"The voiceover, at the end, turns out to be the voice of a talking animated cow constellation, winking in the night sky."

Wow! I trailers didn't interest me enough to look into the plot, but the way you describe it makes it sound really cool. It also makes me wonder how the trailers did such a terrible job of interesting me in the movie.

Could you please stop using these kinds of sensationalistic titles. The old sexist, cisnormative cliché that "men and women see things differently" or "men are from Mars; women are from Venus" buttresses the social inequality of women and other genders because of its implicit suggestion that men are more "logical" and…

Cough Harper cough.

Congratulations, Charlie! That is truly an awesome feat.

HOLY SHIT. Best episode ever.

Hooray! Yep, that's about all I have to add here.

The first arsenic-based black holes?

I heard that this study controlled for other drug use.

I wouldn't say humans are perfect at it either. Look at phantom limbs, body dysphoria, etc.

Doing things for utility rarely leads to an efficient solution. But doing things for the heck of it sometimes leads to highly efficient solutions that were never imagined before. And besides, it's fun!

One could argue that the human body is designed more for an omnivorous diet, but that does not prevent people, not to mention entire cultures, from subsisting and thriving solely on vegetarian or vegan diets. Nutritionally, it's a matter of debate which diet is the healthier. But either way, I think that we have a…

You're conflating consciousness (which cats have) with a sense of morality (which cats don't have).

This is a hypothesis, not a theory.

I hadn't seen it yet. And I doubt Lauren knew.

Very nice. I'm not sure whether it will "inspire", but I am perfectly okay with their commissioning it. Art and science both share the goal of elucidating the universe and how we experience it.

Literally several!

Probably not. But the point I was trying to get across was that the definition of "terrorist" is so vague that government could decide you're a terrorist and hence, a target of the surveillance network, anytime it likes.

First they came for the communists,

I appreciate the effort most of you at io9 put into making headlines non-offensive and scientifically-accurate without being dry.