Daily Blend: Sunday, August 29, 2010

Nutraloaf [source: Boing Boing]

• Jen McCreight at Blag Hag explains (somewhat optimistically) how busting Dr. Marc Hauser, leading researcher on the evolution of morality who was terminated as a result of scientific misconduct including fabrication of data, actually serves to show how science is such a wonderful, self-correcting system.

• Sarah Jones at Politicususa watches and comments on the Beck/Palin rally so you don’t have to. (Not that you would, anyway. Right?)
  (via @todayspolitics)

• How your toilet habits may be giving you hemorrhoids! Makes sense to me. The more you know.
  (via The Agitator)

• Food critic vs. Nutraloaf ^[pictured]. Or, when prison food is so bad that it’s practically considered cruel and unusual punishment in itself.
  (via The Agitator)

• A quadrillion, to scale. Or when cubic millimeter cubes grow bigger than a skyscraper.
  (via The Agitator)

• Newfondland! U2 boats! Young, nearly naked GIs with strap-ons! Oh, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), you’re the gift that Just. Keeps. Giving.
  (via Uzza)

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Tags: scientists • Jennifer McCreight • Marc Hauser • Sarah Jones • toilets • hemorrhoids • food critics • Nutraloaf • prison food • mathematics • math • Michele Bachmann