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in Memes, Space

‘My battery is low and it’s getting very dark’ – Why we’re crying over losing Opportunity

Dan Broadbent February 14, 2019, 4:24 pm 1 Comment

...and we watched the skies darken.

Ultimately, it was the most intense dust storm in recorded Martian history that brought this epic mission to a close. https://t.co/Z2Z529ECI2 #ThanksOppy pic.twitter.com/2Y241Qyeoz
— NASA Mars (@NASAMars) February 13, 2019

Yesterday, NASA announced what most of us had been fearing since last June: that the Mars Opportunity rover is officially dead. Despite being aware of what NASA was going to say, many of us (present company included) had a strong emotional reaction to the news. I found myself questioning why so many of us felt […] More
in Fake News

Sharing the ‘Fox News host not washing his hands’ story makes you look stupid

Dan Broadbent February 11, 2019, 11:02 pm

https://twitter.com/PeteHegseth/status/1094639126329131009

Another week, another viral “story” going around with a headline that doesn’t quite match the actual story. A few weeks ago, the internet lost its collective mind over #SmirkGate and again just last week with #NeesonGate. And because the internet apparently has an extremely short term memory when it comes to being duped by misleading headlines, […] More
in Climate Change

NASA and NOAA Both Confirm: 2018 Was Fourth Hottest Year on Record

James Schlarmann February 11, 2019, 3:05 pm

Well, it happened again. Amy Klobuchar announced that she is running for President, talking proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing temperatures. Bad timing. By the end of her speech she looked like a Snowman(woman)!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 10, 2019

Over the weekend, Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota announced her candidacy in the 2020 presidential election, in the middle of a snow storm. A day later, America’s premier climate scientist — President Donald Trump — took to Twitter to explain why she should’ve waited to make her announcement because her points about global warming were […] More
in Pseudoscience

‘Food Babe’ is *really* upset that Costco isn’t going to sell her new book

Dan Broadbent February 8, 2019, 12:20 pm

Vani Hari, better known as ‘Food Babe‘, posted a live video earlier this week complaining that Costco wouldn’t be carrying her new book, which is perfectly titled Feeding You Lies. I say it’s perfect because I can only assume it’s an autobiography where she explains how she built her empire though lies and misinformation. She starts out […] More
in Opinion

Stop pretending you’re outraged by what Liam Neeson said.

Dan Broadbent February 5, 2019, 6:59 pm 2 Comments

https://twitter.com/BeeBabs/status/1092441586514972677

Yesterday, The Independent published a story of their interview with Liam Neeson, where he said that about 40 years ago, he wanted to kill a black person because they raped a friend of his. He said that for a week afterwards, he walked the streets with a cosh (a crowbar-like object), hoping that a person of […] More
in Climate Change

20 of the internet’s best responses to climate change deniers

James Schlarmann February 4, 2019, 4:06 pm 2 Comments

In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 29, 2019

Brace yourself for perhaps the most shocking thing you’ll read in the next five minutes: Donald Trump tweeted something super-duper stupid about climate change last week, and that unleashed a torrent of tweets from people who wanted to light him up for it. In a dumb tweet for the ages, Trump mixes up weather and […] More
in Vaccines

Anti-vaxxer demands to not be ‘shamed’ – The Internet responds appropriately

Dan Broadbent January 31, 2019, 12:41 pm

Anti-vaxxers are the 8th Wonder of the World to me. They have access to the full body of knowledge humanity possesses in their pocket, yet somehow they think they know more than doctors who have dedicated their lives to medicine. It’s a runaway Dunning-Kruger effect. The state of Washington is currently dealing with yet another […] More
in Human Rights

ICE tweeted about ‘modern-day slavery’ and whoa boy, the irony

Dan Broadbent January 29, 2019, 2:14 pm 1 Comment

There’s that old saying – if you live in a glass house, don’t throw stones. I think it applies here to a certain extent. Earlier today, the official ICE Twitter account made the following post: Think slavery doesn’t exist today? Think again. #HumanTrafficking is a form of modern-day slavery. https://t.co/u1LTrtd4Ix pic.twitter.com/JMyVe8CRdH — ICE (@ICEgov) January […] More
in Drugs

New Brain Study May Have Figured Out How LSD Makes You Trip Balls

James Schlarmann January 28, 2019, 8:38 pm

Have you been done LSD and wondered why your brain was creating the trip you were on? Of course you haven’t. You were too busy, you know, being on an acid trip. Well, luckily for the rest of us, researchers at the National Academy of Sciences have been pondering what exactly makes our brains create what it […] More
in Fake News

What the media got wrong about the ‘MAGA hat kid’ confronting a Native American vet

Dan Broadbent January 21, 2019, 1:52 pm 3 Comments

If you’re reading this, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the kids wearing MAGA hats who harassed a Native American veteran. From there, the headlines and articles write themselves, and our cup of outrage runneth over. There’s only one problem with it – it’s not factually correct. At best, the situation was wildly mischaracterized by the media. […] More
in Climate Change

Ice in Antarctica is melting six times faster than it did in ’80s

Dan Broadbent January 15, 2019, 12:07 pm

According to a new study published yesterday in PNAS, ice in Antarctica is melting at a rate six times faster than it did just four decades ago. The authors noted that this is not the sea ice that floats around Antarctica. This study analyzed the amount of freshwater ice on the enormous sheets that are on […] More
in Fake News

Study: Boomers share fake news nearly 7 times more than adults under 30

Dan Broadbent January 13, 2019, 5:11 pm

In a new study, researchers at Princeton and New York University found that people aged 65 years and older were nearly seven times more likely to share intentionally false stories – fake news – as those who are 30 years old or younger. According to the authors of the study: Conservatives were more likely to share […] More