I’m worried about the inputs required to construct the buildings to house these things - that is, skyscrapers rather than flat greenhouses with multilevel growing pots.

I would guess that being good comes with being humble, and someone who really was pure, unadulterated goodness would not provide that feeling for the psychic...

A simple “We’re not a bunch of backward fleshy bigots, but...” should do it.

If you’re going to do a completely different genre you should maybe tell people it’s going to be a completely different genre and promise a sequel just like but better than all the others.
The point isn’t about realism, it’s about internal consistency. If someone filmed a James Bond film as a romantic comedy it might…

The issue isn’t with the visuals of the movie, it’s with the plot.

A lot of them don’t get tested against reality. Even before computer modeling, people would come up with theoretical proposals in various fields of biology, and if people out the field observed something different happened it was claimed the people making the observations were wrong, not the theory.

Ah, bugger... I checked with my wife. The Virgin of Guadalupe is not the Virgin Mary Mother of Jesus, but is also called Mary. The big theological problem the church had with Our Lady of Guadalupe was that she was seen as the mother of God the Father, rather than mother of God the Son. That’s why she was opposed by so…

You don’t understand, he’s making a joke, because these days science is all about running computer simulations and then calling it reality. IE, making shit up...

In the book it was by injecting various chemicals, which weren’t specified.

Actually, the Virgin of Guadalupe is not Mary...

You can get ones that are covered in glitter and neon lights, if you want to go the whole hog.

I tend to think “probably best to wait until all the series is out, so I can read it all at once”.

Maybe, but if you’re talking averages anyway.... perhaps they should just be honest in the paper and instead of saying “the subjects encountered someone who was angry” say “the subjects encountered someone who acted angry”.

Actually, the same applies in a lot of other sciences. A lot of scientific techniques require a level of talent and practice that elevate them to a craft. It can take a lot of experience to become proficient in a particular technique, so if a laboratory is doing something new the researchers could have skills that…

I was curious as to why grandmothering would greatly increase the number of males in a population. This link:

In the context of this hypothesis... in the comments someone mentioned that not having a “season” means that women are subject to pregnancy hormones of various types all the time, and that’s pretty hard on the body. The idea there is that menopause stops those hormones and allows them to live longer.

That’s interesting...I wonder how they determined the number of times the cell had divided?

Ah, very good point - I forgot the life span is an average. So although they didn’t stop having babies halfway through their life, they still lived a significant amount of time afterwards... say an extra third.

Because of the different way gametes are produced. Sperm are produced continuously over the course of a lifetime, whereas all the eggs (about 500) are produced before a person is born. Menopause (very roughly, and there are other factors) correlates with when the eggs run out.

No, it says grandmothering appears in species where menopause exists.