I had someone from Quebec "demand" a reprint of an article from me, in otherwise perfect English. I told her nicely that "demand" in English was a lot more forceful and less polite than "demander" in French.

Having an esthetic preference for a certain group is not racism.

OMG!!! My Velveeta is only good until 2147!

I can relate to the fear that a well-behaved child will suddenly ruin my meal. Every time I see someone order wine, I wonder if it will trigger an attack of the DT's from some long ago alcoholism and he'll start picking fights with everyone. And for people a bit on the corpulent side tucking in to a big meal, there…

In the early days of electricity even mechanical transmission was competitive. I recall reading about a test around 1900 where wire transmission was compared to transmission by moving belts over a mile or so, and the moving belts won.

The apple shot makes me wonder about flowers, and how we'd feel if plants harvested our sex organs for decoration.

Do zombies burn? Lure them into the fuel chute of your local power plant, and let their light shine throughout the land.

Notice how the LA bus is untouched. Because the squid only attacks moving prey.

Those are actually not bad effects for the time. I like how, when the tentacle breaks the pavement, you see rebar in the concrete. Nice attention to detail.

We have enough scientists that have gone into politics to discern a pattern. Scientists make mediocre politicians. The two fields require different skill sets.

Galileo was not imprisoned. He was put under house arrest, which was really just surveillance. He was allowed to keep a Papal pension and received visitors from Protestant countries, which suggests they were hardly in fear for their safety.

Shut up and take my money.

I've long argued for the seamless merger of she, he and it.

One experiment that bugs me is the one where the researchers claim the subjects are giving someone shock therapy. Even though the actor screams and begs for mercy, most subjects allegedly go all the way to the highest "voltage."

It's been long known that head injuries can affect personality and that injuries to specific areas affect specific functions. So in 1850 there was nothing inherently absurd about suspecting that personality traits might be localized, and that skull morphology might provide clues to brain function. What should have…

If you grow your castor beans organically, you can be sure your ricin will be free of harmful chemicals.

Just make sure you don't have a canker sore.

How many children? A couple of million? Or fewer than a hundred? As science, this is a joke.

Well, we can thank all those people who described science as a "myth" or "social construct" for that. As well as scientists who refuse to say that even heliocentric astronomy is "true."

A-effing-men. No sequel please but it deserved better at the box offica and the Oscars.