I wish I could add a ton of hilarious commentary. But how do I top “I’m a writing panda. I eat words like bamboo.” HOW? I can’t. What I can say is that whenever I’m like “Ugh. Marriage. How the hell have I been doing this for 10 years?” I see something like this and I’m like “OMG I LOVE MARRIAGE AND MONOGAMY AND EVERYTHING ABOUT NEVER DATING SW... »
Once, to dream of going to space meant getting a PhD in science and training your body and your mind for years before even getting on the radar of someone at NASA. But no longer is outer space reserved for astronauts. Space travel is getting awful cheap (if by “cheap” you mean the price of a private jet or a loft in Tribeca), and little by little, scientists are being joined by run-of-... »
In February, Amanda Palmer did a TED talk. Have you seen it yet? Check it out at the bottom of this post. For the tl;dw version, Amanda Palmer (she of Dresden Dolls and $1.2 million Kickstarter and asking musicians to play for “hugs and beer” fame) begins by explaining the job she had before she was making money from music. She was a human statue, which involved giving passersby a flow... »
Some insane genius in the Ukraine (Oleg Berg, to be precise) has been spending his free time digitally adjusting songs written in a minor key to sound like they’re in major, and vice versa. It’s delightful and hilarious. If you’re not very familiar with music theory, check it out: To Westerners, major keys are traditionally associated with happy emotions, while minor keys are ass... »
I got sorta giddy when I saw that Nick Cave had written a song about the Higgs Boson, and it’s about the delegitimizing of religion in the face of science to boot. But then it turns out to be more of a lament than anything (Who cares what the future brings?). While Cave has always been critical of religion in general, he is notoriously slippery and hard to pin down on the God question. He se... »
College Humor posted a video a while back parodying Gotye’s Somebody I Used to Know. They came up with a great title, but I was disappointed that it was about not using specific knowledge from high school education rather that what it should have been about: Mass-media misrepresentation of scientific findings. OBVIOUSLY I have corrected their mistake and, in the motif of showing off our ugly... »
It’s Presidents Day. What does that even mean? A day off? No day off? Stuff is closed… maybe? Hey! Mattresses are on sale! *jumps on beds in an appropriately celebratory fashion* Hooray for presidents! Actually, despite being called “Presidents Day,” today is celebrated in honor of George Washington’s birthday. Yep, just his. Which is actually February 22nd. Or maybe ... »
Sometimes, there’s a post where I have to jump around my apartment for a bit to get rid of my excess excitement long enough to sit down and write about it. This is one of those. Imogen Heap is a British artist known for creating dramatically produced electronica/rock/pop music (here’s one of her best-known tracks). Like many musicians who rely heavily on computers for their final produ... »
