief, it was weird, and I wasn’t a fan of it. The only.. Read More
Ancient pre-Jesus computer found: Was it aliens? Or was it aliens?
Funny, I don’t remember this being on any episodes of Ancient Aliens. But a computer was yanked from the watery depths of a Roman ship that sunk in 60 B.C. Yes, I said a computer. (Oh, my dad has one of those in the basement. Pretty sure it runs on MS Dos with a black screen and yellow font.) The antikythera mechanism (called that because it was found inside a.. Read More
24 year old woman missing part of her brain… finally sees a doctor.
So, this bish was born without a cerebellum (a crucial part of your brain). And she’s just finding out. After 24 years. Not only was talking an issue (she didn’t speak until age six), but she also couldn’t walk until age seven. After that, homegirl must have had some magic ruby slippers for the rest of her life in order to get through it in any ambulatory sorta way ’cause.. Read More