I am one of those people who hates small dogs. To be fair to the small dogs themselves, the problem is often owners who treat them as sort of oversized, overindulged hamsters. And because they're small and fluffy and cute and their owners assume they can do no harm, they're often badly trained or not trained at all.…
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As a scientist, in fact someone who conducts animal research, I am appalled at this article. The language Chandna is using is completely inflammatory. To suggest that "anything goes in American laboratories" is to be completely ignorant of how IACUC review is actually conducted. It is true that rodent work is not…
Usually I enjoy these articles, they are very well researched and informative.
"There's no prohibition on any kind of experimentation no matter how cruel, painful, redundant, frivolous, or pointless."
As someone who has worked with mice in order to justify clinical treatment for patients, this is completely false! I cannot stress how hard it is to get protocols approved for grants and new…
Lars - "This isn't important!"
Commenters - "Actually this is how it could be important."
Lars - "I don't care about how it could be important!"
This was presented to the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics. All these people do all day is study the way various fluids interact with the world. Dogs make much more mess drinking the same fluid than cats. Why? Finding that out is the way science works.
The inexcusable one here is the tongue map. The rest are at least somewhat true (blue-red-yellow is not that far from cyan-magenta-yellow; there are five sense that are most apparent; to a kid ferromagnetism is the most easily observed; and the only forms of matter widely present on earth are liquid solid gas). Yes, I…
Levar Burton is fine right? Please guys don't take him from me.
I loved Barbie when I was little, and games usually involves Barbie having some kind of superpowers and teaming up with My Little Ponies to defeat Darth Vader. Honestly, I never really thought that Barbie was someone I was supposed to look like or that I should be making her go on dates. I think as long as you raise a…
I think you're onto the narcissism bit, but this is a slightly different malignant version. Her beau hates his job and believes that no work is "work" unless it is paid cubicle-type work; thus, to him, she is lazing about while he is nose to the grindstone. What underlies this resentment is a desire for a…
This was gonna be my vote. Glad someone else was thinking this way.
Gotta go with my synthetic bro, R. Daneel Olivaw on this one. Gotta be one of the most influential characters within the Robots/Empire/Foundation universe.
God, there's such a stigmata against sex with venerated objects.
"Burned up like garbage"? Screw you.
Well, to be fair, a sequel to this one was kind of a given, since the movie only adapts half of the book it's based on. That they would do the second part if the first one went well was kind of a no-brainer. Problem is, they botched the execution. And then there's the third one which...let's just not talk about that…
So all penises are actually God's penises. Are they physically on loan or are they only metaphysicially on loan? Like, do the true, platonic forms of these penises still exist somewhere outside of the cosmos while we're using them?
There have been an estimated 108 billion human beings born on the earth. If we assume a…
"Though you may believe your hand is shaped like a home, it is not."
people like to use the Hydra (the mythological creature, not the Marvel baddies) as an example of an unstoppable monster. Well, Hercules cut off all the heads really fast and burned the stumps. End of story.