Not according to their ingredient list. Where's your source?

Botulism is natural!

Everything is a tradeoff though.

What a catastrophe!

You call using women stunt casting, but every storm trooper, every First a Order officer, every resistance medic played by a woman DOES help make ur more inclusive. Having Rey in the lead is one thing, having a world in which women participate in all roles is even better – no matter how useless they are in their…

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck Yoooooooooooooooooou. The main character and as-of-now hero of the new trilogy is female. “Rey and Leia try and save the universe” is, as of now, a reasonable synopsis of what the trilogy is going to be all about.

I think that the fact that they were reaching out on FB should tell you that they didn’t think it was ancient.

Even if Maz is elevated to a larger role, I still think it’s a misuse of Lupita.

Iirc her response to watching five planets housing the entirety of the New Republic’s government be destroyed was to say something along the lines of “What if they target us next?!” So your take scans well.

It added another little detail filling in the 30 year gap of Han’s history. He’s made some friends along the way, why not a pirate-turned-bar owner (I like that she’s also serving her guests, and been doing it for a thousand damn years). And I liked the line about her being Chewbacca’s girlfriend. And hell, I don’t…

How deep into the planet though? When Luke falls out of Cloud City onto the antenna, there’s something that falls past him. I always *thought* (and IIRC, Timothy Zahn at least had the same idea) that it was Luke’s hand and/or lightsaber falling into the gas clouds.

Anyone else bothered a little bit, by the lack of Chewbacca/Leia resolution, at the very end of the movie?

That’s a very polite way to say that he wasn’t digging what Lupita was doing, and cut down her part.

What? You don't want an Evil Dead scene where Luke has to fight his disembodied hand, animated by the dark side?

god i hate this dumb EU love. It wasnt cannon. None of it ever. The only EU stuff that was canon and then retracted was a few of the prequel related books, and Shadows of the Empire. The prequels alone blew holes in the canon. No spaarti cloning cylanders. No mandalorian prison ships. No one called the clone masters.…

Crop varieties on the market now were developed years ago with older tech, but this is a really good point about our tools getting better!

That’s an issue with or without GMOs.

i really enjoyed reading this article. I work with genetically engineered animals in a research environment, and I wanted to point out that in the last 10 years, technology for directing the site of gene insertion has been developed (CRISPR/Cas9, TALEN). This actually makes GE plant/animal development faster and safer…

I have never understood the tomato fetish people have. I think there are much better tasting plants out there. But that said, this call to grow-your-own comes from such a reeking privilege that it makes me queasy. Most of the people who need low-cost foods also lack access to a lawn. I walked through the city housing…

I work for a food company that produces, honestly, some genuinely good food. We get emails daily about a host of issues (all primarily to do with a complete lack of scientific understanding, ‘educated’ as many of our customers are by Oz, Mercola et al) and all of the above are complaints they raise about GMO. and…