History of Science

HAPPY CAMPERS

Gather ’round the fire with Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd

WEIRD SCIENCE

Geek out at the World Science Festival

Ebe Oke+Annie Gosfield

GIVE A HOOT

Barn Owl land at 
Death by Audio

The Batshit Genius of Michael Kupperman; L’il Abner’s Al Capp Gets a Bio at Last

Here Are Five Awesome/Crazy Theories About The Shining from Room 237

See Also: Room 237 Indulges The Shining's Conspiracy Authorities

Here Are Five Awesome/Crazy Theories About The Shining from Room 237

Like the blood that gushes forth from the elevators of the Overlook Hotel, brilliant/ridiculous theories of what Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is really about have for years surged madly and memorably--especially online, where the Internet's dead ends, blind links, and back-where-you-started argumen ... More >>

Daedelus+Salva

E.T. PHONE HOME

Don't forget to pack the Reese’s Pieces

Gotham Chamber Opera

Galileo: Star Witness

F. Murray Abraham embodies Brecht's complex, compromising hero at CSC

This Week in the Voice: Online Poker Kings Get Cashed Out

This week in the Voice, out today: Chris Parker details the Feds' crackdown on online gambling. He says of players' hopes: "When you've turned nothing into something once already, you tend to feel like you can do it again. There's faith your luck will turn. Perhaps it's delusion. But for a professio ... More >>

Galileo

Here's What $388,375 Worth of Equations Look Like

via Heritage Auctions​We may finally have the answer to the eternal question posed by struggling algebra students everywhere: "When will I use this in real life?" The above image is from Heritage Auctions, and what appears to be a scribbled-in math quiz is actually the work of Apollo 13 Missio ... More >>

Was the Space Shuttle Program a Success?

​Each week, Death by Science sends out an all-points bulletin for the latest science and technology news, tracks it down and beats a confession out of it. This week, we wake up, rub the sleep out of our eyes, roll over in bed and ask the Space Shuttle, "So, now what?" (We had sex with the Sp ... More >>

Destroying Chicago and Our Brain Cells: Transformers is Back

Michael Bay shoots the moon

Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon

Tennessee State Rep. Fails to Grasp Basic Facts About Einstein

The above is a charming moment from the Tennessee House of Representatives floor. Republican (obviously) state representative Frank Nicely argues that Albert Einstein would have wanted creationism to be taught alongside evolution in public schools, because "Albert Einstein said that a little knowl ... More >>

New York to Get a (Never Been to) Space Shuttle

Not Enterprise, as it is preparing to go into space.​Last month we reported on the different museums and institutions vying to display America's retired space shuttles. The Wall Street Journal reports that NASA is going to announce this afternoon that New York will soon be home to one of those ... More >>

Starry Messenger Aims Its Lens on Galileo

Ira Hauptman tries to follow up Brecht

The Iron Giant

Bros Icing Bros: Icing Attempted on Legendary Astronaut Buzz Aldrin by Foursquare Co-Founder

​Are you hip to the cultural brainworm sometimes referred to as Bros Icing Bros? It involves Smirnoff Ice and humiliation, kind of like your third "real" girlfriend. Regardless: Last night at Cipriani Wall Street, a ceremony celebrating the greater cultural merits of the I CAN HAZ CHEEZERBURGE ... More >>

Lessons in Irony: Darwin Family Not Quite Hip to That Whole Darwinism Thing

​This is ironic: Studies are now suggesting that Charles Darwin's family suffered from a rash of birth and growth defects. Because of inbreeding. Like, serious inbreeding. Like, he was schtupping his first cousin. Via Yahoo/LiveScience:

Creation Commits the Sin of Thoughtfulness, and Is Quite Moving in the Process

Iron Giant

Nightmares Before Halloween 1: Gruesome Amelia Earhart Death Fantasy

​Since a new movie has debuted about Amelia Earhart, people are asking again what happened to her when her last flight vanished in 1937. The popular new answer: she was eaten by coconut crabs. It is presumed she and navigator Fred Noonan made a forced landing at Nikumaroro, part of the Phoenix ... More >>

More Bits of the Walter Cronkite Memorial Service

​Buzz Aldrin approves of Cronkite's coverage of Apollo 11, "explaining each procedure so that the waking world knew what was coming next." Andy Rooney, who memorably choked up at the original service, plays it safe with a taped tribute from his 60 Minutes crank-desk. He referred to his own s ... More >>

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Cartoonists team up with the literati in Brooklyn

Tom Wolfe Whines on Moon Shot Anniversary

It's the anniversary of NASA's moon shot, which means we get yet another bitch session from a disappointed Great American about our shocking lack of colonies on other planets.We remember a nearly identical whine from Tom Clancy some years ago, no doubt on another portentous anniversary -- it might h ... More >>

SWELLS! ATTACK!: Steven Wells's First and Last Column for Sound of the City

About a year and a half ago, a pitch fell into my lap from Steven Wells, the infamous NME writer who'd been highly praised and enthusiastically recommended by a determined string of collegial forwards. ("Crazy, brilliant Brit," went one such thumbs-up.) Wells wanted to write a column for this blog j ... More >>

Bird Machine Takes Wing

Galileo, Peered Through the Wrong Lense By Milk Can

BLAST OFF!

Artists take you on a tour of space

The 3D Adventure Fly Me to the Moon

The Fish That Wasn't

A whale of a cultural clash in an early New York legal battle

Stuffed Happens

A post-strike round-up: four Broadway openings, plus a little Off-Broadway Darwinism

Rocket Men

Reliving the glory of America's giant leap for mankind

Horoscope

Making Monkeys of Us

Mystical as it may seem, recent wins have Bush riding tall in the saddle again

Horoscope

Brooklyn Space Cadets and Hasidic Jews Get Cozy in Bed-Stuy

Shock My Monkey

Dragons, Dwarves Save Theater

The Black Eagle Swoops Into Sudan

‘I Saw the Slavery of My Ancestors’

Over the Moon Down Under

A Conspiracy So Vast

Never Again

The History of American Eugenics Is Explored Online

The Dark Side of the Moon Landing

A Page From History