I would argue the opposite, actually. I think it's a testament to video games' growth as a medium that the best storytelling moments or atmospheric vistas or what have you don't have to involve (in this case) firefights and explosions. Considering their reputation as mindless shoot-em-ups, moments like this are very…

For one thing, it's only 'simulating' a single action potential, or 'signal' down a neuron's axon. It's not a model of a neuron at all, it's a model of the propagation of a signal along a chemical gradient. Since the average neuron looks like what's pictured and not a linear line, he only has about a dozen more to…

Crowdsourced classical music by Jeremy Soule? I'm there in a heartbeat.

You don't have to 'hate' a company to advocate a boycott. They are an important part of getting messages from consumers across to large companies, particularly when you have spectacular lapses like this one that don't seem to have an end in sight.

"The game kinda seems like a Saturday morning cartoon version of Blade Runner or something."

Urgh. Something about that trailer is really grating with me. I'm not sure if it's the chunky animations of the characters or the oppressive layer of grimdark or the red goa'uld eyes or what, but it's actively making me wish they just left the franchise dead and buried in the shallow grave they found it in.

Yep. Incidentally, one of the most amusing anecdotes I've ever heard came from a museum director that speculated that somewhere in the Vatican there's a drawer full of all the marble and bronze penises they've chipped off of their statues in the last few centuries.

It is a double standard, absolutely. But our culture is weird that way; we won't bat an eye at showing people getting shot and killed on television, but the merest sight of a woman's nipple is enough to send people into a moral tizzy.

Considering the breeding ground for hospital-based superbugs prostheses would pose, they could absolutely harm others.

I respectfully disagree. Fine-scale genetic modification like this has the delicacy to potentially fix complex conditions on sensitive organs like arrhythmia without surgery or clunky interfaces between biology and circuitry, which is always going to be more medically-sound than trying to excise and replace tissues or…

I doubt that. China's got a looming property bubble that makes the 2008 crisis look like nothing and an exports market that is only held together by sheer force of will on the part of the Chinese government. And that's not even taking into account the demographic brick wall that they're staring down over the next 50…

Point out where I said that human sacrifice was a good thing.

The Romans and Carthaginians practised human sacrifice too, and yet we tend not to frown upon them nearly as much.

It's especially hard when you're dealing with a subject like lions. I mean, anyone can twist a research article on autism in mice (or something) and turn it into 'researchers cure autism in mouse' and easy advertising cash. That's easy. Turning lion genetics into click-bait? Now that takes real skill.

Something about the CGI in this is seriously rubbing me the wrong way. I don't know if it's the style, which is a bit more stylized/unrealistic than BSG was, or the sheer, overwhelming volume of it that's doing it, but either way - I really don't like it. It's crossed over the bridge from CGI-enhanced realism to…

Tractor beams are not limited to Star Trek. They in fact predate the phaser by almost 40 years, and have been used in the Honor Harrington and Lensman series, Buck Rogers, Star Wars, Babylon 5, Archie comics (Yes, really) and even has its own TVTropes trope page. If you really can't tell the difference, I question…

Yeah! Ancient history university course powers activate!

Depending on when one wants to split Yahweh out of the Canaanite/Edomite pantheon (Which is difficult to determine precisely given how long Hebrew polytheism [or at the very least henotheism] managed to linger), he's about 3500 years old, give-or-take. There are gods like Inanna out of Mesopotamia that are 5000-6000…

Is anyone else getting a FemShep vibe from the female space marine? (Who I've just googled and is apparently called Sergeant Calhoun)

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