1. Cutest ESL mistake of the day:

Me: How old are your children?
Student: Ten o'clock and eight o'clock.

2. Mark your calendars, SFF fandom folks. Today is the day an NPR reporter mentioned Wincest by name on the air. In a positive story about fan fiction. I may not be a Supernatural fan specifically, but I feel like we've passed some sort of ( Read more... )

We were more recently up from Africa, still dark skinned. They'd been 200,000 years in Europe, had grown fair, freckled and some of them had red or blond hair. And while you wouldn't know it from looking, their brains were even bigger than ours, at over 1700 cubic centimeters. "That's about 300 ccs larger than your brain or mine," says Walter. We ( Read more... )

Y'all! This is my happy thing for today. I found it right when I needed it most.

The Billion-Bug Superhighway
Insects, like the rest of us, have to take their chances, to live or to prosper... and often enough, they do get lucky and end up just where they need to be.Even if you aren't a big fan of bugs, check out the short animated film at the ( Read more... )

This is one of the weirdest things I've seen in awhile, but it contains Ira Glass and Muppets. How could it not be wonderful? Be sure to read Ira's comments about the Muppets. Interesting.

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Also pretty insane and wonderful is the latest Big Finish audio release, a Sixth Doctor and Jamie story, Legend of the Cybermen. It's been a bright spot in ( Read more... )