I've always been partial to a lot of Bear McCreary's work, myself, particularly in the remake of Battlestar Galactica;

Tyrion was only ever given the title of Hand of the King because Tywin couldn't be there to take the position himself, as he was off fighting Robb and the Stark forces. Now that Tywin is back, Tyrion lost all of the authority he had, simply because he wasn't needed any longer. That and Cersei made absolutely sure…

For what it's worth, the serious, planet-wide effects of climate change are unlikely to start occurring even within the next decade or so; despite all of the CO2 we're pumping into the atmosphere and acidifying the oceans and deforesting the world, the Earth is still a bloody massive system that's fairly slow to…

'Vaginabombing'? Does that refer to a while back when people filled their senators/congressperson/whatever's Facebook page with updates on their vaginas? The difference comes in that the congresspeople/whatever put up their Facebook pages specifically to get feedback/drum up good PR/be accountable to their voters, and…

I would imagine it's more that the national media is picking up on these cases moreso than normal what with the Copeland case. It reminds me of an incident a couple of years ago when a large bird die-off was reported somewhere in the Midwest; it got picked up on the national news, and all of a sudden national outlets…

You humans are all RACIST!

Wonderfully, we're well on our way in regards to phylogenetic trees. This website here has a wonderful, scrollable diagram of all of the organisms that we've sequenced the genomes of, and is thus really accurate;

Well, the aquatic ape theory in general is pretty bad, to be honest. To quote Wiki;

Of course, that whole 'love the sinner, hate the sin' dealio tends to break down as soon as it's applied outside Christian apologist platitudes. As you say, humans are imperfect, and the likelihood of hormonal, angsty teenagers, let alone grown adults, being able to successfully naviage that bit of moral contortionism…

You don't have to watch it if you don't want to, you know. It's not as though HBO is the only channel on television; I'm sure ABC or the Family Channel or whatever has a nice, wholesome and non-offensive family comedy for you to watch instead. That way you can have your virtuous TV all to yourself and let the rest of…

I can't remember where I read this, but Martin has apparently given an outline of what will happen in the last two books to the directors/writers of the TV show, so that in the event of his untimely demise, they'll hopefully be able to give us closure via television. That is, if the series lasts that long. (which I…

No... Genesis really, really doesn't 'corroborate our modern understanding of the world's early days'. It's wrong pretty much from the get-go, what with the whole plants being created on the Earth's surface before the Moon, stars or the Sun bit and many others. Not to mention that all of humanity wasn't living close…

Which would be interesting, seeing as, when interpreted literally, the Bible also claims that the universe was created between 6000-8000 years ago. Which is problematic, to say the least.

@rsanchez1990

Mine did; I'm glad I wasn't the only one.

I dunno. From what I've read, it costs anywhere from $10 000 to $30 000 dollars for an individual full genome sequencing for humans; $2100 for sequencing gut bacterial genomes, though expensive, doesn't seem unreasonable. From the Nature link;