I Should Try This

I should try this

For character development, I will inject myself with this green goo.

What could possibly go wrong?

How Some Plants Can Live in Salt, and How to Make Crops That Way

As an evil mad scientist, my favorite pastime is to make elaborate schemes to conduct widespread evil using SCIENCE! Unfortunately, I can only bullshit physics defying inventions into existence when the plot needs it. Which it doesn’t at the moment, so I have to use real science and research for now. All the protagonists I usually...

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Hyde Heavy Containment: Hazardous Materials

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Geckos got Vans; How to Defeat Heroes Using Van der Waals Forces.

Geckos can climb walls because their feet are designed to take advantage of the Van der Waals force. So it's like they're wearing Vans, right? I'll see myself out The secret to being a good supervillain is to counter your nemeses. Figure out who you’ll be fighting and plan ahead. Whose territory are you in? What if they don’t happen to have some kryptonite plot device? Doesn’t matter! Just use the power of SCIENCE! Of course, you’ll still never beat them. But you…

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How Cats Evolved to be Pets

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sagittarius a* is a dumb name

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milkyway galaxy is named Sagittarius A* (pronounced Sagittarius A Star). It's named after the Sagittarius constellation and the asterisk denotes that its discovery was "exciting", in reference to excited-state atoms. (excited Helium is He*)

This name is obviously very dumb because it's not a heckin' star, so why do I have to say "star" in it's name?. Imagine if the sun's name inexplicably was "Sol Blackhole" but it's not a black hole, that would be needlessly confusing and dumb.

It's the most important blackhole in the universe as far as we're concerned. It should get a real name, like Milkydestination or Gigantarius A° (pronounced Gigantarius A Hole).