I would love to hear about the brain study. Specifically why anyone was willing to touch it— that's like studying anything based on race.

Yes, there really and truly is a "League" of scientists that destroys the careers of others.

Oftentimes it is a grant review committee. Physics isn't my area, but it happens all the time in biochemistry. A bunch of your "peers" and "colleagues" sit and review grants you have for ideas you would like to investigate.…

Secrets are the cost of a life lived.

"I suddenly had the audacity to question the current social and political system and ask how — if at all — it served women."

Just now

We Americans find the notion of a Ministry of Culture shocking for a few reasons. I'll enumerate them for you. I'll even do so politely :)

In the past three months I have lost two family members and one close friend. I haven't cried yet because I haven't had a chance to leave that weird "must stay functional" space and it sort of just... isn't something I can easily deal with.

There was a time when the annoyances of PC gaming were common. I remember it only from the late 90's.

I regret giving those kids money for their stupid overpriced candy bars now. Like I care if America's children can play soccer abroad. Fund your own damn equipment!

What makes you think it is appropriate to talk about people like this? You would be all up-in-arms over the same people making a "Fat Bitches of the Nation" chart identical to this one.

Xanax. Xanax is the only answer to "How to relax".

I'm as pro-choice as they come but holy shit, the idea of anyone but a trained surgeon performing an abortion is terrifying.

South Dakota never had a population to worry about to begin with. The only reason it has an economy now is because of shale mining, gas and coal.

Hallelujah.

There is, but Hollywood and New York have absolutely no idea how to portray us. I grew up in an incredibly diverse metropolitan area— not Chicago— and regularly heard other languages as a normal part of my day.

There is, but Hollywood and New York have absolutely no idea how to portray us. I grew up in an incredibly diverse metropolitan area— not Chicago— and regularly heard other languages as a normal part of my day.

The problem I have is that you deliberately see only the forest instead of the trees, and it doesn't make sense.

Who is this "we"? It's 2013. Most white people in this nation immigrated within the last century off a boat.

Look, you're going to invent practical time-travel before you pierce the cultural narrative invented by over-educated people on the east coast. They need that story to be true for a number of reasons.

Thank heavens racism is a white-people-only problem. That really narrows down the problem.