Curious Critic Pillows

My first rodeo

"Tell me again, Grandad, how you squeezed the poor'

"It looks like fecal transplants may do us in."

"Your assumption that a one in a million chance event MUST be a miracle shows you drastically underestimate the total number of regularly occurring events."

Schrodinger's Black Box

'In a nutshell, foods are drugged and drugs are eaten like food.'

"It started with a simple case of peer-review."

Sign: 'Welcome to Fernbanks. Beneath our quaint Norman Rockwell-ish exterior beats a big-box chain store heart, ready to sell out at the drop of a hat.'

"When I get to Heaven, will I still have to clean my room?"

Beyond the known and the unknown.

'I wonder how Curious George fits into all this?'

'Too pricey? Perhaps you wish to see something in macaroni and spray paint?'

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" "Nothing. I'm going into stem cell research."

'Academic freedom doesn't mean you're free not to study.'

'See, dear, you can't believe everything you read. It says so right here on the internet!'

Ranked Voting in N.Y.C.

'Can you debunk my essay?'

"If everything is God's will, tell me again why I need to study for exams?"

'Let me at it! Let me see!!'

"My kid could do that."

'You can't win - a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but ignorance is no excuse!'

"Yes, I'm sure that going to school isn't the same as eating from the Tree of Knowledge."

"Do I need to know this stuff to get into medical school?"

'There goes another one. Galileo, don't you have any idea what makes them do that?'

'It's called a telescope son. It's sort of like a low-tech search engine.'

Evolution or Creation? A Compromise

'Did spiders invent bungee jumping, Dad?'

'My God Pearson you're right. All these years the greates scientific minds have been looking for the theory of everything and all we had to do was Google it!'

The New York Times Blog Review.

Kid to church leader: 'Is Heaven environmentally friendly?'

Sunset

"Poor bastard. The New York 'Times' just panned his zinfandel."

I don't know if neuronal stem cells can or cannot become blood cells but one thing is for sure, neuronal stem cells can become controversial.

Student: 'Is the medical marijuana thing a grass-roots movement?'

"...I want to find out whether there's any truth in the belief that money can't buy happiness."