Holiday travelers, beware!  According to the Telegraph UK, airport X-ray scanners are rough on Kindles:

Electronic ink screens use thousands of tiny capsules filled with magnetic black and white particles to display text and pictures.

It is controlled by applying a small voltage across the capsules, which sends either the positively charge white particles or the negatively charged black particles to the front. They stay in place until the next time a voltage is applied, which allows the Kindle battery to last for much longer than in gadgets that use LCD screens, such as the iPad.

“A static charge from an airport scanner could be 100 volts or more,” said Professor Chu. “That could permanently stick the particles to the screen.”

via Telegraph UK

Brian Switek has written a fantastic article over at Wired over the evolutionary transition of whales from land to aquatic mammals.  These scientists really spend a lot of time planting evidence for this “evolution” hoax.  (I live in Oklahoma [and I’m totally kidding]).

via Wired

If reading Grant Morrison has taught me anything, it’s that aliens don’t actually come from outer space, but rather from other dimensions.  They live outside of the fourth dimension, you see.  So I’m not sure if there would really be skeletal evidence.  Comics have taught me so much.  I should be a scientist.  Regardless, this skull gives me the willies.  How long until we discover that this is a hoax, do you think?  The comments on io9 point to hydrocephaly.  I’d buy that.

via io9