no matter what you choose your infinity on, infinity is always the same infinity

What do you mean by "that kind of hypnotism"? There is evidence of real changes in the brain under hypnosis, see here, but I'm not sure if they've studied whether hypnosis can actually change your habits after the period of being hypnotized has ended.

The point is that even though you start by arranging the fractions on a grid, you can then follow the snaking path created by the arrows, and by doing so you construct a single sequence with a countable number of entries that includes every possible fraction. If it helps, imagine using the path created by the arrows…

While some fictional futures set December 21, 2012 as the month the world ends, The X-Files suggests that, while our world won't end, our way of life will radically change. After all, that's the date set for the first wave of alien colonization, unless a pair of plucky FBI agents can halt the invasion.

As DrMathochist suggests, a problem with this argument is that the set of all fractions with integer numerators and denominators (like 121/347) has the same size as the set of all counting numbers. So despite the fact that there are an infinite set of fractions like this between 1 and 2, and you could never count them …

Uh, one more try?

Hmm, the image I wanted to post didn't work. I'll try a version from another site...

Great minds think alike!

There are plenty of elderly artists who still draw quite sharply though, I don't think loss of fine motor skills is at all uniform across different people as they age.

That sort of made me wonder if maybe the legend arose among people who couldn't actually read any of the text...

Why would one expect this? I would imagine once a professional calligrapher has achieved a certain level of skill, their style might well remain fairly fixed throughout the rest of their adult lifetime, especially in a society that didn't put much value on artistic innovation or personal expression. Anyway, the article…

According to this older article from io9 (also written by you), there's a lot more to whether a movie is profitable for the studios than just whether it makes back its production budget, so I wonder if for some of these movies it might actually be correct to call them flops despite the profits. For example, the total…

I didn't notice it had been on io9, but it looks like the io9 post only has a link to a clip of the first part where the couple was watching the Battlestar DVDs...if you haven't seen the later parts, where they try to find Ron Moore and have him write another episode for them, it's definitely worth watching the full…

"New Wave" is just a stylistic thing, and this song does have some New Wavey touches, like the computer-beeping-as-music which starts at 0:56. If you judge it by comparing it to the "classics" like the ones you listed of course it doesn't sound much them, but a better comparison would be to some shitty obscure New…

Haha, that was great. On a related note, there was a really funny series of sketches about a couple who got a little too obsessed with Battlestar Galactica in the season 2 premiere of "Portlandia", which can be seen online here.

The article is vague about where this colonization is happening, so maybe it's just a colony on Mars or something...

I think it's basically just meant as a humorous picture to accompany an article about the "taxonomy fail index", so it doesn't really matter that it's pretty surely a gag rather than a real mistake.

Any story where the main action is various fantastic worlds within dreams can reasonably be called a "fantasy movie", I think, even if there is nothing fantastic about the framing story outside the dreams.

But Tree of Life isn't really "science fiction/fantasy" as far as I can see...

If that picture is supposed to simulate a photo, then the apparent size depends a lot on how long a lens you use, the moon looks pretty huge in the real photo at left for instance.