Sure, assuming that this is all true, this is one way to explain tyrannosaur evolution, by considering ecological trends in prey size during the same period. But what paleontologists are considering here are more sophisticated hypotheses on the evolution of traits in the animals themselves, which can reflect…

lol what did evolutionary biology do to you?

The problem is that people somehow worship astrophysicists, by virtue of their field, as experts about everything, even if they’re blatantly wrong.

Like space ship docking!

I also wonder a bit about whether the animals down there generate any noise themselves... if you think about it, acoustic communication would be much more important than visual signals down there, so it’s possible that animals that live there might use sound to communicate reliably over long distances.

I saw it as a parody of typical magical girl animation sequences, except she’s just a normal (obsessed, reclusive, wealthy) adult woman. Plus an excuse to show off pretty animation, and eat up screen time.

He’s supposed to be a stand-in for the viewer, but I just cannot relate to a school boy who basically stands around and asks leading questions to advance the plot.

Every time a protagonist or an antagonist goes on about death or darkness or such I just roll my eyes (cf. Garo: Crimson Moon). I think it just has to do with death being a cheap, neat, easy go-to for anime and manga to claim that they’re Tackling Dark and Serious Real Life Issues, instead of being just eye candy with…

Both shows are good, but have their own merits. Beautiful Bones is definitely more formulaic, and some of the science is a little BS (i.e. Lethe diana is not unique as a corpse feeding butterfly, nor does it ever ominously swarm in alarming numbers) but it is beautifully animated and really exemplifies my belief that…

Don’t let anyone come in there ;D

It’s great that everyone wants to fund medical research, but what about neglected tropical diseases that don’t have the sexy reputation and funding of cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, etc.? We’ve already seen our slow responses to Ebola and Zika, two diseases with limited outbreaks we already knew about prior to the…

It’s not n-word, intentionally malicious offensive as much as extremely tone-deaf offensive. It has to do with it being used for all east Asians regardless of whether they’re Chinese or not, plus it has a dismissive, patronizing connotation due to its history of usage that “Englishman” and “Frenchman” don’t (see also…

They’re so weird in so many different ways, they’re honorary marsupials in my opinion. They can’t taste capsaicin, they’re almost cold-blooded, they have teeth that in effect grow outside they’re mouths, and they’re eusocial (but with their own twist, where queens arise from preexisting adult workers that actually resu…

I remember a woman on the radio speaking about her own personal desperation to see a female president in her lifetime being a driving force in her support of Hillary. Older feminists remember a time when sexism was more pervasive, more severe, and more overt than it is now, and having a woman take the Oval Office is…

I’d heard of it but it kind of fell by the wayside—I’ll be trying it out for sure now that I remember what it’s called!

starred for the gif, Erased is the best show this season

That is savage. Love it

And he even used an emoji! In a handwritten letter!

I agree, this whole series sucked. The art and animation wasn’t all that spectacular, the characters were cardboard cutouts of the average ‘quirky’ stereotype with hackneyed sob stories attached, and worst of all, the show took itself too seriously to address such obvious flaws and instead indulged in confusing asides…

Apparently the anime series is based on a live-action murder mystery drama which starts out with 2 other 2-episode arcs before getting into the main plot. I’ve been following both so far. The live-action series has been satisfying because it’s quite similar to the British murder mysteries that I am also fond of, so I…