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Oooh, You Just Got Burned: Part 1 27 Aug 2013 | 08:07 pm
Avoid sun-stripes! Don’t get burned. I avoid the sun. Don’t be surprised if you see me walking around town with a parasol. I’ve been burned too many times to know that I should fear it and what it do...
Atheist Duct Tape Artist: Andy Carmichael 26 Aug 2013 | 08:39 pm
Over here at the lab we love us some good ol’ fashioned godless art. We also love us some people with wit and a goddamn-good sense of humor. All of these lovable things have combined in a sticky, colo...
Mad Quickies 8.26 26 Aug 2013 | 07:25 pm
From thisisnthappiness.com. Sent by miserlyoldman. Japanese Fart Scrolls to start your Monday off right! Opera singer grows algae with her breath, feeds it to audience. Because the Fart Scrolls were...
Mad Quickies 8.23 23 Aug 2013 | 08:33 pm
It’s the Friday Quickies! Pencils down- surf’s up! The Mandela Poster Project: 95 posters were chosen as a tribute on the occasion of the legendary Mandela’s 95th birthday. Listen to your heart / Re...
Book Review: Do You Believe in Magic? by Paul Offit 23 Aug 2013 | 08:25 pm
I read this book a month or so ago, but we’re having a Chicago Skeptics Book Club for it tonight, thus a fire was lit under me to write this. As someone whose favorite skepticism subject is medicine, ...
Art Inquisition: What IS Art, anyway? 22 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
One of our local skeptics’ group members recently created a Facebook post that simply said, “I’m skeptical about art,” with a link to an article entitled “I’m Sick of Pretending: I Don’t ‘Get’ Art.” W...
A Tale of Two Mediums: Photography Vs. Cinematography 20 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Camcorder and Camera: I might be suspiciously eyeing the camcorder, but the camera is actually the more curious one…it’s FILM! I had to get my old film camera out so Zoë could use my digital camera to...
Lab Track: Newton 19 Aug 2013 | 11:21 pm
I do this thing where whenever anybody tells me something I should probably remember, I type it on this single file in my phone’s memo pad. As a result, the file includes hundreds of phrases with zero...
Mad Quickies 8.19 19 Aug 2013 | 08:09 pm
Pacific Rim doesn’t pass the Bechdel Test, but it’s not a complete failure in diversity on screen. The Mako Mori Test is a great discussion of the intersectin of gender and race and how we can evaluat...
Mad Quickies 8.16 17 Aug 2013 | 04:52 am
It’s the Friday Quickies! Pencils down! Surf’s up! Which museum is the only one in the world to have its own particle accelerator? The Louvre! And its use is for the study and analysis of it’s art an...
