Clowns with guns

This is cool. Feel free to leave your opinion on what the story is here in the comments section. Otherwise, just enjoy it...



(via Andrew Sullivan via Videogum)

What rhymes with Des Moines?

And now for a geography lesson. And another chance to poke fun at Kansas's ongoing struggles with Darwin's theory. (And just for the record, I was totally going to do this with my toy dinosaurs and m&m's...this guy just beat me to it.)

Bird v. Jet Engine

Video footage of a commercial jet engine test showing what can happen if something (like a bird) enters the engine during flight:

I got this from Bad Astronomy, which is a great space science blog. Unfortunately you can't access it from school...