From EurekaAlert:
The scientists, from Europe and the USA, say that their research, published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, provides evidence that life’s raw materials came from sources beyond the Earth.
The materials they have found include the molecules uracil and xanthine, which are precursors to the molecules that make up DNA and RNA, [...]

I want a puppy. This puppy:

Awwwwwww!

As Canadians, we’re constantly reminded of the disparity in snack technologies above and below the 49th parallel. A simple trip to the snack aisle of any grocery store in the U.S. makes me sad.
So it was with great anticipation that Champ bought some Grāpples over the weekend. The slogan, “Looks like an apple™, Tastes like [...]

It’s harder and harder being an IDiot these days.
Humans and fruit flies share the same genes.
“You may not like that but it’s not my fault,” Kroto, 68, said in front of the state Capitol on Monday.
“It’s the way it actually is.”
The Kroto, above, is Nobel laureate Harold Kroto, speaking out against proposed legislation allowing “teachers” [...]

Thank goodness for mainstream media like CBS, whose mandate appears not only to fill your head with “news” vetted by the political and commercial interests which control such things but also to fill your head with “news” you’d have to possess a single-digit I.Q. to not already know.
Because, good golly, after being frightened into believing [...]

I’m gonna warn you, straight-up, that I don’t expect you to watch this lying, pig-ignorant bitch for any longer than it takes for you to get to your mouse and click STOP before your ears completely bleed out, but just in case you were wondering whether the controversy regarding Republican Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern’s [...]

Isaac Asimov in the year I was born.
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
Isaac Asimov, 21 January 1980, Newsweek

I mean, if I wasn’t a big homo, that is. Abbie Smith describes herself as a “graduate student studying the molecular and biochemical evolution of HIV within patients and within populations.” She’s also a kick-ass, take-no-prisoner opponent of irrational “thinking” and lying liars.
An Apology to Sally Kern:
I would like to use this post as an [...]

B-movie character actor, former Nixon speechwriter, game-show host and noted homophobe Ben Stein has loaned his name, voice and media presence to an execrable piece of propaganda called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.
Merely looking at the extended trailer, below, reveals quite plainly that this endeavour is artistically bankrupt through its clumsy and offensive imagery paired with [...]

The Crab Nebula From Hubble
From Astronomy Picture of the Day:
This is the mess that is left when a star explodes. The Crab Nebula, the result of a supernova seen in 1054 AD, is filled with mysterious filaments. The filaments are not only tremendously complex, but appear to have less mass than expelled in the original [...]