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Winter storms weren't named at all until two years ago. So why did we start all of a sudden?

Naming Hurricanes and tropical storms has a long history, but names for winter storms only built up steam in the last couple years. And, unlike tropical storms or hurricanes, it's not the National Weather Services that is naming them, it's The Weather Channel.

NPR took a look at the research of University of Chicago psychologist Nicholas Epley, who says that the reason we're naming winter storms is the same as the reason we might nickname a car or a computer — it behaves as though it has a mind of its own. "When something behaves unexpectedly, it's not obvious why this person or that thing behaved as it did, that's when a mind is needed," Epley said. And winter storms do seem to be behaving in increasingly unexpected — and dangerous — ways.

But even though the impacts of winter storms seem to be getting increasingly severe, winter storms and tropical storms work in very different ways, and what makes sense for one kind of storm (naming), may not make sense for another. The NWS says that due to the nature of winter storms, which are not as clearly bounded and do not have as easily predicted paths as tropical storms, they prefer to rate the strength of winter storms after the fact, instead of giving them names.

So, should winter storms be named? And, if they are, who should be responsible for it?

Image: Lake Superior ice caves / Department of Interior's Twitter feed.

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Why don't you die after you have sex? onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

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Did you or do you or will you enjoy your long stretch of reproductive years? According to Cole's Paradox, you shouldn't. Many species need just a tiny increase of fecundity in order to justify one shot at sex, followed by death. Find out why you "should" die after you copulate, and why you don't.

Semelparity and Iteroparity

All your life, without knowing it, you have been iteroparous. And that's a good thing, too, because anything else would mean immediate death after a single shot at mating. Iteroparous animals reproduce many times over the course of their life, or at least take a crack at it. Semelparous creatures, on the other hand, have one chance to mate, give it their all, and then die afterwards. The most famous examples are spawning salmon, who swim upstream, dodging bears all the way, in order to seriously affect the water quality in the stream where they were hatched and then die immediately afterwards. The female giant pacific octopus protects and grooms her eggs, and as they hatch, she blows out a stream of water to help them on their way while she dies. There are even a few male marsupials who will get a huge adrenaline spike just as mating season comes on, wreck their own immune system by mating constantly, and then die horribly.

For obvious reasons, this system favors the animals that can abandon their young rather than those that have to stick around and raise them. Semelparity is not the default state for animals. It requires a huge and well-timed spike in energy, the ability to ignore even the most basic survival needs in favor of mating, and the production of offspring that can fend for themselves. It seems that every instance of semelparity evolved from iteroparity. Given the requirements for a successful instance of semelparity, it's a wonder it evolved at all.

Cole's Paradox and Semelparity

Or so it would seem. Lamont Cole, a biologist who spent the early 1950s crunching numbers, published a model of population growth based on reproduction that startled quite a few people. There should be a lot more semelparity in the world, he claimed. He was looking at reproductive rates as a way of figuring out why some animals lived a long time while other animals lived only a short time. He found that species that were annuals, and lived only one year, needed to produce only one single more offspring per "litter" than species that were perennials in order to maintain the same population growth. So a tiny increase in litter size favored semelparity. Why, then, was it so rare?

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There are reasons why humans don't go semelparous. Someone has to raise the baby, and until there are three sexes, male, female, and parent, we will have to put a lot more work into raising our offspring than the salmon put into raising theirs. But how did we evolve in the first place? If semelparity is favored, why would there even be ancestral primates that needed multiple years to raise their offspring? Why aren't we all like the unfortunate Australian marsupials? This schism, between the seeming advantages of semelparity and its relative rarity, became known as Cole's Paradox.

Better Modeling Means We Live!

Cole's Paradox, like many paradoxes that are refuted by a quick look at the evidence, couldn't stand for long. People were quick to point out flaws, and build better models. For example, Cole didn't look at juvenile versus adult mortality, he just assumed that everyone survived until their appointed time to die. In the real world, there's a rate fertile adult mortality and a rate of juvenile mortality, and the difference between those two rates has a lot of influence on whether semelparity is an option. If a species has an abysmal rate of adult mortality, but juvenile mortality is relatively low, it's best to turn things over to a new generation than suck up resources.

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The same goes for environmental factors. Reproduction almost always requires risk and energy — whether it's salmon swimming for miles to get their eggs to a nice quiet place in a stream where they can safely hatch or desert marsupials who have a short season of plenty, during which they have a little extra time on their hands. If it takes 90% of a species' energy to produce young, using 100% of that energy to produce a bigger litter is a better strategy than conserving 10% and having a small litter.

And, of course, there's the relative likelihood of wiping out thousands of salmon versus the likelihood of killing off five lion cubs, or of one set of humans not conceiving for a year or two. In the end, there are some animals that are shaped by their environment, their reproductive systems, and their inherent traits into a long-lived species with potentially high failure rates for reproduction, and there are some that become short-lived species that can really pump out a winning litter. We happen to be the former. I don't want to be too speciesist, but I think we can all be grateful for that.

[Via Semelparity and Iteroparity, Why are Life Histories So Variable, NCBI]

Images: top to bottom: Pressmaster/Shutterstock, Sekar B/Shutterstock, Mogens Trolle/Shutterstock.

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Cannadom – The Cannabis Flavoured Condom: „Green in colour, and smells and tastes like the real thing!“ (via Ronny)

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Im Tawaraya in Kyoto gibt’s lecker Ramen mit einer einzigen, riesigen Nudel. (via Neatorama)

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onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com The Penis Museum hunts down The Final Member for its exhibit

This indie documentary follows Iceland's Phallological Museum's quest to get the final jewel of their collection: a human penis. And from what we're hearing, everyone loves this movie.

