Holy crap, thanks for the reply! I was thinking about this more and sweet potatoes/yams might actually be better than standard potatoes particularly some of the hardier staple crop varieties. Their nutritional content is better too.

“[The Tully monster] looks like a hand blender mated with a salamander.”

“lampreys —those toothy, jawless fish that look like someone decapitated an eel, glued a kitchen blender on top, and hoped nobody would notice.”

I hope you write descriptions for all the weird things in the fossil record, those are hilarious.

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No potatoes, really? Not only would it have been funny (because of The Martian), but potatoes are possibly one of the most nutritionally complete foods that we produce and knowing how their heavy metal content is affected in martian soil would be very important information.

I don’t know why you would mention beer, almost all beer is unpasteurised. In fact, pasteurization would adversely affect the ability of beer to be bottle carbonated (and would probably cause already carbonated bottles to explode). Beer, like wine, is a live culture. And maintains its microorganism balance through a…

There is literally no reason to buy a pod based machine. If you’re going to try the argument from “ease” or “convenience” and use a reusable pod (which you still have to grind coffee separately to fill) to be “environmentally friendly” you’re still wrong. A superautomatic espresso machine is the right machine for you,…

He has Bernie’s hair though.

To be fair, that is also true of Wolverine. He doesn’t need “R” as much as Deadpool did, but it’s still a more appropriate rating for his character than PG-13. It could be a problem for other characters, most of them don’t need to go full Hard R, but I do think Wolverine could benefit if done well.

Bop-it Extreme 2 was peak Bop-it.

I’m willing to give SyFy the benefit of doubt on this one. They did an amazing job with The Expanse, and The Magicians is an interesting (if not particularly faithful) adaptation of that story. They might have a shot with this if the writers can pull off an interesting story.

Frequently there are advance and press screenings that if you really keep an eye open you can get tickets to. I saw deadpool on the 4th at a press event in Seattle (I’m not even press, just scored a ticket). I imagine that lots of people saw it the same day. The theater I was at was both packed, and showing it on two…

Seriously, did no one else start hunting down mouse neurodevelopment studies and ultimately find only one study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5002906… the first time a connection with microcephally was mentioned in conjunction with Zika? It’s from 1971 thus can be hard to find, so here is a mega link.(https://me…

You can’t talk about microcontroller failures in isolation. You have to compare the rate of failure to the human equivalent of what it’s replacing: the rate of driver distraction. In that comparison I’d bet that it’s extremely favorable to the microcontroller, particularly if you factor in the inevitably built-in…

I saw it at an advance screening, the underlying love story actually works really well. It’ll make a surprisingly good valentine’s day flick.

Ampakines are a large class of several types of drugs. The one used in this study was CX-929 which could be very different than 691.

Damn that’s a pretty astrocyte.

“but it reportedly doesn’t work with new chip readers, which is a bummer.”

Did you actually read the source of the leak, or look at the picture of the card? It definitely is supposed to support EMV readers. Do you not see the 6 pin contacts that match positions of an EMV chip right near the two circular charging pins?

Might be possible, depends on how well we understand the enzymes that synthesize the blue pigment in blueberry skins. Although, it might come out more brownish than blue unless you really ramp up the expression.

I’ve actually asked for one of the little cups for hot sauce for a to-go order at chipotle (before I stopped eating there) and they just told me to take the bottle. It wasn’t even that they were too busy to get the cup (they weren’t).

“RNA is synthesized by polymerases, enzymes that aren’t as good as the enzymes that synthesize DNA”

DNA is replicated by polymerases as well - DNA Polymerase. RNA is transcribed from DNA by RNA Polymerase which even has some basic proofreading activity (https://www-als.lbl.gov/index.php/rese…) Its just not nearly as…