...maybe? (I don't actually look like my profile pic)

Ah, so you get jokes. Me too!

Go easy on him, the poor fellow only had two years in college.

It's not important that we understand Math. The only thing Math requires is that we have faith in it.

Umm...maybe he fails to account for the curvature of the Earth when he is shooting?

There may not be any dispute between you and me, because we are both persuadable by facts. But if there were no dispute, Blake Griffin and his fellow young-earthers wouldn't be up on podiums saying they disagree with us.

As an evolutionary biologist, I protest that I do in fact know fuck-all about basketball!

Now I'm no geography expert, but I'm sincerely starting to doubt whether Earth was born in America!

That's a special set play they run for 'Meadowlark' Withey. I don't want to spoil his other one, but let's just say that the ball hasn't actually disappeared.

In my dreams, this is exactly my go-to-dunk, so I'm psyched to see someone do it in real life. Not joking by the way, one of my recurring dreams is being able to dunk, and the one in the video is the best imaginary dunk I've ever imagined. I like those dreams way better than the ones about tumbling down the stairs or…

Agreed*, and at the time of this photo he may have believed that was one. He also has freakishly long, webbed toes, so it's a shame he hates to get wet - he'd be the Michael Phelps of dogs and win all the Olympic dog-swimming medals.

Ah, irrational confidence. Good thing I'm never like that. This is my dog, who hates water, attempting to jump from a rowboat to the beach. He only missed by, like, 8 feet.

If you're really curious about the scientific basis for the medically recommended vaccination cocktails, and schedules for which vaccines can be given together vs being spread out over time, you can probably find the original research reports* on Google scholar or pubmed. You can look at their measures of risk and…

Every man reaches a time when he must take stock of his place in the world, perhaps sigh wistfully over long-past triumphs and regrets, and resolve to grow up and start saying "boff" instead of "bang."

Yep...but then it suddenly hit me, right between the eyes.

You could fix that by keeping your arms at your sides, I think. Also, I am more concerned that your arms change that much in length based on the temperature*!

I didn't starting giving Bowie a serious listen until I heard Nirvana's cover of Man Who Sold the World. Like, I knew that I would like David Bowie all along, but was at a loss for where to start until I fell in love with that cover.

Well, Boston's not really a college town.

Sorry, one of my dogs is always trying to convince me that it is illegal to dress him up, so that's the first place my head went. I think tortoise ownership is legal on a species-by-species basis in the US. I'm pretty certain there are threatened species that are illegal to own.

Dressing up your pets is not illegal.