Best joke I've heard today:

Being Eastern Kentucky, moonshine is also acceptable. Source: I'm a Kentuckian.

He could've been wearing this instead (From the excellent and hilarious Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon)

Actually, Texas has its own power grid that covers most of the state other than the panhandle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Int…

Not just romance, but also in Classic Literature. I HATEHATEHATEHATE Tess of the D'Ubervilles for this very reason.

Only if Nathan Fillion gets to be the leader (the "captain," if you will) of H.A.M.M.E.R.

Will we get somebody big and well-known like Sofia Coppola or Kathryn Bigelow (honestly the only two female directors I can think of right now). Or do we get somebody with a smaller name, perhaps from TV directing?

For those who don't know the amazingness that is the avian lungs, watch this video. The superiority of avian lungs over mammalian lungs is one of my favorite arguments against intelligent design (or at least that the Intelligent Designer likes birds more than people).

When I teach about comparative respiratory systems in a college intro bio class, I mention that dinosaurs probably had avian-type lungs. Is this a certain thing or should I be a bit more hedging in my lecture? Did all dinosaurs have avian-type lungs or was it just the theropods?

"The great history of their college football program led me to officially commit to Miami University. Now, where's the beach?"

Go all the way to the National Championship Game in Arlington, then just go to a Taco Bell? Please. He'll go to Taco Bueno. He's from Texas.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single Time Lord in possession of a TARDIS, must be in want of a companion.

Currently reading Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by Oliva Judson. It's a very readable look at the weird ways that animals have sex, presented in an advice column format. The scientist in me occasionally wants more substance to the stories, so I'm glad that Judson provides extensive end notes for my later…

No hate for the Hobbit movies? I'm a huge fan of the book, I liked the LOTR movies, but I didn't appreciate Jackson's expansion of a cozy adventure into a three part epic battle to SAVE THE WORLD FROM DESTRUCTION!

Well, here's where some assumptions have to be made. The article refers to Chapman's "UK days" and refers to some Kentucky pre-teens. Based off this second piece of information, I'm guessing that the K in "UK" may refer to something in Kentucky, rather than the United Kingdom. Universe? Uniform? I'm not really sure,…

From the first line of the article: "former NBA player." In this context, NBA stands for National Basketball Association, a professional sporting league in North America dedicated to playing basketball, which is a sport consisting of two 5-player teams who attempt to throw a ball through a hoop suspended 10 feet off…

I've sent maybe 2 faxes in my life, but have attempted to send hundreds: the annoyances of a copier combined with the complexity of dialing long distance from a inter-office telephone system.

And makes a giant game of "Frogger" a reality.

The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin. The chapters are self-contained stories of great scientists and explorers, but built into an overall history of knowledge.

I don't hate the book, but I didn't care enough to finish it. The immediate love didn't bother me so much as the fact that she fell in love with him because he was robbing her house. When I hear a noise in the middle of the night and think someone may have broken in, my first thought has never been "Hey! I should go…