What I thought my job would be like: Me: Hi, I’m the social media intern, and I’m taking a technology usage survey of the office. What do you use to organize yourself? Someone less hip than me: I use stickies. Me: Oh yeah, the Windows or Mac kind? Someone: No, like…stickies. Post-it notes. Me: Oh (More…)
Yes, it’s April Fools’ day, which means I’ve procrastinated even more this morning than usual. So that I can get on with my life–but mostly so I can procrastinate more–let me share the best foolish tidbits I’ve seen so far. The morning begins with an announcement of Nature and Science‘s merger, into an open-access super-journal (More…)
On Friday morning, scientists will finally have an answer to a question that has plagued mankind for millenia: is the Moon made of cheese? Many experts say that finding the fermented dairy delicacy is the first pre-requisite to future colonization of Earth’s natural satellite. This is why NASA launched the LCHEESE mission, which will culminate (More…)
The Onion, Chinese Edition The Onion just rolled out this morning with an elaborate “Chinese edition.” They were apparently bought out by the Chinese Yu Wan Mei company, which before entering the newspaper business was a salvage fishery, whatever that means. (The title literally translates to “Fish are perfect.”) Some choice headlines from this edition: (More…)
Three years ago, after going on a run with a friend, I said to him, “we are going to run the Boston marathon.” It was a moment of triumphant and wildly inaccurate self-appraisal. What I should have said, of course, was “we are going to squander many months of our youth playing video games and (More…)