Alternatively, you might have been hoping to die before the medics got to you.

You're being pedantic. Even the article you cite contains the phrase "negative matter".

I'm not aware that negative matter is a real thing.

You ask a very interesting question! Is such risk aversion inevitable as the size of an organization goes up? I'd like to think the answer is "no." I imagine that companies like Apple do not suppress innovation that way. But I really have no idea whether there is a maximum size, beyond which all companies are…

I think that reality is exactly what is worth railing against. A culture intolerant of mistakes is sterile.

D'oh!

Brilliant observation!

Because, as Neil Gaiman explained, she was a vampire.

Years ago, I read something like this in a popular science magazine like Science 83. In that article they were keen to mention that humans exhibit the Mammalian Diving Reflex.

I actually saw that thing on a tour at a Florida amusement park. I was the only tourist that recognized it. :(

I was hoping they'd rename it Apatosaurus.

Well... Darwin did spend decades amassing evidence before he published his book. So, there's that.

Whoa, laws don't magically spring into being. We argue about them, and write and speak, and eventually they get voted in. This is exactly what makes us strong. You are certainly correct that some legislation restricts religious liberties. But our culture does recognize the importance of religion, and this shapes…

Wait, how do we have Laika's suit?

I had this idea first, but unfortunately the plans were melted down to make shoe heels.

Wow, and just think that hundreds of thousands was spent on tuition just to get to that point.

I can't understand how this restaurant chain failed.

That's one way to phrase it, but perhaps not a perfectly accurate characterization of the dilemma. Consider an alternative way to look at it: whether the government can compel religious institutions to pay for drugs and procedures that are contrary to those moral teachings of theirs that are central to life.