How the heck did Myka and HG get back to the Warehouse? It wasn't even a deus ex machina. It was an OFFSCREEN deus ex machina that really threw a wrench in my suspension of disbelief for a big chunk of the big climax.

Just the thing to mate with the hentai tentacle-looking dildos some company was selling.

My recommendation for quashing the inner critic is to sing the song "die vampire die" from "[title of show]"

In risk assessment, several studies have shown that a subset of white men has a substantially different risk threshold and assess risk differently than the rest of people for many situations. This is termed the "white male effect". I don't recall offhand if it's explicitly linked to conservative political values or…

Heh. That was my first thought as well, when I saw the headline. I can see the case in question here as being somewhat different — perhaps a new ruling to the effect that the recipient must be alive within X days (where X is on the order of 90) before the decision.

soooo. since when does the funky shapeshifting robot have the ability to mimic the 'I'M REGENERATING! LOOK HERE!' magic gold foggy field effect?

JESSICA LANGE AND FRANCES CONROY WILL BE ON MY TELEVISION? I AM INTRIGUED. VERY INTRIGUED, I TELL YOU.

Bees do something similar to the ant signalling thing when it's time to find a new hive. Bees go out and look for places, and each bee that comes back and thinks it has a cool place then does the "bee direction-giving dance" for a while. But the length of time it does the dance is related to how good the new…

The shushing trick also works on Craig, too.

Both Slotin and Daghlian were killed in separate accidents nearly a year apart, but both were killed by the same piece of plutonium, which was then labelled the "Demon Core". The demon core was used in a test shot a couple of months after killing Slotin.

From the thumbnail of that pic in my RSS feed, I totally expected that to be a picture of Adam Savage wrapped in bubble wrap. Because it seemed in character.

You want to speak like a pirate?

My favorite cover of Rocket Man was part of an NPR This American Life episode about classified ads, where they got a band together from the classifieds for just a day, and they ended up doing "Rocket Man". It includes a theramin, so that's kinda cool right there.

Yeah - the way she seemed dead set on making extra-sure that the launch was going to happen in the window seemed a bit intense.

Written by the same guy who wrote 'school reunion', where we get older wiser Sarah Jane Smith. So I think he's got a good theme going of "the doctor kinda fucks up his companions."

iirc, one of the survival research labs' guys has a thumb-replaced-by-toe.

How many deaths is Jenny McCarthy responsible for now, I wonder?

I have three words for you: James Earl Jones.

From there, it is processed into SUBSTANCE D and sold by police informants to other police informants.

Somewhat relatedly, "A Higher Form of Killing" is a solidly researched book about the history of chemical and biological weapons. It's a good read, although a bit dry in places.