Wednesday's Links: Evolution for Dummies

* This guy still understands evolution better than most of Congress.

* COPS: Skyrim is almost as entertaining as real life.

* The history of Google is another successful American Dream story.

* The International Space Station's ambassador to the internet is at it again!

* Nate Silver is using his statistical powers to analyze your failing relationship.

* Reuben Bolling's Tom the Dancing Bug cartoon presents "Star Se-Trek-Ster"

* Chuck Grassley tells the gruesome story behind one of his most popular tweets.

* SimCity is not only the model for Herman Cain's tax plan, it's also a model for urban development.

Tags: Barack Obama, Chuck Grassley, Daily Links, Evolution, Google, Herman Cain, International Space Station, Nate Silver, Police, Racism, Sequester, Space, Twitter, Video Games

Wednesday's Links: An Animated Drone Conversation

* Mark Fiore's new cartoon about Obama's drone justifications.

* Joe Biden must be in the pocket of big shotgun.

* Five countries that are secretly badass.

* "Constitution USA with Peter Sagal" is coming to PBS this spring.

* An award-winning animated short film on how fast Earth spins beneath us.

* Nerd prom host Conan O'Brien's failed coffee table books include a compilation of New Yorker cartoons.

* The Los Angeles Review of Books makes a prediction about Nate Silver. See how it feels, buddy.

Tags: Barack Obama, California, Conan O'Brien, Daily Links, Drones, Guns, Joe Biden, Mark Fiore, Nate Silver, Science & Technology, The New Yorker

Unskewed Election Results: Mitt Romney Wins in Landslide!

In an alternate universe, Nate Silver is a broken man. He has not showered or shaved in weeks, and his teenage-quality mustache is just now starting to show. He sold his bed and now uses unsold copies of his books to sleep on. Clinging to sanity in a room whose walls are filled with calculations, he screams into the cruel night, "Where did I, the boy wizard of numbers, go wrong?!"

In that same universe, Dean Chambers — creator of UnSkewed Polls – is still making the talk show rounds. Bill Maher has recanted, is becoming a conservative and planning to marry Ann Coulter and raise a brood of the smuggest babies imaginable. Chambers can finally afford to upgrade his website so it no longer looks like it was created in MS Paint. He is not only a new conservative icon. He is a math genius. And an American hero.

But we are in this universe. And in this universe, Dean Chambers has officially lost it…

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Tags: Nate Silver, Polls, Voter Fraud

Nate Silver and Jon Stewart's Election Postmortem

"If I were a GOP strategist, I would be terrified by Florida, even though it's not officially called yet… that Florida, instead of being a little bit right-leaning might be a true purple state going forward." – Nate Silver, lord and god of the algorithm

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11/10c.

Tags: Jon Stewart, Nate Silver, Polls, The Daily Show, Video

Nate Silver and Stephen Colbert on Polls, Pundits and Politicians

Stephen Colbert discusses the simplicity of political prognostication per popularity polling with FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver, who — as of time of publishing — is not a witch…

Watch live Election Night coverage from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report tonight starting at 11/10c.

Tags: Nate Silver, Polls, Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, Video