An ascending chromatic scale never sounded so cool.

wasn't there a background image in the comment box here at one point about trolls? Maybe it is worth bringing back.

Anyway, I was sold on Vi Hart when I showed several of her videos to all five of my children, and all five of them were entranced. By math. And then they started drawing flowers and counting spirals. And then I noticed myself counting spirals and wondering about tree branches. Thanks Vi Hart!

At first I read that as David Pogue.

So... what happens if you do eat it? I'm guessing it can't be good.

Are they saying that toy advertisers know their audience? Wow, what a revelation.

hmmm: http://www.snopes.com/music/media/cdlength.asp

Lame how the article never actually states their complete list of findings.

The video now seems like a parody.

I swear by the end I was smelling gunpowder.

Everyone knows galloping is best performed with coconuts! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkCZRnB3VFg

I kept thinking to myself, can't the "poker face" person think of a way to just say something? It is possible to help people without coming across as arrogant.

Immediately I thought of Vogons.

I think I saw this in 2012

It will definitely shape me up on not texting having watched the video. However, I think the camera operator may have been texting while filming with the jittery framing. ;-)

Since no one has actually met an alien (as far as I know) how is it bad science to imagine that interbreeding or communicating with aliens would be difficult?