Not only that, but Jenna writes “The knights who are beating each other to a pulp consented to their degradations—but she [Aemma] never did.” Even though Aemma describes, in her own words, the ‘birthing bed’ as her ‘battlefield’ which she explicitly chooses to confront. Not all women in the world of GoT have the…

Agreed. An interesting choice would have had Mando outnumbered and outgunned on the docks and getting a few shots off before being kicked, beaten, and smacked around a bit. And then having to do something scrappy to get The Child away from the mob and having to flee into the night to escape. That would have reinforced…

This was easily my least favourite episode of The Mandalorian.

"People of African descent, you are more susceptible to sickle cell. If you are Jewish, you have a higher chance of carrying the gene for Tay-Sachs."

Indeed, these are the same two examples that get parroted out in these debates. It is not people of African descent that are more susceptible to sickle cell, though, but…

There's no call for personal insults. Narrow-minded, ignorant, petty, arrogant, sad – it's really unnecessary and totally inappropriate. Play the facts, not the person.

I think you're radically over-estimating its military applications. Consider only $35 million has been thrown at this project, while the development of the F22 comes in at about $66 billion. The military doesn't value this project, but they're getting a bargain just in case it does turn out to have some fringe…

I don't know if we were watching the same video. Cartmel praises the effects that were done with care and therefore stand up to the test of time. It's the obviously papier mache rocks and the badly animated puppet that he's most underwhelmed by. They could do better than that in the 80s: they had the technology.

Yes, it is. Thank you very much for taking the time :)

Denziloe - you seem to have a very strong understanding of this topic. I was wondering if you could recommend any reading (books, blogs, etc.) for someone trying to get a better appreciation of the Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton etc. models & theories without all the Science Vs. Religion huff.

'Aborigine' is considered insensitive (it's an imposed word, and it's helplessly generic) and generally Aboriginal Australians prefer to be referred to as such, or as the Aboriginal people. It's a practical compromise: Those who know their background, and some don't, prefer to be known by the cultural-linguistic group…