DOCTOR RON: Soon, I will have sex

Science is sexy
Dear Blog,
Today I write to you with high spirits: Thanks to the indefatigable progress of science, soon I will have sex! My colleagues in Edinburgh have announced a major breakthrough in the development of a pill which boosts the sex drive of women through an increase in Type 2 Gonadotrophin-releasing [...]

IT CAME FROM GOOGLE: Mercury Powered Spaceships

The Spaceship of the future: Powered by a mild neurotoxin!
 
One of the cool things about having a blog is checking your stats (yesterday I got 2 hits. Hi Mom! Dad!). The absolute coolest part is that WordPress tells you the search terms people enter into Google or Compuserve or whatever to find [...]

PSA: Don’t Assume

My friend Dalas and I made this PSA for a gizmodo.com contest. Wish us luck.

Don’t Assume – Gizmodo PSA on Vimeo

MY LIFE: Cleaning my room

My room… AFTER I CLEANED IT!
Archaeologists love finding piles of old trash. Middens, as they call them, harbor surprising amounts of information about ancient litterers: Their dietary habits, technological abilities, cultural traits and preferred tampon brands. Hey, early man, ever hear of recycling? After cleaning my room this weekend, I think I [...]

ANAGRAMS: Segolene Royal

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POLL: Will You Miss Bleeding From Your Vagina?

According to Dr. Ron, it looks like in the future we’ll be able to cure a woman’s period. What do you think, women? Will you miss your period once it’s cured in the future?
 

DOCTOR RON: The New Pill

Bleeding, begone!
Dear Blog,
Hello, I am Dr. Ronald Chambers, PhD. Thank you, Adrian, for that wonderful introduction. One small correction: I am an associate assistant adjunct professor of chemistry (my colleagues and I like to joke that the A in associate stands for “Above-Average Ability”!).
Today I am writing to you regarding and [...]

ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome, Dr. Ron!

Dr. Ronald Chambers, PhD.
I am so proud to announce the newest member of the World of Today team, Dr. Ronald Chambers, PhD. Dr. Ron is an assistant adjunct professor of organic chemistry at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. He is one of the top six researchers of chiral Calcium [...]

RERUN: The Science and Health Ethics Quiz

“I’m an embryo. I like to tear America apart.”
Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided to uphold a ban on late-term abortion. Them embryos just got them some saving.
I think this is a perfect time to revisit the issue of health (and science) ethics, which I initially brought up in my analog (read: paper) publication, [...]

MOVIE: ATM

ATM live on stage! on Vimeo
That there is a link to a video of that ATM my friend Dalas and I wrote some jokes for. It did a stand-up routine at an open-mic deal in New Haven, Conn. As you can see, some jokes went over pretty well; others, not so much [...]