If there’s no departure, how is it a loop? What’s the furthest point in the future timeline that precedes Dr Banks’ “time travel” to the past? You posit that causality is sequential in time, so she must have done something in the future that then directly led into the past, leading back to that same future. That’s…

Interesting point on the palindrome.

Yeah, I watched it yesterday, and I’ve been waiting for months to read all the articles about it that I avoided when they were published, which I’ve spent all morning doing. I try to minimize comments to people who, months later, don’t care, but yours moved me. Sorry if it’s a bother.

You’re making assumptions that the movie didn’t make, to support your (flawed IMO) take on the material that we were presented with. Louise says “if you want science, ask your father” who’s presented as the premier physicist of the day. We’re also told explicitly that the reason he left her was because “she made the…

I have been very pleasantly surprised with how well Pachulia and West have replaced Bogut’s production on offense. Those clips are classic Bogut plays (except he’d be passing backwards between his legs half the time) and I was actually very concerned about the impact of his departure on the offense.

‘We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.’

for once, short—the shortest of my life.

Contra the thrust of this article, I think we know that this isn’t how you want to play basketball unless you believe you have no other choice.

I was very late to Gaiman. I picked up American Gods a few months ago when Amazon put it on for a buck, I guess because the show was coming up? And that was my first exposure to his work outside of flipping through the occasional Sandman trade at Barnes and Noble in my teen years. I really liked it! I may read it…

ANY editing would be welcome. I’m forever surprised that I have to explain this to people, but obvious typos and errors just gives an unprofessional impression, which is not what io9 should be going for.

‘simply ask yourself what changed? Did North Korea become a tangible threat to the safety and security of the United States in just a few short months?’ 

‘simply ask yourself what changed? Did North Korea become a tangible threat to the safety and security of the United States in just a few short months?’ 

THE VIRUS IS ALREADY INSIDE YOU!

The commentary on this is absolutely luminous...

Following a childhood of isolation to hone control over his voice-shattering powers, Once and Future Kings will follow Black Bolt’s quest to become ruler of the Inhumans, through to the meeting his future wife Medusa, the disposal of the then-current Inhuman King, and the downfall of his brother Maximus from loyal…

Can you curb the growth of economic inequality and get middle class wages rising again? Yes, by strengthening labor’s power and making the tax code more progressive.

2016 715 Runs, 631 Runs Allowed; MLB average ~725 runs scored
2015 696 Runs, 627 Runs Allowed; MLB average ~688 runs scored
2014 665 Runs, 614 Runs Allowed; MLB average ~659 runs scored
2013 629 Runs, 691 Runs Allowed; MLB average ~675 runs scored
2012 718 Runs, 649 Runs Allowed; MLB average ~700 runs scored
2011 570 Runs,…

THIS is the kind of comment you’ll respond to? Weak sauce

This shouldn’t work in the playoffs, when teams are more keyed in and ready to punish every deficiency, but when Westbrook is on, it almost doesn’t matter. He’s too athletic, too ferocious, too much. Here he is, both particle and beam.

This is sort of the obverse of the debate about BABIP from the batter’s vs pitcher’s perspective. Understanding that distinction will illuminate the answer to this question. What’s been shown since this has been studied in detail is that pitchers have very little control over BABIP, whereas the BABIP baseline varies…