I know the great, (great?) grandson of the serviceman who blinded Roosevelt in that boxing match. (yay me!)

Fixed it for you.

Is Lando’s shirt a Gordon Gartrell?!

Well, it’s not after you read Watership Down, that’s for sure.

When future civilizations reflect on the hallmarks of the early 21st Century, I’m pretty sure, “lost the dignity to pick out their own free groceries” will NOT be one of them.

The reduction in choice really hurts here

Hmrph. I thought it would be bigger.

And Torvill and Dean in 94!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Olympics should petition to be the next MLS franchise.

It might be black, but it’s not as black as Black Dynamite, baby.

No. I think he meant it’s OK to joke about something trivial like cancer, just don’t mock the sanctity of a Marvel movie with that nonsense. There’s a line, man.

Oh. THAT Georgia.

I imagine a lot of a situation depends on more than just what happens in the initial experience. For instance, if a man asks out a coworker, and gets rebuffed, then goes on like it’s no big deal and it never really comes up again, most women will probably see that as being “hit-on” and not much else. But if the same…

Also, Grammarly doesn’t work with the Gizmodo (and the other Gawker sites’) comments section. Any typo forces the cursor to jump back to the beginning of the text field. The best you can do is either disable it, or never make a mistake while typing.

This core data will tell us so much about climate change.

But will I get stuff faster?

My last science class was probably at your university, Mr. Burntsnakeskin. Or is it Dr. Burntsnakeskin?

If you’re fatigued with Marvel movies then you should probably stop going to see Marvel movies... or telling others about your fatigue. That will only make it worse. Have a nice life.

“We have records” means, at best, we have a dozen data points scattered over an entire state, over an entire season or a year. That’s so incomplete that it’s almost unusable in comparison to the instantaneous and enormous amount of data we have now. And having so many gaps in the historic data means that the best we…

A lot of them seem sound. But not the one blaming heat-related deaths on a temporary heat wave that, at worst, would only be marginally hotter than one from 100 years ago, and without any heat wave data from 100 years ago to actually compare against. That one, I reject.