I checked out the first episode of the Discovery Channel series ‘Into the Universe With Stephen Hawking’ concerning aliens the other day. I had been avoiding watching it (it’s a couple years old) because the trailers made me feel like it was going to be cheesy. It turned out to be lacking at best and [...]
Channeling Carl Sagan again as tomorrow is MoCCA (Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art) Fest here in New York City, and I am in a tizzy. It’s a good tizzy, worry not. But I’m also really excited. Not only is this my first MoCCA Fest, it’s my first time exhibiting at any sort of convention. [...]
This isn’t an advice column but let me give the balding community some advice anyhow. Let it go, man. It’s common knowledge that your problems stem from not a perfectly acceptable and badass clean bald head but horseshoes and comb-overs and receding hairlines. As always exceptions exist, Patrick Stewart wins at horseshoes and Young Bruce [...]
Everybody wants Einstein on their team. Why not? It says good things about your team to have Einstein on it. This posthumous playground metaphor can be observed in arguments over whether he was an atheist or a deist, quote launching contests where he is shown to be either critical or favoring of religion, whether or [...]
In some cases it can take longer to read textese than regular English, but my guess is as fewer words are repeated more often this will reverse. I’ve always been interested in etymologies and the evolution of words through changing cultures. I think I especially enjoyed learning early on that, as a living thing, language [...]
Ever notice that the word “penguin” is already translated into baby talk? It’s like a toddler named them or something. Today’s comic was definitely a cute-delivery-device and an excuse to paint some Antarctic wildlife. Oh, and also to share some of the ingenious ways that technology can work across fields. Satellite technology is another example [...]
Nerds who were made fun of in high school did not stop at becoming your boss or ruling the world, they are now making you LOOK LIKE THEM TOO!! MUAHahahahahaha. Revenge is a dish best served 01100011011011110110110001100100 I’m always so excited about spotting ‘the future is now’ moments that when an opportunity to wear a [...]
Augmented reality (AR) frightens me. Don’t get me wrong, the prospects are incredible, and readers of the comic will know that I am a huge fan of augmentation. But I have a little part of my brain that conducts killjoy reality checks for me whenever I get excited about something. Right now, this nodule is [...]
Every year the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art has a festival in downtown Manhattan chock full of comics and their creators. I’ve joined forces with The Adam’s Matt “Matt Lubchansky” Lubchansky, and we’re going to set up a table to trounce all tables. You won’t be able to miss us. We’ll be the big fuzzy [...]
Just to be 100% clear. This was an April Fools joke. Phrenology is still bunkum -ed In the late 18th century, Franz Joseph Gall developed the phrenological basics we’ve come to know and understand today. It spread, rose and fell in popularity but remains a foundational influence in modern neuroscience. As a remaining testament to [...]