Weeds are now developing resistance to RoundUp, exactly as the theory of evolution suggested they would, so farmers have to use more RoundUp, and in some cases have to use other herbicides as well. Rotating the herbicides used - if the farmers can’t go the whole hog and rotate crops - is more effective at control.

GMOs…

What were they trying to keep out? I think history is pretty clear on that point.

Here’s what I wrote about this on my FB page (and now we know Melania is a fan of Michelle):

They couldn’t move well only relative to other highly trained warriors who didn’t wear armour - but obviously they could move pretty well or they wouldn’t be able to fight. They trained so much they moved better in armour than the average person moves today in tracksuits.

May I try an inappropriate analogy?

But can women fight in the Kick-Ass world?

Why do you think it’s stagnated? The medieval setting that we know of only goes back several generations, a few hundred years. It’s been a while since I read the books, but it seemed congruent with Earth history. There was a massive civilisation thousands of years earlier, that ruled with dragons, but there’s no…

I think we’re a long way from doing this effectively. We can form the DNA, but all the methylation and other epigenetics are still being looked at. There’s probably also a lot of other non-DNA factors that we don’t know about. We’ll get there eventually, though, barring apocalypse, so we should start considering the…

Don’t forget DNA folding and storage. “Junk DNA” is a misnomer in most cases.

I’m pretty sure the monster was intelligent and physically very capable... it was also good and morally upright when it was created. It was just very ugly.

Oh seriously... "mindfuck"? Plants not only remember, they detect their environment, have a sense of self, communicate, give aid, predict the future... this is not new. If it "mindfucks" you try paying a little more attention.

That’s pretty cool, and similar to what I came up with when I was thinking about dragons, which was two sacks filled eith different gases that were flammable when mixed.

The “white man’s burden” is very telling, because that’s what they actually thought - that Britain had perfected civilisation and they were doing everyone a favour by spreading it. They were wrong, clearly. More than that, they were tricked. They signed up for bad conditions and low pay, they left their families and…

I think you have to read it looking for racism to interpret it that way.

NO.

The first time this sort of thing blew my mind was flying Japan Airlines. They had maps of all their routes, and the lines were these great curved things that seemed to be going out of their way to waste fuel. Finally there was a map where Japan was the centre of the world drawn in a circle around it, and suddenly all…

So a month or two to publish some comics to use in the application process...

For the last three decades, the American superhero has been trapped in a perpetual age of adolescence, with fans and creators peevishly avowing that these spandex-clad fantasy characters created to entertain children must now be taken seriously, by which they mean they should be mired in joyless nihilism:badass.

I knew it. There’s a reason for the “cat people are crazy” trope. Even the way they talk is disturbing.

I’ve seen some of those “Cuba” pictures around, and I thought: “Those houses look sturdy, the streets are clean, and the people in the photo are obviously well fed, they seem to be doing OK...”