I just got that one last night (watched it on DVR) and glad to see I’m not the only one who may be late to the joke. Of course, I only just recently realized that “Liv Moore” is the perfect name for the zombie character, and that “Major Lillywhite” was pretty funny too.

This particular one was related to Leia’s title. I stopped watching trailers and reading spoilers a couple of months ago, but io9 continually puts them in headlines and photo captions, rather than the main text of the article.

Well,one good place to start would be for places like your affiliated site io9 to stop putting spoilers for movies that have yet to be released (like Star Wars: The Force Awakens) IN THE F’NG HEADLINES.

I briefly lived in New Orleans in 1997. We were over in the Bywater, at the time still a gentrifying neighborhood. Our car was broken (and actually beyond repair), so we walked or used public transit to get anywhere. The nearest place to rent movies was Tower Records, around a mile-and-a-half away, but it was on the…

I like gin, but gin does NOT like me. Or, as Milk and Cheese put it:

I think a couple of things with Selena/Cat were missed.

To me, the racism served to show that the old man was in fact the dick that everyone said he was. Everything else about his character was typical crotchety-but-cute “get off my lawn” old guy that has fueled many movies and TV shows.

That is a much different, much more complicated land ownership situation.

They can dispute all they want, the law is quite clear in this regard. I’m an archaeologist who has done plenty of state and federal law-mandated work on private lands, and any archaeological items we collect for study were eventually returned to the landowner of the property in question. We did always inform them of…

1. Yes, it is yours, in the United States the law is pretty clear that archaeological remains and fossils on private property belong to the property owner. However, it’s also nice to donate things to museums or research institutions for study. As for local indigenous groups, NAGPRA only covers human remains and…

My guess was potato, corn, and soybean.

Yes, definitely (as mentioned by someone else as well) a possibility to make something like a tortilla on a hot flat rock. But having evidence of making flour should not automatically lead to the assumption of baking activity. Just as easy to make a beverage.

Well, the article is paywalled so I can’t see what else was uncovered during investigation of the cave. And yes, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but anything involving baking would be speculative and detract from the overall importance of the find.

Exactly, unless someone unearthed a rock-lined oven or other type of baking feature, the only evidence we have is for the early parching and processing of wild grains. It’s always disappointing to me when #scicomm goes crazy in the headlines.

There is no chicken in chicken fried steak :)

Here’s more on those women early career scientists:

During the initial excavations, the team kept a blog that includes a lot of photos, videos, and initial impressions:

radiocarbon dating is only reliable for dates younger than 50,000 years.

The things you describe are what got me out of it in the late 90s/early 2000s. I didn’t like what it was becoming (this was the early days of eBay) or what it was doing to me. So I stopped.

Very interesting article!