can't take the sky from me

I love predictions of the future that oscillate between "eerily prescient" and "what the hell are you talking about?" Like that description of the year 2,000 written in 1933 where the author predicts flatscreen television, the glass wall trend in the homes of the wealthy, and the obsolescence of stuffed mattresses, but is also convinced that normal showers will be replaced by a device called the VAPOR LANCE that VAPORIZES the DIRT on you

Sometimes Apollo hits writers with prophecy and sometime it’s Hephaestus trying to make a pitch for his new product

Oh boy, oh boy, I wish I had an avenue for sharing this with my undergraduates. This is some GOOD information literacy shit.

oh fuck I love this dude so much. I gotta go listen to some more of his shit, maybe share this one with my students. What an excellent job of communicating science!

a horse pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose but it takes, like, an uncomfortably long amount of time

im begging you watch the whole thing

Ah yes, classical conditioning put to good use

cc: @petermorwood

I would like to wish everyone an uneventful new year

May we live in very uninteresting times

may you experience very precedented events

but… if i’m here… and you’re here… then who’s pondering the orb?

this is my pet freak [camera cuts to a thoroughly average man in business casual clothes. he smiles and waves at the viewer]

who the fuck is colin robinson

This is better than any snl sketch

This post feels like holding up a lance in a thunderstorm