... “advantages of a larger group, like hyenas when they occasionally kill lions”

You can get omnibus editions of Anansi Boys and American Gods together, sure seems like they’re supposed to be the same character in the same universe. I get that Orlando Jones isn’t the best fit for the primary manifestation of Nancy in Anansi Boys, but I would appreciate a cameo as another manifestation just as a…

“Gain-of-function research is when an organism is genetically modified to have a new ability,”

Let me preface this by saying Rand Paul is a loon. Limiting that remark to only positions and statements made with respect to the pandemic, his rhetoric is unscientific, at best, and dangerous, at the extreme.

I think your idea on this is correct, it might just be a way of downplaying her husbands opinion because he disagreed with her.

“or have I committed the sin of taking too seriously (or taking as sincere,) some throwaway snarky comment?”

I think that’s it

It is fantastic! 25 years ago, this guy was a bookseller. Now, he is the richest man, who financed a space program all by himself.

I am a man and I had the same thought, but I didn’t want to directly say it, for fear of being accused of mansplaining. I see that term thrown about rather willy nilly. I also think that women should be more judicious when calling men “entitled.”

This article seems needlessly negative.

While I was convinced that Katie would pick Andrew in the end, my husband mansplained to me that Andrew got too real with Katie when he asked her about his career and if she would want him to give it up if they ended up together.

Yep, garnering hate click and comments is the new Gizmodo.

Dennis Tito, the first one, pretty much went through the standard cosmonaut training, and was trained on the Russian segments. When he showed up to Dallas to be trained on the American segment (with the two cosmonauts he would fly with). NASA refused to train them all specifically because they refused to train Tito,…

“Interesting point. Are the first space tourists, the cats who blew millions to hang out on the ISS for a week at a time, considered astronauts?”

Imagine being a warehouse worker seeing that amazon warehouse workers start off at 15+ an hour plus full health benefits on day 1.  

Jesus, Giz. Desperate for clicks much? 

Be snarky all you want, I’m jealous.  And if you ever were a regular on io9, then you are too.

Salty

Exactly. This is the beginning of humanity truly becoming a space fairing race. I hate how every writer on here thinks that anyone that is not a starving artist is a jerk.

Do some real financial planning, get a real career, and stop screaming at windmills.

Another option I’ve used in a pinch--and I don’t recall where I first saw this idea--is to use a piece of foil over the garbage disposal to make a bowl, pour the oil into that, let it cool (or not, I'm not gonna tell anyone how to live their life), and throw it away.