March 2012
Working on a lecture about dinosaur reproduction
DO NOT do searches for things relating to this (“dinosaur sex”, “lizard sex”, etc.), unless you have copious amounts of eye bleach around…
February 2012
'The Wire' Wind-Up Toys, Hopefully Coming Soon to... →
If this were true, I would be flying to Baltimore today to buy them.
I DEMAND AN OMAR WIND-UP TOY!
There is nothing more daunting...
… than opening up a blank Powerpoint document, preparing to write a 75min lecture…
Realistic Anatomies of Cartoon Characters →
Watchportablelaheadspace:
Stew and Heidi missed CARMAGEDDON 2011 (good thing there will be another one next year, ha!)
I had never seen this before. Very cool.
Also, Stew and the Negro Problem have a tumblr!!!
The Mind-Boggling Story of the Galactic Wonder... →
Rep. Darrell Issa Bars Minority Witness, a Woman,... →
Issa being an asshole. Hard to believe…
A posse at college →
This sounds like an amazing program, and backs up a lot if what I’ve been saying all along.
Division Suck
So I’m teaching a large General Education (GE) science course at Large Research University. This means it’s a science course for non-science majors. Everyone has to take a certain number of science classes, and this one that they can take to fulfill that requirement (a system that I’m sure is similar to something at most universities). These courses are not supposed to be...
Darwin Correspondence Project →
Just to add my story...
… I’m not a huge Whitney fan, and never was. When she was at the height of her popularity I was the heavy metal director at my college radio station. ‘nuff said.
But of course, at the time her music was inescapable.
When I worked at said radio station as an undergrad, I would often eat lunch at the deli in the building across the court from where the station was housed. I...
#175 A Trip to Earth
awfuldrawings:
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...”
– Aaron Freeman “You Want A Physicist To Speak at your Funeral” (source: npr)
WatchA Bear’s Eye View: A Day in the Life of a Bear (by ADF&G)
Dangers of Fracking →
DINNER IN NY – Miho Aikawa Photography →