The Evolution of Famous Dogs

Yep, evolution should have stopped at Barf. (Canine Evolution Chart by Caldwell Tanner)

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Pop Culture Stoop And Scoop

Robot Evolution

Dogma

Best Rock Collection Ever!

Of course the reason these rocks and minerals are so rare is because you have to break through the layer of adamantite to get to everything else. This almost makes me interested in geology. Almost.

Rocks and Minerals by Eduardo San Gil, available at J!NX as a tee. (Link via Shirtoid and Herochan)

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Elements of Awesome

Vincent Van Wolverine

You Am Play Gods!

God Is Science?

Resurrection isn't all it's made out to be. God is Science by Augie Pagan.

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Reanimated Homer And Marge
Beast Of Pop Culture Revelation
I Pity The Fool

Why Did You Build A Death Ray?

I suppose being mad is really the point. (Cowbirds in Love via In Web We Trust)

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Scientists Out To Kill Us Again 

F Is For Freeze Ray
Monkey Lizard Is Displeased!

Monkey Lizard Is Displeased!

When will science learn that technology and cavemen just don't mix? You maniacs! You blew it up!
(Link via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)

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You Am Play Gods!
Two Warriors Come Out Of The Sky
Take Your Stinking Maps Off Me, You Damned Dirty Ape! 

Scientists Last Supper

Now here we go dropping science, dropping it all over...  

From left to right: Galileo Galilei, Marie Curie, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, Thomas Edison, Aristoteles, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins und Charles Darwin.

So, that makes Isaac Newton the Judas to Albert Einstein. Hmm, not sure I get that. Anyway, you can read a full explanation of all the Last Supper participants from creator Nick Farrantello, who says: "Each of the people in this picture has accomplished more for humanity then any of the guys in that other painting." (Thanks to Paul and Andrea for the tip)

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Suddenly Last Supper
Elements of Awesome
Scientists Out To Kill Us Again

Circle, Circle, Dot, Dot, Now You've Got The Cootie Shot

I had always assumed the transmission of cooties was instantaneous from person to person, but it appears that the Ickyus Pediculus Humanus needs to lay eggs first before metamorphosing into an adult before spreading. Just goes to show that the schoolyard doesn't know everything. Nah, nah, nah, nah!

Cootie, another fabulous illustration from Jason Freeny.

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Anatomy Of A Gummi Bear
Gingerbread Man Dissected
Konnichiwa, Dissected Domo

It's Not Easy Dissecting Green

So is Kermit unhappy because he's dissecting a frog or is he bothered by what he sees inside, knowing his innards are somebody's hand? (From Annalee at deviantART via The Daily What)

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Pop Culture Saints
It's Not Easy Being An American Psycho
Knitsections & Feltidermy

Knitsections & Feltidermy

I was never much into biology or hunting and, seeing as my father was both a biology teacher and an avid hunter, I'm sure he was a little disappointed. But thanks to knitter CraftyHedgehog, I can now relive my Gr. 11 dissection class with a slightly less queasiness.

"Wow your scientist friends and colleagues with the coolness of this piece of knitted art. The rat is hand knit from an acrylic mohair blend, and his little innards are needle-felted by hand out of 100% wool. He comes pinned into his actual dissection tray, but he is not glued down, so you can take him out and cuddle him if you wish." (Link via Neatorama)


If your tastes run more to the big game side of nature, you can mount a trophy buck or rhino (or dozens of other animals) on your wall without ever harming a critter, thanks to girlsavage's feltidermy.

Soft and cuddly stuffed animals — they aren't just little girls anymore. (Link also via Neatorama)

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Extreme Crocheting
Pillow Talk
Little Boxes

Scientists Out To Kill Us Again

From Jorge Cham's Piled Higher & Deeper, about the ongoing chronicle of life (or the lack thereof) in grad school. As someone who works deep in the bowels of both the media and the internets and spent an inordinate amount of time at university, this is pretty much how it works. (Link via The Zeray Gazette)

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Elements of Awesome

F Is For Freeze Ray
Can Scientists Dance?

