Shit - I Drew A Comic About This And Apparently Never Posted It.

Shit - I drew a comic about this and apparently never posted it.

Regardless, this is brilliant and I love it (and prettier than the comic).

A solid way to accept someone’s feelings.

lack of posting explained: swallowed by computerless wilderness. My bed’s still rocking when I go to sleep.

A very quick doodle (I know it’s a mess) based on the bizarre courtship displays of the superb bird of paradise and drawn very roughly in the style of Kate Beaton (my apologies). The lyrics are from Closer by NIN, and while it isn’t exactly my favorite song, it did inspire this comic. I’m posting this now because I’ve been seeing this fantastic animation by oliviawhen passed around tumblr and realized that I hadn’t actually posted this comic from a few months ago.

This week in science!

Wormholes: http://bit.ly/S0JyQ0 Galaxy cluster: http://bit.ly/1vTZnYP Universe: http://bit.ly/1oXzipJ Light: http://bit.ly/1nZN3Ec Vaccines: http://bit.ly/1n9RFrM Hand: http://bit.ly/1j7D1JB Earth-like planets: http://bit.ly/1lDhw4F Nerve cells: http://bit.ly/1nkFQNf

#yes BUT have you ever heard an astrophysicist talk about primordial gravitational waves #or an astrobiologist talk about the drake equation and breaking ice on mars #or an astronomer talk about exoplanets and supermassive quasars #or a biochemist talk about cloning human embryonic stem cells and synthetic base pairs #or a palaeontologist talk about neanderthal cognition and technology #or a neuroscientist talk about animal brain-to-brain interfaces #or a geneticist talk about codons and duons #or a biophysicist talk about quantum biology and electron tunnelling #scientists speak a different language but it's still poetry; it's still brimming with wonder (perfecttags by elucipher -- I really respect Calvin and Hobbes and very rarely disagree, but this is one of those rare moments when I think Bill Watterson kinda got it totally wrong.)

Calvin and Hobbes

Hot damn.