Glen Tickle, Author at The Mary Sue

Glen Tickle

Glen is a comedian, writer, husband, and father. He won his third-grade science fair and is a former preschool science teacher, which is a real job.

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Review: Chivalry is Dead in Hilarious Dark Comedy Force Majeure

Is there something about men which dictates they should put women and children first? Or do we say that because they are more likely than women to put themselves before their family? And if that is your instinct, can your marriage overcome it?

Afraid To Be Away From Your Phone For Even One Goddamn Second? You Might Need the noPhone

Confession time: I can't deal with not having my phone on me at all times. All. Times. It's bad enough that when I saw a link for the noPhone, a simple phone-sized piece of plastic for when you have to be away from your phone, my reaction was "That's stupid... wait... no... that's brilliant... I need that... damn it it's not real."

Review: We Fired Guns at the EnerPlex Kickr II Solar Panel… For Science

EnerPlex sent us their Kickr II and Kickr IV solar panels to test. They specifically asked that we test their durability and even mentioned that the panels could be punctured and still work. So we did the only logical thing we could do in this situation: Shot one of them with guns and then ran it over with a Jeep. How did it hold up?

Mythbusters “Build Team” Leaving the Show After 10 Years

Last night the season finale of Mythbusters aired, and it ended with a surprise message from hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman. In the above video Savage and Hyneman announce that their "Build Team," comprised of Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, and Tory Belleci, are leaving the show. It's a bit of a surprise for fans.

Now Computers Can Guess Your Emotional State With 87% Accuracy

A paper titled "Identifying emotion by keystroke dynamics and text pattern analysis" published in the journal Behavior & Information Technology outlines software designed by A.F.M. Nazmul Haque Nahin and colleagues that can recognize the emotional state of a human user with up to 87% accuracy.

Dumb Trope Holds Up, Traffic Lights Apparently Super Easy to Hack

It's a tense scene. The hero is trying to get across a crowded city during rush hour to stop the dastardly villain when suddenly type-type-type, the villain hacks the city's traffic lights and causes chaos. Nonsense, right? Nope. Turns out, that tired old trick is actually fairly easy to pull off. Hope you didn't have any villains to stop today.

Batman’s Greatest Weakness Revealed in This Dorkly Comic

We love Batman and everything, but the whole only-comes-out-at-night thing has a pretty obvious flaw. It's one that gets exploited by a common criminal in this great comic from Dorkly. You'll have to head over there to see how things play out for the Dark Knight and the bad guy.

White Male Comedians Aren’t Funny

Are women funny? Are black comics funny? These are both questions I hear discussed fairly regularly, usually at comedy shows, usually by white male comics. It's kind of a topic I'm sick of hearing about, because it's stupid to make assumptions about someone's comedy based solely on gender or race—especially because white male comedians aren't funny.

Learn the Science of Depression From AsapSCIENCE

Depression is something we can all stand to know more about. It's a serious condition that affects millions of people directly, and even more indirectly. Knowing how something works is a great first step in being able to treat it, and our understanding of depression has changed a lot in recent years. This video from AsapSCIENCE explains how.

Artist Creates Nude “Blood Robot Selfie” That Simultaneously Amazes and Creeps Us Out

Have you ever wanted to see a nude self-portrait done in the artists' own blood with the help of a robot? Because Brooklyn-based artist Ted Lawson's piece "Ghost in the Machine (blood robot selfie)" is exactly that. You can see the process Lawson went through to create the work in this video (Probably best skip this one if you're squeamish.)