I freaking love these. Hilarious. Brilliant.

I freaking love these. Hilarious. Brilliant.

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Originally shared by Russ Abbott

Remember the Netherlands video parodying Trump (https://youtu.be/ELD2AwFN9Nc)?

Switzerland takes its crack at him.

via Chris Fink
https://youtu.be/reuJ8yVCgSM

The BLR guys are wicked funny, but this is LOL hilarious.

The BLR guys are wicked funny, but this is LOL hilarious.
http://boingboing.net/2017/02/02/this-bad-lip-reading-of-nfl.html

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Irony of the Day: Academic Edition

Irony of the Day: Academic Edition
Look at the screenshot below of these Google Scholar search results. The first entry is what looks like a pretty definitive study. It's published in Science, one of the most respected, if not the most respected, omnibus scientific journals on the planet. And its authors hail from some of the top public/federal research facilities and universities.

But, if you click through to actually read the article, you can't, at least not without paying $32. But, in this case, you can read the PDF of the full paper for free by clicking on the link to the right...a link that goes to the Urmia University of Medical Sciences. In Iran.

So, we're faced with the situation where US public research funds were spent to support research, which is then published by a for-profit company that charges the public (again) to read the results. But no matter, the Trump administration has put a gag order on federal climate scientists publishing their findings, so we won't even have papers like this in the future to not be able to read without going to a sanctioned nation's academic institution.

This entire situation seems to violate every principle of what's right, yet I don't see many academics criticizing it publicly or attempting to challenge it outright.

This is true.

This is true.

Originally shared by PHD Comics

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http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1531

Liberated from a different social network...

Liberated from a different social network...

"The Offering"

Originally shared by Mark Whitley

"The Offering"

This was a massive castle with tons of detail: gargoyles, owls, little dragons, greenery, and four massive towers. Depicted by minifigs is a priestess about to read a book between two dragon-headed acolytes.