Category: Think About It

• Everything an Untrained Heterosexual White Male Knows About Dancing

  Dancing is one of those things men are of two minds about: On the one hand, it is far too easy to seem effeminate or foolish when dancing in the eyes of your peers. On the other hand, it’s fun, and it lets you get close to women. It seems, then, that the pros outweigh…

  Geoff Micks

  December 11, 2009

• Random Thought: Has Anyone Really Looked at Dinosaur Sapience?

  I was driving home from work today, and the most random question popped into my head: How do we know there weren’t any Dinosaurs species capable of creating a civilization on even a hunter-gatherer level? Has anyone taken a look to see if there’s any evidence of it? What kind of evidence would we need…

  Geoff Micks

  December 7, 2009

• Awesome Pictures: The Great Depression Era’s Concept of Gun Safety

  What is it: This is my grandfather, Murray Anderson, in 1942 at age 17, pointing his gun directly at the photographer. Why is it Awesome? Okay, let’s get a closer look at this. You tell me, what’s interesting about this image? Is it the bit where you can see directly down the barrel of what…

  Geoff Micks

  November 29, 2009

• What if the Earth had rings like Saturn?

  I stumbled upon this while wandering around the internet. It’s an animation by Roy Prol depicting what the Earth would be like if it had rings like Saturn’s, properly scaled to our planet. It uses Ave Maria as the sound track, which only adds to the experience. Enjoy!

  Geoff Micks

  November 20, 2009

• How do you tell people 10,000 years from now to stay the hell away?

  Every day I check out Slate.com, a news e-zine currently owned by the Washington Post that focuses less on the news of the day and more on analysis and critical thinking about what is happening in the world. Today I read a fascinating article By Juliet Lapidos entitled Atomic Priesthoods, Thorn Landscapes, and Munchian Pictograms:…

  Geoff Micks

  November 16, 2009

• Awesome Pictures: The Simpsons do Abbey Road

  What is it: A Simpsons homage to The Beatles Abbey Road photo from the November 2002 cover of Rolling Stone. Why is it Awesome? I’m a huge Simpsons fan, and I’m a huge Beatles fan. This combines the two brilliantly. I saw it this morning, and now it is my desktop. Long may it reign.…

  Geoff Micks

  November 6, 2009

• The Problem with Science Fiction on Television

  I was talking to my father the other day, and he mentioned a new television show that I should check out: Defying Gravity. I had heard something about ABC’s new drama vaguely a few months back. Someone had called it, ‘Grey’s Anatomy in Space,’ which failed to spark my immediate interest. I told my father…

  Geoff Micks

  October 28, 2009