There are exactly three countries on Earth that do not provide guarantees for paid maternity leave. Papua New Guinea and Swaziland are two of them. Care to guess the third?
Oh, hey. It’s Seth MacFarlane talking about science and his reboot of COSMOS starring Neil deGrasse Tyson!
At first glance, the man famous for infant sociopaths, drunk dogs, and obese blowhards with a penchant for hand-to-hand combat with chickens would be an odd choice to produce a remake of the greatest public science program in history. But Seth is serious about combating the “lethargy” he sees in our society in respect to education, interest in science, and basic logical thinking. He’s a smart dude, and he’s ready to use his influence to inspire a renewed interest in science.
We don’t know how people will respond, but I am encouraged. If this blog has taught me anything, it’s that science-loving people haven’t disappeared, it’s just that so many aren’t being engaged in a way that really excites them. Even more of them look around, see boring classes, dry textbooks and peers talking about godknowswhat and don’t realize that it’s damn well and fine to love this stuff.
I think this could help change that attitude. I’m ready for COSMOS. No word on whether Neil will be forced to wear a turtleneck, though.
Also, see the accompanying article at Forbes.
Fuck Yeah Fuckyeah Blogs
No one really knows why the “Fuck Yeah X” blog phenomenon became so popular — nor why it’s still going very strong in terms of raw numbers. As for ultimate beginnings, conventional wisdom points to the pop-culture longevity of “America, Fuck Yeah” from the soundtrack to Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s 2004 flick Team America: World Police, but there’s no real evidence beyond the circumstantial to support this conclusion. Only a few mainstream media outlets dared cover the trend due to the profanity in the name (may we suggest “fudge yeah” as a workaround?).
Coincidentally, the bloggers behind Fuck Yeah Menswear were yesterday (allegedly) prematurely revealed as Kevin Burrows and Lawrence Schlossman (the latter running the non-fuckyeah Tumblr How to Talk to Girls at Parties); they have a book releasing this fall. So on Tumblr, where did the fuckyeah blogs really come from, and what are people fuckyeahing about these days?
Today, in number crunching.
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The Likeness show at Pratt Institute. Artwork from the Museum Education class.
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The Bible coloring book appropriation project.
In the end, Abel lay dead upon the ground and the first crime of man against man was committed.
