See the discussion, for instance, here: http://io9.com/um-was-that-an…

This episode was an uncomfortable abortion fable that just gets worse the more I think about it.

This episode was an uncomfortable abortion fable that just gets worse the more I think about it.

- potentially everyone on Earth is going to die

Speaking of Tardii (tardes? tardoi?), can we talk about how yesterday's Doctor Who was a pro-life abortion fable? Because I'm pretty pissed about it.

Puts me in mind of this gem from Jonathan Goldstein, on dating Lois Lane: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives…

Part of me wants to say 'Being in the closet for so long and so publicly warps people.'

The rest of me wants to say 'Ugh, some people are such dicks.'

Not to detract from the point of your message, because it is totally totally valid, but just to give you a heads up on how to get the medication you need for cheaper...

The Kirkland (ie, CostCo) brand stuff is like $20 for 365x10mg pills, and you should be able to get it on Amazon even if you don't have a CostCo…

Here's an example of something that's genetically determined but also shaped by culture: language. You're able to speak it because you're human and we have a capacity for learning language; but the language you speak is determined by the language you're exposed to when you're growing up, and the WAY you choose to…

Yeah, I have a question! Are women for real immune to common strep and staph bugs now? Is that really why TSS happens less often these days? I thought it was just because people were more aware....

Soooooo here are some taglines I've come up with for an anti-rape campaign that will never happen:

"If they can't answer, you're asking for it"
"If you don't ask, you're asking for it"
"If they're not enthusiastic, you're asking for it"
"If you think you're entitled, you're asking for it"

6 and a half years is 6.5 * 52 weeks, which is 338. Two ads per week. Yeah, fucking scary that someone might want to hook up randomly twice a week.

For fuck's sake. You are demonizing someone for their marginalized status with this post. Yes, if he was pressuring people to have sex without protection and intentionally…

phimosis. It's a condition where an overly tight foreskin makes getting an erection painful.

Can we stop calling women 'females'? It has really negative connotations — if you don't believe me, try searching twitter for 'females' vs 'women.' The way it's used is not positive.

Do you also get a headache and hot-flashes from soft-serve ice cream? Because it's in that. You can tell because it makes your lips taste more.

MSG is in a lot of things — especially cheap food, of any variety. Chinese food gets a bad reputation because racism.

So I frequently give money to homeless people. Not even small amounts - if all I have is a $20, they will get that. People tell me 'no, don't do that, they'll just use it to buy alcohol.'

I'm well aware of it.

Alcohol withdrawal kills people. KILLS. In the city where I live in California, we only recently set up a…

so I identify as agender and usually have a good relationship with how my body is and what parts go into it, but I've never felt as helpless and self-loathing as when I finally let my primary care practitioner browbeat me into coming in for a pap smear and pelvic exam, even though I'm in a low-risk mostly monogamous…

Marlon Brando, shockingly.

I've heard you have to crush it and let it sit for fifteen minutes to make the flavour come out.

This will at least make attempting to tamper with someone's drink a longer, more evident process - which will perhaps give by-standers time and motivation to intervene against potential rapists.

the other day, I was on my way to campus when I saw a man on the median holding a sign that read "Independent Contractor Injured on Job-site and now Homeless. Anything helps."