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Arabic writing still doesn’t include vowels to this day. The Arabic writing system is an abjad, not an alphabet, and each “letter” corresponds to a consonant sound, with most vowel sounds simply left out. Abjads only really work because of the peculiarities of the Semitic language family. For instance, the Hebrew…

Oh I LOVED Timer. And I had less problems with it and suspended my disbelief more because it was so charming.

So many remakes. So many sequels. So many reboots, prequels, and sidequels.

Anything from The Raid or The Raid 2 would work, but the final fight of Mad Dog vs. Rama and his brother is something truly special.

I worry that any contemporary sci-fi is going to get eclipsed by technology eventually.

Maybe it’s because I just finished reading it and loved it

The publishers were and still are fine with print books, because of access (only one person can check out a physical book at a time) and built-in obsolescence (eventually physical copies are lost, stolen, or grubby to the point they have to be discarded). It’s possible for someone to completely photocopy a library…

The best thing to come out of the AvP franchise:

I never thought it would end this way. But I'd always hoped.

We have counties, but most of us live in larger cities, so hardly anyone deals with things on the county level. :googles: Oh, look, only some provinces use counties.

It kinda blows my mind that ordering custom PCR primers takes less than a day and costs (my university) ~$3.00 apiece. For the uninitiated: Made to order design-it-yourself small stretches of DNA for about the cost of a cup of coffee.

I’m not super-familiar with how public library funding works in the US, and I expect it can vary from state-to-state or even county-to-county. Here in Canada, it’s usually a municipal service funded mainly by municipal taxpayers. I work for a fairly large urban library system, so we have a pretty good ebook selection.…

I entered librarianship in the early 2000s, just as electronic periodical databases were transitioning from CD-ROMs to web-based, and online catalogues were also transitioning from Telnet or microfiche to web-based. Oh, and a little company called Google had finally made searching for online information fast and easy,…

That’s a very good point, in fact I believe in a lot of cases they were an authority figure that the Doctor would rebel against. So he could almost be inferior, which almost never happens. If I’m not mistaken he was “grounded” by the Time Lords, or his punishment was to stay on Earth, so it could really add quite a…

I really hope they bring Gallifrey back sooner than later. We’ve had the Daleks back almost too much, and I think it’s such an important part of the mythology to not have anymore (at least now that we know it survived). It adds another dimension, and could open up so many more stories than just him randomly wandering…

Peter Capaldi Says The Doctor Knows He Made The Daleks Worse

Yay nitrogenase! The article could have been improved by making it less human-centric.

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