So the long short of it is, yeah, that study? it didn’t work. You can’t prolong primate life by keeping them on a calorie restrictive diet (and that doesn’t bode well for human life extension). During the study some of the scientists, encouraged by the thought, went on the diet themselves. If it worked I [...]
Last week I went on my first real vacation since I joined the working world. It’s been a long time since I was last at the beach, and it particularly struck me when I stepped onto the sand and thought, “Whoa, this stuff is hard to walk on.” I don’t remember that being a thing [...]
Since the 1960′s, humankind has been scraping at the heavens to learn more about where we sit in the Universe. In all of human history, there have only been twelve people to ever set foot on another world. With the death of Neil Armstrong this past Saturday, that number has been reduced to eight living [...]
What will continue to inspire me most about Neil Armstrong is how a man of such striking accomplishment was able to maintain such incredible humility, for the entirety of his days. – -
Originally part of yesterday’s comic, this panel was cut out in order to make for a punchier punch line. For those who don’t know, the game engine in Skyrim sometimes glitches, causing any object that can be picked up to go flying across the room. This can be preceded by just about anything, and can scare the [...]
I’m still on vacation, so you’ll have to forgive me for another game comic and short post. It was an easy grab in the face of having no time for a proper comic, and I’m currently writing through a haze of alcohol, tobacco, and sunscreen fumes. Just before I left, I got a chance to [...]
Evolution is a blind, aimless process. It can give rise to mind-boggling complexity from incredibly simple, chance beginnings but it can also appear to take steps backwards as far as ‘progress’* is concerned (if that’s the way you like to look at it). There is no real direction. Take for example average human** heights through [...]
I’m currently at the beach, so no real comic today. Instead I will be collecting critters (I default to my 10-year-old fascination with animal life when within 5 miles of the ocean…or anywhere really), drinking, smoking, gambling*, catching surf, and getting sunburnt. Standard vacaction fare right? To prove my convictions, here’s step one. This is [...]
Causation? Correlation? Who the hell has time to read beyond an abstract, or a headline even?! I guess if something is obvious, commonsensical and shouldn’t need to be repeated, odds are, it needs to be pointed out. Take for example egg yolks. I love this crap. It’s been a cliche my whole life, and probably [...]
This is the part where one would fearfully/gleefully expect that I pull out some research about mind control, “programmed” communist sleeper agents, and hypnosis. This will not be the case. The Manchurian Candidate is fiction, and so is the technique used in the film to create Raymond Shaw and his brainwashed compatriots. It makes for fantastic [...]