Another day, another study that ignores tons of available data and decides to take some indirect loosely related measures on a heavily biased population, using variables that haven't been proved to be correlated to the ones they're supposed to be measuring instead.

They better start giving us something next episode, or I'm going to start thinking that what FX (ot TNT, STARZ, or whatever this is) had in mind for "a more American version" was another "The Event" or "FlashForward", and look how well they turned out. At least half hour into Children of Men we knew that…

I don't know about octopusses, but I guess the black widow's offspring aren't complaining because their parents' generation gets all the good jobs

I don't know about Alzheimer's, but what you're saying is pretty much what I've read of cancer: evolution just doesn't care how long we live after we've delivered our payload (our genes). If there were a biological way of know when we've had our last child, we'd have adapted to die as soon as they could provide for…

I started reading The Invisibles, and not only I didn't find it so similar, but I found it boring and didn't finish it. Maybe it was a bad moment for me, but still...

I don't know how old are you, but I expect Alzheimer's would be cured/prevented by the time I can get it. It's not like cancer, where there are thousands of different types that like to spread to other parts and mutate.

He noticed that it was just as easy to pirate music as it was to go and purchase a track from a music store, which was often of inferior quality, and not always in a universal format

I think Anathem makes fun of that with the philosophers that made a law that stated that no new ideas existed and everything had been thought of by someone else before, only to find out later that somebody had already thought of that law millennia before.

"Isn't it interesting that this always seems to be true?", so Stokes set it as an exam question for students, telling them to prove it was true

At least he got paid by L'Hôpital.

Don't you think someone would have noticed if those three meters were filled with lava everywhere?

With GRRM being himself, I know better that to expect only the acceptable to happen

So, where does one sign up for the Marines?

Yeah, that happens. We should have an age OVER which you can't drink, in addition to the under one.

Yeah, but he must be wrong because Jo... and Da... are going to marry and have awesome kids that rule the world, right?

Why would she have waited a whole book and a half to melt the Wall, if that's why she came North? And what exactly are the Others paying her in? Even if people want a reason to hate Melisandre, this one made no sense

Yeah, I don't know why that is (porn, I suppose, or maybe being "white" as opposed to "brown") but this seems to happen much more with Asians that with others

Well, if I met a person like him in real life, it would throw off my closet-case-dar, but for some strange reason it doesn't (perhaps it's that he seems equally hateful of pretty much everyone who isn't a carbon copy of himself)

His wife, mother and son think he's just the bee's knees, though. The rest of us are crazy and judgmental for finding his attitude flawed.

So cute.