Science Enthusiast. Atheist. Lover of cats.
Yes, you read the headline correctly and no, unfortunately, this is *not* The Onion. Only in 2018 – the year that started off with people eating tide pods (yes, that was in 2018) – would we have the president of the largest dating app designed for people of the same sex come out and say that […] More
Dogs. They’re what you get when you realize that the only way to deal with your insecurities is to have complete subordination of another animal. If it sounds like I’m being a bit too harsh, I’m sorry. But cats are better, and if you hate cats, the science isn’t on your side. I’m (mostly) joking […] More
Dunking on anti-vaxxers has become a new national pastime for the science-minded out there. It’s not only the source of my new favorite insult (calling someone an “uneducated potato”), but it also helps others understand the importance of facts and logic. And that’s what Meggy Doodle, a nurse and a parent who lives in California, […] More
Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants, has passed away at the age of 57 years old. He had been diagnosed with ALS just last year. As the AV Club pointed out, Hillenburg wasn’t just a cartoon creator. He was actually a science teacher, with a deep knowledge of marine life. Born in 1961, Hillenburg cut his teeth […] More
By now you’ve surely heard about the missionary who was killed by a tribe who he attempted to convert to Christianity. John Allen Chau made not one, not two, but three attempts to contact the isolated Sentinelese tribe, met with arrows from them every time, before he died. More details are emerging about the situation, showing […] More
Cover image: NASA astronaut Suni Williams participates in a simulated mission inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon while wearing SpaceX’s spacesuit. Photo Credit: SpaceX Amidst the chaos of pre-Thanksgiving travel, and perhaps a bit buried by the viral story of a Christian missionary being killed by an isolated tribe, NASA and SpaceX announced on Wednesday that the […] More
I think we have a possible winner for the 2018 Darwin Awards. And as a disclaimer, I don’t normally relish in the misery of others. But when you intentionally put yourself in an extremely dangerous situation, especially when it’s for an extraordinarily dumb reason, you get what you get. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. […] More
Today is the 317th day of 2018. So far, we have has 309 mass shootings. A mass shooting is defined here as a shooting where four or more people are shot. A mass shooting differs from a mass murder, where four our more people are killed. I point this out because I received a lot […] More
The Catholic Church has once again failed to support the victims of sexual abuse at the hands of its own predator priests. It seems to be the same story every time. The Catholic Church has an opportunity to take action to combat the rampant sexual abuse at the hands of predator priests. The Catholic Church […] More
I’ll admit that the first time I heard of the “bioweapon defense mode” on Tesla’s Model S and Model X, I thought it seemed a bit silly. I mean after all, it’s just a car. And the suggestion that it would be able to stop a bioweapon – the use of biological toxins or infectious agents […] More
Yvette d’Entremont, better known to many as SciBabe, posted an article she wrote today about these weird electric shorts called the ‘BionicGym.’ The idea behind them is that they’re shorts you can put on and they’ll exercise for you, and will prepare you to run in a marathon. I can only assume they went with “bionic” […] More
As I’ve written before, there seems to be almost no end to the horror that is the Catholic Church. It’s time to quit the Catholic Church. We had the predator priests in Pennsylvania who ran a child pornography ring. Then there was the cover-up and minimization. There was even the story of how Pope Francis, […] More
