Science artists are not scientists, but I can't resist adding this link: http://hydrogeneportfolio.tumblr.com/post/32224401551/minimal-posters-six-women-who-changed-science . These minimalist posters for women scientists who changed the world are AWESOME. The designer is planning to put them up for sale soon; if they…

If it helps, Wikipedia says that the moderated, public debates only started in either 1948 (on the radio) or 1960 (on tv); before that, the debates were in person, with the candidates just making a speech and then responding to each other without a moderator or anything.

It will probably ensure that she doesn't ever moderate another debate and that women in general be shut out of debates for the next campaign because they're all loud and hysterical and woman-y.

At first, I thought, "What, it's just some guy flipping the bird. That's not nearly pissed off enough." Then I kept watching, and now I feel much better about this shithead. (Although not as good as I will feel if he loses his next reelection campaign.)

I will never forgive Tarantino for not filming the second half of the first half of From Dusk 'Til Dawn and releasing it as a DVD extra.

I went to check out "Palimpsest" based on its mention here, because all the best books on my recent reading list have come from io9, and lo and behold, there is a lovely description on the book's Wikipedia page from our own Annalee Newitz! And then I realized that it's by the same woman who wrote "The Girl Who…

I like "beau" myself. Kind of unusual, a bit old-school, and it's only one syllable, so it's nice and short.

Okay, so can we agree that killing living things just for fun *is* art, but it's shitty art and Damien Hirst is a shitty person?

That's a great diagram! So, are the Isle of Man, Guernsey, and Jersey self-governing? I did not know that—I though they were part of the United Kingdom.

I think you meant to type, "How nice of the internet to immortalize her mild perplexity and adorably confused frown."

I'm not pissed, I'm just choking back devastated sobs. Poor Rose. Poor Ten

Yes, it is, but it's certainly not undetectable.

That's totally not true. Although it is common to detect no heartbeat before seven weeks, it's not impossible at all. I had a dating ultrasound that pegged my fetus at 5 weeks and 5 days, if I remember right. It was just a tiny dot, sitting on the screen, and the U/S tech assured us that it was very rare to see a…

I know it's hard, but if you can give your friends a while, it'll get easier. Infancy and toddlerhood really do take up your entire life for a while—that's just how kids are designed. But it doesn't last forever, and as the kids get bigger, your friends will be much more able to go back to doing all the things you…

Seriously, listed to LaComtesse. She speaks wisely. Please do NOT get married unless the two of you have come to an agreement about this. It is a huge, huge, HUGE thing, and if you go into a marriage with a serious gap between you on it, it'll be a major problem.

I also had one at five weeks (and one for my previous pregnancy at seven weeks) because of irregular cycles; I had no idea how long I'd been pregnant both times.

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You know what would be great? If Claudia showed up on Once Upon a Time. She could make Henry and vampire and they could be super besties, and then eat that annoying-as-hell Snow White.

"But we obviously can't have a justice system where all you have to do is accuse someone of rape and that's immediate grounds for conviction."