The Final Member is one museum curator's search for a human penis specimen for the only Phallological Museum on the planet. What starts off as a simple donation spirals into the strange when an American donor tries to cut the line to become the first. Here's the official premise:

Thirty miles from the Arctic Circle, in the northern Icelandic town of Husavik, stands the Icelandic Phallological Museum - the world's only Penis museum. Over 40 years, the founder and curator has collected every specimen from every mammal except for one elusive penis needed to complete his collection: The Human Specimen. The film follows the curator's incredible, sublimely comic, often shocking quest to complete his eccentric collection, and the two intrepid men who have raised their hands to be the first human donor.

Online critics are calling this short "side-splittingly funny" and "honestly amazing." So color us intrigued. The Final Member will be released in theaters and on VOD April 18th.

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This tiny blue crystal is the oldest known thing on Earth onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

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Scientists say this blue zircon crystal is 4.4 billion years old, making it the oldest known chunk of our planet. The discovery is forcing a rethink of Earth's early geological history — and our planet's capacity to harbor life.

The zircon crystal, which was extracted in 2001 from a rock outcrop in Australia, measures a mere 200 by 400 microns — about twice the diameter of a human hair. To age it, scientists used two different techniques: atom-probe tomography (which identifies and maps individual atoms) and by determining the radioactive decay of uranium to lead in the sample. Individual zircon rocks provide the only physical evidence from the earliest phases of Earth's geological past.

To put the extreme age of this rock into perspective, the Earth itself formed as a ball of molten rock about 4.5 billion years ago. The presence of this crystal suggests our planet cooled down enough to form a solid crust a mere 100 million years later, and 160 million years after the formation of the solar system. The finding strengthens the "cool early Earth" hypothesis, where temperatures were low enough to sustain oceans — and perhaps life — earlier than assumed. The Hadean eon, it now appears, may not have been as harsh as we thought.

Because the Earth formed a solid crust 4.4 billion years ago, it may have been capable of sustaining microbial life about 100,000 years later (though no fossil evidence exists to support this assertion). To date, the oldest sample of microbial life dates back about 3.4 billion years.

Read the entire study at Nature Geoscience: "Hadean age for a post-magma-ocean zircon confirmed by atom-probe tomography."

Photograph: University of Wisconsin/Reuters.

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onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com The principle of "near enough" proves anyone is psychic

So you've completed a psychic test. The test has turned up exactly zero psychics. How can you get a psychic data with no psychics? Use the law of "near enough" to expand the parameters of the test!

It's all about things that are almost coincidences — the sort of thing that inspire conspiracy theories the world over. You know the kind of thing I'm talking about: "This man was shot in 1948, but he had a son. How did the son die? Of a gun shot! In 1984!" If there were another unfortunate male in the family line who had been killed in 1498, 1489, or 1849, or 1894, they would probably also be listed. That looks like a coincidence, but isn't. It's just a juggling of numbers. And numbers can be juggled many ways. As long as the overall numbers kind of look like each other people can consider it "near enough."

The assassinations of President Lincoln and President Kennedy famously inspire a lot of "near enough" coincidences. There are lists online, but one item that often gets mentioned is, "Oswald fired the shot from a library and fled to a theater, and Booth fired the shot in a theater and fled to a library." Presumably someone eventually noticed that the Texas Book Depository wasn't a library, but a kind of warehouse for textbooks. That only strengthened the parallel. Osward fired from a warehouse and was caught in a theater. John Wilkes Booth fired from a theater and fled to a lot of places, including people's homes, train cars, and the woods, but he was eventually captured in a warehouse. If by "warehouse," you mean "barn." Eh, near enough.

The point isn't that the stories aren't somewhat similar, the point is that "somewhat similar" is a very easy criterion to meet, especially if people are willing to fish around until something meets it. One famous "near enough" coincidence happened during a psychic test. It was the usual one, with cards that the reviewer would look at and the potential psychics would have to guess. None of the psychics had a guess rate any higher than random chance, which in itself might be the most eerie coincidence of the incident. Test enough people and someone should get a few more than random chance right, just like someone should get a few less than random chance right. Test over, right? No! Another psychic searcher suggested looking at the cards just ahead and just behind of the card that the psychic was being tested on. Suddenly, one psychic did much, much better than random chance. Eerily better. Was he psychic?

Let's say he was near enough.

[Via The Improbability Principle]

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Walking Dead reveals the cure for the zombie-pocalypse may be a mullet onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com Walking Dead reveals the cure for the zombie-pocalypse may be a mullet

S The Walking Dead may have changed the game completely in last night's episode. The new trio revealed at the end of last episode bring a surprise. Michonne makes Carl bearable through the power of canned cheese. And Rick gets stuck in a cheesy '80s college sex comedy turned deadly!

"Claimed" isn't epic, but for concentrating 80% on Rick, Michonne and Carl (mostly Rick, who actually spends most of the episode in one room) and 20% on Glenn, Tara and the newcomers, it's got tension, we learn about the characters organically, Carl isn't too terrible, and there's a major twist. It's exactly what I want out of a regular TWD episode.

We begin with Rick, Carl and Michonne at the house. Carl and Michonne share a bowl of cereal, and a wistful Michonne wishes she had soy milk. Carl does not care for soy milk, and recounts an anecdote where soy milk made him barf, and laughingly recounts all the other fake milk products he'd rather have than soy milk until he includes to Judith's formula, and makes himself super-sad. As awkward as this all is, Rick is just grateful to hear Carl laugh, even for a second.

Michonne and Carl go hunting for supplies; Rick tries to come too and until Michonne tells him he has a bad case of having his ass kicked and should rest. Thus begins the least interesting part of "Claimed," but by no means a bad one. With Carl immediately closed off again, Michonne — whose warmth now makes her infinitely more interesting than her "badass" persona in the first half of season 3 — tries to bring Carl out of his shell and make him laugh again, to the point where she finds a can of spray cheese, delightfully called Crazy Cheese, fills her mouth, and just kind of gurgles at Carl.

