Humor

I? Robot? Okay, so I got the logicman handle for being a bit like Mr. Spock. But I am not a robot. I used to get called professor at school because I was so absent-minded. But I am not an absent-minded robot. So why does Google News offer me this advice? ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 16 2010 - 11:08pm

A Glossary of Alternative Reality #1

A Glossary of Alternative Reality #1 If you analyse deliberate disinformation deeply- and manage to retain your sanity- you tend to observe some fascinating nuances and psychological tricks. A bonus in such analyses is the discovery of things which- expr ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 17 2010 - 7:47pm

Interlude 5: Cynical Webtoons plus one Optimistic

This interlude's theme is 'cynicism'. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal covers prehistoric skeptics: and modern-day realism: while Surviving the World looks deeply at the joy in academia: and the use of substance abuse in science: ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jun 18 2010 - 4:19pm

A Message From Ni... Ghana.

A Message From Nigeria Ghana.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From the office of the Manager; BARCLAYS BANK GHANA. Attn: [insert name from recently purchased list of 10,000,000 email addresses], According ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 18 2010 - 5:23pm

Chomskybot v Baseballbot

Chomskybot v Baseballbot The unsleeping Chomskybot stands ready to write a paragraph on linguistics at any time, just for you. ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 14 2010 - 12:00pm

Water Bomb Terror Threat

Water Bomb Terror Threat I just had to share this: The H 2 O-bomb has been developed by the radical New Age group, The Axis of Aquarius. http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/04/20/new-age-terrorists-develop-homeopathic-bomb/ ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 16 2010 - 1:17pm

Kid Science Fun: Security Gunk

I was relaxing out back, watching fireflies flash, when a buddy, dad to boy and girl 11 year old twins, called to catch up with news and relate a funny (still unfinished) story. Growing crankier by the weekend with trespassers holding court on the porch s ...

Article - Anonymous - Jul 19 2010 - 12:21am

Food for thought

A witty scientist friend of mine asked me," What can an atom and a void can do with us?" I replied, "Atomic world lies far below and since we cannot see the atoms, their movements, atoms and void have escaped you and me ...

Blog Post - Payal Joshi - Jul 20 2010 - 8:54am

How South Park Gets It Wrong

While passively watching an episode of South Park, 1 my spidey sense tingled- something was amiss, and it wasn't the barely surviving buttons on Cartman's pants. I grabbed the remote from the huz and rewound to the spot that caught my eye 2- a yo ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 21 2010 - 10:02pm

Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier Retreat Scaremongering

Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier Retreat Scaremongering A guest post by my friend Lai Ying at the Greenwich Institute of Toxicology. Global warming is a get-rich-quick scam invented by Al Gore when he was cold and hungry, sleeping in a doorway and penniless ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 23 2010 - 6:02pm