Carl Sagan

Biological diversity is a beautiful thing, no? Humans, tigers, pugs, trees. Earth is one big petri dish of beautiful life. But what of our fictional friends born of other stars? College Humor lovingly harnesses the optimism of Carl Sagan to explore life on other worlds and examines just how different (but wonderfully similar) we are to the Autobots and Decepticons of Cybertron, the ThunderCats of

Count me among the crowd that's thankful for Toby, Dave & Ian, who dutifully explain the for-smart-dudes-only webcomic XKCD. I'm not saying I'm not a smart dude - I went to Syracuse, you guys - but sometimes the jokes in XKCD are a little over my head. L...