If the next big sci-fi series (say a new alien race in a Star Trek reboot) incorporated Nepalese as an alien language, you can rest assured the nerds will learn and preserve the language long after the Nepalese are all speaking muggle English.

Hounds of Baskerville was always one of the more popular SH stories, although from a realistic standpoint, I always thought it was a bit supernatural in presentation, which was unusual for the canon.

There are 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories, and four novels. I humbly ask that Moffat and Cumberbatch make as many as possible - ideally, all of them. This is the best show on television IMO; indeed, the production quality and length put them on par with feature length A list films.

Would mean she will be equally racist towards both of you.

Vis-a-vis selection pressures, it's not a question of how we deal with others, (jostles, social situations, whatever) but whether whatever mutations there are contribute to surviving to a reproductive age and passing on those genes. Sure, maybe the anxious, awkward kid isn't as well adapted to modern circumstance,…

NO. That's "Social Darwinism" and it's only metaphorically related to Evolution. Here's the wiki page - [en.wikipedia.org]

Although it sounds teleological, the reason for many people talking about humans being at the "end of the [evolutionary] line" (apart from religious folk) is because of the idea humans have essentially removed the forces of selective pressure. Animals aren't killing us, the natural elements are behind closed doors,…

You can make any suggestions you want, just keep in mind that others will voice their opinions too. I'll finish by saying that you're doing yourself a disservice by not listening to the very people you claim you respect (e.g. the scientists in the movie) who after watching the film, have expressed their disapproval…

The logical answer is we do not know, indeed we may never have a truthful answer. (There are many unverifiable, untrue answers though)

Hey, here's an idea. Let's post the link to the Academic Reception section of Wikipedia's entry on What The Bleep:

Indeed they are - and that includes listening to me or not listening to me, rather than having to sit through 2 hours or pseudo-scientific garbage so they can have their own informed opinion on just how garbage WTBDWK is.

No one should watch Weiner's film recommendation. It is utter drivel; complete nonsense.

It's probably because it's a photo.

Episode title: Distant Cousins. The saurian race was known as as the Voth.

I had read it. I guess the "tried" part threw me off what you were saying. :)

It would be nice if Gizmodo followed this article up with, "The best AA batteries for the money are always RECHARGEABLE batteries." Except for rare situations, 95% of consumerists would be better and more economically served with rechargeables. Like the Sanyo Eneloops.

Taken from THE REGISTER (IBT > Register > Gizmodo for those following)

While you, dear compatriot, are just hopeless.

Not sure if you know this or not, but in spite of those deaths, the Islamic Revolution was successful.

Oh, I don't know, maybe because the $50 game can give me between 10 and 50 hours of entertainment, verses the 1-2 with a movie? Here's a couple links, amongst thousands on the internet, that support the idea of video games as one of the cheapest forms of entertainment.