My brother just sent me these articles. They’re good stuff. The first one deals with a possible cure for AIDS, always good news, and the second deals with time travel. As for the AIDS article — fantastic! Let’s get some testing done on this idea! Time travel . . . c’mon guys. We’ve seen the [...]

     If your question is “Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?” then here’s your answer.
     Why do people think the LHC is going to destroy the world? Well, from this article:
     Critics, though, many of whom have found a powerful platform on the Internet, fear that by smashing protons against each other at 99.9999991 percent [...]

     We’re almost ready to fire up the CERN Hadron Collider! They’ve done a few test fires, and — so far as we know — everything has worked out all right. No Earth-eating wormholes, or reality shifts, or universe endings. That we noticed. Right.
     You know I’m hoping for a Twilight Zone style reality shift, which no [...]

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     This three hundred and fifty pound woman shows up at a run-down circus, looking for a job as a flying trapeze artist. The incredulous ringmaster gives her an audition, and is so impressed he tells her she’s hired. There’s one condition: she goes on last. On opening night, the other acts are [...]

     he biggest problem with “peak oil“, or “reducing our dependence on foreign oil” as we’re calling it at the moment, is that there is currently no one alternative energy source that can replace oil. The biggest competitor at the moment is biofuel — oil made from plant matter like soybeans and/or corn — but there’s [...]

     irst up, I’d like to point out three new T-shirts in the site store — one about doom, one about coffee, and one about zombies. I’m particularly pleased with the coffee and zombie T-shirts, because I drew the little faces with my nifty new mouse/pen/thingie that I got from ViolentClay. I’m still learning how to [...]

     resident Bush vetoed a stem cell bill, again. He said, “If this legislation became law, it would compel American taxpayers, for the first time in our history, to support the deliberate destruction of human embryos. I will not allow our nation to cross this moral line.” This is the second time he’s vetoed a stem [...]

     s if we don’t have enough on our plates, Bush goes and fires up another Cold War for us. Well — I don’t know if all the blame can be laid at Bush’s feet for this one. Putin seems just a bit on the dickish side himself, so I’m sure he’s not helping any. Be [...]

There are people who believe that humans and dinosaurs co-existed. And what this is, plain and simple, is a psychotic reaction. These people are stone-cold-fuck nuts. I can’t be nice about this, because these people are watching The Flintstones as if it were a documentary.
– Lewis Black
     en Ham of Answers in Genesis is opening a [...]

     ush is asking Congress to draft him another war funding bill, but isn’t offering any clues about whether he’ll compromise at all about the troop withdrawal deadline. Hey — I can offer a clue, and it’s that he isn’t going to compromise. End. Of. Story. Also, the White House is trying to redact the transcript [...]