Watching Pitch Flow. An Embarrassment of Pitches. Pitch Dad, Poor Dad. Bitumen to Say “Asphalt”? Last time I briefly mentioned the famous Pitch Drop experiment currently running over at the University of Queensland in Australia. I use the term experiment lightly, as it’s more of a demonstration or curiosity than a strict experiment. Not to [...]
In college, Nadir and I were avid cosplayers, though I don’t know if that word existed back then or if it even applied to what we did. It was normal Halloween stuff: Luchodores, fairy tale duos*, religious figures, and probably the best Jay and Silent Bob around. I didn’t dress up as anything when I [...]
A Vision of the End I apologize in advance for the stream-of-consciousness/surrealism of today’s comic. Given the source material, it actually makes perfect sense, and I already cut out a whole section involving theoretical physicist Gerard ‘t Hooft windsurfing in Oakley’s and nobel prize bling—which would have only confused things further. Instead I chose to give [...]
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 [...]
Poor Carl just couldn’t catch a break last week. I was able to give him my heartfelt condolences the other night at a discussion he spoke at. I also let him know that I was going to draw a comic about his recent tribulations. I neglected to mention that I wasn’t planning on bucking the [...]
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 [...]
A massive comic today. This was one of those things that started as a twitter joke and began expanding and expanding until it was 3AM and I had to say, “Alright, that’s enough of that.” So before you write to tell me which laser studies I missed (please do, actually, just in case), just know [...]
Now, let me just set one thing straight. Nikola Tesla is my boy. But when the Txchnologist asked me to draw a comic about Thomas Edison’s contribution to the quest for electric lighting, how could I resist? See, Friday, October 21st was the 132nd anniversary of the Edison light bulb, and while Humpry Davy may [...]
Hey! The Third Wednesday of every October is Hagfish Day! 10/17/2012: 14 Fun Facts about Hagfish by Hannah Waters Amirite? I like to think that, as a blog that sometimes features animals, we prefer to sit somewhere between this post and Honey Badger Don’t Give a Shit. But a recent article in Wired Science spurred the need [...]
Give up? The answer is C: Sean Hannity. Thankfully, despite the unbelievable precedent set by the first two panelists (ha!), we can be pretty safe to assume that Hannity knows why his face is scratchy every morning. As human beings, we tend to give people at least an ounce of credit as a general courtesy until they [...]