You can also use the silver nitrate to cauterize cuts you get from playing with the copper wire.

If you do this at home, keep in mind that you shouldn't pour the leftover liquid down the drain. Let the water evaporate completely and dispose of the container in the trash.

In response to that awful Helix tagline...

"I don't understand this charade," AL-Gargoyle-Null grumbled secretively, wirelessly at FCC-Pontifex-Sphinx-100-935.

"We've covered this. Emergent humans are still afraid of us. I do this to set them at ease," Pontifex replied, just as secretively, "And, you were designed to take my place. If you're going to interact…

28-year-old female here. I have many of the single issues of the Sailor Moon manga that was distributed in the states 10+ years ago, plus watched the dubbed anime when it aired on WB/Cartoon Network, then managed to find ways to watch the show subbed all the way through. I even have a few of the (not too greatly-made)…

yeah, it's TOTALLY the same, considering Tolkien was writing over 50 years ago and George RR.... well, there's that "George" right there in front of the middle name initals! TOTALLY THE SAME.

Remember the Itch.

Because Disney markets superheroes to boys and princesses to girls and then, with the knowledge that plenty of girlfriends are going to be in the audiences for Avengers and plenty of little brothers are going to be in the audiences for Tangled, provides content and characters that appeal to both genders backed up by…

You're sounding very indignant there. However, that sounds like a legitimate reason to me. Didn't J.K. Rowling only use her initials because they thought boys wouldn't want to read a book written by a woman (which I know for a fact to be true of some people in my acquaintance)? I think changing the title to get boys…

Just this—the incremental cost of throwing it onto the lander is small, and orbital telescope time is a precious resource, so even a (relatively) small telescope is worth the (relatively) small investment. The Chang'e telescope is near-UV, and as far as I know it is the only other operational space telescope at that…

THIS. IS. NORWAAAAAY! A-HOO!

Well, that post is obviously just about skyscrapers as a (then) new form of building.

You are not alone. His statue is in fact on the facing Kowloon side. If he only turned around he could see that very view.

Probably true! Feng Shui is serious business here.

It didn't stop anyone from authorizing Bank of China Tower, which ticks quite a few wrong Feng Shui boxes. "X" shapes, triangles, sharp edges, resembling a screwdriver that is drilling the wealth out of Hong Kong, resembling a meat cleaver. There's a story about one…

Things can change very quickly. When it was completed in 1972, Jardine House was the tallest building in Hong Kong, a title it kept for eight years. Today, Jardine House does not even place in the top 120 tallest buildings in the city, and is only 37% as tall as top spot holder International Commerce Center.

You know, the place of worship and prayer for adherents of Islam. From the Arabic masjid.

Just because she happens to be a good character doesn't mean it's okay that the only image you can get of her for your child is the most sexualized possible image of her that exists within any of the films. Seriously, defend Leia, Leia is amazing. But don't defend selling the sex slave image of her to little girls.

I think the problem she's expressing here is that Leia in a golden bikini, chained to Jabba, was the ONLY option. Leia is the lone female character in Star Wars minus a few ancillary characters like the female commander who was in that one scene that one time. For a young girl who wants to identify with a character…

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