Shockingly, the Crazy Cheese gambit does not work, and Michonne knows drastic measures are needed... so she actuallyopens up. She tells Carl that toddlers found her hilarious, and Carl erupts with a barrage of questions. She tells him about her toddler, Andre, that she lost him, and about her life before — not all at once, but allowing him one question at a time, per room searched for supplies. Carl is too curious to be withdrawn, and as he learns about Michonne, we learn about her in a way far more organic and less hyperbolic than her dream sequence in the first episode. And Carl, having received the trust of an adult (Michonne's told no one else) snaps out of his childish snit, even just for a bit.

And that's when Michonne discovers a very disturbing painting, and wanders around the house until she encounters one of TWD's most disturbing scenes (which is saying something at this point) — a room with five long-dead corpses, two girls lying on one bed together, two boys on the other bed, and an adult (I think?) with a hole in the back of his head. It was all staged, and very possibly these kids were killed there, perhaps while they were asleep, almost definitely by someone who wanted to spare them the horrors of the new world. Michonne quickly exits and slams the door, only to see Carl there. "What's in there?" Carl asks. "It's a dead baby," he guesses. "A dead dog," a clearly freaked out Michonne says quickly.

Meanwhile, Rick falls asleep almost instantly and wakes up to hear voices in the house. Masculine voices. Mean voices. Voices that are, without a doubt, not going to want to team up with Rick. So Rick slides under the bed he was sleeping on — it's all he has time for — and thus begins a tried and true staple of many an '80s movie and sitcom, where Rick is trapped under the bed, but as opposed to being trapped underneath the bed of his girlfriend's parents or his boss or maybe a distinguished visitor, he's hiding from a group of guys who argue about what order they'll rape the first woman the see (they're bad dudes).

Now, this is pretty ludicrous, not only for the fact that this is apparently the only unlocked house in a five-mile radius, but because he stays under there a very long time. But to The Walking Dead's credit, it manages to keep the scenes tense: first of course one of the bastards comes into the room to sleep on the bed, but then another one comes in, fights the first dude for it, knocks him to the ground, and then chokes him unconscious — while he's staring at directly Rick. It's pretty great, because we know if the guy stops choking this dude for a second Rick will be discovered; if he doesn't fall unconscious or die Rick will be discovered; and even when the guy does pass out, he could wake up at any second and remember the dude who was hiding under the bed.

Eventually the second guy falls asleep, and Rick plays an elaborate (and almost stupidly complicated) game of cat-and-mouse with the bastards,w ho seem to be wandering haphazardly through the house like they were the ghosts in Pac-Man, Rick ducks into rooms, hides behind walls, leaps out of sight of guys who are constantly just around the corner, but just barely miss him. Eventually Rick does barge into a room where he meets a very surprised bastard who politely doesn't scream, and Rick manages to get something around his throat to strangle him. Rick escapes from the house through a second-floor window and drops to the ground, where he again is hilariously close to being discovered. Then Michonne and Carl are walking back to the house and they're about to be discovered until a kindly zombie enters the house from the opposite side at just the best possible moment, and Rick is able to run off and catch them. Eventually, they reach the train tracks everyone else has been heading down, towards the supposed sanctuary that is Terminus.

Look, this whole scene is definitely a bit much, and it's definitely a bit absurd. But I appreciated that it wasn't another random zombie attack, that the threat seemed credible (because as well all know by now humans are infinitely more dangerous than zombies), and because it was pretty much dialogue-free except by the thugs, and The Walking Dead in general is best (and often Rick in particular) when the show lets its cast act as opposed to announce.

Anyways, the episode also checks in with Glenn, who wakes up in the back of Abraham's massive army truck. Glenn is disoriented, but quickly sees Tara, asks about the school bus, discovers not only was it full of dead zombies (thanks, Maggie!) but they passed it three hours ago. Glenn demands Abraham stop the truck so he can walk back and find his wife. This is when Abraham introduces himself, his girlfriend Rosita, Dr. Eugene Porter, and the Mission.

The Mission is to get Eugene to Washington DC. Because he knows what caused the zombie outbreak.

Also, he has a mullet. We're going to get back to this in a second.

Abraham wants Glenn and Tara to help him get Eugene to DC to stop the zombies for good. And Glenn does not give a shit. Possibly because of his love for Maggie, and he does not give a shit about whether the Walker threat is ended or not without her. Maybe because asks Eugene what caused the plague, and Eugene gives him a flat "Classified" for an answer. Possibly because he understands knowing the problem is not the same as knowing the cure, and Abraham's mission could end up worthless. End result: Maggie > everything else.

Abraham disagrees, and says Maggie's definitely gone and probably dead. Glenn respectfully disagrees, by which I mean he punches the foot-taller Abraham in the jaw and knocks him to the ground and walks away because Glenn is a total badass. Abraham tackles him from behind, and the two fight, and despite the fact that Abraham is huge and Glenn is still sick, Glenn holds his own. This is, of course, when the zombies arrive. Eugene is the only one who notices, and he fails to get anyone else's attention; so he picks up an assault rifle and starts basically randomly firing it at everything. And thus we've met the first person in The Walking Dead universe who can't hit a single headshot.

The gunfire stops the fight, and everyone takes care of the zombies while Eugene continues firingly wildly, even hitting the gas tank of the truck. It's now dead, Glenn and Tara walk off to find Maggie, and Abraham, Rosita and Eugene are forced to follow him. And that's how I met the next major character to join Rick's group. I mean Abraham, of course. I forgot to mention that the episode begins with Abraham and Tara talking, immediately after the end of last week's episode; a few Walkers approach, and Abraham not only dispatches them with a non-chalant attitude, but even a smile. Tara is freaked out, but I'm excited by someone who isn't completely damaged — it's the perfect character to introduce after the loss of the prison.

