And you prove my point by admitting he has mental issues. I'm glad we could agree on some level, at least.

For nearly all of medical history, we could only study the brain after death, when there was no activity to detect. Now, we're finally able to scan brain activity, but soon, through the Brain Mapping Project,…

People love things for mental reasons. They hate things for mental reasons. All human behavior comes from the brain.

Sanity is not subjective. There are many, many diagnoses for all the different ways in which the brain can go wrong, and the effects of that change are constantly being studied in countless people all…

God caught him?! Oh man, that must have been an awesome thing to witness! Where are THOSE photographs?!

You think this is sane behavior?

Huh. I was coming here just to say I want a never-ending version of the recent XCOM: Enemy Unknown, except with paranormal enemies. Ideally, it would be a licensed BPRD (Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, the Hellboy government agency) game, where you recruit, train, and equip soldiers before sending them out…

As I have said so, so many times... Just because something isn't real, that doesn't mean it's not important. Every war in history was fought over things that aren't real. Ideas and their significance to people tend to be pretty heavy stuff.

Yeah, German was a beautifully rigid language in all regards except for the infuriating der, die and das. Then den, dem, and all the other possible combinations. Japanese is also very rigid, except its counting systems and kanji.

I think you're confusing "carbon" with "hydrocarbon." We don't burn carbon. We can't really. It's an atomic element. Matter does not get much smaller than that. We burn hydrocarbon molecules, which break up into hydrogen and carbon. We can make more, too. We'll never run out. Still, it's dirty, and getting too…

Wait... you think the government "asks" for taxes from people? Taxes are not a request, they're a demand, and the government does not need a reason to demand taxes. They'll take them without any justification. They don't need to come up with any big lies to make us hand over our share.

I always wanted to find a way to split CO2 into C and O2 using a device inside the lungs, so you'd never need to take another breath. Your lungs could endlessly recycle one breath for the rest of your life. But then I'm not sure how we'd talk.

Don't give Neal Adams any ideas. He's troubled.

Men would lie and say they have it on when they don't. At least, enough of them to ruin it for the rest of us. Men don't have as much to lose, since it's harder for them to catch diseases and they can't get pregnant.

Wait... that's not Knight Rider?

McShane certainly never got to talk or act like this on Kings, though.

I believe that gentleman pronounced it more like "Swejin."

Should have agreed to save the Princess only to ransom her back.

Exactly. Starting from the level of bacteria or even viruses, and working our way up the chain to humans, it makes sense that chain would keep going, beyond us, to the point where what are essentially living things would appear, from our perspective, to be gods. The same way I always imagine I look to a fish when I…

Sure it is. It's a bold line to cross that means no-one is off limits in the movie. The example I always remember best is the 1980s remake of the Blob. In fact, it was also the kid brother character's jerky friend, like in this one.

Thanks Lauren and Cletus! I just noticed Lauren wrote "telekinesis" in her description, which sounded better. If I was going the mostly-biological/historical route, maybe I would say that the white-skinned branch of humanoids were telekinetic, so they were dominating or even enslaving the Neanderthals and others, but…

Okay... the giant wolf reminded me of how much I've always wanted a story to be set in that crazy megafauna period in the early days of human evolution, when most animals had giant counterparts looming over the tiny people. That one wolf would be a stray who was raised by humans, and is the best friend and mount of…