Will Holz's posts

Anyone one else remember that moment where Peter Parker tore out Tony’s heart before fading away into ash?

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Remember those words? I know some of you are aware that they’re a…

When I was young I believed it was a squad of squid. Imagine my disappointment when I found out that it was just a…

Tardigrades: Nature’s adorable little cuddle tanks. They’re tough and adorable and one of the coolest critters on…

A couple of days ago the excellent Nathan Yau of Flowing Data put up a very nice viz of the causes of death in the…

I know what I want it to be.

While a lot of us thought Force Awakens was a great movie and a huge improvement over the prequels, I think we all…

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
I remember the first time I saw those words scroll across the screen. I…

Hi again all! I’ve been a bit quiet of late while I was starting a new job and plotting to take over the world and…

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about, right? Now it’s not just parasites and diseases, but also the diseases…

Welcome to a new ongoing series on the bearers of nature’s most fascinating anuses. Today we’re going to talk about…

When people talk about the advantages of sexual reproduction, one of the (if not the) primary responses is to create …

The following video is the Sci-Fi movie I want to see get huge in the theaters, the tabletop game I want to play,…

The extremely awesome Vox.com has (as usual) a great article...this time about how our saber-toothed friends and…

Imagine a world where the air is hostile to life as we know it and the only way to move out of all but a tiny number…

I love monster movies in general, and The Thing has always been one of my favorites. I liked the clever…

So, I may have been out of things for a while but I didn’t even know ‘reaction videos’ were a thing, except maybe in…

Meet Encarsia Tricolor Forster. (no relation). As wasps go, she’s actually kind of cute. Maybe not baeus-cute, but…

I believe I finally have stumbled across my religion, and it is a strange and beautiful thing.

Sometimes a video is good right off. In this one the behaviors are absolutely excellent...but it needed a little…