Arthur seemed to get by more on tactics and strategy than he did from knowing more of the correct responses than his opponents, like Jennings or Rutter, which makes his run all the more impressive.

Didn't even realize it was on last night.

Due to a combination of inertia and late scheduling, I find I'm still keeping up with Nashville while I've backlogged or completely dropped other shows.

Thought this was a new release or series, completely blowing by the "Watch This" and "2007" because who has time for stupid details, and was amazed at how young Emma Roberts looked in the photo, especially after her Lindsey Lohan-like turn on AHS.

"The other advertisements are for cat food."

Haven't seen this yet but the description of the "cosmic address" sequence sounds like a revamping of the Eames' Powers of Ten, which was and still is a tour de force of showing perspective and scale.

At least he didn't put his fingers in his ears, although technically speaking that would be more accurate since even though the early universe at least up to its first 10 seconds was still too hot to produce photons, inflationary pressure was present at least as early as 10^-32 seconds.

It's the same idea often seen in sci-fi that flying through a nebula one would be engulfed in prismatic, swirling, brightly glowing gas that would buffet your spaceship when in actuality at most you would seen a dim, monochromatic glow in the distance and still be in a vacuum a quadrillion (million billion) times…

It's the mousetrap argument, or the idea that removing any part of the trap would cause it to lose function, so it's all or nothing, i.e. if evolution is the slow accumulation of changes over time, and the eye is a complex organ for sight, then there's no way evolution could ever create an eye because half or a…

Never seen The Bachelor, but the Slate article linked above makes it sound like the most fatuous and coyly misogynistic and backward exploitation of the worst double-standards against women this side of Saudi Arabia.

Unless there's some weird scheduling I'm not aware of, Downton Abbey has finished its latest season on PBS, including the Christmas special, and my local listings have something called Heartbeat of Home in the primetime slot, followed by reruns of Mr. Selfridge.

Sorry, but Brett Ratner + PSH < Ridley Scott + uncredited Gary Oldman in my book.

Would probably be more excited if it didn't have the imprimatur of Fox, NatGeo, and Seth MacFarlane behind it, but I would be glad to have my doubts proved wrong.

If you're getting internet through the coaxial and the SD cable isn't digitized, my guess is the cable company can't shut off your cable signal so long as they're providing cable internet as well.

Felt rather bad and embarrassed for Jill Bunzendahl-Chimka who not only didn't make it to FJ but seemed stumped on most of the answers as well, though in fairness this tournament feels even more difficult than the TOC, in which she was a 2003 semifinalist.

Considering the grandma would share on average one-quarter of her genes with her grandchild, she would have been practicing one-quarter self-cannibalism as well.

Lederman and Hill's Beyond the God Particle impressed me in attempting to explain not only the significance of the Higgs but doing so with enough background to appreciate it based on the research and experiments that at first confirmed and then called into question various symmetries.

Practically speaking, Nog's infatuation with Vic and his world began on AR-558, listening to the recordings brought by Bashir while he treated Nog's wounds and Nog lay in recovery.

Agreed that a story focusing on episode du jour characters, and not particularly likeable ones at that, without the counterweight of the cast we do care about, made for some impatient viewing, but it did show just how amiable a house guest the Chief is, who I imagine would be happy to fix your broken appliances and…

Mariana has become my favorite character due in large part by the way Cierra Ramirez sells her naivete which bespeaks not only a certain innocence but also integrity and open heart which makes the betrayals of that trust sting all the more.