There was concept art in the background of photos for Newt, way back when that was still a thing. So people knew they were doing a dinosaur film. But yeah, I think this is the first time there's been a title.

If it's energetic enough to do damage, it's energetic enough to be food . . ..

A pro basketball game is not exactly free of extra variables. I suspect the "reverse hot-hands" effect exists BECAUSE players attempt fewer 3-pointers after a miss, and thus is BECAUSE they're learning from experience rather than the contrary:

I think it's measuring H2 per milligram of chlorophyll per hour, with h being hours.

I ended up missing much of the article because I was so enthralled with the verbification of "Frankenstein".

The ground is the warmest place to be on a hot sunny day. Being a biped lets you get more of your body further from the hot, hot ground, and gives you access to cooler breezes that don't always make it down to ground level. Without access to the study, I don't know if they addressed this part of the thermoregulation…

Correct on both counts. There are jawless vertebrates (lampreys, hagfish) which branched off the vertebrate family tree before jaws were invented. And these jawless vertebrates have less than 4 Hox clusters.

And we're *not* hairless, not in any way that is helpful for streamlined swimming. Streamlinedness in water can be accomplished two ways: lose *all* your hair (whales), or grow a thick coat of fur, which actually reduces drag even more than nakedness. Humans are in-between . . . just enough hair to cause drag and…

Aquatic Ape doesn't explain much that other hypotheses can't explain better, and more simply.

I'm red-green colorblind (like so many other commenters apparently) . . . does red-green colorblindness really turn reds into greens? I always thought it just turned reds and greens into an indistinguishable brown-grey.

It actually doesn't clean stains at all, but none of the newly-blinded shirt-wearers can tell the difference.

Yeah, I always thought that was the joke . . . since everybody's chin looked yellow, it was right 100% of the time.

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WD40 . . . in space?

I disagree that the full responsibility is on the (switchperson? switcher?). Unless the switchalyzer brought the hikers into the canyon, tied them to the tracks, and disabled the brakes on the train, there are other responsible parties involved in this scenario.

Where trains are concerned, "runaway" just means it's no longer being controlled (and in this context, means that stopping it isn't an option available to you). A train can pull into the station right on time, but still be a "runaway train" if the brakes don't work when it gets there.

This has got me wondering about all sorts of tangential things that aren't included here. I don't in *any* way begrudge the authors of this research for keeping their focus narrow, but I would love to see some follow-up questions about what assumptions people made about the situation (shown next to what choice they…

It's not that it's "not making a choice", it's that it's "not taking an action". Clearly it's a choice, you've been told to *make* a choice. But you can choose not to act.

You did misread it, but I can see how you did.