That's What She Said, Episode 1

Lab Fashion

Bill Cunningham visits the lab!

Meet Ginkgo BioWorks

Here's the recruiting video we made for our friends at Ginkgo!

This is what delicious looks like

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf00116a038

You Spin Silk Right Round

My silkworms are very good dancers.

Which team are you on?

We're a little late on the Twilight bandwagon, but we have what you've all been waiting for: Team Watson and Team Crick t-shirts! Note that there is no Team Rosalind Franklin shirt because we're all on her team.

The Beard-ome

As we have uncovered more and more of the DNA sequences in the world around us through large-scale genomics projects, there is one place that has been notably left out--the human beard. Here at Hydrocalypse Industries we are committed to uncovering the truth lying beneath our beards through the first-ever large scale beardomics research initiative. Check out http://beardome.info for more information, and enjoy this first look behind the scenes at the beardomics project.

Unicorn Meat

Canned Unicorn Meat now available, for your daily dose of sparkles!

Lady Gaga's Lab Romance

The Unicorns of the Hydrocalypse are proud to present Lab Romance. Music by Lady Gaga, lyrics by Tami Lieberman and Jake Wintermute, performed by Jake Wintermute, edited by Christina Agapakis and Patrick Boyle, dancing by the Silver Lab.

New Video!!!

You may have noticed that we've been a bit busy lately and the constant stream of hilarious new multi-media projects has slowed to a mere trickle. Well, now we're back and better than ever! Here is the first in a hopefully rushing river of awesome video projects, lab techno:

Antarctica, where are you?

In our quest to reach a global audience, we have been successful in attracting visitors from every continent...except one. If you know anyone in Antarctica, could you tell them to fire up their dial-up modem and check out hydrocalypse.com? Bonus points if you can provide documentation. Speaking of frozen wastelands, what's your deal Greenland? I assume you have the internet there. Iceland's off the hook until the whole economic collapse thing is over.

BEARDOME UPDATE: New Trailer!

We're still in the principle photography phase here on the set of THE BEARDOME, but we've collected enough footage to release a full-length theatrical trailer. We're still on track for a December 2009 release, although Jake is refusing to grow a beard on only the left half of his face for a key scene in the film. We're in negotiations with his agent, stay tuned.

Coming Soon: The Beardome

Here at Hydrocalypse Industries headquarters we're hard at work on our latest film project. The budget is bigger than for any previous video we've ever done, and we blew most it on this teaser trailer. Stay tuned for more updates from the set.

The Power of Beards

We've recently been inspired by the diversity, the power, and the biological importance of beards. We have begun a new and exciting project in beard science, cataloging the microflora of the beard phenotypically, genetically, genomically, and a whole-lotta-other-omically. More to come...

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The best iPhone app of all time

Emirates has developed our favorite iPhone app. iLingual is a great program that helps you learn a new language (French, German, or Arabic), get around in a foreign country, and annoy everyone during lab coffee breaks. Best of all, it's free! Check out the video to see it in action!

Purchase the Hydrocalypse

Just in time for the holidays! Official Hydrocalypse Industries merchandise! Not sure what to get for your child? How about a nifty hydrocalypse.com sticker for his lunchbox! Looking for a personal gift for that special someone? Try our his and hers line of underwear! Check out our store at Cafe Press, the only place to get official Hydrocalypse Industries products!

The Hydrocalypse Industries store at Cafe Press

dinosaurs.

dressing your babies in this will guarantee their becoming awesome scientists.

first rattle? medical tricorder.

Mission to Mold

We wage many battles in our day job as scientists. One enemy in particular remains undefeated: the second law of thermodynamics. Our lab's bacterial incubators are the front line against the Universe's relentless march of increasing entropy.

Incubators are really good at growing bacteria...and mold. Sometimes a flask is forgotten for several months, yielding mold where yeast or e. coli used to be, spawning a beast that threatens our very lives. Even a bath in pure bleach wasn't enough for this guy:

In another flask nearby, another mold creature had evolved:

We decided that extreme measures would be required to destroy them. But first, we needed an inspirational speech:

Sufficiently pumped up by Capt. Picard's defense of humanity, we donned our personal protective equipment:

Adding more bleach only made a foamy mess:

Undeterred, we brought out our next weapon: liquid nitrogen.

Despite the creatures' pleas for leniency, we poured their bleach-ravaged remains into a -196 degree C pool:

We waited for what seemed like hours, haunted by the screams of the mold as it succumbed to a frozen grave:

As the cloud settled, we were met with a reassuring sight: the exploded remnants of our moldy foe:

Humble as always, we took a moment to celebrate our victory. The carcass of the beast, smelling like a combination of plague-ridden foot and desiccated fly larvae, was unceremoniously dumped into the biohazard waste bin.

Having won this battle, the lab will remain safe for another day. As distinguished scholars, our epic battle immediately recalled that of Lt. Cdr. Worf, who gloriously fought in a Bat'leth competition on Forcas III:

The conditions were difficult, several contests were maimed, but we too were triumphant.

Who is the fourth unicorn?

The power struggle that raged during the redesign is over. Christina, Jake, and I retained our rank as Unicorns of the Hydrocalypse. Michael, however, who has returned to his native Dutch land was demoted from Unicorn to Horse. He remains an important part of the Hydrocalypse Industries family in his reduced role, but there must always be four Unicorns. In recent days someone has risen to fill Michael's place. The identity of the fourth Unicorn will not be revealed today, but we are ready to release footage of this person in action.