There's some bad science going on or at least some awkward interpretation. 1/6th of your OWN food bill is different from 1/6th of a TOTAL food bill. Yeah, if you're getting your food for 1/6th of the price, you'd get a more expensive meal. BUT if you're splitting a TOTAL bill 6-ways, you're NOT REALLY getting your…

UGH if Discworld wins it goes up against LotR. THANKS i09. I want to abstain for that vote...

Because some of us just like movies less? I know that's a big one for me: I'm VERY preferential in voting TV shows and novels over movies. I'm just not a cinema buff.

Pick your favorite. I have a way I think the polls will work out, and then, I have what I'm actually voting for, regardless. Earthsea happens to be my LEAST favorite Le Guin work, so that kind of skews why I'm not personally voting for it. Bias, friends. It's all about bias.

Did the same thing, but I was successful.

I saw the headline and was like, "Wait, they just copied Me and My Dick." Someone didn't watch enough youtube before doing their film project.

StarKid Potter already did this. And it was a musical.

YES. These were my thoughts. She might have been overreaching with the pay, but if that was ALL she asked for, I can't see her getting turned down. The way you negotiate academia jobs is much different, too. #4 is the big red flag. #3 (the sabbatical) could've been as well, but the request for an ENTIRE semester of…

I work at a research university. She asked for something that's very common in provisions at research universities. She should've known the culture where she was attempting to negotiate. I think if she would've picked her battles and asked for some combination of these five points (depending on what was MOST important…

It's firefly vs. Game of thrones. Because game of thrones is going to be starting up soon, it has the momentum and wins.

Asexuals straight up get erased. I don't think I'm asexual (I masturbate way too much for that), but I completely get the 'just not interested in the sexies' vibe. As I told my current bf, if I wasn't dating him, I'd be dating mountains because I wouldn't want to be using my time hunting down people in bars when I…

I'm the type of person who tends to live in my head a lot. Sex will never be the most defining aspect of a relationship for me. Hell, my sexuality is not even in the top five words/categories I would use to describe myself as a person. I did date someone for whom their kink/sexual identity was a core part of their…

It's striking while the money and interest is there. Seriously. GRRM got a freaking sweet deal to make GoT happen on HBO.

Portia looks like the happiest lady at the Oscars. AS SHE SHOULD.

I did notice that the states that tend to be problematic have a bad track record with environmental issues. I think this data set (2012 and 2013) suggests there's policy occurring in the bottom 10 states that's actively making people miserable.

Here's the relevant index, dividing the states into quartiles. As a note, the top and bottom quartile change very little (especially the bottom). While there's no clear political preference in the states with the highest well being index, states with the lowest well-being index tend to be right leaning states. Also,…

I've heard two sides to the drug companies funding research argument. One is that, yes, if you invest a good chunk of your life developing a drug, you're going to publish those results and test the drug via phase I, II, and III trails before hopefully meeting approval. This is the goal of creating therapies, and…

In general, going to say no, it's not. Doctor's tend to be a conservative lot in general because they want proof a new therapy is going to work better than an older one they already have available. It takes time, effort, and money to push through a new therapy, so there has to be a need for it and a medical niche to…

I know, right? This show has more juice in season-freaking-nine than some shows do in their first and second seasons.

I think you had it right with femininity being the culprit for why there's a disproportionate hate for so many female characters. If the story is always told with Man as The Hero and Woman as The Love Interest, then it's going to be the default that every female character gets more hate. We just don't like the love…