Replicators from Star Trek from Star Trek because I actually enjoy a good buzz from a drink or two. I don't want to live in a world where Synthehol is my only option.

This is definitely the dark side of Gamification.

Am I the only one who wonders how Naga doesn't constantly get heat stroke when she travels?

Mainly going back and forth between short stories in"Kabu Kabu" by Nnedi Okorafor and "Young Woman in a Garden" by Delia Sherman. Also trying to get some non-fiction in with "Subliminal" by Leonard Mlodinow".

Those are my favorites too!

This isn't so much outright tyranny as it is the Commitment and Consistency principle. People have a strong tendency to stand by decisions and statements they've made to avoid being viewed as dishonest or untrustworthy. There's a great example of how American POWs during the Korean war being made to become…

How is this ugly sweater real but all of these gorgeous hoodies are merely conceptual?
http://prathik.deviantart.com/art/Avatar-Hoo…

That GIF is amazing.

I don't think it matters if it's for private consumption. After all, no one monitors hunters and anglers prepping their food.

Excellent, but my schadenboner is only at half-mast. More misandry GIFs! And misogyny GIFs! I just want to see people getting hurt!

I have never heard anyone refer to Islam as a (far) Eastern religion. It's definitely an Abrahamic religion like Judaism and Christianity. Also, hadn't Rome fallen by the time Islam came about? Or at least split in Holy Rome and Byzantium?

That was long before conservative western cultures (Islam and British Imperialism) muscled into India.

I imagine many people would dig in their heels and try to hold on to things as they are for as long as possible. Change be scary, yo.

If US cotton growers switched to hemp, the government would save a lot of money subsidizing them against foreign production. And we've already lost a WTO settlement from Brazil on top of it.

I'd like to know a lot more about the knowledge of American societies pre-Columbus in general, but I'm especially interested in how the Incas' buildings held together for centuries without any kind of mortar. That's some damn fine craftsmanship.

The Voynich manuscript is an old DnD manual.
http://xkcd.com/593/

Now you GTL while you get your PhD!

Special abilities (at least for good guys) are only used when the plot requires it. Like how in Book 3 Mako only used his lightning in the last episode against Ming-Hua.

Let's hope the people of Zao Fu are less easily distracted than Vegeta and Freiza.

It's happening!