a very good point.

my ex was an absolutely brilliant guy, amazingly creative and artistic and an aspiring author who actually has a chance at making it bigtime. he was also narcissistic, distant, and unfaithful (which he lied about to my face when everyone else knew about it), and actively made me feel like I was nowhere near good…

but then they won't have any money left to protect all the hypothetical fetuses out there! who will stand up for the blastocysts?? who will speak out on behalf of the embryos??

I'm not sure whether it's really that manipulative—they're giving the bonus after the typical 3-month leave, right? It doesn't sound like they're using it as a way to encourage new mothers to cut their 3 months short. You could actually kind of see this system as a way of giving women 6 extra weeks of paid leave…

hopefully it, like the ITV series Kingdom, will be the kind of thing that sounds deadly dull but in fact is droll and delightful and rich and funny. although Kingdom had the VERY strong benefit of staring Stephen Fry...

while I was at the store this Saturday, the first day of Passover, I walked past a huge shelf of meats with a gigantic sign that read: "Kosher For Passover!" Four feet away, the facing shelf was labeled (and was full of): "BACON."

the study looked not just at obesity, but also hypertension and diabetes as their independent variables. the researchers don't assume that obesity correlates with bad health; they're just noting that there's some connection (maybe causal, maybe not) between gestational obesity and autism rates (and between diabetes…

I agree! Science reporting in most "lay" sources tends to be a bit misinterpreted (not surprising, since on the most part neither journalists nor most of their readers have taken advanced stats & science courses*) and, relatedly, a bit sensationalized. Any respected scientist will be very hesitant to say "X causes…