Look at the pit position! Those halves aren’t even from the same avocado! What is this madness?!

I’d add the possibility that they’re getting permission to digitally reconstruct her so they can change her ending in Episode 8 where they already have tons of footage in the right lighting and with the right costuming. It’d probably be faster, cheaper, and easier than a total reconstruction for episode 9

For now, perhaps the most interesting question surrounding gene-silencing sprays is whether they will challenge our notion of a GMO. If you change a plant’s genetic expression without altering its DNA, has it been ‘modified?’ Is it still ‘natural?’ Let’s not forget “and why does anyone think we should care?”

Coin thickness is standardized though, maybe diameter doesn’t matter so much. Vulpine’s answer seems like a good bet to me.

No fear. You will be upgraded. Everything is fine.

Ah yes, but the inevitable years of frustrated failure that gives us said drug will give me all the benefits in the meantime!

Not worth it.

Alternatively, maybe finding a drug that mimics these effects should be my postdoc project.

Unless the convention itself is a non-profit, they need to knock this bullshit off and actually pay their workers. If you’ve ever volunteered for a convention like this, it can be hard work. It’s not even unprecedented either, there are several conventions run by a certain company that pays their volunteers in…

Simply don’t allow a tweet to be edited once it’s been liked or retweeted. Before that, who cares if you edit and after that, you can always delete and repost.

God, my gender is garbage :(

*Looks around at who’s left...*

This is the rapture, isn’t it.

A redditor on /r/Physics tore this paper a new one a few weeks back.

How did the judge that ruled the redistricting unconstitutional not order an immediate special election following re-redistricting by an independent commission? How can they be allowed to continue to make laws if their election was (effectively ruled to be) illegitimate?

Disable autoplay on videos please. It’s not cool.

Penile fractures are still a thing, we lost the staying power and gained NOTHING. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/456305-overview

To fix in V2 Release:

No, this article is about positions he *didn’t* accept.

I’d normally be on board with a blanket ban of Christmas music, but I would like to plead one exception: the Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas music is pretty awesome and I would like to allow it.

Holy crap. That’s gorgeous. It actually looks like they’re doing an even better job updating the textures and stuff than the Skyblivon folks (not that their work is anything less than excellent too). You can really tell how much of a passion project it is. Totally understandable why it’s taking so long.

The other danger of smoking tobacco that people don’t think about is that it contains harmala alkaloids that are active MAOIs. These are both addictive on their own (see: MAOI dependence) and increase the addictivity of the nicotine (reinforcing effects of nicotine and norharmane were additive: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih…