Topography of Ignorance

Grad School has taken a lot out of my blogging frequency. Yet after a couple years, I have started to feel that my many witty remarks and i...

Once again, I am puzzled by how the British public has a better understanding of science than us, while the science journalism in that count...

From Here and Now on NPR a while ago, the revelation that many many songs have the same boring pattern. Having heard it explained, you will...

This is in no way timely, but I recently re-encountered this story and thought I would be deficient in not posting this article I saw a cou...

A quality waste of time. By which I mean that it is a quality way of wasting time, by trying to be smart. Electric Box 2

Noooooooo!!!! Stephen & Donna O’Meara explain the chaos in above photograph: “As the hot eruption cloud swirls, a vortex is created that...

Been traveling a bit lately. In June I went to Ireland, the land of my impoverished potato-farming lineage. When we visited Cobh in County ...

Asteroids that is. And they're not actually angry. They're just being discovered from 1980-2010. It's cool to see that many obj...

This is the first I've seen of Dr. Martyn Poliakoff's Periodic Table of Videos but it's a good one. Each video is about an elem...

Mr Rodriguez contemplating the implications of the Supreme Court's 1972 Flood v. Kuhn ruling which upheld Major League Baseball...

Some awesome bootleg covers that require no commentary: A good-hearted tween comedy! [via Nerdist ] And this [via GammaSquad ] , which looks...

-Like all (science) graduate students, I am woefully behind everything happening in the world of entertainment. So even though it's prob...