The scientists in the article are trying to show that there are differences between the sexes that become more pronounced as gender equality happens based on “evolutionary and role theories”. The paper’s barely been cited at all (according to PubMed), and I personally believe that all evopsych is bullshit, seeing as…

Eh, I like having a hard copy of mine just in case. It currently sits in a drawer in my parents’ house with theirs, including my mom’s hand-written, legit animal skin parchment undergrad/masters degree, because the University of Edinburgh remained that extra in the early 70s.

If they were anything like my grad school, it was done on parchment with real calligraphy and shit. And ribbons. Of course, I don’t remember actually paying for my diploma, either, but $60 sounds about right.

Huh. How did they refer to the gene? ‘Cause I immediately dubbed it “motherfucker”.

I did a quick look-see on eBay for what I said. Obviously, most of the used Pateks are >$9k, but I did see a couple for about $3k. Also, the actual prices for Pateks are between $25k-$50k for a steel watch from a brief perusal of their website. There were definitely second-hand Vacherons around $2.5k. Hence why I said…

I really liked the Monsters Inc. and Toy Story worlds, but at least three of the other Disney worlds were the same kind of rehashes of movie plots that have existed since the first one. My issue isn’t that the in-world plots were bad (I’ve admittedly never been too impressed with the way the mainline KH games handle…

As much as I’d love to agree, it’s an automatic movement, which makes the price tag less unreasonable but still ridiculous.

Agreed. You can easily get a Breitling or equally good watch for that much money. Hell, you might be able to swing a pre-owned Vacheron Constantine or (if you’re very lucky) Patek-Philippe for the same price.

I watched an entire play through of the game, and the plot was extremely anemic for a game of its length and supposed scope. Most of the plot action actually relevant to the story that was being told was in the final world while the Disney worlds boiled down to a tedious if pretty training montage resulting from the…

The cricket farm is the size of a medium plastic tub, and Professor Tallichet has lived in Brooklyn for a hell of a lot longer than it’s been “hip”.

Assuming it’s still possible to find it amongst all the LotR stuff.

Are you sure you meant to reply to me and not one of the others? Because I was commenting on how it might be best for her mental health to have someone she theoretically trusts set the narrative so she doesn’t have to stress about the media going bonkers again. Given her father’s illness on top of her normal mental…

I mean, if her meds did stop working, then she does need to take time for herself, especially if my quick googling asserting she has bipolar disorder is true. Bipolar is serious as hell, and if she’s having an episode (manic or depressive), I don’t blame her for choosing not to work until she sorts herself out. Mental…

The author is English. She even fucked up an American colloquialism on the first page of 50 Shades (she shortened Mercedes Benz to ‘Merc’ instead of ‘Benz’).

It’s kind of unbelievable that this author manages to keep getting published despite the fact that there are much better writers out there.

Livers don’t just “fall off” or fall out if someone is disemboweled. Most of the bits and pieces of the human body won’t due to all the connective tissue, including the intestines, depending on the wound. It’s obscene that the game developer would be fine with their employees looking at real decapitations in order to…

They could have consulted with a doctor or a surgeon, people who generally have to dissect at least parts of a human corpse to be able to get their degree. Hell, I’ve only dissected mice, a mink, a frog, and a shark, and I’m pretty sure I could tell you “where all the organs go and how slimy they look” in a human.…

I’ve lived in the area of the undergrad campus recently, and the push for armed police there is ridiculous. It’s a solidly middle-class area that honestly verges on upper-middle class, and it’s safe to walk around there at night. I was under the impression until I heard about this that the people upset about the…

Mountbatten is from Philip. He’s descended from a prince to some kingdom making up part of the Holy Roman Empire.

Yup. They’re everywhere in Belfast.