Of course he is. My level of response to trolling tends to directly correlate to how much I don't want to finish this manuscript.

I’m having that nightmare right now! At least I got a draft of one section out today; might actually not blow my deadline. Hopefully I can power through the abstract & introduction tomorrow, and maybe even put together a figure.

I’d have seen the version of the movie that was two hours of this, and zero minutes of Apocalypse, several times in the theater.

Some of us may be procrastinating on a paper.

Most physicians don’t take the Hippocratic Oath either.

Doctorates, and the title of Doctor, belonged to PhDs before the medical profession appropriated the title. Physicians are the doctors-come-lately.

Indeed. I have a friend who periodically has botox injections into her scalp, because she has a condition called New Daily Headache Syndrome. If you’re wondering what that is, imagine that you got a migraine 6 years ago. And you still have it.

Who doesn’t have an embarrassing crush on Opal?

I’ll second that. I was kind-of liking it for the beginning of the first season. I was fully on board with “Giant Woman” though.

If you don’t want your passport and driver’s license information posted, don’t have ID! If you don’t want your address publicized, don’t have a home! If you don’t want your phone number or social security number broadcast, get completely off the grid!

Yes. Plus there are many non-genetic factors, and whole raft of epigenetic factors (including a DNA methylation event that happens in response to living through a period of food restriction that affects offspring through the fourth generation).

Indeed. When this exact thing happened here in Massachusetts, the state legislature had the new law explicitly criminalizing upskirting out the door in three days.

I will confirm that!

I saw her at Tanglewood a couple of weeks ago, and every word Aimee says was true then too.

Harvard trivia: there currently really are footstools in Harvard Yard. Pres. Faust decided it would be nice to have sturdy lawn furniture to make hanging out in the Yard convenient. It is, in fact, quite pleasant.

Are you talking Viola Davis saying to an interviewer, with Jared Leto not in the room, that she wanted to pepper spray Leto? Or are you talking people on io9 writing that they thought her wanting to spray him was an appropriate reaction? I’d say either is much less of a threat than mailing an actual bullet,…

I would say thinking about pepper spraying someone is considerably lower on the threat scale than actually mailing someone a bullet.

This commercial is seriously charming.

I’m wondering how many of the people posting “everyone knows about alligators in Florida” could, off the top of their head, list the hazards one might encounter at a resort in Nebraska.

Is in an unmarked building with frosted windows and behind closed doors not sufficiently out of your face?