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Here’s a link to a blog by forensic anthropologist Dr. Kristina Killgrove. She reviews every episode of Bones (the link is keyed to a search for her reviews of Bones, sorted by date).

Have you done work on any archaeological sites?

I find it slightly ironic that Amarillo hops aren’t as tolerant of drought and extreme heat, considering the city that shares their name is generally a hot, dry place.

Currently about 2/3 of the way through Sand by Hugh Howey. It’s really cool, “sand-diving” is quite a fascinating concept. I think some elements of it particularly appeal to me as an archaeologist, what with buried “artifacts” and maps of lost worlds.

2 different groups of scientists drew 2 different conclusions from more or less the same data, working independently. Science has one team’s results, Nature has the other. There’s a lot of common ground overall, but one team thinks that the Oceanian ancestry came earlier and was displaced by the more dominant groups,

Oops. Oh shit. DELETE DELETE DELETE!

This could have been an e-mail.

The concept of using ciders as a mixer never dawned on me, but sounds great, and now I can finally use those random ciders left behind after a party.

Not if you were under the legal drinking age of 21. My college also banned kegs and party balls on campus.

I really don’t know. Since it was in Pennsylvania, one of my friends probably asked someone of age to buy them beer, said something about green bottles (Rolling Rock), and the person doing the purchasing didn’t know any better.

Back in college, there was a truly asshole RA who was constantly trying to write-up my friends and I but never could succeed. Anyway, one night someone accidentally grabbed a 12-pack of O’Douls and we had to do SOMETHING with it. So we decided to sit in the common area, drinking O’Douls and acting rowdy, while someone

it may be genius, you never know! like in 20 years everyone will want them again and most will be rotting in landfills!

oh, there are stores/dealers who order stuff from Wizard and other distributions and do eBay presales.

My philosophy was always “Buy something I like and want to own”, combined with “get all the ‘80s action figures we couldn’t afford when I was a kid.” This was mostly pre-eBay when you could find a ton of old toys at yard sales and thrift stores.

yep, those are also everywhere in thrift stores!

Soon, collectors “realized they could never get those figures due to massive amounts of resellers cherry picking the figures before they could even get to the store, [and so] they were done with ‘collect em all.’

Beanie Babies litter the toy section of almost every thrift store nowadays. Maybe even worse than Happy Meal Toys.

it was a joke...

Two 7% beers get you drunk?