“shift from pure sci-fi to fantasy”? Doctor Who has been squarely in the fantasy camp for the vast majority of it airtime.  

I was looking for the Alastair Reynolds comment. The Dreyfus books seem like the best suited for a movie, particularly the latest installment in the series.

Not ST but Naomi Nagata on The Expanse is definitely STEM

Seems more like paid promotion than high level trolling.

Don’t topspin and backspin both effect the rebound angle? English is just sidespin.

Presumably adding spin would make every shot miss then, right?

I voted for her, but I hate her. She should have been the Democrat’s sin eater, the person who the right wasted millions on (successfully) demonizing over twenty years. Walking away rather than running for president would have nullified those efforts. Instead hubris led her straight into their telegraphed sucker punch…

The new Ulcerate was a favorite of mine this year. Most of the music coverage here just makes me feel old, even back when there was more variety in taste among the writers. What bums me out more is that NPR’s lists, which had been my go to for music outside my usual tastes, have also been declining over the last few…

Using the phrase “smitten by his work ethic” to describe a pool boy says it all.

So true. My old cat would take over my bed while I was at college. He left an inch deep depression in the center of the mattress when he wasn’t in the bed.  If he was there it would take lifting the mattress to a 90 degree angle before he decided it was better to hang out under the bed and claw at any body parts that…

Moving up from plastic surgeons to royalty and world leaders is what’s fueled Trumps narcissistic break. He’s finally mingling with the class of people he believes he’s a part of and the dissonance between his dreams and the reality that he is a fraud and will never be their peer is more than he can deal with. He may…

Yep. I get the “Your lying” followed by the reasons why. When my kid was learning to read I would change a word on every page when I read her stories. It made the experience more of a cooperative exercise rather than just listening.

I’ve managed to avoid the worst of this by setting myself up as the counterexample. I lie to my kid constantly and poorly. If there is an opportunity to tell a completely false anecdote, I will take it and run with it. She doesn’t trust a word I say now but she also is pretty good about telling the truth.

My freshman year roommate showered maybe three times the whole year and slept all day on a bare mattress. He would pass out with his shoes on most of the time so the days he actually took them off were unbearable. The one time I knew he took a shower was because I saw the sneakers right outside it.  

I don’t think there can be an effect on the prestige seeing as this has always been going on. If anything the cost of those slots can be seen as a measure of the prestige of the degree.

Whoops, missed that. Just another example of the 0.1% pulling the ladder up from the less fortunate (in this case the 0.2%) then.

I’m shocked at the extent these parents went to to get their kids in. Is this just the cheap option for when you can’t afford to donate a building/department?

If they’d taken Darnold last year he probably would have a career ending injury by now.  Eli’s lack of mobility certainly led to some extra sacks but his rubber bones and years of experience playing without any reasonable semblance of protection got him through the season.

I love the ocean but it is death. Not the abstract, run out of air death of space, because how the fuck do you even get there. The death offered by the ocean is right there. You can swim out to it. You can let it fill your lungs and bring you under. The ocean pulls at you with its current and envelops you with its…

They didn’t have an actual company registered in Canada and the name used for the account (who the creators said was merely an investor) has been linked to a company with tax fraud problems.  When things turned downhill they gave a last gasp attempt at convincing backers not to drop while two thirds of the team…