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Can Science Be Used to Critique Art?

There's a very deep philosophical rabbit hole that comes along with this line of thinking, so let's just summarize the question as, Is aesthetic taste beyond the scope of science? In other words, can it be said with objectivity that the aesthetic of Celine Dion is worse than the aesthetic of, say, Beck? Full story

The Founder of Jim’s Mowing will Make you Smarter and Save the World

“We’re going to change the world. If my theory is correct, this will change everything. This will ruffle feathers, don’t you think anything else. You ask Galileo, you ask Darwin. This is going to cause an uproar.” – Jim Penman Full story

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Jaime Maussan and the Third Millennium

Jaime Maussan is Mexico's leading ufologist. His TV show, 'Contact,' has run for decades, and he consistently packs auditoriums where he enlightens audiences with his knowledge of the cosmos and life on other planets. He has many detractors, of course, and he's no stranger to bei… Full story

Shapes That Make You Dizzy

Coconut Books is the print arm of the longest-running online poetry publisher I can think of. In the past several months they’ve released a slew of wicked new books. Here are my thoughts on three of them, along with an excerpt from each. Full story

Extinct Animals Should Stay Dead

Scientist Stewart Brand, who has clearly never seen 'Jurassic Park,' wants to bring 24 extinct animals back to life through reconstructing their genomes and then cloning them. Reasons why that plan sucks. Full story

Talking Animal Testing

  When you read the words animal testing, do you see a basement laboratory filled with cages and white lights and Josef Mengele up to his elbows in mutilated monkey faces looking for new drugs and foul profits? That’s what I see sometimes too. This doesn' Full story

Why Canada Needs the Sasquatch

With the right backing from the scientific community and the Canadian government, resurrecting Sasquatch could be the Great White North's Manhattan Project, an attempt to harness the chaotic, dangerous, root forces of nature in such a way as to add to the glory and the prestige o… Full story

China Is Engineering Genius Babies

It’s not exactly news that China is setting itself up as a new global superpower. While Western civilization chokes on its own gluttony like a latter-day Marlon Brando, China continues to buy up American debt and lock away the world’s natural resources. But now, not content to si… Full story

Myths About Science Education

Why Is There a Distinction Between Science, Art, and Religion?

Recently I decided to go back to school to study science, and, astoundingly, most people I’ve crossed paths with have been enormous dicks about it. Even the secretary at the office of the registrar said, “Science? How do you know you want to study science? Science is hard, you kn… Full story

Evidence of a Lost Micro-Continent Has Been Found Buried Under the Indian Ocean

The fragment, called Mauritia, is thought to have previously been connected between what became India and Madagascar. Full story