Wow, she took an entire day to realize her mistake and compose a tweet that precisely identified her mistake, and apologized expressly to the person she offended in the same medium both people were initially communicating in. What a horrible bitch!

They gave the oral vaccine to grade schoolers in the 1960s. It was handed out like candy. Literally; they lined us up in the library, and gave it to us on sugar cubes.

The obvious snub is The Americans.

I don’t find guys who trade their families in for newer models once a decade to be charming and schmoopy. His relationship to Ann Druyan doesn’t speak directly to his relationship with Lynn Margulis and their children.

Indeed, there was a second ditched family between Dr Margulis and Ann Druyan.

Less charming when one considers that involved his abandoning his previous family with Lynn Margulies.

Yup. And that’s why one doesn’t say things like what he said in extremely public settings when representing one’s institution.

Dr Hunt didn’t have his career destroyed. Dr Hunt resigned from an unpaid honorary position, and still has his lab.

He was addressing a group at a luncheon honoring women scientists at an international conference, while representing his institution. That’s mighty damn unforgivable, and having to resign from an unpaid honorary position is not that dramatic a consequence.

I think you missed the point of that rant.

I also have a friend who raises calves for meat, and names them. But they all have names like “Chuck” and “Stewie” and “Burger”.

I used to work next to a lab that scienced with vanilla wafers. They’re apparently particularly palatable to rats, and thus a useful vehicle for oral administration of anything needing to be orally administered.

Could this be the post that finally gets me out of the greys?

Me too. I keep thinking about dropping it, but I remember that it has Grace Park, Daniel Dae Kim, and Masi Oka in the same show, and I can’t.

Anonymous producer: “If you’re going to wait around to find the perfect actress who is a quarter Asian, and not just a quarter Asian but a quarter Hawaiian Asian, you will never cast your movie.”

One could argue that she’s right about it being God’s punishment. She’s just missing the targer; we’re being punished pretty harshly for our profligate use of fossil fuels.

My cats love this beyond all reason:

Speaking as someone who navigates the airport (and everywhere else) with a crutch, checking luggage is the BEST!

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Hawaii 5-0 is my go-to example when I hear of white people being cast as Asian with the excuse of “not being able to find an Asian actor”. To which I mentally reply “Did you ask the H50 casting director? They seem to not have any trouble finding Asian actors.”