Adam Savage, of Mythbusters fame, is friggin' great. He epitomizes everything I love about skeptics and science in a humorous and entertaining capsule of awesomeness.

In that vein, I present this video. No introduction, because I don't want to ruin the surprise, but if you ever wanted to know what sulfur hexaflouride does, well, now you know.

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*sigh*

The Bad Astronomy blog pointed me to a rather sad story this morning:

Indian Girl commits suicide over 'Big Bang' fear - LHCFor those unaware, there's been a TON of garbage in the media about CERN's new Large Hadron Collider in Europe turning on and possibly causing the end of the world. The media has been reporting very sloppily on this, ( Read more... )

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My sister's famous ( Read more... )

*NOW* I remember why I stopped following all the blogs I used to read ( Read more... )

A couple of recent, wonderful contributions from my favorite political, skeptic, singer/songwriter:

"How Can We Lose?"

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"Sarah, Pale in Comparison"

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Maine was great, pretty much precisely what I wanted it to be. Some alone time with a good book and some crosswords, lots of un-alone time with friends playing games, laughing, eating, walking, and swimming. Exceeded expectations, as always ( Read more... )

Good Sweet Jesus in a Time Machine!

Everyone who has an XBox 360 needs to go on the marketplace and download Braid. Like, right now. Yes, it's $15, which is a little steep for a downloadable price, but I only played through the first few levels yesterday, and it is GENIUS ( Read more... )

Sawesome that it's over, and sawesome because, well, you'll see.

Tip of the hat to Joss for a job very well done again.

Act III. Wonderful. Won't say more until people have a chance to watch it.

Dr. Horrible

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Act II went live just after midnight ( Read more... )