For #4, when the mysterious lady is revealed standing among the other Time Lords, the theme we hear (mysterious ethereal female vocal melody) is one we've heard throughout the series, and has been referred to by Russell T. Davies as "Flavia's Theme." So I wonder if this is Flavia, former High Chancellor / President…
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...von Sydow. Sounds pretty evil.
So... will someone once and for all please explain how you're supposed to upload an image onto a comment thread? I select "Formatting Options," select the "photo" icon, select "upload from your computer," enter the name of the .jpeg file as commanded, and... nothing. Ever. Help much appreciated.
It is *great* to see designs using multiple toruses. For years now the multiple torus has seemed to me like the most efficient and versatile design. (Indeed, I feel like these students have seen the inside of my head; I've even envisioned such a settlement latching to an asteroid at one of its poles, just as…
Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast" books.
Gotta love how so much (okay, all) creationist rhetoric is based on lame wordplay. "Science is a 'religion'!" "Scientific 'belief' is identical to religious belief!" "If evolution is a theory, then it's 'only' a theory!" "Passing on scientific knowledge is the same thing as 'indoctrination'!"
Corporate CEOs are suckers for shallow and archaic status symbols? Who knew?
The bonobo approach to conflict resolution, basically.
Thunderbirds Are Go.
Obviously there's a lot wrong with the graph. It tries to represent a time-based trend on a spatial area, thus conveying that the shaded areas represent absolute numbers and proportions, rather than trending proportions over time. And because of the nature of US borders, the proportional information is further…
But it is racially insensitive, in that it causes the data on racial minorities to "vanish" in the graph in just the way that lots of information on minorities is obscured or made to disappear in public discourse on race.
But it is racially insensitive, in that it causes the data on racial minorities to "vanish" in the graph in just the way that lots of information on minorities is obscured or made to disappear in public discourse on race.
The article doesn't call it racist.
End of "Starship Troopers" film:
"Technology will save the future"
Another key point here, in addition to the one you make, is that this assertion is often trotted out as a defense against changing current practices. As in: Hey, we don't need to change our destructive ways, because we'll be able to fix the consequences of our actions with new…
Lovely. Never considered the idea of mermaids differentiated by species before.
If you actually read the article, you will discover that Meyer is aware of this diversity.