Comics. This is a comic about the backfire effect.
The first big expansion pack of Exploding Kittens is now shipping. It contains 20 game-changing cards, along with a human-sized cone of shame. I made a new thing. Next Page » Third Wish. Traversing The Luminiferous Aether. It’s time to talk about Pando, the world’s largest alive thing : “ Pando (or The Trembling Giant) is a clonal colony of a single male Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) tree located in the U.S. state of Utah, all determined to be part of a single living organism by identical genetic markers, and one massive underground root system. The plant is estimated to weigh collectively 6,000 tonnes (six million kilograms), placing it as the heaviest known organism in existence.
The root system of Pando is estimated to be the oldest known living being in existence at 80,000 years of age. Hyperbole and a Half.