I have (or had) a doppelganger in town. When I was thirteen, a disastrous Halloween school dance prompted my dad to encourage me to come to the dance at the school where he taught. I agreed to this. I had a pretty good time, actually. I dressed as a vampire.

Once, in a lab, we had a beaker with contents that needed to be disposed of and some confusion about whether it contained acetone or water. I sniffed it, and declared it to be acetone. My (male) lab partner looked at me like I was crazy for smelling dangerous chemicals! I looked at him and was like, dude it’s…

I saw these things for sale the other day and was vaguely perplexed about them. They're actually a thing?

Oh, my sister totally did that. Would call my parents for permission to join everyone driving out into the bush to drink together, and then say, "You don't want me to do this, do you?" Codeword for "this is skeevy as fuck and I know it and I need you to be my excuse for why I don't want to go." It's a good tool.

When I was seventeen and had my first serious boyfriend, my mother sat me down and said, and I quote: "It's not my business if you're having sex. It is my business if you're not being safe about it."

Besides the risk of resistant bacteria, use of antibacterials kills the bacteria and other microorganisms that naturally live on and in us. These are strains that have evolved along with us, get along with us, and affect our health, often for the better. These are species that are capable of making antibacterial…

Fuck you, man, my mutant power is lactase persistence. I'm going to have all the milk and all the cheese with none of the diarrhea and you can have none.

This was exactly my thought. Bacteria is made with one strain of lactobacillus; a different strain of lactobacillus is known to live in vaginas. This isn't "eating bodily fluids," (the semen comparison is way off base here) it's culturing food using bacteria found on the body.

I like ear cuffs because I can pretend I'm bajoran.

Seriously, is Jezebel this ignorant about things just for the sake of clickbait headlines? I sincerely hope not. I want to rewrite all these articles myself. This is a great thing, so let's not ruin it by alarmist ignorance, okay?

Man, I'm sorry. I just don't understand this mentality: "My parent/spouse is dead, time to make sure I get my share." I'm hoping that, if nothing else, if my aunt and uncle do make the attempt to be greedy assholes, my dad's brothers will wake up and realise that it wasn't my dad "tearing the family apart" when he…

My dad's younger sister sounds like yours. With both of my paternal grandparents well into their eighties, and my grandfather's health slowly failing, the eldest daughter and her husband are making plans to take care of my grandmother after he dies, proposing moving out of their too-big house and in with grandma to…

Maybe I will do this after I get tired of my nails being painted vaguely like the abdomens of drosophilia melanogaster.

Lush is great. Also once I gave a bath to a rat using Lush shampoo so that, at least, was tested on animals. She was the best-smelling rat ever.

I... can't get over how incredibly real this looks. There are veins in this foot. It's perfect. The artistry is amazing.

I have met more small, pampered, vicious little dogs than I can count. Aggressive dogs that don't get trained properly because "oh, isn't it cute." Years ago, I had a coworker nearly lose his nose to a nasty little poodle mix that snarled and lunged at everyone when his owner brought him into a dog-friendly store. …

Yeah, I'm a biology student, and I've had to spend a fair amount of time neck-deep in scientific papers and then translating them into English. This is... not a good job.

It's debatable whether the Maker actually exists in this setting, but the dragons themselves... are interesting.

A probably apocryphal story about the famed judge Matthew Baillie Begbie, who travelled British Columbia in the mid 1800s on foot and on horseback to deliver justice where it was needed in a new province in the middle of a gold rush:

Planned Parenthood is a business. It's a business that sells sex. It's a way to get clientele and to sexualize young people and turn them into lifelong clients.