A Conversation at The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as Imagined by Blake Frederick
The Ubyssey reports: The AMS has filed a complaint to the United Nations regarding the federal and provincial government’s failure to meet obligations to provide accessible…
Read articleStar Wars: Botany edition.
All I can say is, is that this is brilliant… And there’s much more here from Christopher Niemann from the NYT Abstract City Blog. (via Magpie&Whiskeyjack)
Read articleI Want a PhD (Why Science is Awesome)
A lot of us students continually struggle with a difficult question: What am I going to do after I graduate? Well, that search is over for…
Read articleTelling Other People Exactly what You Think: A Tip Sheet to Make Your Online Commentary Really Count
These are scary times. Without asking your permission, Muslims are daring to write articles, create films, develop radio programs, and produce art that unabashedly celebrates the…
Read articleUS Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL.) on Climate Change
March 2009, US Subcommittee on Energy and Environment: “The Earth will end only when God declares it is time to be over.” “There is a theological…
Read articleProprietary Probiotic Culture Generator!
Yoghurt advertisements are the funniest thing on TV. First, they are marketed almost exclusively to women – apparently those of us with a Y chromosome are…
Read articleScience Journalism at The Onion
Son-Of-A-Bitch Mouse Solves Maze Researchers Spent Months Building Despite attempts to condition the mouse by screaming directly into its face, the researchers reported that the subject…
Read articleDry Science Humour at the BBC
From the following article at the BBC, “Number of Alien Worlds Quantified” came this beaut: While researchers often come up with overall estimates of the likelihood…
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Perry Bible Fellowship, Meet Evolution
By Dave Semeniuk,
If you haven’t read anything from the The Perry Bible Fellowship, then it’s about time you did: (click image for larger version) PBF is a bizarre…
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