Day 563: Why The Little Guy Keeps Picking On Poor Monsanto

originally published July 16, 2013 If you’re like me, you probably have at least two or three friends on your Facebook feed who periodically vomit a string of ‘awareness’ posts. You’ll read the first couple, then your scrolling will gradually increase speed until you thankfully land on a photo of some friend’s friend’s baby. A […]

Day 541: When Heads Explode

originally published June 24, 2013 I just discovered that I suffer from the most awesome disease in the world. It’s not really a disease so much as an ‘ailment of unknown etiology’. I chanced upon this little corner of Wikipedian knowledge when I was researching last week’s article on Dancing Mania; I felt there must […]

Day 537: In Praise Of The IKEA Effect

originally published June 20, 2013 In my unending quest to figure out why the human mind dances the steps it does, I occasionally like to dip my curiosity into a warm bowl of psychology, just to see what color it turns. Often it transforms into the murky grey of incomprehension, but sometimes it emerges cloaked […]

Day 532: Some People Call Me The Space Comrade

originally published June 15, 2013 Yesterday I penned a touching tribute to those plucky little furry heroes, the unsung monkeys who ventured into space at the hands of American scientists, who were hungry for a forward step in their ever-mounting space race with the Soviet Union. Well, back then the Russians were doing a lot […]

Day 531: Ground Control To Major Space-Monkey

originally published June 14, 2013 Today I’d like to take a somber moment and toast the fallen. No, not our fallen troops, and not the victims of horrific recent disasters – they deserve our respect, but they also get a lot of respect from writers far more respectable than myself. I prefer to shine the […]

Day 525: Wherefore Art Thou, Pluto?

originally published June 8, 2013 Poor, poor Pluto. For many people, the demotion of Pluto from the ranks of the Elite Nine backing vocalists to the Sun’s great whizzbang show was nothing short of a tragedy. Rallies were held, people marched through the streets with pale orange warpaint smeared across their sweaty faces, and supporters […]

Day 506: Zzzzzzzzz……

originally published May 20, 2013 One would assume that an activity one has been performing since the first day of one’s life should, at some point, become perfected. I have been practicing my sleeping skills for over 38 years now, and it turns out I’ve been doing it all wrong. How could that be? How […]

Day 493: Combing The Chemtrails Conspiracy

originally published May 7, 2013 The typical hierarchy of a conspiracy theory is that there are the people with the facts and those who are in on the conspiracy. Those with the facts are eager – some may say ravenously eager – to share them, to bring more of the public “into the know”. Conspiracy […]

Day 451: Fahrenheit & His Super-Friends

originally published March 26, 2013 Having grown up being fed the beige paste of the metric system in school, I was always intrigued by the exotic, flamboyant, and outright chaotic nature of the imperial measurement system. Twelve inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, some seemingly arbitrary number of feet in a mile… […]

Day 450: The Nuke-Fiddlers

originally published March 25, 2013 My parents gave up long ago on ever seeing me come up with any scientific discoveries. Maybe it was the time when I tested the resilience of ants by placing them in the middle of a sewer grate to see if they’d crawl to the edge or fall in. It […]