Having worked in science/medicine environments for my career, I can say that those scientists I know who were aware of the show generally enjoyed it, but weren’t at all obsessed with it.

Maybe this is one of those details that everyone knows, so the article didn’t feel the need to mention it. But in case not...

I don’t know if it was invented in Britain, but the variety of spaghetti bolognese as described in this article is pretty common in Europe (although this is the first time I’ve heard it called “spag bol”). My informal survey and incomplete memory of when I lived in Europe left me with the impression that its the…

I’m guessing, like spam, the American branded “Vienna sausage” was one of those products first developed as an army field ration that was rebranded for the civilian market after whatever war it was developed for ended.

I remember the cartoon from the 80s being much better than it had any reason to be, so perhaps this isn’t an awful idea. It was definately better and at least somewhat more based on it's video game than that “Saturday Supercade” show from around the same time.

I’m surprised it wasn’t canceled even before it was announced.

It probably won’t affect his productivity for at least a few years, especially with the medication, but the disease always gradually worsens. He’ll eventually have trouble initiating any movement, eating, controlling his bowel/bladder, and a bunch of other things that most of us take for granted.

“No one leveled the entire city at some point and replaced it with Tomorrowland.”

This was a good read, but I would argue that Fistful of Dollars is decidely not a Hollywood film (I know, the authors usually don't write the headlines for their pieces).

Collagen is mostly just repeating subunits of proline and lysine. If it even could be broken down into these amino acid subunits and absorbed from the gut, your body would use that extra proline and lysine for whatever it needed at the time, which is almost certainly not more collagen to make you look and feel younger.

That was one of the things I liked about Luca. The character design was noticably different for what now has become standard in animation.

I would rather try this than a mayonnaise doughnut.

This is pretty much what most Hollywood celebrities did when in uniform during WWII (those who were already famous, not those whose careers took off later). I think only Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart actually saw actual combat.

I remember when they released a “tropical berry” or something like that version of Skittles.  Rumor on the playground was the purple Skittle in this assortment tasted exactly like soap.  I can confirm the rumors were true.  To this day, I wonder if this was actually intentional, so strong was the soap flavor.

It’s more the principle that I already subscribe to two other streaming services just so I can regularly watch cycling events, especially the spring classics, but those services are blacked out in the US because NBC has exclusive rights.

Let’s fight over titanium dioxide, while of course, ignoring all the sugar in these things. Diabetes is a thing and it ain’t so good for your health.

I remember it existed only because the Critical Drinker reminded me it sucked.

Personally, I’d prefer “courgette” to “zucchini”, and “aubergine” to “egg plant” but I don’t think my revolution would catch on.

Having spent some time in Italy, I can report that what gets served in restaurants there has very little resemblance to what an “Italian” restaurant in the US offer, particularly the northern third of Italy.

The funny thing is that in English for years, the use of the word Latino was non-binary, like virtually every foreign loan word into English, since English for the most part doesn’t have grammatical gender. Even in Dutch and German, which do use grammatical gender, the default for a male or female person or when used…