Meanwhile Eugene. What can I say about Eugene? HE HAS A MULLET AND CARGO SHORTS, THAT'S WHAT I CAN SAY. He looks like Kenny Powers from Eastbound & Down. There's no way this dude is a scientist or knows anything about the plague. And I hope this is addressed soon, because it's baffling that no one would call this out — he might as well be dressed as Ronald McDonald for all he looks like a scientist. Despite his complete ineptitude with the gun, however, he seems fun — when Abraham asks how he managed to kill his truck, Eugene calmly replies, "An fully amped-up state and ignorance of rapid-fire weapons."

These guys are some welcome additions to the ranks (well, I assume Rosita will be, because right now it's like she's T-Dogg's understudy) and I love how fast the various members seem to be coming together; it really makes me feel like progress is being made, even when Rick spends half the episode under the bed. And what's the deal with Eugene? Is this a real gamechanger, or will this just be a more elaborate version of the first season's CDC plot, where they finally get some answers, but the answers don't change anything? I'm suspecting the latter. There's no happy endings in The Walking Dead.

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Assorted Musings:

• Gif via the fine folks at Warming Glow.


• Rick, asking Carl the stupidest question in TWD history: "Everything okay?"


• The scene where Michonne slams the door to the death room and Carl guesses there's a dead baby n there and Michonne says it's a dead dog is one of my favorite TWD scenes of all time now, because it showed how subtly but completely fucked up TWD can be. Michonne tries to make Carl feel better by telling him there's a dead dog in the room. A dead dog. Carl guesses the room has a dead baby in it. A dead baby is his first guess is what might make Michonne run out of the room and slam the door. The the craziest part is that the answer is so much worse than a dead baby.


• I kind of loved that Rick's fight with the bastard was done entirely in a bathroom with a shag toilet seat cover on it.


• Eugene, doing what camels with C4 stuck up their asses couldn't since February 23rd, 2014.


• Next episode looks like it's going to be all Daryl and Beth, and there are a lot of zombies. Also the music is crazy ominous. Also I feel like we're about due for a death, and I can't imagine everyone is going to make it to Terminus alive. Just sayin'.


• Tell me this wouldn't be a better world if Easy Cheese weren't actually called Crazy Cheese.

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What's Ian McKellen's secret in X-Men? Plus we have a new Constantine! onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com What's Ian McKellen's secret in X-Men? Plus we have a new Constantine!

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Producer Gale Anne Hurd reveals something that will last beyond this season into next on The Walking Dead. Check out a Hunger Games set photo and a Game of Thrones behind-the-scenes video — and does a Legend of Korra promo what we think it shows? Plus, new looks at Arrow, Person of Interest, and Being Human! Spoilers now!

X-Men: Days of Future Past

In an interview with Buzzfeed Brews, Ian McKellen dropped a hint about a major plot point regarding his costume, saying:

And I don't have to wear a helmet. And if you think about it, why doesn't Magneto wear a helmet in this movie? That's a clue to what's going to go on in the movie.

McKellen also said that he and Patrick Stewart's characters won't be interacting with Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique:

We didn't work with her. We socialized a little bit with her at Comic-Con. I think that's where we met her. And I was just in awe. She's a beautiful person to look at and to talk to and to be with, that's obvious.

[Comic Book.com]

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay

Here's a set photo that was tweeted:

Another photo of Liam Hemsworth and Jennifer Lawrence on the Mockingjay set. http://ift.tt/1gT0Qr6

— Mockingjay Part 1 (@MockingjayP1) February 18, 2014

Judging from their District 13 grey jumpsuits, and Katniss' arrows, I'd guess that they're filming the argument Gale and Katniss have when they're allowed to go hunting like they used to.

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300: Rise of an Empire

Here's a new TV spot for this sequel that's still happening. [via Coming Soon]

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The Walking Dead

Producer Gale Anne Hurd says that the death of Hershel is A thread that'll continue on into next season:

I think the impact of Hershel has affected everyone and will continue to do so, hopefully even beyond this season. He was a sage, he was wise, he was kind, he was selfless. That kind of loss, whether you are a blood relative like Beth and Maggie or just part of his surrogate family is just … the one thing I think that he would be proud of is the positive impact that he's had on so many of the survivors, and that the loss instilled that even more deeply. But it will also serve to challenge people not to give up hope.

She also answered whether Terminus can be trusted as a safe place by basically saying that everything in this world has issues of trust:

We're introduced to Terminus, or rather the idea of Terminus, which we first heard about on the car radio in "Isolation." The man on the tracks assured Tyreese and Carol this was a safe place to go, to take the kids. But that's how people would have described Woodbury at one point, too. So is this something they should trust, or is there way more to Terminus than the sign promises?

You certainly don't know. The prison was a real sanctuary. It was what we thought it would be. Of course, at the same time, we saw that when Tyreese and Sasha and their group first arrived there, Rick was spending a bit of time in crazy town and sent them away. I don't think anything is completely simple in this world, because it's difficult to trust everyone, or anyone, as a matter of fact.

[Yahoo!]

Speaking about last night's episode, Hurd also spoke about the development of Carl and Rick's father-son dynamic:

This is a child who's had to shoot his mother who was going to turn into a walker, and had to shoot Shane, who was like a surrogate father to him. Any relationship between a father and a son, especially a son going through puberty and becoming a teenager, is going to be fraught with difficulty. And that's amplified by the fact that they're now separated from the rest of the group, and Rick still isn't in good shape, so I think it's likely that the balance will go back and forth as to who needs who more.

Hurd also explained that the group in the house aren't so focused on finding anyone else as they are just staying alive:

What they have to do is put their own safety first. That's paramount at this point. You always have to weigh what's expedient, what's safe, and what it is you'd really like to do, and that's part of the decision making tree that all of our characters face in the separation.

