I do recall a fairly recent thing I heard/read secondhand — some farms/companies are/were trying to tweak the formulation of their chicken feed in order to raise the calcium content of egg yolks high enough to tout it in advertising. Trying to find something out about this on Google, however, just gives me results…

This is a good article covering the subject, but I just have a quibble with this line: "... the obvious sympathy a jury would elicit for a father who just watched his sons die at the hands of a drunk driver,..."

I like Dan Boeckner's projects, sure, but I seriously miss him and Spencer Krug fronting Wolf Parade. I saw their 2012 show at the Boston House of Blues, and it was utterly fantastic, in both the common and the specific senses of the word. They were my first favorite band that I found on my own, rather than being…

I refer to it as "Magic: the Saddening" sometimes for a) its capacity to frustrate my friends endlessly and b) how attention-consuming and unbelievably dorky it is (try hanging out with people when half or more of them suddenly want to talk about MtG and nothing else for a solid hour).

I'm glad Stross got Best Novella for Equoid, given what a great story it is; not only is he one of the authors whose work I keep finding myself returning to, but he's also been my introduction to a lot of his contemporaries, many of whom are pushing open the boundaries of speculative fiction.

At first I thought the voice of the guy in the second video was a little grating, but then I realized it was actually keeping my attention throughout the entire video. A little like a slightly nasal cross between the Mythbusters narrator and the people who do the videos for Slate's Explainer column.

Yep, they're great. My sole complaint is that I keep finding ways to drop or damage them, despite their reliability and sturdiness. Comically, this means that my $15 NorelCo trimmer has seen a longer lifespan than any of my razors, electric or not.

Yep, they're great. My sole complaint is that I keep finding ways to drop or damage them, despite their reliability…

On the bright side, it recouped a lot of its costs overseas, if not domestically. I hope this movie has a second life in streaming and home release, because it was such a fun movie that actually went into science-fiction territory instead of just draping a MacGuffin in sci-fi designs, or using its premise (alien…

The way the title was worded, I thought this meant Lee Pace was going to be an alien, leading a resistance movement comprised of his fellow aliens, against a human invasion. I'd watch that.

Again, in that case it would kind of be an indictment of Kerry's judgment/knowledgability of security protocol/both of the aforementioned.

This is absolutely right. Fast food prices are so ridiculous that lunch (complete with beverage and tip) at one of my hometown's nicest restaurants is the same price as or cheaper than a full meal at Burger King.

Maybe Kerry believed he was using a secured device. That would be better, but only in a relative sense, because it would probably serve to indict his sense of caution differently, for not noticing/checking, or indict that of his security staff.

How many different cartoons has Marvel gone through in the last five or six years? It seems like they're always starting a series and shitcanning it a year later, but then again I haven't been following too closely.

Budget reasons? I thought I had read somewhere that "our" Charlie Francis died on Fringe because Kirk Acevedo wasn't getting along with the showrunners/production team.

No, he's killed and replaced by a shapeshifter in season 2, and all subsequent appearances are of Earth-2 Charlie. I was always infuriated by how quickly and enthusiastically Fringe's showrunners abandoned the political thriller style subplot with him and Earth-2 Lincoln Lee...

Man, first Ford had to wait nearly two decades to play Indiana Jones again (if I recall correctly, he liked the role so much that he stayed in shape the entire time just in case a fourth film was greenlit) culminated in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and now he's broken his leg on the set of the film for a franchise…

"Thanksgiving is way boozier than Christmas."

Polar Beverages is one of my steadfasts for certain needs, their seltzers included. I for one love to make the occasional Paloma (tequila, lime juice, grapefruit & soda water (seltzer here, I guess) or grapefruit soda) with their Half & Half (lemon and grapefruit) soda. One thing I enjoy is how few of their offerings…

On the one hand, sometimes Chipotle serves an area with a significant drought of burrito-making establishments, in which case it's kind of understandable that it's caught on. It gets grating that people (meaning, the people I know, kind of know, or can't work up the basic initiative to disasociate from on social…

There is a genuine antipathy in some circles for Freud the human figure intermingled with Freud the psychoanalyst, but I think that the criticism of Freud comes from an important place: He's important for his role in the establishment in the field and for what he got right, but it's exactly because he was so…