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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver waits to speak at the Los Angeles Lakers championship ring ceremony before the season opening game against the LA Clippers at Staples Center on December 22, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.

The NBA’s Vaccine Decision-Making Doesn’t Need To Be So Complicated

Albert Burneko

Science

No Points For Guessing That Elon Musk’s Miami Traffic Solution Is Dumber Than Shit

Patrick Redford

Joe The Pigeon Will Live

Coming Soon To A Treetop Near You: A Snake

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Chris Thompson

Mankind One Step Closer To Dominion Over Star Juice

A cartoon of Dwight Eisenhower from a French poster in 1953.

Teeth Are Horrifying

The Himalayan Mount Everest (C-L) and other mounts ranges are pictured from Namche Bazar in the Everest region, some 140 kms northeast of Kathmandu on March 26, 2020. (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP) (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images)

Interviews

A Geologist Rocks My World On Why Earth’s Tallest Mountain Isn’t So Obvious

On-the-ground footage shows a cable snapping, sending the platform crashing to the ground.

New Videos Show The Dramatic Collapse Of The Arecibo Telescope

A cool look at something called a preamplifier, which is part of the National Ignition Facility's effort at creating a self-sustaining fusion reaction.

President-Elect Joe Biden Must Direct The National Ignition Facility To Fire 192 Lasers At My Solar Plexus

This aerial view shows a hole in the dish panels of the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, on November 19, 2020. - The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced on November 19, 2020, it will decommission the radio telescope following two cable breaks in recent months which have brought the structure to near collapse. (Photo by Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP) (Photo by RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty Images)

Arecibo Goes Dark

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Tony Fauci (C) looks on next to US President Donald Trump during a tour of the National Institutes of Health's Vaccine Research Center March 3, 2020, in Bethesda, Maryland

Who Should Get Credit For A Coronavirus Vaccine?

A look at my fully operational JET-style tokamak, churning out big numbers of what could be power but might in fact be deadly radiation.

They Made An Interactive Virtual Tokamak And Buddy, It Rules

A human cadaver positioned as if throwing a baseball at "Bodies...The Exhibition".

An Astrophysicist Explains The Challenges Of De-Juicing The Baseball

Virgin Hyperloop Has Invented The World’s Crappiest High-Speed Rail

Baseball Should Kill The Baseball

Tom Ley

Check Out This New Dinosaur: An Absolute Dumbass Piece Of Shit

A view of the asteroid Bennu, from the camera of OSIRIS-REx.

An Earth Robot Is Taking Soil Samples On An Asteroid Tonight And By God You Will Know About It

French researcher in Microbiology, Genetics and Biochemistry Emmanuelle Charpentier (L) and US professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, Jennifer Doudna pose beside a painting made by children of the genome at the San Francisco park in Oviedo, on October 21, 2015.

The Nobel Prize Is Just One Front In The Extremely Fascinating CRISPR Wars

Rendering of SPARC, a compact, high-field, DT burning tokamak, currently under design by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Its mission is to create and confine a plasma that produces net fusion energy.

Two Fusion Researchers Explain The Tokamak Reactor That I Want To Be Hurled Into

An engineer walks past a hulking cryostat in the construction zone of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, in France.