My thoughts exactly. Even if you don't like his stuff, how have you never heard of him? He's done songs and albums with god damn everybody.

Varivax is the chickenpox vaccine. It can be included with the MMR, then called the MMRV, or given separately. Most people who get the vaccine never get chickenpox, but if they do it's a considerably more mild case (a handful of spots that go away in a couple days), and not life threatening.

The Varivax vaccine grants the same relative immunity as contracting chickenpox, without the discomfort. It's recommended you get a booster later in life, but even without most people never contract chickenpox, and if they do it's very mild. There's really no reason to put your kid through having chickenpox.

For those of you wondering what the comments below say, I'll give you a summary.

I can imagine the meeting that led to this.

I've been curious what happens if two people who were the children of hyphenated parents decide to get married. Like, say, a guy named Bob Jones-Smith marries a Sally James-Anders. What do you do? Become Sally and Bob James-Anders-Jones-Smith?

Yeah, my most recent ex and I discussed it, and the whole discussion of what our last names would be if we married was predicated by, "Unless one or both of us publish before we get married..." because seriously I want everyone to be able to find our work. That shit's important.

My ex and I talked about what we'd do if we got married, who would take whose last name, and what not. It was a pretty short conversation, considering the amount of sociocultural influence on the practice, but in the end we decided that 1) My last name is 7 letters long and hers is 9, so hyphenation was out because…

He's referring to the value of the ratio when represented as a percentage. Or on a number line, if you prefer (distance between the number and 0). If the second digit were twice as long as the fourth digit the ratio would be 2:1, or 2/1, or 2 (200% of the length of the 4th digit). If the fourth digit were twice as…

I've never personally been vertically integrated, but I had a cat that got integrated in my vertical blinds, and it wasn't pretty. So, I'm with you on that one.

They're a little smaller than that, thankfully. They're pretty big for a baby, though. I can't think of anything comparable... they're triangular and thick, but only a couple square inches. Like a big keychain. Luckily babies don't move around much, so dangling a keychain off them doesn't seem to bother them at all.

In our hospital we band babies before they leave the delivery room (just like we put a name band on every other patient). We also attach little transmitters that set off alarms if anyone without an appropriate hospital badge tries to take them from the birth center. I don't know how Russian "birth houses" do it,…

I have never heard of these books. I just stopped to say that poor woman in the picture is about to rip her lips off with a bowstring.

A wallet is a bad place to keep a condom because heat enhances the break down of latex, making a condom held close to your body for hours a day more prone to breakage than one stored in the always-recommended-for-everything cool, dry place. Unless "2-Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate-Glycerol Methacrylate" is a derivative of…

What's this AOL? Listen, if it's not on my Prodigy homepage, I don't hear about it.

The pedantic part: Photons have mass. It's very tiny, but it's there. So when you observe an image you're actually reacting to photons reflecting off the object and hitting your retina. The frequency of the vibration of the photons determines the color you see. So images are made up of the interaction of an object,…

Fear is hard to test in humans, but stress isn't. There's even a blood test for it! Stress causes the hypothalamus to release CRH, which signals the pituitary to release ACTH, which then travels through the blood to the adrenal glands (snuggled on top of your kidneys) to release cortisol. Cortisol is easy to test for,…

If you click on the MSNBC link, it links further to Skymania here, which says:

Neat. Washington state, all up on your Giz again. First we had the guy who chopped his arm off with a guillotine, now Fred Hutch! Go WA.

AGH! Why do birds keep flying into my smartphone!?