I used to have it happen to me semi-regularly... It was much more likely when travelling alone, which I guess makes sense—easier to shuffle a lone traveler than a couple or a group. In general it tended to happen when I’d been doing more travelling. The other thing that set it apart most recently was there was some…

I'm not sure why this is being treated with suspicion...

This has been a ground breaking and frankly ingenious method for putting the brakes on mosquito population, which is hugely beneficial to just about everything and everyone, except mosquitos. It's a groundless fear that somehow the genes can spread. Just because…

My favorite kitchen knife is missing off this list, the tomato knife:

"Human-sized telepathic lemurs:" more logical than "swimming or floating across this sea or something."

Oh pseudoscience.

"Big pile. Lots of gas. Free knives for everyone! Dance music."

I'm actually disappointed in NdGT for the first time... Philosophy is a very different field than it once was, but the meaning of meaning is still a relevant concern. The riddle at the heart of humanity is how do we perceive; this isn't a stumbling block that stops you from getting out the door and doing science, it's…

I completely disagree, as a reader of both papers, let me say that both scientists and philosophers use indecipherable terms and descriptors to people outside their fields. You can figure it out as an outsider, but only by reading very closely and occasionally looking things up. And they do it for the same reason,…

I took away from "the scene" that it was sort of rapey but it was more about the wrongness of it than the shock value. The whole episode was about how things are changing, how the laws and traditions and things held sacred are dissolving. Jaime and Cersei already represented that wrongness that was rotting away at the…

Our lips touching, she whispered, "001010111010010111010001010111011011111001..."

Error report: velociraptors cannot tie ties.

Caution: Libidinous androids require full reboot.

"Spaceship seemed despondent. Try new drugs."

Tuesday: Funeral for Planet Earth. RSVP

"Consciousness is an illusion" is a ridiculous statement. While I respect that Skinner opened a dialogue about an immensely troubling area of interrogation, I could never get past that part of his theory. I have a sense of self—it may not include anything more than a moment by moment perception, but it's certainly not…

Uh... yes it does? These microbes are like cultivated fruits versus wild growing. They also are very specific (such as from the gut of a cow), and this theory actually supports that one, that it's not a free for all party and a bunch of nasty poisoner bacteria can't come in and screw it all up as easily.

"This is the last Tuesday... weird."

Amelia Earhart, wanted for intergalactic murder.

The first mortinaught returned. Trumpets blared.

We should see other people, Earth.

"You gave them human faces! Why?"