This wins my award for “nerdiest rap thus far.” They get bonus points from me for including ALICE in the chorus (rumor has it I was named Alice because of ALICE). I also love love love the adorable dancing scientists! A++ video. This made my Friday.

We can now rejoice!
How many SF books of the past are now way more plausible? Is there going to be a sudden rise in Mars SF speculation?
Also, if you do want to read a book about Mars, let me recommend Mars Crossing by Geoffrey Landis, and NOT Mars by Ben Bova.

Then NASAimages.org (a project run by the internet archive) may be your dream come true! The site just launched, and looks like it’s still in a testing stage, but it seems like it will be a really good resource. All images are archived and tagged by dates, keywords, categories, etc. and have sidebars with scientific […]

Some of you may remember the article I wrote about space in science fiction shows, specifically Battlestar Galactica. Well, apparently there was a panel at the San Diego Comic Con yesterday called “The Science Behind Science Fiction” which included Kevin Grazier, the science adviser for BSG. If only I had been there! Luckily, other people […]

To continue my Doctor Who for Beginners series I began a million years ago with Daleks for Dummies, I’d like to start a new subseries where I introduce you to each of the Doctors and plow my way through the first four so I can start talking shit about Davison, Colin Baker, and McCoy. […]

In order to learn the public about science we’re kicking off the Fun Vampires Summer Science Kamp with this chemistry lesson. Once you’ve mastered this material, you should keep going for math and biology.

We’re living in the future!
The other day my friend rented a car and THERE WAS NO KEY! It was just a weird looking black electronic stick instead. Today, I find out that there are robots that REASSEMBLE THEMSELVES when they’re kicked apart. What am I going to find out tomorrow? That Iron Man actually exists?

This weekend is the 5th annual Bent Festival in NYC. May 1st it’s in Minneapolis. I wish I could go to this, but I’m going LARPing out of town instead (for serious).
The Bent Festival is an annual art and music festival celebrating DIY electronics, hardware hacking, and circuit bending. Each year we invite artists […]

The fitness craze is just getting out of control if you ask me. Even our barnyard pals the cows have gotten on the band wagon. In this National Geographic video clip we have an interesting case of science and good old fashioned animal husbandry creating essentially the bovine version of a Pumping Iron […]

Yes! Our friend Pat tipped us about these cool scientist nerd Valentines and we’ve got to agree with him - nothing says “I love you” like Marie Curie. If you are silly enough to hate the french then you are gonna need some other options, right? How about…

So somehow I wound up being a theoretical mathematician. It’s a pretty good life thus far but what is it good for? Well, math pays my bills and that aint bad… But there’s alot more than that. Check this video of mad genious Timothy Gowers for a glimpse and, if you’re still awake afterwards, check […]

Usually email offers are pretty lame, but I got one yesterday from a gentleman named Pablo Dolan, who wanted to inform me about some “Top Cock Extenders”. As you can see after the jump, Pablo has a way with words right off the bat, by greeting me with a colloquialism straight from the King […]

I found this pretty cool web application on my friend’s website that does more than a normal captcha application. A captcha is one of those things that have the words you enter when you go to a website to make sure you are a human instead of a computer.

Today (after 2:30 pm) also marks the FIRST DAY OF SUMMER! 
Go buy some water ice to celebrate.

Jah sez: The sacred herb gives life not death so legalize it. I don’t know why they made this guy resign. From what I’ve seen most cops could use some w33d. You definitely won’t die but time might go really really really really really really slow.

While researching Reh Dogg videos on youtube, I stumbled upon further evidence that not only do monsters exist! but they engage in spectacular underwater battles. Beware!

Hey, Internet, I’m talking about math today so check me out, d00dz:
Homotopy Theory from Top to Spectra: “Everything I see becomes a category to me!”
5:30pm Brown Math Dept Providence, RI FREE!

You puzzled panthers already know that what we do it secret but did you know that Don Bolles from The Germs was recently hemmed up by the Newport Beach Police Department?

Since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has maintained this symbolic representation of humanity’s flirtation with catastrophic destruction [”midnight”].

Using about 6400 Post-its… and 10 of UCSC’s engineering students… you get one big monkey.