Bart King's Blog, page 93
October 11, 2014
My wife is funny.
At the fruit stand— ME: Do you want pink ladies, cameos, or gala apples? LYNN: Get the cameos. They only make a brief appearance.
— Bart King (@BartKing) October 9, 2014
So much for my personalized bottle.
Oh well. Even big soda poop companies make mistakes.
House detective Bart King in…
THE MYSTERY OF THE DOORBELL THAT DIDN’T WORK
“Aha—THIS thing is, like, not hooked up to another thing. The case is solved!”
*applause, curtain comes down as Bart starts breakdancing*
“Aha—THIS thing is, like, not hooked up to another thing. The case is solved!” *applause, curtain comes down as Bart starts breakdancing*
Neuroscientist Twitter Battle!
A group of neuroscientists did battle in an epic Twitter Rap Free-for-All. Check it! [Scientific terms explained in brackets.]
This is a shortened version of the battle; here’s the whole thing!
DEAN BURNETT: My flow is so powerful it’s basically exponential
Yours don't make the threshold for a single action potential.
[An "action potential" is the signal sent by a neuron.]
LOUIS: I speak hard truth my words are metallic, Your rhymes are brainless like an acephalic.
[Acephalic = without a head]
DB: If your rhymes taste metallic then I hate to confuse ya But that's a symptom of dysgeusia.
[Dysgeusia is a distortion of taste perception.]
LOUIS: You think that scares me? Here's something to amaze ya, Your weak comprehension makes me diagnose aphasia.
[Aphasia describes a variety of communication disorders.]
DB: You repeat and add nothing like a Celine Dion ballad. Basically demonstrating classic word salad.
[See Sarah Palin.]
LOUIS: Celine's a low blow I expect no better,
From a weak-ass rhymer who's cephalically wetter.
[“Water on the brain” reference.]
DB: You want to step to me, like a fly in a spider's parlor? I'll make you so scared you'll rip out your amygdala.
[Removal of the amygdala typically removes the fear response.]
AIDAN HORNER: You don't know left from right, I'm fricking awesome Your rhymes so disconnected, someone's cut your corpus callosum.
[The connection between left and right brain hemispheres.]
SALLY PRICE: Ya hissing & dissing like a pair of morons; It's clear the spirochaetes ate all your neurons.
[Spirochaetes are a bacteria that can infect the brain.]
DB: Morons & neurons don't rhyme, I'm afraid. If your flow was a cat, it'd have to be spayed.
SALLY PRICE: You stutter like you got dysdiadokinesis; I'm puttin’ it down to your tertiary syphilis.
[Dysdiadokinesis - impaired ability to perform alternating movements.]
DB: My words are quite clear as anyone can see. That you struggle to read them suggests maybe ADHD.
This is a shortened version of the battle; here’s the whole thing!
October 6, 2014
October 5, 2014
I don't want to be accused of "spinning yarns"
But these knitted fashions pose a serious thread to our credibility as a species! (Via.)
Need a gift idea for the holidays?
In SEVERED: A HISTORY OF HEADS LOST AND HEADS FOUND an anthropologist “explores our fixation with severed heads.” And surely you know someone who'd love that! (Via.)
October 1, 2014
This materials list for a science fair project is...interesting
Shared by my friend, Loreta B.
