I have seriously considered getting a Twitter handle and incorporating myself into #twinja. A number of people in my profession use it but my fear is that I’ll neglect it like my other social media lately; plus having a public and a private account is asking a lot from someone as lazy as I am. But I’ll definitely…

Same! I can’t visit “Gizmodo Media” (nope, still doesn’t sound right) as much as I used to anymore with all the personal and political change going on in my life. One day things look down and the next things look up, and not having Kristin or anything else other than work to reliably anchor my weekday afternoons is…

Bloodlesscoup! How have you been!!

ISIS would probably claim responsibility for me loudly passing gas in an elevator full of coworkers at this point.

This story is begging for a misandry.gif!

Wow, I’ve never actually seen anime side mouth on a real person in real life!

Looks like all of life on Saturn was extinguished in an Impact.

This is late but there have been reports that some individuals employed as ICE agents have been happy about their jobs getting “exciting” again since the Obama era limitations on their activity have been loosened.

I think I know who you’re talking about, did you go to a school in Ohio or something? I forget his name, but I know there is a professor at a major research university’s department of biological sciences, which on its website has a statement dedicated to letting visitors know that his views are completely different…

This has been 500 Days of Kristin.

Your gif game is A+ as always :)

It’s incredibly convenient for Trump though—CPB funds NPR, which has been really on the ball about uncovering Trump’s flawed policies in a balanced manner. Every tense Morning Edition interview with a flustered Republican congressman or a rabid Trump aide alarms me, but it keeps listeners informed about the crap the…

The Naturalis Historia is one of my favorite Latin works! It’s boring stylistically but the subject matter is absolutely fascinating, both by itself and in the insight it gives into the how the Romans (or at least, a small subset of society at a single period in time) saw their world.

That’s some nasty-ass patriarchal bullshit!

There are some truly terrible doctors out there who don’t care about anything but themselves, their money, and I suppose their immediate friends and family. Many higher paying professions tend to include more sociopaths than lower paying jobs, and wealthy people have been shown to have less empathy than the poor. But…

Your colleague’s sister forgot to say that shark mating is super rough, in those few species for which we have studied their mating behavior. During courtship in many species, the males bite onto the female’s fins and neck (or whatever neck region thereis on a shark). Though somewhat like us, their 2 pelvic fins each…

Whenever I hear about physicians like these, it makes me think of all the med students entering the profession because they have the chance to make boatloads of money, not because they actually care about people.

I’ve had this happen to me multiple times as a child. Once my sister and I both fell asleep on the school bus, and instead of stopping the driver continued on the rest of her route, going to other schools and picking up/dropping off kids, and I didn’t get home until dark. And once, we missed our summer school bus so I…

tbh though having all those tacky bumper stickers on your car in Kansas is pretty badass

Ever since I read My Side of the Mountain in grade school I have enjoyed learning about different ways to use common wild plants as foods and general life-hacks, which also ties into my interests in biology and natural history. Unfortunately, most other people with similar interests only do it because 1) they have…