[E! Online]

On Live with Regis and Michael, Norman Reedus said that everyone in the cast, including him, still skip to the end of the scripts to see if they survive. He also addressed the question of whether his character would get a romantic plotline:

I don't know. I'm very hesitant. I'm not really allowed to tell you, and I pretty much feel like every conversation is tracked by AMC from space.

The thing about that is that I really want to play him sort of… he's not the type of guy that's going to throw you up against a tree in the moonlight. I want him to be as awkward as possible. So once that happens, it happens, you can't go backwards. So I really want the characters to earn the [romance].

[Comic Book.com]

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Legend of Korra

Yet another video of the Netherlands' 13-second trailer has been put (in awful quality) online. The split-second dragon image has generated a fair amount of speculation. One Avatar, Avatar Roku, had fire-breathing lizard pet. Similarly, Aang had Appa. Then, there's the fact that Aang and Zuko allegedly uncovered the last dragons. So, perhaps one of those dragons has managed to live without anyone spotting it before now. [Breathecast]

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The Vampire Diaries

Zap 2 It has analyzed the promo photos and the episode descriptions and come to the conclusion that Katherine's taking over of Elena's body will be revealed by the March 6th episode. This week's episode has Matt enlisting Caroline and Tyler's help to protect Elena after speaking with Nadia. There are photos of a resulting confrontation between Caroline and Nadia, with Nadia getting the upper hand at one point.

After the confrontation, Caroline and Stefan have a "horrifying realization," which may be Katherine's possession of Elena's body. If so, it'll parallel the fact that these two were also the ones who figured out that Elena was sired to Damon.

March 6th's episode, "Gone Girl," will show Stefan, Caroline and Matt "come up with a desperate new plan to save Elena's life." This further hints that they've figured out that something's up with Elena, and a photo of everyone confronting Katherine seems to back up that they figured out her secret. Plus, Bonnie and Jeremy go to a new witch, Liv, for help, possibly for a solution to the Traveler spell. [Zap 2 It]

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Speaking of Katherine's secret plans, here's Nina Dobrev discussing them. [MTV]

And finally, a clip from this week's episode, "No Exit."

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The Originals

The show has cast Aiden Flowers as Young Klaus, apparently for episode 1.16. We're also getting Young Elijah in that episode, played by Perry Cox. Not only will the episode, "Farewell to Storyville," feature a number of flashbacks, it'll also have Elijah revealing a secret from the family's past. [SpoilerTV, SpoilerTV]

And here's a clip from "The Long Way Back from Hell."

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Constantine

Welsh actor Matt Ryan is finalizing a deal to play the titular John Constantine for NBC's pilot based on the DC comic. The pilot was written by The Mentalist executive producer Daniel Cerone from a story he co-wrote with David S. Goyer. [Deadline via SpoilerTV]

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Once Upon a Time

Adam Horowitz has confirmed that Meghan Ory'll be returning as Ruby/Red/the wolf in the second half of this season. Just a guess, but I don't think she's super-worried about Intelligence making any other commitments difficult. [SpoilerTV]

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The Visitors

ABC's pilot about the race to defeat an unseen alien threat has added Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes) to its cast. He'll be working with the alread-cast Barry Sloane (Revenge). [Den of Geek]

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Game of Thrones

Here's a behind-the-scenes video from the cast in Iceland. [via Coming Soon]

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Supernatural

Here's a clip from "Captives," airing February 25th:

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Arrow

Here's another look at this week's "Time of Death":

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Person of Interest

Here's a sneak peek at episode 3.15, "Last Call." [via SpoilerTV]

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Tomorrow People

Here's a clip from Wednesday's episode, "Brother's Keeper."

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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

The Fox reboot of Carl Sagan's classic now has three gorgeous new trailers. [via TV Equals]

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Being Human

On Being Human tonight, Sally is determined to save her brother (played by Meaghan Rath's actual brother, Jesse Rath) and thinks that Donna might be able to help. Here's a sneak peek:

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Bitten

Here's a sneak peek at tonight's episode, which shows that the Pack and the Mutts' truce meeting doesn't exactly go as planned.

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Lost Girl

Here's a sneak peek from "La Fae Epoque," which has Bo and Lauren going into Dyson's memory when he's accused of murder.

Additional reporting by Charlie Jane Anders and Jason Krell

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The symmetry of citrus is a beautiful thing onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

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This photo by Emily Blincoe is more than a study in color, it's a stunning tribute to the segmented beauty of citrus – to the liths and locules that every member of the genus shares in common, despite their many variations in size, savor and hue.

All photos featured by kind permission of Emily Blincoe

The photo, titled "Citrus Fest 2014," is part of a long-running series of images by Blincoe that seeks to highlight the tones and gradients of everyday objects. "Most of the food items in [the series] are from a market near my house," the Austin-based photographer tells io9. "They always have the most beautiful produce and it's hard not to feel inspired when i wander the isles." She continues:

"The Citrus Fest" is not really a festival. It's just something they toss up on the signs when they have all the seasonal citrus in the winter. They have various seasonal things they do at the store [and] an amazing selection of anything from a regular naval orange to exotic african grapefruits, pink lemons, and blood oranges. I lost track of the names of all the items in this photo. there were simply too many. As I do with many other photographs, I just bought up enough to make an arrangement with as many different styles and colors as i could. I ended up making two gallons of fresh squeezed juice from the mixture of all of these afterwards.

Beautiful and delicious. Below are a few more choice examples from Blincoe's series, all of them biological in nature (though her other subjects include everything from candy to buttons). For more examples of her work, check out her website, photostream and instagram.

