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Let’s all just go live in a big domed underground city. Here is an article about fish spit (sort of). Kitschy vintage item of the day: the Magic Brain Calculator. Time lapse photography of buildings being built is a pretty…

Russian singer Alina Simone continues her random Facebook chats with men, this week discussing constipation and pregnancy with a Turkish fan:

People spend their lives trying to build time-space invisibility cloaks. Smelling Lawrence of Arabia’s copy of Ulysses. Not actually related at all: perhaps you would like to buy Churchill’s car? Important news: out of work actors make great bedbug-hunters. Today’s…

“In the past year, I’ve written roughly 5,000 pages of scholarly literature, most on very tight deadlines. But you won’t find my name on a single paper.” Meet “Ed Dante,” an “academic mercenary” who makes his living writing papers for…

Today is a good day. Science has been explaining a lot of things lately; this is why you love cheese. (via BoingBoing.) This just in: baby black holes are great (and give us a reason to talk about other kinds…

LOOKING GOOD ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing looking good.

Not only am I organizing the first ever McRib eating contest, I plan on being the first champion as well. You’ve got a fighting chance of coming in second, Doug. Nobody else is really getting on board so all you’d…

Happy Monday, here are some baby jellyfish. Celestial mechanics. Discussing the actual science behind New Age-y auras. This week in international design festivals: beautiful Japanese installation art. Postcards from London’s future.

“…Romeo and Juliet. John, Yoko. See a pattern? We may have come a long way baby, but our female names still typically follow the man’s name.” — Scientific American on a new study showing that when it comes to name…

Check out Zombies! Organize!! in our video section. Does a robot clitoris shock the tongue like a 9-volt battery? Enquiring minds want to know.