Hey babe, I have a huge, irregular pentagon. I want to thrust it in your rhombus and suck on your circles.

All this time, the secret wasn't just: "Strap on some wings, flap them, and fly!"

Pimp gonna beat a cracker every time.

Cool story.

How about if you're bald, grow a beard... and stand on your head?

Clitorus?!? That is a mysterious thing!

What was the genetic predisposition of the people studied?

Strictly speaking—correct. On the other hand, these are VERY comprehensive studies looking at thousands of people over many years, accounting for millions of "person years." Food habits and exercise habits are looked at extensively. At this level of data, in my opinion, we are getting as close to causation as we're…

The study looked at about 50,000 people over many years. I think the findings are pretty valid. The statistics fall out such that if you have less than "0.5 servings per day" of red meat, excess morbidity is not substantially elevated. In other words, some read meat consumption is not all bad. If you're having a full…

Because everything is about me (ha)... I thought the site had become almost about the commenters. Which is not a bad thing if you're a reader, but maybe threatening or slightly grating if you're a writer or editor. So, the whole commenting system went through change after change for a while—it seemed like an unspoken…

I bet this consumes far less (j)gigawatts.

My feelings about the scene are always the same every time I watch...

Ha, you're welcome. Carbon monoxide is a normal byproduct of your body breaking down old blood cells it doesn't need anymore. Cyanide is released as the body converts Vitamin B12 substances from the diet and normal, healthy bacteria in your intestines.

Cyanide and carbon monoxide are VERY toxic—in certain amounts. Your body naturally produces both in its normal course of metabolic business each day. Just food for thought...

If very fast moving solar flare particles escape the solar system and are aimed roughly toward another massive object—which they have a pretty reasonable chance of being—why wouldn't they accelerate toward that object?

Space is not a vacuum either, there is friction in space, especially over vast distances and time.

Somewhere between a billionth to a trillionth of the particles will hit earth or come near the earth; the rest will be flung into the interstellar medium, where they will be decelerated or accelerated by gravitational forces from all the things in our local group and beyond. Everything in the universe is accelerating…

Most, the vast majority, of the particles will go well past Earth and the solar system. Those that hit earth are decelerated of course. It would be more correct to say the particles will go through acceleration (for example those that are falling toward massive objects, like idunno maybe a nearby star or maybe the…

Gravity affects a particle as much as it does a planet. The particles are ejected from the sun at a velocity greater than the sun's escape velocity, so they will never be pulled back to the sun by gravity. The particles are traveling at 1000+ miles per second—if they were going less than 380 miles per second, they…

Kid, it looks like on this Island...