No, dolphins are not your 'therapists.' So just stop it.

Though it might not fit with New Age dolphin lore, the reality is that dolphins, even those born in captivity, are wild. There's absolutely no evidence to support the burgeoning practice of dolphin-assisted therapy. Here's why dolphins are not healers — and why this practice needs to stop.

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The robot revolution movie from the Zombieland writers has a director

Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick found a clever twist on zombie uprisings with Zombieland, and now they're giving us a look at the aftermath of a failed robot revolution, with their new movie Epsilon. Which just found itself a somewhat surprising director.

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A teenager's brain, converted into a binary decision tree

This is an amazing chart. Found by cultural historian Megan Prelinger, it's from a 1963 book where the authors wanted to represent what a binary decision tree looks like. They modeled their "decision" example on the steps a teenager makes in deciding whether to be truant or not.

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Behold a piece of art that could only be created in zero gravity

What do you do if you're a physicist and want to get experiments done in microgravity, but can't drum up the cash to go to space? You use magnets to both get results and make a picture that looks like it came out of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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Why, God, why: The Disney Princesses as space warrior-strippers

Hey, did you want the spunky innocence of the Disney Princesses to be forever tarnished in your eyes? No? Well, TOO BAD, thanks to this digital art courtesy of Mike Roshuk. Now let us never speak of it again.

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What&#39;s the worst <em>Star Trek</em> episode of all time?

With over 700 episodes, Star Trek offers enough raw television to saturate your brain for months. Including some of the greatest moments in television history... and some of the worst. But what's the absolute WORST Star Trek episode ever made?

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Mary Jane has been edited out of Amazing Spider-Man 2

Just days after announcing plans for Amazing Spider-Man 3 and 4 , Sony has also decided that Amazing Spider-Man 2 doesn't need to feature Peter Parker's future wife, Mary Jane Watson. Spider-man's red-headed love interest has been cut out the sequel.

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