"At the same time, these powerful women are largely portrayed as asexual ...The only characters who are really defined by their sexuality (rather than its absence) are the three sex workers....Let's hope we get to see Yara Greyjoy take a lover soon, for her own pleasure rather than expedience."

What's the evidence for that? The burden of proof is on those who claim that creatures with very similar genealogies, biologies, and brain structures are somehow fundamentally different when they behave in very similar ways. And given that there are ethical as well as scientific stakes, this burden is actually quite…

Last week gizmodo praises paranoid flight attendants for force-landing a plane because someone left his phone charging in the bathroom, now gizmodo blames the TSA for failing to be paranoid enough about fantastically low-risk events like a bomb-baby.

Well, I doubt whether environmentalists will be any happier with mining companies spewing waste all over the moon than they are when they do it in, say, Alaska.

Where is the evidence that lowering the price of platinum or gold would have much of an effect on the world economy? Sure, it would help, but the overall effect is probably no more than it would be if you lowered the price of cobalt or rubidium or any other random element. Sure, they're used for things, but other…

If they can get this to work, there will be only one major effect: to transfer huge amounts of money from gold-owners to the asteroid investors. The effect on the world economy of reducing the price of gold by a factor of 2 or even 10 will be trivial, and the asteroid people know it. Anyone who believes that they are…

The problem with nuclear plants is that, when you include the cost of the government subsidies, they make negative profits. If they were forced to buy insurance on the open market, none of them would exist. I suppose we could similarly want the US to take on the catastrophic risk insurance of the mining company, but…

Get over it. It took me about 2 weeks of watching TV with the smoothing function enabled to stop feeling like everything was a cheesy soap opera, and then I stopped noticing. The reward is that you can actually see much more detail during any moving scene. In a decade or two, people will watch those shuddering pans…

By "makes the rest of the world poorer," I did mean the world, not just the US. The analogy to $100 bills was an analogy, although it's certainly the case that the US itself would become poorer via all the individual citizens who own gold, as well as indirectly via the depressive effects on China, Russia, or whatever.

A. How do they get the stuff back to earth? Governments can largely ignore public concerns about stuff falling randomly to earth, but a business with even the perception that it could drop high-energy material by accident on a city would not be viable, insurance-wise. To assuage this, they would need quite elaborate…

At 1.7mg of C60 per kg of body weight, every week, that's about 100 mg of C60 per week. So that's about 5 grams a year, which looks like it costs $300-$500, depending on how pure you want it. Not cheap, but not Dune-level expensive either.

Gizmodo siding with the paranoids now? "You saw something"?! Even the TSA doesn't want every brainless numbskull reporting anything they imagine might be a bomb — just things that are reasonably suspicious. Why would a bomb need to be plugged in? Why would it be sitting out in the open? There are a hundred pieces…

Progress is going to be the real challenge for this show. Either he discovers new truths about his situation, which requires both interesting things to discover and changing the plot and situation in response, or he continues to make mainly psychological discoveries (as in the penguin episode), which in many ways is…

"[JRR Tolkein's] half-sublimated wranglings with race are more complex and fraught than either his shrillest detractors or his most fawning defenders would have us believe. "

After linking my account to a fake Twitter account (are they really okay with that?), it still doesn't work.

Please stop saying "Congress votes down X" when it is a party-line vote. You are withholding crucial information, even if the article itself provides it. The headline should read, in this case, "House Republicans Shoot Down Facebook Snooping Amendment." There are an infinite number of bills the House doesn't pass. …

Not forced, in the sense that you can create multiple accounts, or not forced, in the sense that we can all stop commenting if we prefer that? I presume you mean the former, but Facebook actively prevents multiple or anonymous accounts, and Google makes it pretty hard to set up anonymous ones these days too. Twitter…

Oh, and when you guys are finally ready to jump ship ... you should act like departing ad execs and take some of the great commenters here with you. I'm sure a lot of us would be ready to contribute pretty neat stuff for peanuts. Heck, once you have access to our entire online oeuvres, you'll have a pretty good…

This is pretty bad, guys. At least the terrible move away from the blog format was repaired with the alternate version. But this...

Looking at the comments below, in your excellent list of bullet points, apparently you forgot: