"...conservatives were more likely to report that Colbert only pretends to be joking and genuinely meant what he said while liberals were more likely to report that Colbert used satire and was not serious when offering political statements. "

"Rankings are based on the following question: Which blogs should one read to be most up to date, i.e., to quickly know about important stories that propagate over the blogosphere? " - I'm on the 5000 post list.

Can a katana blade deflect a 9mm bullet?

Meg shares the secrets of cookie osmosis.

A group from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has come up with some methods to determine why diet sodas suck.

If you're a CS nerd, this will blow your mind.

As advertised.

We are able to view all entities, from the microworld to the universe, from a single perspective. By setting them up against a scale, we are able to compare and understand things which cannot be physically compared.

A handful of freethinking bartenders have started to employ the techniques of avant-garde cooking to their work behind the bar, a trend that's being called "molecular mixology."

2001 article that sheds some interesting light on the whole Brain Training fad.

"Singh said that with the song Melua "demonstrates a deep ignorance of cosmology and no understanding of the scientific method", and objected to its second verse,"

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Bill Nye does a show for adults. Nice. [via mefi]

"I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster." [via pamela]

He's taken nature's most perfect killer, and needlessly turned it into a robot!