We got the idea from tv!

BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND HUMAN NATURE ENOUGH TO KNOW WE CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITH A DOWN VOTE BUTTOOOOOOOOON!!!!

@avclub-35209f041aca848f4c90c6a0d0fcb97e:disqus  First, tell AA Dowd that he's not your real dad and he never will be.  Tell the Dissolve that the AV Club lets you swear and post long, rambling sexual fantasies about Werner Herzog all the time and to stop being so uptight.  Don't forget to roll your eyes a lot, at…

You have to save nature so that it's there to shoot- for you and your children and your children's children.  Teddy Roosevelt- crusading progressive, also kind of a 5 year old.

We know she had a miscarriage, but it's possible she went out and got re-pregnant immediately.  Did she have kind of a bump this episode?  What kind of lunatic would make out with the dude they're pretending to be pregnant by with a pillow stuffed in their shirt?  (Actually, maybe Peggy would.)

Still hate Avery, still hate every time this show tries to make me like Avery.   Fetch/Gretchen.

Sunglasses on, everybody!  Safety first!

No.  I think regardless of what the number is, the NFL, the NCAA, and every school/pee wee football league have some thinking to do.  And even if the number is only 5%, I think that's enough to freak out parents and cause a slew of multi-million dollar lawsuits.  But purely from a medical or scientific point of view,…

While I'm convinced this is a serious problem and one the NFL tried to hush up, it's worth at least mentioning the selection bias in the BU results.  If your loved one suddenly becomes violent, forgetful, suicidal, impulsive, etc then you have a much stronger drive to get their brain in for study after they die than…

I'm interested to see the effect this will have on the NCAA.  It's about money, I get it.  I have no illusions about the whole uplifting "student-athlete" narrative they peddle.  But at what point does a university president decide that enabling a sport that causes serious brain damage is no longer ok, no matter how…

Right, and if a bunch of small hits over 5-10 years causes the same amount of damage as a series of concussions, then there's just no way to create a safe kid/teen football program, even with the best coach and best of intentions. 

Along those lines, there's a documentary up on Netflix called Head Games that covers a lot of the same ground, without the focus on the NFL's response.  The doc interviews a lot of the same BU researchers, but looks at a whole range of sports.  The three they focus in on are football, hockey, and soccer.  There's a…

This was one of the big points in the Gladwell article Kevin referenced- that if football inherently and unavoidably maims its players, and we all understand and acknowledge that, then it's essentially the same as dog fighting.  We're watching competitors seriously hurt themselves (and often guarantee themselves a…

Haha, the luggage thing seemed weird to me, too.  There's no way Ashley's going back to Croyden without all her bandage dresses. 

So will season 2 be Dylan McDermott holding the dead president's family hostage to ensure that they donate his organs?  "If you don't file form A-27b with the morgue in the next three business days, we'll kill your cat!"  And maybe the mid-season roadblock will be that DUN DUN DUN the President didn't check the organ…

He also needs to take a couple of intro stats courses.

More like "Is Oxygen Killing Us!?!?"  followed by article: "No, you need oxygen to live."

I love that there's always a Niall Ferguson hate thread on any article related to social sciences.  Fuck that guy.  Can we get a Hitchens-style youtube video of him being waterboarded? And keep up the good work, AVC history nerds.  See you on the CW Mary Queen of Scots reviews!

He's a great kid- he has an old man's name, he needs like 20 minutes of attention per day max, and he never fusses when you've got some serious scheming to do.  He's so simple that Declan could take care of him.

Re: f), I loved how casually they dropped that in.  "Oh, it's been such a year!  You've traveled, you have bangs, we sold the Paris apt, Declan and the baby are both dead, and I bought a new dress!  Want to have lunch?"