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This Health Scare Article from TIME Is Full of Unfortunate Haikus onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com This Health Scare Article from TIME Is Full of Unfortunate Haikus

When a reader sends a particularly poetic message to the Jezebel inbox, some of the writers will notice the message's linguistic symmetry and gleefully announce, "Haiku!" Truthfully, most of these messages aren't perfect haikus (or "hokkus" for all those Ezra Pound fascists lurking in the comments), but they are very haiku-like, which is exciting for two very obvious (but not so obvious that I'll forgo naming them) reasons: 1) even the banal can be made interesting with the right configuration of punctuation and spacing and 2) unintentional poetry immediately neutralizes the gravity of any particular sentiment. Be honest — if someone accidently rhymes something (the paparazzi didn't follow Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on their diplomatic trip to Benghazi) you're way more likely to dismiss that person for frivolity.

The inherent frivolity of poetry is what makes this otherwise disposable TIME listicle about men's health so heartbreakingly ridiculous. "7 Weird Signs of Health Trouble" should be a semi-serious bit of health journalism scare mongering in the proud tradition of local news reports about arsenic-laced discount cereals and impending blizzards, but it manages to undermine its authority through an unfortunate series of introductory imperatives.

Observe what happens to the first health tip:

Check Your: Fingernails

For: Lupus.

Fingernail discoloration, you see, could be a clue that one has lupus. It's a legitimate fact made absurd by colons and a simple line break. "Check your fingernails for lupus!" sounds like the beginning of a Weird Al song. Actually, all of these tips, taken together, could flesh out one verse of a Weird Al accordion song about hypochondria:

Check Your: Hairline

For: Thyroid disease.

Check Your: Reflection

For: Heart attack.

Check Your: Breath

For: Erectile dysfunction.

Check Your: Eyes

For: Cognitive decline.

Check Your: Hearing

For: Diabetes.

There are endless couplings, which means that this TIME may have unwittingly spawned a new poetic form. Try it out yourself — it's super fun.

Check Your: Belly Button

For: Knives

Check Your: Eyelashes

For: Smaller knives

Check Your: Nipples

For: Mites

Check Your: Ankles

For: Broken Ankles

Go on — you get the idea.

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Are you a "Global Warming Nazi"? Probably (according to this man). onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com Are you a "Global Warming Nazi"? Probably (according to this man).

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Roy Spencer – a climate-scientist-cum-climate-change-denier who does not believe in anthropogenic climate change – says that people who label climate deniers "climate deniers" will "kill far more people than the Nazis ever did," and should be labeled, accordingly, "global warming Nazis." Because that all sounds pretty reasonable, right?

"They indirectly equate (1) the skeptics' view that global warming is not necessarily all manmade nor a serious problem, with (2) the denial that the Nazi's extermination of millions of Jews ever happened," wrote Spencer on his blog. "Too many of us for too long have ignored the repulsive, extremist nature of the comparison," he continues. "It's time to push back."

Push back how? By calling anyone who would call him a "global warming denier" a "global warming Nazi." His reasoning, he says, is simple and justified: Climate activists are, in his words, anti-capitalist fascists "willing to sacrifice millions of lives of poor people at the altar of radical environmentalism." He continues:

This authoritarianism tends to happen with an over-educated elite class…I have read that Nazi Germany had more PhDs per capita than any other country. I'm not against education, but it seems like some of the stupidest people are also the most educated.

...Considering the fact that these people are supporting policies that will kill far more people than the Nazis ever did — all in the name of what they consider to be a righteous cause — I think it is very appropriate.

Appropriateness/inappropriateness aside, and ignoring for the moment that notion that the term "climate denier" is in any way intended to be reminiscent of "Holocaust deniers" (for more discussion on that front, check out this post at Media Matters), consider that the description has actually be embraced by a number of people who publicly doubt the consensus on climate change. Via DeSmogBlog:

Take, for example, denier Dr Richard Lindzen, who when asked by a BBC journalist about which descriptive term he preferred, said: "I actually like 'denier.' That's closer than skeptic". (Six months before this interview, Lindzen had claimed the opposite, saying he was offended by the term.)It seems important in this context to point out that Dr Lindzen is Jewish.

Or there's also denier Steve Milloy, who told Popular Science that: "I'm happy to be a denier."

Lawrence Solomon, a prominent Canadian columnist, has written a climate book with the title "The Deniers" based on a series of columns he wrote, also called "The Deniers".

It's fairly evident, then, that Spencer's ire does not originate from a commonality of interest, or a unified position shared among climate skeptics, but rather a personal and vengeful place. If the rancorous tone that colors his blog post doesn't convince you of this, the identical opening and closing sentences that bookend his rant surely will: "Yeah," he bristles, "somebody pushed my button."

Who is this somebody, exactly? They are the "leaders" of the "global warming Nazis," whose "pseudo-scientific ramblings... have falsely warned of mass starvation, ecological collapse, agricultural collapse, overpopulation…all so that the masses would support their radical policies." So... scientists, yes? Your colleagues? It bears mentioning here that Spencer doesn't exactly spend his days rubbing shoulders with fringe lunatics; he's a Principle Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on NASA's Earth-observing Aqua satellite. On one hand, this lends him credibility – and he's a favorite in conservative media circles for precisely this reason. But then what does he really think of think of his colleagues, the overwhelming majority of whom staunchly and vocally agree that evidence points unambiguously to the reality of anthropogenic global warming? Are the empirically informed opinions of his research partners and academic collaborators "pseudo-scientific ramblings?"

I could go on. I could tell you about how Spencer maintains that the Biblical story of creation is real, and that creationism has a "much better scientific basis" than evolution, or about how he, whose work depends directly on federal funding, "view[s] [his] job a little like a legislator... to minimize the role of government," but I will refrain. Spencer's acrimonious ranting speaks for itself.

