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We here at Listicles are finally planning our New Year’s Eve party (a little late, we know, we know). Aside from obsessively fine-tuning the booze and guest lists, we’ve blown the majority of our budget on silly party gifts. With that in mind, we won’t be able to invite all of you, dear readers, because [...]

From our backwards-looking year-end perspective, 2008 looks like it was all elections, Olympics, financial crises and Jokers. Although the scientific community flew under the radar while entertainment, politics, and the economy fused into one giant, indistinguishable headline-multiplying beast, some important things were discovered by our test tube-toting, lab-coated friends this year.
Incapable of figuring them all [...]

The clever humorists at the Huffington Post draw our attention to this wonderful video of George W. Bush getting serial snubbed at a G20 photo-op during this week’s financial crisis meeting in Washington.

It’s pretty bad, but things could have gone much worse for America’s I-know-the-new-guy-is-much-cooler-but-I’m-still-President. At least he didn’t try initiating a high five only [...]