Sphere. It was one of my favorite books at the time and most of the dramatic tension revolved around finding out what was inside, the depiction of which I found fairly satisfying. But in the film, they never go inside! For me this missed the entire point of the mystery.

I think they meant a different kind of rip off. But even so, despite the art department having been told to use the Invisibles for inspiration, and presumably the writers having gotten something from it, I struggle to find any similarity beyond some hyper violence and appeal to popular metaphysics.

I got a bit of a Foss vibe during parts f Elysium

The perfect shoe ;)

I worked for a shoe store that made custom shoes based on a 3D scan of the client's foot, and it was still difficult getting a good fit, although part of the problem was that people with major foot issues were trying to use it as a substitution for orthotics.

If you can choose and exhibit multiple traits, than what does being divergent mean? What differentiates normal divergence with the sort that gets you killed?

I'm wondering if the air inside supports it, or if it would retain it's integrity but gain new properties if the air were evacuated and the exterior sealed?

My friend wrote a fairly simple poetry generating program in 1991 and tested in on his high school English teacher, who could not tell it was written by a computer, despite it coincidentally generating the phrase "I am a monkey inside of a computer"

So medieval Psych...

Actually the origin has not been positively identified, but a predominant theory is that it is a corruption of a statement that people only "meet a fraction of their full mental potential", which is obviously and demonstratively true. Fiction may have given a skewed idea of how that works, but the core idea remains.

The idea that there are no political or corporate or even just journalistic interests that bias certain research, and the idea that science is a panacea. We need to examine the source and interests of the parties conducting and reporting research and complement them with ethical and consequential considerations.

Meh. That's just dramatic shorthand. While it's not phrased in a technically perfect way, the basic idea is true. There are a wide range of pharmaceuticals, medical procedures, and general techniques that can already radically change the way our brains work. Calling it a complete myth is like saying computers don't…

Even if you get past the idea that you are eating an insect, they still don't resemble something appealing to eat. Shrimp is at least shelled first, and lobster is large enough to break open to get at the meaty bits. But eating a fried cricket is kind of like just dipping a whole chick in batter and then biting into…

Star Trek TNG, "ugly bags of mostly water"

Then there is always Jiggler from Adventure Time...

Nibbler is near the top but I've always been fond of the pollinators from Robotech

Dresses up fantasy tropes in faux psychology, but might as well be a fairy tale...

If not for the pineapple incident, it might be The Mosby Boys!

Great mouse detective...

Personally I think that morality can be objectively measured by how much and for how long it raises ones state of mind.