One of my favorite ways of thinking about physics in my free time is reading (or making up!) convincing arguments for a flat earth and figuring out why they're wrong - or coming up with ways to prove that the earth is round. This exercise invariably ends with some commenter calling me an idiot on YouTube.

When I was in high school, a local legend managed, over the course of his four years, to write "Poop - Max B." on the wall of every single stall in every single men's bathroom. It was his real name.

Skim milk is 40% protein by calories! Indistinguishable from magic.

I agree with the idea about joining scenes together, though I can't quite remember the chronology of it.

First note: I think the movie is just not very interested in the details of either of those incidents. Patrick's reaction to the news he gets is subdued and drawn out of the course of the whole movie, so the substance of that conversation definitely happens somewhere else in time. Giving it a rink's width of space is…

Likely not, but it would be hard to tell whether that's what people were so gung-ho about if you never listened to them.

Paul Ryan always seemed to me like a really nice young man who got mixed up in a bad crowd. Smoked one too many reefers and now he's all cool with the civil rights violation folks. Shame!