As a reward for achieving staggering feats such as booking a rental car and scheduling the cancellation of our utilities, I have been catching up on my favorite scientific journals ( Read more... )

The other day (week) I was reading about potential drive mechanisms for transgenic genes. The idea is that even if someone came up with a gene that makes something like a mosquito do something like be more resistant to malaria, one would still have to come up with a way to get those mosquitoes to spread that gene through the population faster than ( Read more... )

This is the only consistent LJ pattern I've maintained, so I'll continue to maintain it ( Read more... )

”cueyatl” and I discovered a fascinating website about on which side of the road people drive, both in different countries and in history. It’s worth a read ( Read more... )

Australia has a weekly news parody show (a la The Daily Show) called Newstopia. In an episode from a couple of weeks ago, they did a bit in response to the banning of headscarves for women in Muslim schools in Holland. That bit falls under the category of "I Wish I Had Written This ( Read more... )

Mariana thinks I should compile all of these workplace stories into a book ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since I've been this addicted to a website.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage

Must...break away...from computer...

It's 3AM. Who do you want answering that call?


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Yesterday, I received the following email addressed to all staff at my workplace ( Read more... )

In a old post, I estimated that, with the money the U.S. had spent on the Iraq war up until that point, we could have just trained/created 58,000 Batmans to go take care of it.

Now that estimate is up to 146,605 Batmans.

This is so obvious. I really need to run for President.