Easier to work with. If the support was above or below the ball, his carving tool would have to rotate vertically, meaning he'd have to get way up over or way down below the ball. This way means the lathe has to support more, but keeping his carving tool in a horizontal plane simplifies things.

We may have built up more of a tolerance, but that doesn't mean it's the ideal for us. Also, it's not like modern man is actually evolving all that much. Do people with celiac's disease die any sooner and reproduce less? Not these days, no.

I had an issue when I started cutting my hair shorter that most of my hats were fitting a bit loosely. I don't want to go through and replace them, so I've just added a little sliver of padding to the band.

Some problems with this: First, that stuff is ridiculously hot. The updrafts coming off of it, not to mention the small bubbles surging up, would make flying incredibly difficult. Second, lava is rock. It may be liquid, but it's still liquid rock, so it's much heavier than anyone expects it to be. It's also pretty…

Determining the exact mineral content and what sort of dissolved gasses there are can tell us a lot about what's going on beneath the surface. If you wait for it to cool, some of those things change and the data are not as useful.

Excuse me? That's the biggest line of bull I've heard in years. The fact of the matter is I'm not going to get cable. Period. There are plenty of other services out there that I pay for and am happy with, and I'm not paying $85/mo for one or two shows a week.

Basically, because HBO makes it a pain in the ass to pay for it. I'm happy to grab a subscription to Hulu or Netflix to watch what they offer. If I want to watch GoT, my only options are to wait for the DVD or buy an entire premium cable package. I don't want or need anything on that cable package except for GoT, but…

Did you ever get a chance to play the old computer game, It Came From the Desert? Very loosely based on Them!, it had all kinds of fantastic stuff. Giant ants, crazy cults, greaser knife fights, hospital escapes. I played it on an Amiga 500 back in the day.

The quotes in this article seem rather odd. The linked article of an American poll doesn't mention any question specifying human evolution, but has 39% of Americans believing in evolution, 25% disbelieving, and 36% with no opinion. Canada appears to have 59% professing a belief in evolution.

Not having read the books, I was confused by the fire myself. The best I could figure was: Ramsay (I think? I never remembered hearing of him as more than Roose's bastard) is besieging Winterfell. On Robb's orders he offers them all, except Theon, safe passage home if they surrender. They knock out Theon and do so.

Last night's Daily Show had a clip Jon shot with his phone at the Mets no-hitter. Vertical. I know he's no spring chicken, but he works in television and really should know better. Horribly depressing.

I'm pretty sure they just used scenes with the original spanish track from Empire. The subtitles have nothing to do with what they're actually saying.

Human tears (and most bodily fluids) are slightly less than 1% salt. Nowhere on the source site does it say anything about the volume of these jars, but if it were real, you'd need to fill something like 60 of those bottles (very rough guess based on the air space) with tears.

When I was in college (studying geology), by far the most interesting course I took was History of Jazz. Before that, I'd listen to it every once in a while, but I couldn't tell you the difference between bebop and fusion.

How does one "shut off long, annoying commercials while picture remains on screen," without having a mute feature?

Looks like we're allowed to buy android phones on networks other than Sprint, and... I guess that's about it?

It's probably not going to keep you enthralled for as long as a deeper god game, but for $10 it's definitely fun for a playthrough.

Just because I enjoy reading or watching a story after I already know how it turns out doesn't mean I enjoyed it less the first time around.

This is an actual, completely natural sandstone pipe in Kodachrome State Park, Utah.

Having consent from the people you're photographing, if in a public space, only becomes an issue if you're using the photos for certain purposes. If they just take the shots and put them up on their wall at home, that's fine. If they want to publish it, things get complex enough that you should talk to a lawyer.