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According to this USA Today report on Google searches, the USA seems to have a seriously lack of pony toy love in all states but New Mexico.  I wonder why that is? What do you New Mexico bronies do that makes the rest of us look like we aren't ponying nearly enough anymore?

Thanks to Kaser and Andrew for the heads up!

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Draw a square and perch two smaller squares above it, forming a right triangle:

Now perch still smaller squares upon these, and continue the pattern recursively:

Charmingly, if you keep this up you’ll grow a tree:

It was dubbed the Pythagoras tree by Albert Bosman, the Dutch mathematics teacher who discovered the figure in 1942. (Each trio of squares demonstrates the Pythagorean theorem.)

At first it looks as though the tree must grow without bound, but in fact it’s admirably tidy: Because the squares eventually begin to overlap one another, a tree sprouted from a unit square will confine itself to a rectangle measuring 6 by 4.

I just love traditional pieces like this. It looks like something you'd hang on your wall!

Evening guys, ready to chat?

(via Paul Noth at the New Yorker)

Are you ready for RAINBOW DASH? Can you handle the epic that is a solo Dash song? The final mix of it is being reviewed by Daniel.  What do you think his final hint is?

Thanks to Writing for the heads up!

Though she hasn’t updated in awhile, you can still go check out that college pony at Ask Rockin’ Roolo and maybe jump-start her adventures with some attention!

Artwork by Kayla The Unicorn
Script #926

Hi! I apologize for the long wait, but I’ve decided to begin a new Doctor Cat story next week! It’ll be a much shorter story than the last one, but I’ve had a lot of fun writing and drawing it, so I hope you guys like it too!

In addition to having a new story starting soon, I’ve added a coupon code to the shop! You can get 20% off from now through Monday with the code OHNOITSWINTER.

Also…during the break from Doctor Cat, I also created a brand new comic! It’s called Babyfrog & The Great Treasure, and is also available for preorder in my shop! It’s a 16-page full color watercolor comic about a tiny frog and candy and friendship.

ALSOOOO I will be at Genghis Con in Cleveland, Ohio this coming Sunday, November 30th! I’ll have a few copies of my new comic, along with some other goodies for sale. There will be a lot of talented artists there, so please consider stopping by if you’re in the Cleveland area!

Thanks so much for your continued support! You’re all the best!

11-year-olds Quinn Maloney-Tavares and Polly Hamilton, two sixth grade students at St. George Catholic School in Ottawa, were recently assigned a project where they had to talk about a social justice issue. Naturally, they decided to focus on gay rights:

“A lot of people, they don’t know they’re being rude, but they make being gay a bad thing,” said [Maloney-Tavares]… “They need to know that it’s not a bad thing.”

That’s a great point — and one well worth making at a Catholic school, since Catholic teaching is that homosexuality is “ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil” and therefore an “objective disorder.”

But the principal of the school, Ann Beauchamp, told the girls they needed to find a different topic:

… Beauchamp wouldn’t budge. “She felt very strongly about her decision,” [mother Ann] Maloney said.

The students’ projects go on display at a social justice fair in January, attended by students from Grades 4 to 6. Beauchamp didn’t feel gay rights “was a topic that was appropriate for that age group,” Maloney said.

Human rights isn’t appropriate for that age group?! Do students take history classes? Because I promise you there’s plenty of violence and genocide and conquering in there, and no one’s suggesting we should hold off on teaching history until the kids enter high school. What do they read in English class? Green Eggs and Ham?

If kids are old enough to learn about family structures, they’re old enough to learn that there’s nothing wrong with having two dads or two moms. And if they’re old enough to talk about respect, it shouldn’t be a problem to extend that respect to people who don’t always receive it. 11-year-olds are well-versed in all of this.

The principal’s own stance justified the girls’ choice of topic.

Here’s the best part, though. The girls came back to school and responded in the most perfect way:

As a silent protest, the two wore rainbow colours to school and painted small rainbow flags on their hands.

When they explained why, their classmates said, “Oh my goodness, guys, that’s such a good idea,” Quinn said. Several other students painted rainbow flags on their hands in solidarity.

Want to know why the Catholic Church is in trouble? Because kids like these know more about human decency than many of the adults around them, and they get reminded of that every time Catholic leaders whine about marriage equality and women’s rights. These are the people who will walk out of the Church the first chance they get because they understand their faith is the problem here, not the solution.

By the way, forced to change their project, the girls decided to focus on discrimination in general — which I guess is age-appropriate — and they plan to include anti-gay discrimination in the mix.

Maybe their next project can focus on all the damage the Catholic Church has done over the years.

(Image via Shutterstock. Thanks to Steve for the link)

Believe it or not, someone has actually invented a pill that makes your farts smell like roses or chocolate. It sounds like a joke, but according to their inventor, they work wonderfully.

The pill is the brainchild of 65-year-old French inventor Christian Poincheval.  Christian says that he began developing the pills six years ago, after a rather copious dinner with some friends. “We had just come back from Switzerland and we were eating a lot with our friends and the smell from the flatulence was really terrible,” he revealed.

“When we were vegetarian, we noticed that our gas smelled like vegetables, like the odor from a cow pat, but when we started eating meat the smell of the flatulence became much disagreeable,” he added. “We couldn’t breathe so me and my friends decided something had to be done. We needed to invent something that made them smell nicer.”