Agreed. It's actually fairly easy to me to not only tell different English accents apart from different parts of England, but I can even tell you what part of my home state (Massachusetts) someone is from by accent. If you can't tell them apart it's definitely you.

No, he was dead on. He's done the same accent in the Ted movies too. I grew up in the area and turned to my husband and said, "Finally!"

Well, it's more of the idea that lay people have that the surgeons should be concentrating on what they are doing at all times. You don't want that. That is how mistakes are made. If the surgeon is experienced enough, and the surgery routine enough and no complications, s/he is relying entirely on muscle memory and is…

Dude, I got little 2 kids, a live and helpful husband, and a job as a (nonsurgeon) doctor, and I don't even have time to get my hair cut or go to the dentist, never mind all this dating and dinner parties and drinking.

I've never seen someone with three kids with as much free time as her. Especially as single mom and surgeon

Trust me, if you are in an OR and everyone suddenly stops talking about their weekend, or whatever, and starts talking about the operation, you are in deep poopoo. Just like any workday anywhere else, when things are going well/routinely, you shoot the breeze. When stuff hits the fan, it gets quiet. When I had my…

No more so (or less) than anyone else of any other age.

You laugh but I saw this come up as a serious discussion point in a sermon at a baby's funeral in a fundamentalist church.

I mean, that's true, (I would probably actually like to be about 25 forever) but maybe just some sort of throwaway line about it. Just seems kind of odd that the afterlife seems to be populated by people in their 30s-40s exclusively. To the point where it's really distracting to me- take a look at an obituary page in…

I would also like to point out everyone in this is really young. I mean, demographically, the majority of the characters should be 80+ years old and have lived full lives. I mean, I could argue that maybe how they are represented bodily in the Good Place is as their younger selves, but really this otherwise is a…

No, she's Colombian. We are just witnessing a post-Trump America where it's OK to be lazy and call all Latinos "Mexicans."

I'm glad you're so worried about reducing Gloria to a stereotype, when you just referred to someone from Colombia as a Mexican. Where they've mention d dozens of times where she's from, Because, sarcasm alert, anyone who is Latino, the whole continent of South America and half of North America, are all "Mexicans."…

I am a little worried that 21 year old Riley's life would probably largely be not PG rated, at least if my 21 year old life was any indication.

I was "eh" when I saw it when it first came out. Then my firstborn had me watch it approximately 500 billion times. It did grow on me.

Do you work with any gifted and/or really well educated kids?

Every day.

Why? She's ten, not two.

Scrooge McDuck

It appears that that we don't understand what contributes to the resting metabolic rate as well as we thought we did. No one knows why it is lower, and I presume that is what they are going to investigate. It definitely is not due to lowered activity as this is a resting metabolic rate, no activity whatsoever. It is…

Actually, the article makes it pretty clear that the actual metabolism changes, which was very unexpected. The contestants who lost weight burned hundreds of calories less than people of similar end weights who had never been fat, at a basal resting level. So, the people who had been fat needed to eat hundreds of…