© Ruben Bolling Batten down the hatches! Run for cover! The denialists won’t be denied! Raining and flooding will just cause them to flood the airwaves. Not to mention sticking their heads in the ground, which will probably be full of water. Will they drown in their own pronouncements? Or will they weather the storm?
Last week, the Presidential Committee on the Arts and the Humanities disbanded themselves in protest of Donald Trump, but they did something interesting in their letter of resignation. The first letter of each paragraph spelled out R-E-S-I-S-T. Not to be outdone, this week the State Department science envoy resigned, and the first letters of his […]
[I absolutely love this article from The Atlantic. Especially the last line. –iron] The scientists are all talking like it’s a sure thing. On August 21, the “moon” will pass between the Earth and the sun, obscuring the light of the latter. The government agency NASA says this will result in “one of nature’s most […]
Here are a few photos from the March for Science protests over the weekend. Good signs!
I’ve been concerned about all the money being donated by the Koch brothers to prestigious museums to influence their exhibits, but now we know what Science on Koch looks like. A reader [thanks Jay!] sent me this photo they took at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History: So climate change was a good thing that […]
© Jen Sorensen I am an unapologetic capitalist, but even I understand that there are some things that capitalism is not the best way to handle. Like, once upon a time, we tried having a free market for fire extinguishing companies, and we ended up with people who hadn’t bought any fire protection having their […]
Tomorrow is an extra special, up-to-the-second Pi Day. How special? Once a century special! What is Pi Day? It is a day celebrating mathematics held on March 14 every year. In the US at least, we write this date as 3/14, corresponding to the first three digits of Pi (3.14). But once a century we […]
Funny or Die imagines what would happen if religious right-wingers had their way with the Cosmos TV series:
© John Backderf Science deniers and anti-evolutionists do indeed have their panties tied in knots over the new Cosmos series, hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson. But what must be the most upsetting of all is that they cannot direct their venom at PBS or other public media, because the new show is being shown on […]
© Ted Rall This comic brings up a pet peeve of mine. There is absolutely nothing wrong with believing that the Sun revolves around the Earth. Nothing. Gravity is a mutual attraction between two (or more) objects, causing them to orbit each other (around their mutual center of gravity). Thinking that the Earth has a […]
© David Horsey I actually do think that if humanity were existentially threatened, that we would come together. But it would take something dramatic. I think at least part of our problem right now is that we are relatively really well off, and everyone knows that money is the root of all evil, right? But […]
It is well-known that the White House has a website for submitting petitions. Any petition that gets enough signatures gets an official response. Someone submitted a petition that called for the government to “Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016.” But they probably didn’t expect this awesome nerd response: […]
© Garry Trudeau © Garry Trudeau © Garry Trudeau © Garry Trudeau © Garry Trudeau © Garry Trudeau Isn’t this how the world should be?
© derf It’s true. And all because he pointed out the irony of the US being the most technologically advanced nation in the world, while the majority of the people in it do not believe in evolution.
In 2009, Republican legislators in Kentucky passed a law that required testing of high school students to evaluate if those students are ready for college. That sounds very good! But now the results have come back, and some members of the GOP are upset because the test requires the students to have a good knowledge […]
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