The natural history museum at Oxford has exhibit pieces explicitly set out for touching. It actually works pretty well because you can fondle a bunch of stuff at the beginning and then you're pretty much 'ok' for the rest of the visit.

This is sort of the point, right? When people say that their gun ownership doesn't affect others, they are asking everyone else to just take on faith that they are stable, responsible people. Gun owners scare the shit out of me, particularly in concealed carry states where it feels like anyone in the crowd could be a…

Until someone breaks into your guesthouse and steals all of the guns you keep there that aren't finger printed. Then your decision to keep an arsenal in your backyard might be a problem for the neighborhood.

And as I said below, I'm glad you didn't have problems. Other people do. Your experience doesn't invalidate that.

Look, I'm not going to argue with you about experiences that people I know personally have had. I don't think there are widely available (or reliable) statistics to argue the frequency of people being turned away (or not) so the 'facts' you are talking about are equivalent to mine - individual experiences. I don't…

Because people keep getting turned back at the border. Whilst living in Lebanon I had numerous friends who were sent back at the border crossing and were told explicitly that the issue was their visa/residence in Lebanon. Moreover, one group of friends was held for 12 hours and forced to provide social media passwords…

And I can't travel to Israel because I have a Lebanese visa in my passport and Palestinian friends on my Facebook. So you know, fuck that country, too.

I am part of the itty bitty titty committee (accepting sock donations) and I can say that I don't really have any boob problems. I can sports with the best of them, sleep in any position, wear pretty bold fashion (v neck to my belly button, practically) without it being called inappropriate. You can always make your…

I've seen a lot of comments upthread about how not showering daily is unhygienic and unhealthy. I'm on the 'do what you want' wagon. I just think its worth acknowledging that there is as much of a 'health' argument for not showering daily.

So is the positive impact of showering frequently. The point is that the logic behind the immune system claim is there, whether its a strong impact or not is an entirely different matter. The last 50 years have tried to convince us that showering daily is the best way to stay healthy - even a negligible impact is…

Access to clean water to drink....not to wash in. Its absolutely absurd that people are showering daily, wasting what - 30 gallons of potable water? When we were farmers, laborers, etc. washing daily made sense. For people still working in those industries, I get it. Otherwise, its just not necessary. If you feel…

The logic is that the good bacteria that grows on your skin can't replenish if you wash it away everyday. Good bacteria help your immune system, ipso facto, showering everyday isn't doing your immune system any favors. From a recent NYTimes article:

Letter writing campaign? Envelopes full of nothing but Angela Merkel photos?

That gif just reminded me that I can now download season 10 episodes. My fiancé walked in on me, in bed, with a glass of wine. Mr. Shmerz: "What are you watching?" Me: "You're not like it." Upon hearing Cowley's voice, "UGH no! I thought they'd all died." Me: "A couple of times."

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I really like this video. I've often said that it is a shame we (culturally) struggle with the idea that young women/girls can have non-sexual/romantic/informative/growth relationships with older men that aren't related to them. I didn't have a particularly close relationship…

You are right. We will just have to live with this beautiful (likely correct) coincidence :)

Soulless Sam

Ha, I doubt it. I only hung out with him twice and never worked with him on anything. I'm an anthropologist so there is nothing his little gadgetry could have helped 'launch' - though, from the sound of this post he's the kind of guy who would assume just coming into the electroforcefield of his penis is a life…

I'm dying. LINK ME.

Bass, naturally. AKA the blandest instrument in the band.