Looks like our favorite misanthrope has a bit of a sniffle. Luckily, there are science approved solutions to clearing out one’s nose. Though, like all things, it is apparently not without risks. I had vaguely known about neti pots for quite a while, having seen ads for them here and there. But I never bothered [...]
Drive safe, and beware the Wild Hunt. We’ll be back next week. -Maki and Nadir
So last night I was drawing some holiday themed comics and when 3am hit, I realized that the one I really wanted to post hadn’t been finished yet. Crap. I figured I’d finish it this morning, but alas, last minute errands have caught up to me and I need to put the digital pen down [...]
Nothing used to be intuitive. I mean the concept of ‘nothing’. We used to be able to say things like ‘the vast nothingness of space” and have an idea of what that meant. But we know there is, in fact, lots of ‘things’ in between the regular ‘stuff’ in space. Dark matter, dark energy, virtual [...]
Click Here for a larger version of the image to peruse. If you like actually being able to complete the puzzle, the older, less realistic version can be seen here. Are you done looking? Great. Last Tuesday, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) delivered a press conference and presentation that set hearts alight and renewed [...]
[Word of Christopher Hitchens' death reached me late last night. Eulogies and artwork are being collected on Mad Art Lab, where I made a small post in his honor. Cheers, Hitch. You will be missed] Open up any decent copy of Beowulf and you’ll be presented with the word HWÆT, followed by verse upon verse of [...]
After a full year of doing Sci-ence I feel like it’s ok to start peddling some wares. I’ve been getting requests to put stuff up in the swag store, unfortunately some of the fun drawings I’ve done for the site are pretty small (basically I was doing-it-wrong), so I had to find the time to [...]
Today’s comic/infographic is a veritable who’s who of big ocean exploration. Mind you that, aside from Sylvia Earle, it’s more of “who’s shelling out the dough” rather than “who’s doing the science.” It originally appeared on Txchnologist.com last week, where they have been focusing on where ocean exploration has been taking us. Now it is here, [...]
Dr. N is a physician, psychiatrist, and avid reader of the comic. He is a geek at heart, a skeptic at brain, and has provided expert consultation on many an occasion. Over the past year, the range of my reactions to Sci-ence has gone from “Wow, that’s a neat comic strip.” to “These guys are [...]
With that, our story comes to a close. Or does it? The brain is a tricky organ, completely capable of holding two utterly conflicting viewpoints at the same time without second thought. This is why skepticism isn’t called “anti-acupuncture.” Skepticism seeks to cut to the heart of the matter by educating for and encouraging critical [...]