I think they omitted The Tick because he was written satirically, and was intended, by selecting a ridiculous animal to choose as theme, to mock other heroes/villains who use animal themes. Putting him on this list would be redundant. And repetitive, too. And also, as someone else pointed out, Lyme Disease.

The data can be skewed by doing something as simple as affirmatively thinking both "yes" and "no" to every question asked before actually providing your answer. To the extent that your body "registers" a lie, it will do so when you force your brain to evoke a falsehood, regardless of what your actual, spoken response…

"Polygraphs are notoriously difficult to fool" is a system-perpetuated myth. First, polygraphs don't formulate any conclusions. They simply generate data. That data is then interpreted by the operator. Very subjectively. Most polygraph examinations are conducted in a rapid-fire, stream-of-consciousness format, where…

"Stay back! STAY BACK!" Adam yelled, gesturing to the police instinctively before remembering that the motion would set the construct in motion toward its target. The construct lurched toward the van, before pausing momentarily to resolve the feedback loop. The construct could not interpret the conflicting data it…

The fact that he was picketed by the NAACP is hardly determinative. Not to mention that their objection had to do with the portrayal of a single character in "Song of the South" - which was no more "minstrel" than the portrayal of "Mammy" in Gone with the Wind (a role which earned an Oscar yet, surprisingly, did not…

Google also broke several laws of linguistics with this sloppy definition, including (my personal favorite for the sheer irony of it) defining a word by using the same word in the negative sense. In other words, Google literally (yes, I went there) defined "literally" as "not literally". This marks what could be the…

Interestingly, if you search for "Google" in the Google Dictionary, it provides the following definitions:

"Gravolestra: All the gravity, half the mass!" (Warning: Use of Gravolestra has been known to cause unfavorable side-effects in a minority, but statistically significant, number of users. Side effects include: Sudden increase in mass; sudden decrease in mass; oily fecal discharge; sudden onset death; radiation…

instrumentofpunishment, I think you misread my comment and in doing so, you made my point. I was saying that almost anyone from that era would be considered a "bigot" by today's standards unless they were actively fighting to end segregation (which very few at that time were). My point is - it is unrealistic to gauge…

Yes, and most of it isn't true. Particularly the allegations of antisemitism, a reputation he gained by joining the "Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals" in the 1940s. The group was anti-communist and, unfortunately, antisemitic. He later left the organization, but the reputation stuck. The…

Come on people, un-clinch. Snow White was written in the 1930s. To say times were different would be insulting to the intelligence of the most average student of history. The world hadn't worked out things like truly "equal" rights. Women had only been granted the right to vote in the previous 15 years. Segregation…

It was aw.. something.

I thought I had read at one point that the writers (or the authors of the source material) considered an explanation that the machines, though efficient and self-aware, lacked creativity and wanted to create an environment in which the collective human information pool could be "stored" or "preserved" so that the…

There is also the consideration that, as much as I like Dr. Bashir and admire his work and accomplishments, he did have a leg up considering that he was, you know, fictional and all.

Don't read too much into this. I think that thekeith82 was remarking on the irony of a black man in modern society being a supporter of eugenics, considering that several (most?) of the notable recent (last two centuries) efforts at eugenics have been motivated by a goal of eliminating African elements from the human…

Doctor Who is almost exempt from this conversation because, unlike every other example here, each actor who played The Doctor is SUPPOSED to be different. It isn't as though we were watching Doctor Who and mid-way through New Season 3 they just did a scene edit and Matt Smith was standing where David Tennant had been,…

I always liked "Money does not buy happiness... but it does afford one a more elegant form of misery."

Oh, why yes, thank you. :)

It is a hard case to make that Hitler's atrocities might have prevented worse ones, but there are a few key points to consider that support this notion:

I was never entirely convinced that the rebels in the Matrix were truly fighting for freedom. A good argument could be made that one was freer IN the Matrix than out of it. In the Matrix, you could live life, pursue artistic endeavors, create, imagine, explore, interact with others who were sentient and conscious -…