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Biology Entertainment/culture Humor Music Science

Homeobox, HOX, regulatin’ genes

This is about as geeky as it gets, but since a couple of the genes I study are homeobox genes, one of which is a HOX gene, one of which is not, I found this hilarious: There you go: All you need to know about homeobox genes if you’re not an expert in them. Hat […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Biology Humor Medicine Science

Don’t worry about those giant intelligent crabs…

Yet another reason why I love The Onion: Because giant, highly intelligent, acid-spitting crabs pose no danger to society. Of course, certain antivaccine advocates seem to think that this parody has something to do with vaccines, which just goes to show how far down the rabbit hole they’ve gone when they think that a parody […]

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Entertainment/culture Humor Music

In which Orac inexplicably annoys his readers while he is on his way home

Sadly, the meeting’s over, and I’m winging my way back home as this very post shows up on the blog for your edification. Because it’s Sunday and, more importantly, because I’m too tired to produce anything substantive, I leave you with this bit of Asian weirdness sent to me by my sister. It left me […]

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Anti-Semitism History Hitler Zombie Holocaust Humor Politics World War II

Even the Hitler Zombie wouldn’t be able to find a snack here

It’s a rare thing indeed for this to happen, but words fail me here: Wow. Just wow. Because clearly the Obama administration is getting ready to fire up the ovens for responsible borrowers who paid their mortgages on time. Truly, a black hole of stupid in a single cartoon! The stupid burns on so many […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Politics Quackery

Senator Tom Harkin: Integrating storytelling with news, too?

The Tufted Titmouse explains in a spot-on parody of Senator Harkin’s statement to his Senate panel. I’m tellin’ ya, “integrative” reporting is the wave of the future, just like “integrative” medicine.