During an epidemic, what are the procedures when treating pregnant women with unknown infection status? I'm certainly not agreeing with the woman being refused treatment, but what were the alternatives? Take precautionary measure for every patient? Do they have the resources for that?

That sentence also confused me. I would like to know what it is supposed to mean.

It's possible that aliens visited in the past, saw nothing of interest and just haven't been back since to check up on things. Or maybe they're the ones who killed the dinosaurs. Who knows. But unless we find a fossil of an alien, it's not like stopping by, landing, evaluating life, would have left much of a trace.

YES! That's the movie she deserved an Oscar for.

Well, it depends on her inflection, "cancer, which I believe is a fungus" is different from "cancer, which I believe is a fungus"

I'm currently in Mexico and it's showing up on Netflix here. I've scrolled past it several times but I think now I'll finally give it a watch.

I heard the news in WoW trade chat. At first I thought it was a prank, surely, io9 would have reported it and well here we are. Man, this is really sad news. RIP

I watched Blade Runner for the first time in a philosophy class.

How are people defining forgiveness? It seems from reading the comments, some people think forgiveness means saying that what the person did is ok, or that you're going to be their friend or pretend it never happened.

2050 is obviously when the aliens arrive, it's the only explanation.

Men can "have it all" because the expectation is that his wife will do all the cooking, cleaning, and child rearing. It's no problem if a man doesn't know how to cook or clean, that's his wife's job.

If this is true, and I'm not saying it is, then what else are they hiding from us? What don't they want us to know???

As a reader of webcomics, the biggest mistake I've seen people make is NOT HAVING A BACKLOG!

Apparently, more people need to watch The Office.

...finds a way?

In Latin America, a lot of the buildings are brightly colored. I saw this frequently traveling through Peru, Ecuador and Mexico. I'm sure there are other examples. I love it! Who says building have to be stone colored or red brick? Bring on some COLOR!

Sigh. The more I understand, the less I understand.

That was absolutely fascinating!

I remember reading that story for a class on ethics and morality. In my paper, I chickened out, I said I'd stay and try to make things better for the child but if my efforts were in vain I'd leave. It wasn't until the class discussion afterwards that a student mentioned how the story parallels Christianity in that…

Slight nit pick, I thought Candis Cayne was the first transgender to be a series regular for her role in Dirty Sexy Money. It aired on ABC from Sept 2007-Aug 2008.