This was an amusing idea, but I was able to control my giggling, unlike the deaf Vader video.

We've seen two types of supernaturals (3 if you include ghosts), preternaturals, and metanaturals. Is that all there is to see outside of the natural in the PP series, or are there other magics waiting to be uncovered?

You should sit in on the fights I have with guys who spell their name Erik.

As I understand Ryan's in-laws are quite liberal and pretty influential in their state's Democratic party. Ryan's wife made them stop arguing politics with Ryan or she threatened to not let them see their grandchildren.

Fair enough, even though the idea of Mr. Universe's moon inside a nebula that is inside a system of stars makes me a little twitchy.

In a 'verse that has faster than light travel, 'Is that feasible?' doesn't carry very far.

I was under the impression the idea was that free radicals that form in the cell body are supposed to bond to antioxidants, making them harmless, before they (the free radicals) can pass through the nuclear membrane and bond with and damage the DNA. The interception is supposed to happen outside the cell nucleus…

1) it's been known for awhile that supplements have much lower nutrient uptake than food with the same nutrients, so I'm not overly moved by that result.

And at that his insights were based on Rosalind Franklin's work, and she developed the same insights independently (if more cautiously).

I'm a little confused. Yes, we want cancer cells to die, but isn't the point of antioxidants to prevent free radicals from altering DNA, thus preventing cancer in the first place? There is reasonable questions to be raised about why some groups and lifestyles exhibit much lower instances of cancer than the average…

I was going to pretty much post this exactly.

I've seen this before, thought it was apropos.

I wonder if they'll put back the Where they cut off your ear/if they don't like your face. lyric in Arabian Nights.

Perhaps you are right. However, I hardly expect a carpenter to find a hammer beautiful in and of itself, and certainly not as beautiful as what they are building with their tools.

Thank you for sharing the original article; it makes a connection I hadn't twigged to before and raises some interesting questions. I found the context of the article definitely changes the interpretation of the quote.

I once heard Carriger speak, and she explained each book in the series was based on a different Victorian era genre of popular literature. Soulless was based on the Victorian romance; I think a lot of your gripes are rolled up in the genre the book was based on.

My wife once accused me of "geeking" her (that is turning her into a geek), by getting her into steampunk costuming and prop making. Soulless is how I introduced her to steampunk in the first place.

Perhaps there was more to that Valenti quote, but you might as well say war or social stratification is as American as apple pie, it's way too universal to the human condition to call it an American phenomenon. Cracking rape culture is deeper than culture, it reaches down to our ability to accept and inflict…

I think you've got it exactly right, and now the nation is watching Steubenville's cognitive dissonance as they have to reconcile their perception of their jocks with the reality that their jocks are terrible human beings.

I think it's less about protecting the rapists, and more about protecting an innocent in a future unspecified case where the court of public opinion gets it drastically and tragically wrong. The point is the court of public opinion has notoriously bad standards when it comes to accepting evidence, so let's think…