Sounds like you're having a good time at Wondercon.

Get it? Batteries?

The Star Wars magnets on my fridge, my electric blanket, and my electric razor all have magnetic fields with an intensity greater than the Earth's magnetic field, at the distances I am commonly exposed to them. If magnetic storms are making me sick, my electric blanket should have killed me by now.

To be fair, the 182,000 N estimate is based a hypothetical 67-foot C. megalodon. 67 feet is kind of a "maximum possible estimate" for that species, based on more than a few speculations. A more conservative (and widely-accepted) estimate of 52 feet long would give C. megalodon a bite force of very close to what they…

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

Wait . . . the crocodiles living today didn't bite anywhere nearly as hard as the estimates for Tyrannosaurus: 16,000 N vs. 30–60,000 N. The headline seems to be overstating things a bit. #corrections

While I wasn't really hung up on it, and instead being "funny" (or attempting) . . . chrono2x has the gist of it. Out at the very edges of the observable universe, we're "seeing" spacetime before photons decoupled from matter. Which means we're not seeing it, because there are no photons headed our way. It's close…

This isn't a map of the entire observable universe, but a map of the entire visible universe.

They're less filling.

Actually, the fish probably accidentally thrashed its way into an oxygen-free zone in the lagoon, and quickly suffocated. The bodies of water that produced this fossil were riddled with anoxic zones, which facilitated this kind of great preservation (as most bacteria would quickly die in the oxygen-free water, too.)

Unescoceratops, not Unescopceratops, as it was named for UNESCO. Looking forward to Comcastopteryx and Exxonodon in the near future. #corrections

I think we can all take away a valuable lesson from this.

So chicken-or-egg . . . did the loss of taste sensitivity let them be less selective in feeding, or did a change in feeding behavior make taste sensitivity unimportant (and, when lost by a chance mutation, it wasn't missed)?

The consequences for underestimating the kindness of others are not nearly so severe as the consequences for overestimating the kindness of others. With so much incentive to err on the side of distrust, I am not surprised to see us erring on the side of distrust.

Where are the Islands of Alaska to the south-west?

Little did the fox know, that garlic bread was loaded with unhealthy trans fats and carbs.

STUDENT used Last Year's Test Answers!

Nobody self-identifies as a "consumer". If a group identifies themselves as "for consumers", it means the group was put together by people who see other people as "consumers", i.e. it was put together by somebody with something to sell.

Do you want them drawing bones, or the skin wrapped around them? Or artifacts?

Yeah, I don't think any of the dinosaurs Charles Knight painted are believed to have had feathers. Skin impressions of Tyrannosaurus show scales, not feathers . . . and Laelaps probably wasn't too different from a tyrannosaur itself.