The human body produces more ethylmercury and formaldehyde on its own than is contained in all the vaccines given on the current schedule.

Obviously a story worth telling, but Randall Munroe made the good point that by constantly holding up Marie Curie, we run the risk of ignoring other female scientists, thus reinforcing the idea that women are shitty at science.
A particularly good pairing for this director would be a story about Maryam Mirzhakani, an…

Senility? An inflated ego due to obscene wealth, lifelong lack of consequences and the ability to get whatever he wants from sycophants, plus an adderall addiction?
He's a crazy piece of shit, doesn't make him mentally ill.

I feel like there's some reason this guy won't listen to Seth. It's right on the tip of my tongue. Starts with a J.
Joker! Right, because Seth's a comedian.

Huh. My great grandmother lived through the Depression as well. Born in 1919, came to CA in a truck from SD because locusts had eaten the farm. She'd be annoyed if someone called her plain (twice), and would be amused if someone said she had wisdom. She'd be outright pissed if someone said she spoke like this.
In what…

http://www.thedailybeast.co…
You're being played like a damn fiddle.

Maybe Oz just gets more attention, or Phil has kept under the radar lately, but Oz has had a noticeable and deleterious effect on this country's health by practicing wildly outside of his scope. He shills supplements and practices that are occasionally fatal, entirely useless and at best are a waste of money (green…

He actually looks like Pepe up there.

I suspect it would've. Dems didn't vote due to (a) voter suppression or (b) all the polls suggested they could be lazy, avoid the line, and go home early or (c) fuck Hilary and the DNC bro!
Mandatory voting, or at least Oregon's system of automatically signing people up for absentee ballots, would do an end-run around…

I saw downthread what the ending was. My thoughts are mostly "yeuch."

You realize hospitals these days are predominantly staffed by Filipinos, Indians, and Latinos, right? And they're not taking a day, because people would die.

Gay male films have the same formula, with a couple prostitution-based films thrown in. The prostitution storylines are kinda nasty, since it's there as titillation and poverty porn. The stuck-in-the-closet storylines tend to be more miserable in gay movies as well.
If someone's looking for a decent gay flick that…

Feel like doing a spoiler thread?

dude, delete this.

I can't be the only one who doubts that he's gay at all, right? Everything else about him is manufactured.
ETA: dammit, zizi, scroll!

Trump called Mattis a soldier. That's bad enough on its own.

I've been in hospitals my entire life and both my parents are in the medical field; my mom works with surgeons every day and I've met them all. I gotta say, Todd's a terrible representation. A toned-down, more polite Cox was ironically the best representation of a surgeon.
Early season ER got the most right; Crichton…

Yeah, none of this looks good. Why did we ask the gods for rain?

I'm over by the cosumnes River. I can't imagine what more rain and wind is going to do.

You have to warn people when an illustration like that is forthcoming.