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Researchers at Arizona State Univerity and the University of New Mexico have named a Venezuelan diving beetle Agaporomorphus colberti in honor of the humorist.

One of the outstanding features of the species is the genitalia of the males. “This new species is similar to members of a clade within the genus exemplified by A. knischi…and unique in having similar, extremely complicated male genitalia…”

Jay Keasling of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California visited Stephen Colbert last night, explaining that the same yeast that we use to produce beer and bread will soon be fueling our cars and planes.

Olbermann, Matthewsm, and Colbert take jabs at a couple members of Congress (and allegedly, their aides) for what they were twittering and what they were retracting during Barack Obama’s address to a joint session of congress.

There are a couple ways to try and get the sought-after Colbert Bump, one of which is naming an animal or mascott after the Comedy Central kingmaker.

“Thanks to global warming, we’ve almost defeated the iceberg menace!”