Category Archives: Science

Stable Jenius Makes Wicked Burn!

Posted on October 19, 2020 by

Trump Thinks This Is an Insult: Biden ‘Will Listen to the Scientists’ President Donald Trump attempted to make fun of former Vice President Joe Biden during a campaign rally in Carson City, Nevada, on Sunday by saying “he’ll listen to … Continue reading →

Posted in 2020 Goat Rodeo, Lord Damp Nut, The Russian Usurper, Pandemics, Science | 11 Comments

Magical Thinking From Prznint Stupid

Posted on September 16, 2020 by

Lord Damp Nut’s public comments (not the crimes he confesses to Bob Woodward) on climate change and the Trump-Virus should are weirdly similar. Let’s compare and contrast! “It’ll start getting cooler. You just watch…I don’t think science knows, actually.” — … Continue reading →

Posted in climate change, Lord Damp Nut, The Russian Usurper, Pandemics, Science | 5 Comments

‘Oops,’ Said Faceberg (Part Infinity)

Posted on July 21, 2020 by

A quick lightning round of Facebook in the news before Comcast continues their daily mischief! (I’ll keep adding to this until I cannot – the truck is outside!) Fact-check of viral climate misinformation quietly removed from Facebook “…The article, authored … Continue reading →

Posted in climate change, Facebook or Faceberg, global climate change, Homophobia, Lord Damp Nut, The Russian Usurper, Science, Social Media, Transphobia, Your Kind Cannot Pee Here | 5 Comments

What’s Wrong With Facebook now?

Posted on June 25, 2020 by

And here we go again: How CO2 boosters’ op-ed slipped by Facebook fact-checkers A team of climate scientists working as approved fact checkers for Facebook evaluated a post last year by a White House-connected group that claims the world needs … Continue reading →

Posted in climate change, Facebook or Faceberg, Our Failed Social Media, Science, Social Media, War on Science | 3 Comments

Failure to Launch

Posted on May 28, 2020 by

The SpaceX failure to send Americans into space yesterday really isn’t a politics story… until it was. NYTimes (emphasis mine): At Cape Canaveral, Trump’s Search for a Heroic Narrative Is Thwarted “For President Trump, it was a chance to rewrite … Continue reading →

Posted in Lord Damp Nut, The Russian Usurper, Science, Space!, Technology | 14 Comments

Meet Our New Hero!

Posted on April 1, 2020 by

Several Scissorheads have pointed me to this story, which I must admit, has MPS all over it (eww, gross): Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device He’s one of us! An Australian astrophysicist has been admitted to … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, Scissorheads Rule | 20 Comments

Isolation v. Quarantine

Posted on March 2, 2020 by

I didn’t realize that there is a difference between quarantine and isolation, and the 538 Blog is here to tell us why about why a quarantine is not such a good idea:   The first quarantines date at least as … Continue reading →

Posted in Pandemics, Science | 14 Comments

Splat Earther

Posted on February 24, 2020 by

I know I’m gonna get dragged for that headline… The WaPo has the polite one: ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes, who wanted to prove the flat-Earth theory, dies in homemade-rocket disaster The plan: Float dozens of miles high in a balloon, then … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, snark, Space!, War on Science | 19 Comments

Go Greta!

Posted on February 5, 2020 by

Speaking of world-class trolling:

Posted in climate change, Greta Thunberg, Heroes, Science | 3 Comments

We Did Big Things Once

Posted on July 17, 2019 by

This is pretty great: ‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ light show on Washington Monument to mark Apollo 11. The celebration includes projecting an image of the Saturn V rocket on the Washington Monument. Saturday will be the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, Space! | 9 Comments