“Yes Good” | Vol. 4 / No. 22.4
Sometimes you see a bit of advertising so stupid it’s positively brilliant. This is one of those.
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because “viral”
Are Women With Large Posteriors Really “Smarter and Healthier”? | Vol. 4 / No. 13.4
In a shocking turn of events, headlines reporting that a “study shows women with big butts are healthier, smarter” are misleading at best.
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The Trump Outrage Distraction Machine | Vol. 4 / No. 5.1
Normally, on Mondays, I point to the most insane thing I’ve seen on the internet in the past week. This week is no different, but I’m genuinely unsure whether it’s Donald Trump living in a fact-free universe, or just pretending to in order to distract us from his massive, likely unconstitutional at this point, conflicts of interest.
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Fighting Fake News | Vol. 4 / No. 3.4
By now it’s obvious to everybody but Zuckerberg that Facebook’s failure to fight so-called “news” that was outright fabricated by clickbait merchants may have had a significant impact on the presidential election. And while The Zuck hasn’t got any plans to actually do anything about it, calling the whole idea “pretty crazy,” Buzzfeed is reporting that inside the company there’s some dissent on that front.
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You May Be Ingesting Chromium-6: Don’t Panic | Vol. 3 / No. 47.4
Chromium trioxide, a Cr(VI) compound | Image: BXXXD, CC BY-SA 2.0 “‘Erin Brockovich’ Carcinogen In Tap Water Of More Than 200 Million Americans” reads the press release from EWG, the Environmental Working Group. It’s a headline […]
501! | Vol. 3 / No. 42.3
And taking the top spot… | Photo: Charlotte Video Project, CC BY 3.0 *** I just noticed that according to the WordPress backend we’re running this site on, yesterday’s post was the 500th post on […]
Trump Brannigan | Vol. 3 / No. 41.4
It’s been a long day, guys, so here’s the latest “viral” (“trending”? “on fleek”?) thing courtesy of comedian and voice actor Billy West. Turns out that after seeing a pretty extensive gallery of Trump quotes […]