News You Can Bruise for 2000 February 24

Today's Zippy is very good. That link will only work til Monday because the Zippy strips get reset every Monday. I really wish the Gate had an archive.

Breakfast of Pathogens! I love this T-shirt.

Me to Mike: how science reporting should be done.

I think that news reporting of research results should be done as though every trivial result shattered prevailing theories and had been the subject of bizarre cover-ups from the government and the scientific establishment.

NASA SCIENTISTS IN ELECTROMAGNETIC SHOCKER!
INFRARED EMISSIONS IN LATE-PHASE TYPE M STARS -- WE EXPOSE THE COVERUP!
THE SPECTROGRAPHS THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE!

You know that old song, "A woman is a woman but a man ain't nothing but a man"? I don't know who wrote it, but I believe Jimi Hendrix covered it at one point. Well, today, Adam and I discovered that you could sing that Fig Newtons slogan to the tune of the song: "A cookie is a cookie but a Newton is figs and cake."