I suspect the headline would be more along the lines of "Will Newly Discovered Asteroid Strike Earth?" with the answer nestled 3 paragraphs in.

By weight or mass, almost certainly. That's the benefit of not needing to support your own weight.

So it was bit by a tick, then.

You can tell they're remarkable because they've survived thousands of years.

Reptiles are indeed a remarkable species.

Does this finding of teenagers' sleep cycles hold true if they're removed from artificial sources of light? Because just about everybody has a radically different sleep cycle if it actually gets dark at night.

Because the overall population is aging, and older people die more often than younger people, on average.

In 1991 the US had a violent crime rate of 758.2 per 100,000.

Because it's lazy.

That's partly because we now have postwomen as well as postmen . . . when before we largely didn't. Reality has changed and the language changed to match it. There are still males and females, however, so trying to change language to obfuscate that may be less quickly accepted.

It might have been even cooler if he hadn't capitalized the "rex".

There are actually a lot of different "hollow earth theories", but among them, the answers might be:

This particular study was about justifying behavior to yourself. Uncreative people, the theory goes, have plenty of obvious ways to cheat in front of them, but have trouble thinking of ways to justify cheating to their own conscience.

I cannot imagine what else this could be about, if not money. And unfortunately, "imagine" is all I can do, because nowhere amidst your assertion that "something more is going on here" have you said, or even implied, what that "more" might be.

If Harvard is the one pushing the faculty to open access journals, I'm sure Harvard will make accommodation for open-access journals when considering tenure for Harvard professors.

Whoa, they DID change the URL. They hadn't when I posted my comment yesterday. That almost never happens!

The title may change, but the URL stays the same.

I'm sure that, somewhere in between hydraulics and multi-stage rockets, the Chinese managed to figure out liposuction technology.

Cricket?! Nobody understands cricket. You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket.

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