Check out the heart-shaped polar cap. Ergo: NOT HEARTLESS. Poor, poor Pluto.


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Science has successfully rodeoed a comet.

In more adult-speak: The European Space Agency’s unmanned Rosetta probe successfully put a lander on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

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I have a new favorite, improbable word: Gondwanatheria

This came about after reading a news article describing the recent discovery of a "huge" mammal skull fossil in Madagascar (SPOILER ALERT: the term "huge" is a bit flexible here). Given the age and location of the skull fossil, this previously unknown mammal qualifies as a gondwanatherian. ( Read more... )

Blind Willie Johnson had a terrible life. He was born poor and obscure, and died the same way. As a boy (after he informed his father that he wanted to be a preacher and made himself a cigarbox guitar so that he could sing the gospel, both of which are pretty noble impulses for any kid), his stepmother blinded him with lye as payback for Willie's ( Read more... )

A few years ago I went to a guy who coloured my hair twice a year and he had this great half sleeve, white ink tattoo of his fingerprint on his forearm. I was always taken by it but thought that it would only work on someone with a darker skin tone (he was Polynesian). Since then I've been planning my next tatt and am leaning towards the graphical ( Read more... )

I feel that if I draw just one more medical chart that a pretty part of my soul might break off and shatter across the office floor ( Read more... )

I love everything about this ad for GoldieBlox Toys. Yeah, it encourages us to further embrace needless consumerism, but it does it wonderfully well and with a message that girls AND their parents desperately need to hear:

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Word, you tiny, multicoloured engineers of future fabulousity. Dance yer butts off to kiddie Beastie Boys ;D

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