Forget the killer tomatoes. Don’t stress about the zombie apocalypse. Turns out you should be worried about shrimp. Yes, the Dikerogammarus villosus, aka killer shrimp, to be exact. This species makes its home in the area around the Black and Caspian Seas. For the geographically challenged, that includes such places as Romania, Turkey, Russia, Iran,…
4 CERN Songs You Should Listen To
You may have heard Alpine Kat’s incredibly awesome rap about the Large Hadron Collider: But did you know that there is also a response rap? Yep, the guys at Fermilab just couldn’t let the LHC get all the attention. Or, at least their friends over at Nerdcore couldn’t. And Alpine Kat isn’t the only one…
Interpretive Dance and PhD Theses: Opposites Attract
Each year the American Association for the Advancement of Science runs the most absurdly awesome competition ever created: Dance Your PhD. Yep, you read that right. Doctoral candidates in the sciences work tirelessly for years on cutting edge projects that will add something original to their field and then they think…huh, I wonder what this…
Sexing A Dinosaur
ZOMG. Get your mind out of the gutter. We would never write about dinosaur sexxxytime. We are not that kind of blog. Well, except that one time. At band camp. No. What we are talking about is exciting news in the field of paleontology: finally, scientists believe they can accurately differentiate between male and female…
Perfect Plans For Pi Day
Fine, whatever, yes, this is pretty arbitrary, or dare we say…irrational. Heh. But still, it’s kinda cool when numbers and dates collide, right? Like in the eighties when it was 8am on the 8th of August, ’88? Anywho, we were thinking about how the arbitrary and Hallmark-y nature of Valentine’s Day makes it totally suck…
All Mobile Devices Will Soon Be Made Of Trees
Let’s see – how many mobile devices1 have YOU burned through since you joined the cell phone club back in the late 90s? Among all the Nokias, flip-phones, Razrs, Blackberries, Droids and iPhones – our own personal number is around 10 we guess.2 One of the many problems with our rock and roll mobile-device lifestyle…
5 Awesomely Scientific Halloween Costumes
These people do not screw around when it comes to dinosaur costumes. In case you were wondering, this one is a Spinosaurus. Proving that solar panels are always a bright idea. Costume merchants: if we see a sexy Ada Lovelace costume on the internet, we will hunt you down. Ada is not that kind of…
When You Picture the Future, Think of a Dutch Police Eagle Crushing a Drone, Forever
SHREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE–*crunch* No, I haven’t lost my mind. Rather, that’s my artist’s impression of the sound a Dutch police eagle makes when it gets medieval on a quadcopter. (Off topic, that might be the best sentence I’ve written in my short career as a writer.) Alongside hoverboards and vuvuzelas, commercial drones are one of those modern…
Your Dog Really Can Tell When You Are Happy
Science finally confirms what dog owners have always believed: dogs can tell the difference between happy and angry human faces. While there is a fairly strong scientific consensus that many species of animals express emotions similar to our own, this is the first study able to show that animals really can discern emotions across species – leaving…
The Publication Pollution Problem, Part II: Episode Spam-A-Lot
We recently covered the spotlight being cast on the threat of legitimate science publishing being murdered to death under the weight of metric fucktons of plagiarism, gibberish, errors, predatory publications1 or just stone cold made-up data.2 One of the aspects driving publication pollution asserted by Art Caplan, that of predatory publishers3, is the subject of…
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