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Why Hipsters Are All the Same onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com Why Hipsters Are All the Same

Are you sick of so many bearded, flannel-shirted, thick-rimmed-eyeglass wearers slowing down the lines in your coffee shop before they crowd up your sidewalk as they scoot their way to their artisan butchery class? Are you tired of that quirkily homogeneous mass of humanity? We'll tell you why it exists.

There's a reason why there's a hipster stereotype. Despite being of a class that seems to go out of its way to pursue odd projects and quirky fashions, hipsters, to many, seem aggressively generic. The huge glasses, the skinny pants, the cutesy shirts, and the accessory ukuleles (or harmonicas), make for an indistinguishable blur of humanity. And when they open their mouths! I know I live in San Francisco, but does everyone have to have a start-up these days?

The point is, hipsters inspire wrath because their relentless pursuit of individuality seems to make them almost cardboard cut-outs of each other. Together they seem like a formless mass, invading society.

Or, it's because of out-group homogeneity bias.

Out-group homogeneity bias exists in almost all societies, and almost all subgroups of societies. No matter who a person is, or who they are friends with, turn to get them to look at some other group and they'll say, "They're all the same." The other people in someone's group of friends, co-workers, or acquaintances are wildly different individuals. All other groups are locked in a stultifying or even threatening homogeneity. At its most pernicious, out-group homogeneity bias affects how people look at other races or the people in other countries. Insiders are a group of individuals, each with their own hopes and dreams. The outsiders are a teeming mass, barely distinguishable from one another. In lighter situations, it can be nothing more than a human trait worth a bit of a chuckle. One study of sororities on a college campus found that each sorority thought they were more diverse than every other sorority.

There are all kinds of reasons why we might see outsiders as the same and people inside our circle as different. There's self-protection. Nobody likes to see themselves as a copy of the people around them. There is, unfortunately, prejudice and hatred of outside groups. And there's simple ignorance. When you're in a group, you know information about each person that distinguishes them from the next person in the group. When you're outside a group they all look the same because you don't know enough about them to separate one from the next. That's why you can explain endlessly to people how every job in your company requires a wildly different set of skills, and when you're done they'll say, "So you're all techies, right?" The less you know about a group, the more you push different categories together.

So when we look at any group of people that we're not a part of, we tend not to see them as individuals. That might make some people feel unrighteous, but rest assured, if the psychology is correct, they're doing the same to us.

(Interestingly, one way individual members of the out-group stood out was when they displayed aggression, so hipsters, be comforted! Every angry comment will cement you in my mind as an individual.)

[Via Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.]

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Why be just a killer whale when you could be an expert killer whale? onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com Why be just a killer whale when you could be an expert killer whale?

This is a Threadless design by Eduardo San Gil which upgrades the Orca's other name with Assassin's Creed duds. Can we do this for everything with "killer" in the name? Bees, for example. Let's see "Expert Killer Bees."

Check out San Gil's other designs, which also tend towards the geeky.

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NASA's IRIS Spots its Biggest Solar Flare Yet onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com NASA's IRIS Spots its Biggest Solar Flare Yet

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Late last month, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (aka IRIS) witnessed the strongest solar flare it's glimpsed since its launch last year.

IRIS spacecraft was deployed last June to observe the little-explored lower layers of the Sun's multi-level atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Since then, it's turned up never before-seen-images of the Sun's chromosphere, the so-called "interface region" that serves as an energy conduit between the Sun's low-level photosphere and its outer corona, but it's also recorded a number of solar flares. This one, which it spied on January 28th, was the biggest it'd seen yet:

Via NASA:

IRIS can't look at the entire sun at the same time, so the team must always make decisions about what region might provide useful observations. On Jan. 28, scientists spotted a magnetically active region on the sun and focused IRIS on it to see how the solar material behaved under intense magnetic forces. At 2:40 p.m. EST, a moderate flare, labeled an M-class flare — which is the second strongest class flare after X-class – erupted from the area, sending light and x-rays into space.

IRIS studies the layer of the sun's atmosphere called the chromosphere that is key to regulating the flow of energy and material as they travel from the sun's surface out into space. Along the way, the energy heats up the upper atmosphere, the corona, and sometimes powers solar events such as this flare.

[NASA Goddard]

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Misheard Lyrics That Turn Otherwise Normal Songs into Sci-Fi Epics onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com Misheard Lyrics That Turn Otherwise Normal Songs into Sci-Fi Epics

We've all had that moment where we belt out a lyric to song, only to have everyone stare at us and tell us ". . . Those are definitely not the words." But sometimes wrong lyrics make just another love song into a sci-fi epic worthy of the big screen. This is a tribute to those.

Just so you all know, this list tried to avoid songs that already had sci-fi notions or songs that can be found on sci-fi concept albums. So no Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars here. This is about songs with no such connections that can be misheard into science fiction epics.

Top image from the music video for "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" by The Darkness. Because it features a space monster rocked to death.

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," Nirvana

The real lyric: Here we are now, entertain us

The misheard lyric: Here we are now, in containers

What the song now means: Suddenly, this song's all about a dysopian future where we're all kept in containers, Matrix-style. Alternatively, this is now a song told from the point of view of Soylent Green.

"I Am a Rock," Simon & Garfunkel

The real lyric: I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died

The misheard lyric: I won't disturb the slumber of aliens that have died

What the song now means: The solid advice given to a bunch of scientists, right before they cut into an alien corpse, releasing a disease that'll wipe humanity off the map.

"My Heart Will Go On," Celine Dion

The real lyric: The spaces between us

The misheard lyric: All the spaceships between us

What the song now means: I'm envisioning either a Romeo-and-Juliet-in-space story or one of revenge. A quest to kill an enemy in space, made difficult by "all the spaceships between us." Honestly, the whole song is much more fun as an ode to revenge, rather than a romantic ballad. "Near, far, wherever you are . . ."

