the only metals that stick to magnets are iron and niobium (which is what they make disk drive magnets from). A lot of piercings aren't made of that. Silver won't stick and neither will aluminum, or titanium for that matter, nor nickel or anything else relatively cheap.

also @avclub-0d7691bc008c448f5f42e5b5a4d63788:disqus — Touchscreens pick up changes in resistance from you touching them. A touchscreen is really a grid of really tiny wires, all of them connected to a power source and what amounts to a voltmeter. There are two kinds of touch screens. The ones at ATMs and such which…

upvoted for knowing the music because dammit, even really famous classical pieces leave me shrugging with my complete lack of knowledge. (My mom was always disappointed that I never got into classical music and I am just terrible at picking out pieces). I feel like it's this massive gap that prevents me from seeing…

"The ability of various clones to secretly and quickly cross borders in a
post-9/11 world might be one of the more outlandish parts of this show,
but we’ll just let M.K.’s intense spy abilities and Mrs. S’s
connections account for how people are getting back and forth so easily."

Yeah, I wasn't as impressed. I think the werewolf and vampire guys were written in such a way that I didn't feel the writers knew what direction they wanted to take them in. Hal in particular seemed a bit all over the place. But YMMV. (I thought season two was where the show found its footing more).

Perhaps I should amend in0character to in-story or in-universe. The problem is that his keeping it a secret (at least to her) stops making sense pretty early on. And as I alluded to earlier, plots that depend on characters being kind'a dumb don't tend to work really well, if the dumb isn't for a very good reason.

Especially since said woman is like, bleeding all over the place.

This. I think that's the problem with this series a bit, as it can be a bit jarring, and I am usually pretty forgiving of stuff like that.

In New York city nobody would notice them on the subway. We'd just assume they were headed to a FetLife club or something.

Here's the thing. Here I am, a guy of part-Asian descent who sees the Orientalism now but certainly didn't when I was younger. Heck, I took up a martial art in no small part because of these damned comic books and such.

That's the problem — there's not much in-character reason for it. Murdock seems allover the place on that issue.

A little nerd chemistry, to Oliver Sava's point about baking soda/ booze mixes: Yes, the concoction involving booze and baking soda is very unpleasant. Though the baking soda wouldn't react with the alcohol, it would certainly neutralize any acids.

I don't think everyone unabashedly romanticizes the 1950s. Certainly my family did not, as we had a long and productive relationship with HUAC, which resulted in jail time for my grandfather.

The problem here is just that, though. Hammond has a hell of a compelling pitch here. Those passages about his mother are just crazy, and could be the core of a really, insanely compelling read.

Speaking as a journalist, while I enjoyed the trip to the back room with the old issues of the newspaper when Page looks up Castle's old case, there are a couple of things that stood out to me. First, back issues are organized in most places in a very easy-to-find way. In the pre-internet era, we had these filing…

Thanks for responding. I am not sure about writers — my knowledge of the literature of the period from Russia is rather limited to that pile of Soviet sci fi I ran across in the University of Rochester library. I almost want to call them up and ask about the collection and see who edited it. I do remember it was…

I was thinking that the connotation of corvée and serf labor would mean more to people in the region (Eastern Europe) who were more intimately connected with it. That is, for modern readers the connection is lost because actual serfs are so far distant in space and time (and language). In American English there really…

I think they did, actually, though I wasn't sure if it was a real demand or some political theater. Ever notice that Kissinger hasn't left the US in decades?

Yeah thank God he wasn't National Security Advisor by that point anymore (or rather had just left that post I think).

The problem isn't suspension of disbelief, it's characters who simply do not behave like actual humans and a cartoonish understanding of faith that cripples these movies from the get go.