Hey! If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one...

Go ahead, you've earned it:

Dad?

Congratulations on your originality.

"There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination."

There are some things we learn that open up our minds, and some things that are just taught. What we need is a harmonious interplay between the two.

The part where he sits upon his computer engineering throne and shits on English lit majors.

Just say, "you'll love this."

Congratulations on your superiority complex.

Yep. Not that it's a silver bullet, but we almost certainly need to move towards cultivation with more genetic diversity and/or mixed crop planting - where profits might fall, but the integrity of the land and crops can be maintained. Also, people need to get comfortable with the fact that you can't eat all foods at…

Kal-El...I am your son.

I think I'm ready from 2014! I'm a bearded hands-on dad with a mechanistic worldview married to a diverse woman that takes Instagrammy lens-flare pictures of multi-racial models staring at food with a wearable camera I bought from a witch in the handcrafted vector who can't wait to experience the 2014 Fifa World Cup.…

I thought my coffee tasted funny.

A message from the Universe.

The dog must never catch its tail.

It either hurts their predetermined convictions of reality, or they have financial interests at stake - or both.

I thought it was the bacteria (also first discovered this year):

Nope, dust is filled with bacteria.

The growing evidence that plants can think and communicate

A great deal of chemicals are in the marketplace without any real oversight or safety assurances. Great HBO documentary on rotation right now dealing with flame retardants (along with the broader issue in general):