Wake me up when it’s time for the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences to be awarded.

Romesco sauce is the beeeeesst. I am up to my eyeballs with yellow/red bell peppers from my CSA, so my project this weekend is to roast them for sauce for the freezer.

Right? I would expect 20% of items in my daily life to test positive for fecal bacteria.

Yeah, I get that the shitty economy has left a lot of my peers (I’m 28) distrustful of the banking system, but I am getting kind of sick of people going on and on about how they only use cash, or only use their debit card, like they’ve totally hacked personal finances. It’s like no one told them they can make payments…

And the idea that you need even 8 glasses of water a day has been thoroughly debunked at this point (in addition to it being pointed out that the studies that said that were funded by companies that sold bottled water).

You don’t need to drink a gallon of water a day.

Heh. As a staff technician in biological research I fully support the advancement/development of real career-track technical positions over a sea of flakey as fuck grad students.

Can I also use this post as an opportunity to observe how fucking ugly the Great Britain team gear was?

I agree 100%.

Totally digging all this cycling coverage, dude. This is the first year since I started road biking five years ago that I’m getting into following pro cycling, so this is also my first olympics with it. Eating it up.

I just thought I’d add that I think the commentators were, in fact, pretty worried and shaken up about her, but they didn’t want to speculate (I was watching the NBC broadcast). I think especially seeing she hadn’t moved when Abbott went by was particularly difficult and upsetting for them to see.

That bike does not have the gearset to get anywhere into the boonies around Ithaca, NY from downtown fast. Or at all.

You think that the thing that would immediately benefit the sport was that the teams get a cut of the TV/promo money?? ASO keeps all that media money from the tour?? I couldn’t believe that when I learned it, after being accustomed to the way tv deals for even college conferences work in the US. Salary cap plus profit…

Nah, fart noise is appropriate for Nairo. He’s been talking up this Tour for a while, and all of sudden he’s like, “There’s many years for me to win the tour.” Puh-lease. He’s smoked. If he wins a Tour, I’ll eat my gnarliest jersey.

I am a pretty conservative road cyclist at speed, so most of my falls on the bike are being stupid and too chance-y at intersections where I fuck up unclipping and tip over (hasn’t happened yet this season!!). But, last summer I wiped out on the road on some loose dirt/mud (yay 23c wheels) and rashed up my knee/shin.…

Great info, thanks!

In a live interview at the BuzzFeed office today, Stephen Colbert attempted to explain why he only employs two women and exactly zero people of color on his writing staff ...

Inside 1km that kinda gets pitched down the mountain.

All the riders they interviewed said it happened within 1km, I think 800m. Totally nuts.

Lookit them get all bent out of shape because you, the idiot internet reader, clicked on the dumb content it is their job to produce.