Forget About the Fucking Toe!

One thing I’ve noticed is that the default position for everyone is to de-saturate post-apocalyptic movies. There’s only two ways to go, make them black and white. The other version is to really go all-out on the color […] we either could de-saturate it, or crank it up, to differentiate the movie. Plus, it can get really tiring watching this dull, de-saturated color. — George Miller

Ian Mercer, father of the man who killed nine people and wounded nine others  at Umpqua Community College,  spoke to CNN Saturday. In the interview Mercer called the event “devastating” and explained he was still trying to understand it, but he took the time to issue a passionate call for the U.S. to restrict access to firearms.

SIR KEN ROBINSON: Full body education

I’m fairly certain I’ve never seen one of these comics that didn’t make me cry. 

white people

Insane Christians

If you don’t get this, I feel sorry for you.  =P

(Now go watch the movie ‘Office Space’ and thank me later)

*muffled rap music playing in the distance*

Carl telling us how (not) to science.

"conclusion: dinosaurs" is still my favorite rebuttal to just about anything tbh.

Second perhaps only to “Therefore: aliens”

Alien dinosaurs, to be more specific.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

Close-up of the vibrations caused when you make a wine glass sing by rubbing your finger around the rim. 

This makes for a great science activity to do with kids. Also Check out this amazing post from TED on what sound looks like, too, and then watch this also amazing video from NPR: What does sound look like?

Sound is so beautiful!

Related: Joe waxes philosophical with an ode to Richard Feynman’s beautiful legacy, in which he repeated the poetic words “the whole universe is in a glass of wine…”