The Anti-BP Movement

Date June 2, 2010

You won’t find many fans of BP online these days. The anti-BP sentiments have been fueling Internet communities lately, leading to some creative and stirring images in protest of the company’s disastrous handling of the oil spill disaster. For The Kids: Fewer things speak more directly to children than portraying their favorite characters dead… …or [...]

It’s A…It’s A…It’s An Element!: Periodic Table Gets New Addition To The Atomic Family

Date April 8, 2010

    That’s right folks, the periodic table is getting another new addition to the family. And apparently these super-heavy elements they’re creating in the lab are getting stabler and stabler as atomic weight increases. The team produced six atoms of the element by smashing together isotopes of calcium and a radioactive element called berkelium [...]

Alex Gibney’s Casino Jack & the United States of Money Trailer

Date April 6, 2010

Another great political documentary is hitting theaters soon. Apple has debuted the official trailer for Alex Gibney’s Casino Jack and the United States of Money, a portrait of Washington super lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is currently serving four years in prison. Why should you care? Besides the fascinating topic, Alex Gibney is the filmmaker behind [...]

Fair & Balanced

Date March 5, 2010

PALIN: I studied journalism, my college degree there in communications. And now I am back there wanting to build some trust back in our media. I think the mainstream media is quite broken and I think there needs to be the fairness, the balance in there — that’s why I joined Fox. Fair and balanced, [...]

California Gay-Marriage Battle: Round 2

Date January 6, 2010

Here’s a good overview of the bigtime gay-marriage case that starts next week in San Francisco. The legal case that gay-rights activists feared to see is about to get under way in a federal courtroom in San Francisco. For the next several weeks, plaintiffs will argue that the U.S. Constitution forbids states from restricting marriage [...]

We will miss you Roy

Date December 17, 2009

Roy E Disney, nephew of Walt, son of Roy Sr, died yesterday of cancer, at the age of 79. Thanks for kicking out Eisner and bringing the company’s emphasis back to the Parks. The younger Disney, born in 1930, worked for the company as a writer and producer. But his most important influence was as [...]

Rachel Maddow: Bizzare Cure for Gay People

Date December 9, 2009

This has to be one of the top ten crazy things I’ve seen fundamentalist “Christians” do .

Stitching The Milky Way

Date December 2, 2009

World’s Largest Milky Way Image Unveiled. The world’s largest picture of the Milky Way, taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, is being unveiled today at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. The new image is of galactic proportions, covering an area that is 120 feet (37 meters) long, 3 feet (1 meter) tall at its sides [...]

Scientists Discover A New Blue

Date November 25, 2009

Eiffel 65 albums sales spike! Blue is sometimes not an easy color to make. Blue pigments of the past have often been expensive (ultramarine blue was made from the gemstone lapis lazuli, ground up), poisonous (cobalt blue is a possible carcinogen and Prussian blue, another well-known pigment, can leach cyanide) or apt to fade (many [...]

Jon Stewart catches the Sean Hannity show in a lie

Date November 16, 2009

If you missed it earlier this week, Jon Stewart and his team caught the Sean Hannity show using old footage of a political rally to make a more recent rally look bigger: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c