Because light travels at a finite speed, things that are farther away from us are actually older—the Hubble deep field, as menozcm mentioned, is one way of seeing particularly far back—looking at the faintest, most distant galaxies to learn something new.

I can. I definitely can.

Legs are much larger than faces (I'm not sure that's taken into the above calculation, but it's certainly why I burn through razors so fast).

Holy bejeezus. I applied last year, and the most I was looking at (and the amount I ended up paying) is 50k a year (I was hooked and only applying to research unis, though, so maybe those are a few shades cheaper.)

I have 32Bs, and I *still* can't get them close enough together (that said, dorm showers have thus far prevented me from experiencing shower sex. Sad.)

My guy's like that. We always end sex/oral sex with a handjob, usually him getting himself off while I provide some sort of additional stimulation. Some dudes are just like that.

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I grew up in Fairfield County...there are people in my hometown who would agree with her, but they're a small minority; most of them would likely agree with me that she's being abhorrant.

Why why why is there so much course 6??

If the MIT guys believe that, I'm going to punch something—I'm starting as a freshman this Fall.

A friend of mine who spent much of her childhood in China says that the whole thing is just karmic payback for what the Japanese did to the Chinese in WWII. My response—yes, the Japanese did bad things, but the people who are being harmed by this disaster are not the same individuals who hurt your family. Karma…

To cite all 7 of my Chinese friends who have told me to read the Wall Street Journal article (and from what other Asian friends say in conversation)—yes, Tiger Mom does exist in nature. What's interesting as well is how varied the kids responses to that are.

@newageamazon: I was going to say that it likely cuts less weirdly on individuals of more average height, but I think it might actually be *more* horribly cut on shorter people.

@emmagine: Oh my gosh! I just pulled myself away from xkcd to look at Jezebel, but, well, wow! You know, I pretty frequently wear my hair in a high ponytail as well, and I kind of figured that the whole attending-one-of-the-top-five-universities-in-the-world thing, or the spending-my-free-time-doing-SCIENCE thing was…

@weetziebat: It reminds me of when I was little, and I was one of the little girls popping out from under her skirt in The Nutcracker...but it wasn't a lady in the dress, it was a man, who, fortunately, did not fart.

@sweet tea vodka: You speak the truth.

@Fridge Hussy: Looney Bin Is An In-Group Only Word!: Galileo Galilie comes pretty darn close as well.

When I was twelve, my family decided to take a vacation to some island in the Caribbean. We were traveling with some family friends who had a son about six months older than me (I naturally, was totally and utterly in love with him), and a daughter the same age as my younger sister, but they had flown in separately, a…

Maybe there's something wrong with me, but I think this is kind of adorable

@Twanzio: Replace "woman" with "man" and you have "Greenbean's Philosophy of Sexiness."