Turns out Marriage ceremonies don't actually mean anything...

So you mean the yuppie couple with too much money got taken by the locals for performing a "real" wedding ceremony. Wait till she finds out what that Tattoo she got means.

From the BBC

God or nothing

Stylo

Stylo by CloudsoundsIII

Darwin's sound of Science

Jeremy Rifkin on "the empathic civilization"

TYWKIWDBI: Thorium - a replacement for fossil fuels?

TYWKIWDBI: Thorium - a replacement for fossil fuels?: "Excerpts from an interesting article by the business editor at the Telegraph - If Barack Obama were to marshal America’s vast scientific and..."

Wow, wasn't expecting that...

Think about it...

Ahhh, the American Dream...

Will it bring happiness?

This is brilliant...

Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex

Turns out we're even less important in the time scale...

"Scientists have in the past estimated that the Earth's development, a process known as accretion where gas, dust and other material clumped together to form the planet, happened over just 30 million years. 

But the new research suggests this process may have taken up to 100 million years – more than three times longer than previous estimates."
 

Craziest shit ever...

This parasite enters through the gills, and then attaches itself at the base of the spotted rose snapper’s (Lutjanus guttatus) tongue. It extracts blood through the claws on its front, causing the tongue to atrophy from lack of blood. The parasite then replaces the fish’s tongue by attaching its own body to the muscles of the tongue stub. The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue. It appears that the parasite does not cause any other damage to the host fish.

Badass

Tom Wolfe and Kurt Vonnegut...

Best movie ever...