People with bipolar disorder experience uncontrollable mood swings that can leave them severely depressed one moment and manic the next.

See me after recess. 

ISTR there were intact but carbonized scrolls recovered from a house in Pompeii. It would be interesting if some verion of this technique could be applied to them.

the authors speculate, the skull was likely transported to the shelf by a series of natural geological processes

I swear, if my head wasn’t screwed-on.....

Late last week, province officials announced plans to ban all new bitcoin and other cryptocurrency mining ventures and quickly phase out existing activity in order to reduce electricity consumption.

Good. Kill all mining based cryptos.

Cryptocurrency is a mystery to me. Not wanting to have geography also be a mystery, I wikipedia’d Inner Mongolia to find out how it fits in with China. I guess it’s officially an autonomous region of China. Then as one does once one is on wikipedia - it’s fun facts galore. The mining analogy seems even more apt here…

Every girl I went to grade school with was apparently a Renaissance master

Sorry, cryptocurrency stans, but I don’t think bitcoin is particularly needed.

And they all ended with “If you want to be my boyfriend, check the box that says “YES”, and pass it back to me at recess.”

Probably something diversionary, waterwise.

huh, i wonder what she talks about around the water cooley

I wish I had know about letterlocking when I was in school. I would have handed in all my homework like that.

Dam.

Personally I’d love to see a Tuf Voyaging TV series. With it’s focus on environment and consequences it would make for some anvilicicious TV.

Incidentally, that cover was painted by Rowena Merrill, who died last month at the age of 76. She was one of the few women SF cover artists in the ‘70s and ‘80s, when it was largely a male-dominated field. Details of her life and work can be found here:

As I said the other day re: Lost Lands, there will be people who think this movie is somehow keeping GRRM from finishing The Winds of Winter and I couldn’t be happier about that.

Well, clearly, he has already cast a de-aged Michael Douglas for the Simon role

This is one of Martin’s sharper, meaner novellas, and is a really natural fit for an adaptation—but I don’t know if Verbinski’s style of maximalism is going to be a good fit!