A swift and devastating rebuttal to that heathen PZ Meyers

Didn’t you stop to consider that maybe it was all the prayer what moved those doctor’s hands, and kept all that expensive medical equipment from a spontaneous quantum evaporation?
Yeah. I didn’t think so, heathen!
*Via Booman.

The Moon, bitches!

The United States of SPACE!
Goddamn would I kill to watch him do Obama skits.

Holy effing shite

I know this is all very preliminary and there’s no guarantee that this is reliable and/or confirmed/reproduced, but still. Holy fucking shit, Stem Cell treatment seems to have cured a case of HIV. As in, the dude appears free of HIV.
Damn.
Tip o’ the sombrero to Great Orange Satan.

(Tire) Gauge Theory*

The American Physical Society has released the results of a study on Energy Efficiency.
“The bottom line is that the quickest way to do something about America’s use of energy is through energy efficiency,” said Burton Richter, the chairman of the study panel and a 1976 Nobel Prize winner in physics. “Energy that you don’t use [...]

Run for your lives!

It has finally happened.

This is what happens when nutjobs use the tubes.

Reasonable. You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
Oh, Conservapedia. Why must you be the source of so many lulz. This one article here, goes with a special dedication to OPB.

What the hell is the wrong with Louisiana?

Both legislative houses just passed some Bill that is a thinly veiled attempt to introduce quacktastic Intelligent Design into the science classroom.
It appears the state’s only hope is that Bobby “The Exorcist” Jindal vetoes it. The Louisiana Coalition for Science is on it, and they are asking concerned parties to contact Governor Jindal about it. [...]

There is no (greenhouse gas) spoon.

Once you get past the clearly terrible implications that signal for the th time the extent to which insatiable greed with no consideration for their effects on the world drives the Bush White House, this is pretty freakin hilarious.
In short: How does the White House respond to a Supreme Court ordered EPA report on whether [...]

The most important physics calculation of the year is…

From the always hilarious XKCD
… The time it will take for physicists to have a functioning majority in Congress. Currently, there’s three. Honestly, I think more people with a strong science (read: real science, social sciences don’t count) background should be involved in government. Not nearly as much for what they know (quoth Congressman Holt: [...]