Think that the recent blizzards across the American Northeast is a cause to doubt Global Warming? People like Sean Hannity do. Let’s show them how ridiculous they are. …With comics.

What is today’s stardate? Meaning that, using the calendar method in Star Trek, what is the stardate that corresponds with today’s date in our Gregorian calendar? The answer is more complicated and harder to find than you might think.

The numbers saga keeps on chugging until I’m happy that the numbers on this site are sufficiently large. In Part 5, I decide that the Conway Chained-Arrow Notation is just not large enough and needs to be expanded further! Let’s check it out.

Have you heard that the recent Supreme Court Case — Citizens United v. FEC — is going to be the death of democracy, because it allows millions of dollars of corporate funding to go directly to public canidates? Have you heard that China will now be able to directly influence public elections? Have you heard that democracy has died because of a case worse than Dred Scott v. Sandford? If you’ve heard these lies, it’s time to rethink this case. In the political post where I call out the Democrats like I call out the Republicans, let me set you on the path to facts.

Obama went to the House Republican’s retreat in Baltimore to answer their questions. The result is a video called both “Obama pwns Republicans” and “Obama BEAT UP by GOP” on Youtube, and it’s some of my favourite political video I’ve seen. It’s pretty interesting and bipartisan. Check it out. (Also, there’s more politics coming Wednesday on the topic of the recent Supreme Court decision.)

As you may or may not know, a planet — like Earth or an unsuspecting Alderaan — is actually really hard to destroy. It’s really easy to kill all the life on the surface of the planet, or make it so the surface of the planet would be completely useless for billions of years, but it’s actually really hard to destroy the planet itself. Today we look at the Death Star. Can it really accomplish this feat? If so, how?