December 30, 2013 – January 3, 2014
Ann Redux: You know how, if your sister is a biologist, you have to be a physicist? This isn’t only competition, it’s also cooperation and as such holds the Recipe for World Peace — if only anyone would listen.
Cameron Redux: the Snail Apocolypse is upon her, also upon her closet doors, umbrella stand, and stucco walls; and Tom Hayden’s video, peerless though it is, doesn’t help.
Erik’s New Year’s resolution is to lose that extra bit around his middle, and takes inspiration from fighting elephant seals. If they can haul their massive butts around for a minute or two, surely so can he.
Michelle thinks the internet needs a Corrections column — like, for instance, responsible newspapers — and begins with a list of her own errata. My personal list includes spelling “Michelle” with one “l.”
Abstruse Goose conflates general relativity, Alexander Pope, and the USS Enterprise to arrive at a theory that’s pretty untenable and, he says, dangerous.