The gallbladder doesn't really produce much of anything; it just stores and concentrates bile. The liver itself makes it. Other than that, the gallbladder has maybe some minor hormone production, but nothing necessary for a good quality of life.

I don't trust the "branches" to hold much weight. Aside from that, the tapered form of the tree, while looking nothing like most real trees, at least creates a somewhat interesting optical illusion.

I don't trust the "branches" to hold much weight. Aside from that, the tapered form of the tree, while looking nothing like most real trees, at least creates a somewhat interesting optical illusion.

The fact that you missed it means that you're a normal human being who isn't a pedant. The fact is, it's extremely common for people to make mistakes with too many or too few negatives in grammatical constructions, and not just with this particular phrase. The other fact is, the point almost always gets across anyway.

The mountaineering "death zone", which is the altitude that nobody can survive above, is generally considered to be 8000 meters (roughly 26000 feet). Even the fittest, most acclimatized climbers will die eventually if they stay that high up. It just takes longer for some people. Although if you're not acclimatized,…

I own all of those albums.

That stuff is outstanding. Philadelphia Distilling Co. also makes a good absinthe (Vieux Carre), and a white whiskey (XXX Shine) that will burn you, but in the best way. And the bottles and label design are second to none.

There are many different kinds of bitters, but generally, they serve to level off the brighter taste notes of a mix, and add complexity without too much weight. Regardless of the type, they typically have a floral/herbal/volatile and even a bit astringent property that provides an extra contrast. It's one of the main…

I think they'll probably look crooked no matter what you do, given that the silhouette is so asymmetric.

I think I'll just stick with regular old prep bowls and regular cutting board. The prep bowls are versatile (after all, they're bowls), and a cutting board without feet allows you to use the other side. This smells of a solution without a problem.

For starters, that weird contour line that loops up the front fascia and around the headlight (but not actually along the border of the headlight) looks completely messed up. On the front angled shot, it almost makes the corner of the car look concave. And the way it pinches the grille in looks really screwy.

I think they were talking about the One X.

This post seems to totally miss the concept that mammograms do not lead directly to chemo and surgery; a positive mammogram leads to a biopsy procedure, which then leads to a definitive diagnosis.

Agreed that this needs to be corrected. Mammograms are screening tests; they do not provide a definitive diagnosis, and any doctor that suggested surgery or chemo on the basis of a mammogram has some serious explaining to do. As you said, a screening test should lean toward more false positives.

Note to self: Learn the tango.

Sideshow Björn just burnt as many calories screaming as he's gonna get from that food.

It needs to say, "Are you still there?" in a sweet voice.

Trust me, I understand that you can't voluntarily evolve. I didn't mean it that way. But if we had a global crisis in some important resource (like water), you can bet that selection pressure would start to affect us. If we had say, 50-100,000 years, there's no doubt that we would make some biological adaptations. I'd…

If we ever got to the point that we didn't have enough water, I suspect either A) our population would contract, B) we would have the technology to recycle it from the ocean and from waste sources, or C) we would evolve a biological way around it.

It's a twin. Cows have a fair number of twins and you get some weird conjoined/parasitic ones now and then, even occasionally a two-headed calf. Most of them die; this one was just lucky to have a pair of legs hanging off where they wouldn't get in the way of anything else.