Well, that’s what hoaxers do. They hoax. Not every story can be researched exhaustively (especially when the stakes are as low as they are for this story).

Great recommendations. I love me some David Mitchell. I agree it’s sad Steven left QI, but Sandi Toksvig is a pleasant surprise, filling his shoes rather well.

That incarnation sounds particularly terrible, but I think it would be interesting, in a literary sense, for the Sith to have greater depth and more moral ambiguity. More Shylock, less Sauron, for instance.

I hope it doesn’t come with the crippling, malfunctioning auto-updating bloatware that caused critical errors every time my expensive Alienware desktop went into idle mode. It took me a month before I figured that one out. Good hardware; crap bloatware.

All good stuff.

It’s an apostrophe catastrophe.

It is quite likely that the Polynesian ancestors of the Hawaiian people would never have discovered the archipelago if not for their mastery of celestial navigation, which can certainly be considered an early form of astronomy.

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Frankly, this seems overwrought. From the Silmarillion, it is clear that the elder, powerful entities of Middle Earth — the Valar and the Maiar — have declined to interfere directly in the affairs of the younger races (elves, dwarves, men), as such attempts in the distant past led to great suffering, and it is…