It will be interesting to see if this pans out. These anti-aging studies that work in mice rarely seem to translate well to human subjects though.

Well, your English teacher was being a hardass. "The fact that" is actually grammatically correct, but some people might object to it on stylistic grounds, because "the fact" is redundant. But in American English, how often do people start sentences with 'that' anymore? It's less clear and a bit old fashioned. So you…

Yes, that was my point...that at least they didn't make the dreaded than/then mistake.

I think what bothered me in this case was the fact that it's an official corporate communication of some type. When huge companies like Intel can't even be bothered to check their grammar anymore, you know literacy is in trouble.

I can't wait to look older and more haggard in my FaceTime chats.

Will Iris iGPUs fit in the 13" retina MacBook Pros? If so, damn, I should have waited.

At least they didn't say "more then Doubles" which would have caused my head to explode immediately.

The fact that Intel capitalized the word "Doubles" in the middle of a sentence for no reason is driving me crazy. (Yes, I need to get a life.)

"the big twist about his character the Mandarin, which is big enough that we don't explicitly reveal here, although it's already on the movie's Wikipedia page"

I'm gay and PSY makes no sense to me.

I had to google Sheldon Cooper and now I has a sad.

I don't think they did.

I'm always wary of scientific explanations for cultural practices. Usually it's a combination of factors, both biological and cultural. For example, what kissing actually means to us and why (and how) it can take on those meanings is an interesting question and one that I don't think science can answer.

I like how they felt the need to include both French and English here, even though the only difference is and/et. Maybe just use "&" and call it a day?

There's also Rick Yancey's new YA novel, "The Fifth Wave," which is being released on May 7th. His publishers are already hyping it as the next Hunger Games/Twilight/Harry Potter, etc., and early reviews have been positive. I read part of the first chapter and found it horribly written. (Of course, that didn't stop…

I think (hope?) that the failure of The Smurfs 2 is a foregone conclusion.

I'm not condoning piracy, but I am saying that entertainment studios are taking the completely wrong approach. If you want to stop piracy, you need to train younger audiences to download and pay for content. The only way to do that is to make it conveniently accessible at a reasonable price. They should be scrambling…

More of the same I guess.

I disagree. The movie was framed as exactly what it was – a Hollywoodized version of the legend. As such, it featured Greeks who were lily white and a horde of demonic, brown-skinned Persians (complete with "exotic" eye makeup and sinisterly effeminate mannerisms). The whole thing was not only boring and stupid, but…

I've been doing the 5:2 thing for a couple months now. On my fasting days I tend to have coffee throughout the day, and a 600-calorie snack right before sleep (I can't fall asleep when I'm hungry). I've noticed a few effects: