"Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good."

That doesn't really work either, because the set of all rational numbers is countable, even though for any two rational numbers, there's another rational number in-between. (Infinitely many, in fact.) You have to add in irrational numbers to reach uncountable infinity. Specifically, transcendental numbers; even all…

Then can you work out a way to list all sets of whole numbers? Not in the sense of writing each one out, but establishing a method that tells you what's in any position on the list and what position any set of whole numbers has. You can list all whole numbers (1,2,3,4,...) and all integers (0,1,-1,2,-2,3,-3,...) and…

Pi is definitely not infinite — it's more than 3 and less than 4. That makes it a finite quantity.

I don't understand.

Can we now? Does it matter?

Not even close.

The set of all natural numbers is infinite, but does not contain negative numbers. The set of all prime numbers is infinite and exactly the same size as the set of all natural numbers, but does not contain all members of the latter. (Image tangentially related.)

Despite being familiar with the illusion, I never noticed this! So it'd also work if they were 3/8 and 5/13 instead of 2/5 and 3/8? The rectangles would add up to 39 and 40 instead of 15 and 16, but it's have to be the larger triangle on top for the first one. Wonder if it works with the 1,3,4,7,11,18... sequence, too?

I'm not a fan of Game of Thrones, the book series.

I thought Yoda's syntax was OSV?

The thing that struck me was that the first preference against bending in the series — possibly in the whole franchise — wasn't voiced by a revolutionary. It came from a loving mother who wished her kids were easier to deal with.

Stanton didn't. And you'd think people would've paid attention.

Someone else may have said this already, but my understanding is that the distinction is between "female characters who are strong" (too many) and "strong characters who are female" (too few).

Yay, free publicity for Arrietty!

I'd classify it under "WTF Mindfrak," like the first paragraph says.

Legend of Korra isn't out yet.

The past two runs have shown some evidence of the Higgs boson at a mass range between 124 and 126 GeV, and we recently passed the 4-sigma level of confidence that the Higgs does indeed exist. Another year's worth of data should be enough to either push that figure to the 5-sigma level needed for an official discovery,…

There's always Girl Genius's strategy of tossing the label entirely and calling itself "gaslamp fantasy."