This post originally ran 2 September 2009. My favorite joke: Two cannibals are eating a clown and one says to the other, "qbrf guvf gnfgr shaal gb lbh?" Ha ha!…
This post originally ran 31 August 2009. Everybody knows that a prime number is one which can only be evenly divided by itself and 1. Thus, for example, 13 is…
It's the time of year when people begin asking the very pertinent question: How does Santa Claus do it? How does he get all those presents to all those kids…
Item From the London Times, a quotation from the print edition, 30 November this year, the "arts" section, page 4, on a PR piece about some screen thot who appeared…
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Headline: Big Tongues and Extra Vertebrae: The Unintended Consequences of Animal Gene Editing: Unintended consequences have included enlarged rabbit tongues and extra pig vertebrae, as bioethicists warn of hubris Scientists…