But how will we know she's a woman if we can't see both her boobs and butt at the same time?!

I don't think that kind of ambiguity is a dealbreaker - you get the same sort of problems when talking about multiple people of the same gender and most of the time it's clear in context:

I thought "habitable" meant "habitable by humans"? If it's five times the mass of earth, I don't think we could live there very happily.

A good macaron is really, really good. But good macarons are really hard to find, and they go stale in a couple hours, tops.

Nice. Though the funny thing is, as scary as it looks, feuilleton is actually a pretty easy word to spell if you've studied french. I watched the video and while they try to trick the kid by giving him a really americanized pronunciation, once he asks for language of origin and alternate pronunciations it's pretty…

My guess is that a lot of the older photos here were taxidermied dogs

There's also the correlary to this- the YA protagonist who really loves reading. It's such a lazy way to get your readers to identify with the character.

My father ended up in a situation like that once, actually - he drove around a corner to find that a car and motorcyclist had gotten in an accident, and were stopped in the middle of the road. He didn't have time to stop, so he had to decide in a split second - do I hit the car, or the motorcycle/motorcyclist?…

See, I'm not convinced the author was ever trying to tell a "coherent anti-establishment story" - I think the books, much like Katniss herself, never fully commit to taking up the side of the revolution.

That's why I never liked taking notes on my laptop - it's awkward to be limited to only text, I like to be able to draw lines and boxes and things.

But why does it matter if the bible has the earth existing before the sun? The only people who are bothered by this are people who insist on reading the bible like a science textbook. It's a holy book, it's not supposed to be about astronomy.

If you would like to know one common way to reconcile modern science with the various stories in the Bible, look into the concepts of Biblical "infallibility" and "inerrancy". It's not a new idea.

I know this is odd advice, but I'd recommend skipping the first Thomas Covenant book and going straight to the second one - there's really only one thing that happens in the first book that matters, and it's something that's probably better to be told than shown, anyways.

I read the first and second trilogies this…

I've read the book a bajillion times, and I've been following all the discussions on io9 about the movie and the titles and everything... and your comment is the first time I've ever noticed the second "the". I've been reading it as "The Battle of Five Armies" the whole time. Huh.

Do you really think io9 is being even-handed here? The scientific definition of pregnancy is irrelevant to the moral issue at hand, and the moral issue at hand is probably irrelevant to the court case (because a religious belief doesn't need to be "true" to be federally protected).

So why this article? Because it…

Am I the only one who was struck by the completely modern looking bicycle in this picture? I didn't realize that design was around almost 100 years ago.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking but couldn't figure out how to explain. Though I think you meant "dependant" when you said "[...] and got two values of the independant variable.", right?

That... actually explains a lot.

But what would a control group tell us here? I can't see how it would make the results more valid to add a "not told anything in particular about the milkshake" group.

Yeah, caffeine makes me anxious as well. Quitting coffee and tea has probably been the single most effective thing I've done so far for getting my anxiety under control.