On January 15, 1559, Elizabeth I was crowned the Queen of England. I’ve said it before: I love reading about the history of the English Royals. (I recommend this book, it makes for great airplane reading.)
- No, but in all seriousness… – Logical fallacies that regularly appear in commenting threads. From Bug Girl.
- Kids These Days: A 1950s Guide to Hooking Up – Ha, I love these old films. Don’t get caught up in all that “heavy petting,” now!
- From ancient fish, insight into origin of limbs – More about Tiktaalik, whom you may remember from Your Inner Fish. From Buzz Parsec.
- No One’s Job: West Virginia’s Forbidden Waters – More about the WV chemical spill crisis, from the New Yorker.
- The Very, Very Thin Wedge of Denial – Phil Plait’s article about how climate change deniers don’t publish papers in scientific journals.
“How Much Affection?” is also the subject of a Rifftrax which compounds the hilarity: http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/how-much-affection
If you want to make those 1950’s shorts even funnier, watch them on YouTube and turn on closed captioning. The captioning uses voice recognition to produce the captions. It’s funnier than running language through Google Translate multiple times.