Sad - although I also imagine that this group is less likely than the public-at-large to use information about their mother's name or kids for security questions. That might explain the unusually high percentages willing to hand out that data.

I always find these articles about female orgasms sad because it's obvious that there are no good solutions to what is basically a vicious circle (the guy feels bad for not giving the girl an orgasm; the girl feels bad for not having her orgasm; the guy feels bad that the girl feels bad for not having an orgasm; the…

My thoughts exactly - although the Occupy Wall Street movement could benefit from this just as much as the studio if the movie is any good. At the very least, it could help the average person better understand the logic of protesting systematic unfairness in financial systems.

I'd rather have a movie of Fforde's "The Eyre Affair" - Mycroft puts that wannabe mad scientist from Fringe to shame.

My pet theory (hah!) has always been that black cats were more likely to be killed by superstitious people - especially if they were not particularly friendly. That means that those black cats that were a little friendlier lived longer and were more likely to procreate. Basically, unnatural selection favored friendly…

The problem with this, though, is that this baloney about fighting demonic forces in the jungles isn't a fictional story to true believers. That is why certain evangelical churches send witch hunters into Africa; just Google Thomas Muthee's "missions" (his are a bit more famous because of his connection to Sarah…

The article is about the LUCA, but I was just wondering about the FUCA. My question was whether scientists think that FUCA had ancestors itself that evolved independently. It seems likely to me, but I don't have any formal training beyond introductory college biology and was wondering if there were any accepted…

I like that answer - although couldn't those features all be inherent to carbon-based lifeforms regardless of evolutionary relationship? It's not like we have any examples of living things that don't conform to those features to prove conclusively that such variation is possible.

But whereas mitochondrial Eve or Y-chromosome Adam's divergent ancestors would in turn have a common ancestor, it would be likely that the first common ancestor of all living things has ancestors that were never related, right?

But LUCA itself would/could have "ancestors" who were evolved independently and then came together - right?

Creating empathy among children who will never meet a "food insecure" person is surely a good thing, though, regardless of whether or not a sizable number of viewers can identify with the character. Just think about some of the prejudices against the poor that have taken hold in our society - epitomized by the ethos…

Could it be that the Doctor is going to borrow the Silence's ability to be forgotten? It would be like him to use the weapon of his enemy as a tool to defeat them (with the added bonus here that they wouldn't even remember who it was that defeated them in order to hold a grudge/come back another day).

Regardless of who wins this contest (what, no Firefly music? now who do I bet on?), I believe that gathering all these songs (and videos) in one place counts as a great service to humanity.

Come now - no need to go all "hipster nerd" on us.

Just wait until they cap off the trilogy with "The Last Last Exorcism"

Just leave the face uncloaked? How much harder is it to see and shoot a floating head while scanning a battefield (even if it is in a light warping bubble) than a full body no matter how good the camo?

Very true - although my point wasn't that this complaint makes sense in relation to Slaughterhouse Five but that misrepresenting history at least looks like a real reason to keep a book off a school's reading list (e.g., holocaust denying literature); there is no similar kind-of justification I can see for any rules…

Wait, this book was banned for "false conceptions of American history and government or ... teach[ing] principles contrary to Biblical morality and truth"? The former rationale makes me uneasy, but I suppose there's an argument that could be made for it (certainly there are bad reasons to misrepresent history); the…

I didn't realize that about the comics - never really got interested in them. In theory, the concept of an "alternate history" is interesting. It would be especially so if they occasionally revisited situations from canonical episodes of the TV show and explored how Dawn's presence would alter what people remember…

I think everyone who cares has heard about the Buffy cartoon - however, I never realized that it would include a young Dawn as made clear in that cast line-up image. That just seems terribly sloppy in terms of continuity - after all, Dawn was never really younger than she was in season five except in everyone's false…