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Or two of them, actually. [Edit: three, really.] PSA1: Dumping Swedish fish down your throat is never a good idea. If you are driving at the time, it’s a truly horrid idea. PSA2: Crashing your car into a parked van may in fact dislodge the stuck Swedish fish, but it is not a generally-acceptable alternative [...]

My favorites for the day: John Scalzi’s new fantasy project: “The entire fantasy series is entitled The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, of which the first book is called The Dead City.” Go read the prologue. Really. Bagicalupi and Watts start a shared world anthology, guaranteed to drive you to despair and drinking. Charlie [...]

I love XKCD, and never more than today. (Real slime mold, real name, real research. Of course.) And then there’s Transformer Owl, a Friday treat. (Sorry, I’m having embedding issues right now. But go watch it.) From there, the science gets weird: Yeti research! Government officials in Siberia are planning to set up a special [...]

Today let’s take a break from the Great Old Ones and talk about the very important topic of zombie preparedness. I know there’s the temptation to slack off at the holidays: eat too much, spend too much, pay insufficient attention to potential zombie attacks, but resist the urge. (via Danabren) For today’s science tidbit, the [...]

It occurs to me that I forgot to tell you all that I have a new post up at Science in My Fiction, and that SiMF has moved to its own domain. This month: deep sea vents and giant pogonophoran worms with no mouth and no gut. (And isn’t pogonophoran the most wonderful word?) I’ll [...]

Edit: A disappointing follow-up. I spent some time this morning tracking science and nonsense in advance of NASA’s press conference on astrobiology. Now that I’ve had a chance to watch the press conference and read the Science paper, here’s a rundown on what the scientists actually found. First off, here’s the citation and abstract for [...]

Some of my online friends post music regularly, to share their favorites with friends and strangers. Sometimes they remind me of songs I’ve loved and forgotten, sometimes I find new things that I like. I learned of The Magnetic Fields in just such a fashion, a few years ago, and this is a good time [...]

My latest post for Science in My Fiction, on the naming of organisms, went up on Friday. I wouldn’t mind at all if you read it and left a comment. Or two. As I slowly dig out of my current pile of stuff, let me entertain you with this video that’s been making the rounds. [...]

So you all know that I’m writing for the new Science in My Fiction group blog, right? And you’re all reading it and commenting regularly, right? And you will definitely read and leave comments on Friday when my next post goes up, right? But did you notice the contest??? Short fiction based on current science, [...]

You think getting rid of social programs gives you freedom? Hell no, it gives you Uganda, you dumb fuckers. Or maybe the whole bottle.