"Alone," Bee Gees

The real lyric: I was a midnight rider on a cloud of smoke

The misheard lyric: I wanted to be Knight Rider, oh, but I was broke

What the song now means: Five bucks says this is the actual plot of the new Knight Rider movie.

"Sex on Fire," Kings of Leon

The real lyric: Oh, your sex is on fire

The misheard lyric: Dyslexics on fire

What the song now means: The song for a eugenics-inspired dystopia that kills everyone with a disability.

"Africa," Toto

The real lyric: There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do.

The misheard lyric: There's nothing that a hundred men from Mars could ever do.

What the song now means: Yeah, that's right, men from Mars! There's nothing you can do. Useless is what you are, that's why you won't win this war.

"Another One Bites the Dust," Queen

The real lyric: Steve walks wearily down the street

The misheard lyric: Ewoks rolling down the street

What the song now means: A) This is a fabulous image. B) Let's just assume that in Star Wars, this is a novelty song for children.

"Addicted to Love," Robert Palmer

The real lyric: Might as well face it, you're addicted to love

The misheard lyric: Might as well face it, you'r a digital love

What the song now means: The song that scores a robot's realization of what they are and that their emotions are programmed.

"Music of My Heart," 'N Sync

The real lyric: What you've taught me, only your love could ever teach me

The misheard lyric: What you've taught me, only Yoda could ever teach me

What the song now means: Many a pissed-off padawan has thought this of an inadequate master. Hard to deal with a second-rate teacher, when Yoda's around?

"Signed, Sealed, Delivered," Peter Frampton

The real lyric: "Signed, sealed, delivered . . . I'm yours!"

The misheard lyric: "Science healed the liver, I'm yours!"

What the song now means: "You saved my life with science, and now I owe you a life debt."

"This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race," Fall Out Boy

The real lyric: I'm the leading man, and the lies I weave are oh so intricate, oh so intricate

The misheard lyric: I'm a little man, and I'm also evil, also into cats, also into cats.

What the song now means: I don't care what this song was originally about – seriously, don't bother trying to tell me – now, it's the theme song for a Bond-style villain.

"All Over the World," Pet Shop Boys

The real lyric: This is a song about boys and girls

The misheard lyric: This is a song about poisoned girls

What the song now means: Sings the creepy comic-book villain to his mausoleum.

"All You Need Is Love," The Beatles

The real lyric: Love is all you need

The misheard lyric: You're dissolving me

What the song now means: The song sung by the victims of the serial killer singing from "Boys and Girls."

"Unchained," Van Halen

The real lyric: Blue-eyed murder in a size five dress

The misheard lyric: Blue-eyed, murmuring a sci-fi address

What the song now means: Think a piercing-eyed Big Brother-style speech.

"I Want It That Way," Backstreet Boys

The real lyric: I want it that way

The misheard lyric: I want a tidal wave

What the song now means: This is the song a mad scientist sings to his beloved weather machine.

"Heal the World," Michael Jackson

The real lyric: For you and for me and the entire human race

The misheard lyric: For you and for me and the exiles up in space

What the song now means: Saving the universe, not just for the Earth, but for the defenseless exiles living in space.

"America," Simon and Garfunkel

The real lyric: Counting cars on the New Jersey turnpike

The misheard lyric: Captain Picard's on the New Jersey turnpike

What the song now means: Who doesn't want to see The Next Generation crew's wacky adventures in New Jersey?

"Livin' Lovin' Maid," Led Zeppelin

The real lyric: When the conscience hits, you knock it back with pills

The misheard lyric: And when the science fits, you now get back with Phil

What the song now means: Phil was that scientist with the crazy "dinosaurs were aliens"-style theory that no one believed. It got him laughed out of academia. Now that the science backs him up, the government's got to get him back.

"Bones," Radiohead

The real lyric: When you've got to feel it in your bones

The misheard lyric: Sometimes I feel like alien bones/There's got to be some alien bones

What the song now means: Either the song for secret alien or the mantra of Phil-the-unbelieved-scientist from "Livin' Lovin' Maid."

"Eyes Without a Face," Billy Idol

The real lyric: Eyes without a face, such a human waste

The misheard lyric: (Her) eyes are out of space. Join the human race.

What the song now means: The entreaty of a man trying to get a woman to stop devoting all her energy to the study of the skies and aliens and live the life of a human.

"Put Your Records On," Corinne Bailey Rae

The real lyric: Sapphire and faded jeans, I hope you get your dreams

The misheard lyric: Sci-fi, Invader Zim, I hope you get your dreams

What the song now means: I mean, there were certainly those among us who hope Zim does get his dreams.

"Good Vibrations," The Beach Boys

The real lyric: She's giving me excitations

The misheard lyric: She's giving me her citations

What the song now means: For some academics, getting citations means more than any other kind of romantic overture.

"Mysterious Ways," U2

The real lyric: She moves in mysterious ways

The misheard lyric: Shamu, the mysterious whale

What the song now means: No clue, other than that it makes me laugh. Whales, as The Voyage Home and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy proved, are excellent fodder for science fiction comedy.

This list was assembled by spending entirely too much time on Kiss This Guy.com. But there are so many misheard lyrics out there, we've definitely missed some. Which ones have you heard that made a song a tale of science fiction?

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onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com First Guardians of the Galaxy Poster Brings the Snark

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So the first official GotG poster landed a few days back, and the tagline's tone definitely rings at the same register as the trailer.

Personally, we're pretty fond of the proposed retitles that have surfaced in the last couple days:

Via This Could be Awkward

So is James Gunn:

I'm not sure Marvel's gonna love the retitle. http://ift.tt/1nYBBnJ

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) February 21, 2014

It's pretty hard not to rally behind a movie with a sense of humor – even harder when its director clearly shares that sense of humor.

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