Periodic Table of Typefaces

Periodic tables perplex me. I could never get through this chart in chemistry and even when you turn it into a table of fonts like above or video games or cartoon characters, I still feel a little lost. But I am a lapsed font junkie at heart from my days as a layout editor and this one really appealed to me.

From the designer, Cam: "As with traditional periodic tables, this table presents the subject matter grouped categorically. The Table of Typefaces groups by families and classes of typefaces: sans-serif, serif, script, blackletter, glyphic, display, grotesque, realist, didone, garalde, geometric, humanist, slab-serif and mixed."

There have been a lot of those floating around recently, with Geekologie posting so many that I thought of making my own out of Simpson characters. Then that looked like way too much work, so I was going to compile them all into one post, but the fabulous Miss Cellania beat me to it on mental_floss with 8 Alternative Periodic Tables. Yeesh, is it any wonder I had trouble memorizing the elements in high school?

Wow, with the Math Clock and this I've covered all my academic phobias today. Now I'll probably have to go to music class or play a team sport. Shudder.

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Elements of Awesome
A Way With Words

Elements of Awesome

Bacon, ninjas, beer, coffee, pirates, robots, Lego, sex. Just a few of the elements that make up Dapperstache's Periodic Table of Awesoments.

It is explained thusly: In the 300 B.C., years before the birth of black Jesus, Aristole postulated that all good things were made of "win."

I could never get my head around the periodic table in school, but maybe if it had elements such as Mr. T and video games, I may have paid more attention.

F Is For Freeze Ray

Professor Farnsworth: "So what are you doing to protect my constitutional right to bear doomsday devices?"
NRA Guy: "Well, first off, we're gonna get rid of that three day waiting period for mad scientists."
Farnsworth: "Damn straight! Today the mad scientist can't get a doomsday device, tomorrow it's the mad grad student! Where will it end?!"

And where does it begin? It seems today that nobody is putting any thought into teaching the next generation of mad scientists and supervillains? Remember the children are our horrifying future! Thankfully Xylocopa has stepped up with a Young Mad Scientist's First Alphabet Blocks.

"We have noticed that there is absolutely no training in the K-6 grades that prepares students to become mad scientists. In this competitive 21st-century world, the need for mad scientists will only increase, but the lack of basic education in primary school leaves us concerned that there will be no future students capable of leading in this illustrious field.

"These lovely blocks contain many carefully engraved illustrations of the equipment, training, and activities that a budding mad scientist will require, combined with a clever alphabetic introduction to the concept depicted. A complete list of the images represented by the letters is as follows:

A - Appendages

B - Bioengineering

C - Caffeine

D - Dirigible

E - Experiment

F - Freeze ray

G - Goggles

H - Henchmen

I - Invention

J - Jargon

K - Potassium

L - Laser

M - Maniacal

N - Nanotechnology

O - Organs

P - Peasants (with Pitchforks)

Q - Quantum physics

R - Robot

S - Self-experimentation

T - Tentacles

U - Underground Lair

V - Virus

W - Wrench

X - X-Ray

Y - You, the Mad Scientist of Tomorrow

Z - Zombies

So won't you help and warp a young mind today?

Pop Science

From the people who brought you Lolcats comes GraphJam: pop culture for people in cubicles. It's like indexed, except user generated and mostly about pop culture. I don't know what it is about graphs that I find so amusing, but here a few that kept me skimming the site:


more graph humor and song chart memes


more graph humor and song chart memes


more graph humor and song chart memes


more graph humor and song chart memes


more graph humor and song chart memes

Can Scientists Dance?

Or more specifically, can they interpretive dance? In a peculiar mashup of impenetrable scientific prose and an often mocked art form, a dozen brainy types strutted their stuff in the first Dance Your Ph.D. Contest.

From quantum physics tangos to mechanisms of messenger RNA regulation set to tap, the results were certainly unique. The winning thesis was "Refitting repasts: a spatial exploration of food processing, sharing, cooking, and disposal at the Dunefield Midden campsite, South Africa," set to the music of Herbie Hancock - naturally. Check out the results for yourself.