After the drought, fresh water became incredibly scarce. Finding it was tough enough at first, but after the fall of the United States it became the most valuable commodity. Corporations appeared to spring from nowhere where they found small colonies centered on deep water wells. The colonies that formed grew as…
Buenos dias, buenos tardes, buenos noches amigos! Wherever you are I hope you’re enjoying some pleasant weather. In appreciation of Kurt Vonnegut on the anniversary of his death I wanted to reach out to my fellow O-Decker’s to get some of your tips and tricks for short story writing. It’s my first foray into literary…
ICYMI, last night Chuck Lorre, writer / producer / co-creator of The Big Bang Theory, announced that he would use the show’s success and his foundation (The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation) to pay it forward. His foundation will establish a $4 million dollar endowment to be spread amongst 20 low-income students seeking…
50 Shades of Grey releases tomorrow, and with that will come the inevitable discussions of morality, permissibility, sadomasochism as a phenomenon, and endless other inquiries into BDSM culture. Now, this is not a defense of the books or the movie. The books have a strange power dynamic that borders on abusiveness…
Well this was certainly interesting. The only two overwhelming winners were Mewtwo at QB and Machamp at TE. Machamp actually won two separate categories, but his dominant showing at TE gave him that position. At HB/FB, Rapidash claimed a late victory as in the waning hours she garnered 3 votes to take the position…
Well, there was an interesting post this morning and it caused quite a bit of stir. We all have our favorites, true. But, sometimes those favorites get left out. Perhaps someone limits us to only 150 Pokemon (this is fine with me as I am wayyyyy behind in Pokemon lore), or perhaps someone mistakenly uses Arcanine…
Is there any way you would allow me to artificially promote the Pokemon poll this evening by reposting it? If so, might you be so kind as to tell me how this artificial promotion of a post might work?
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Before this begins, we all saw the post from Annalee regarding the passing of an original Niner, Serenada. I didn't know her as some of you did, but I remember a lot of her material throughout the past few years. As I moved from lurker to commenter on io9 and the O-Deck, Serenada's presence was always known. She…
Does this Kangaroo look like it gives a shit about your flying machine? This Kangaroo is not playing. Get too close to its Kanga-babies and you're getting jump punched. You've been warned humanity.
40 years ago, Les Baugh lost his arms in an electrical accident. But now, thanks to innovations at Johns Hopkins University, Les has found himself capable of once again using his limbs. Well, not his exactly. After undergoing neural surgery and receiving two robotic limbs attached to a socket, Les has gained the…
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Today's Highlights in History:
In what was a bit of an unexpected find, Rosetta's Plasma Consortium picked up variations in the magnetic field around the comet, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The variations had audible frequencies, and the frequencies ranged from 40-50 millihertz. That frequency range is inaudible to the human ear, so…
The Puritanical curriculum of sex education invented in America, otherwise known as Abstinence-only sex education, is still a popular curriculum in many school districts, oft those which have a heavily Christian influence. This curriculum was popular throughout school systems during much of the 20th century, and, up…
Today's Highlight in History:
Today's highlight: On Nov. 10, 1944, during World War II, the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded while moored at the Manus Naval Base in the Admiralty Islands in the South Pacific; the blast annihilated the Mount Hood and damaged nearby vessels, leaving 45 confirmed dead and 327 missing and presumed…
Today's Highlight in History:
Verdingkinder, the German for "forced child labors", also known as contract children, were children taken as wards of the state and relocated to Swiss farms as laborers. The state justified their taking of the children through any number of means, some of which include poverty, familial dysfunction, the child being…
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