Boy, it's sure good to see that the Canadian Competition Bureau is going to crack down on Coffee Crisp's and Mr. Big's while letting Rogers and Bell continue to rob the entire country blind.

CF is a genetic disorder that, while primarily affecting the lungs, also affects the pancreas, liver, and intestines. So while a new lung would certainly alleviate some of her symptoms, she would still have CF. Also, most transplanted organs do eventually fail, and many people who get transplants at a young age often…

Going to a wedding shower tomorrow for my best friend from high school who's marrying her girlfriend. We're not that close anymore, but I took the opportunity to get a few great, meaningful gifts. Tell me how awesome these gifts are:

let's decorate his car with used wax strips!

This is emotional terrorism.

Now, I could be being obtuse, but it seems to me none of you (commenters) understand the situation.

I will take this opportunity to present my favorite footnote to ever appear in a federal court opinion:

I put a smidgen of thought into my clothes, but I'm awkwardly shaped so shit doesn't fit and I'm poor so LOL-NO to tailoring. I don't look a mess (partly because I refuse to wear sweatpants outside of my house) but I don't look great. I look decent. I invest more in shoes than clothes because my shoe size is pretty…

Exactly. And its fair to get annoyed that high school kids are doing a little work on multi-year, multi-researcher research projects and getting all the credit in the media. Annoyed at the media, I mean, not the 18-year old.

So much for allowing someone to express an individual thought without losing your shit and launching an all out attack.

Science journalism in general is so terrible. I'm not even in a STEM field, and most of the time I can recognize when an article fails to adequately explain the basic brief or abstract of what a scientific study says, let alone actually critiquing the study's conclusions in any way that has meaning to readers.

Well I actually come from a relatively privileged background myself, and I did research as a high school student. So it's not like I'm jealous because she has opportunities I was denied or anything like that. The thing I'm frustrated at is how ridiculously overblown science reporting tends to be.

I actually laughed pretty hard at that... assuming that the scientist must be a dude. So much for feminism! XD

I liked the person who assumed you HAD to be a male... Because MALES!!!

As one entrenched in academia and intellectual property issues, I did not see your original post as diminishing, dismissive or dickish at all. I saw a statement of truth about innovation, creativity and intellectual property issues in higher education. I'm sure very few people got what you meant by "novel". If we…

I will preface this by saying that I think what this young woman is doing is great and she is doubtlessly smarter and harder-working than I was in high school, maybe even than I am now! However, in my experience, what you say is basically true. We've had a few Intel kids through our lab and I've judged a couple…

Ugh... Just back away... I can't believe how quickly people here are willing to jump all over a comment without reading/comprehending it.

I can understand your frustration. I was in some advanced art classes at my public, lower-middle-class high school that was lucky to even have an art room and it was very disheartening to be competing with the kids who went to fancy fine-arts high schools with tons of money and resources. Talent and ability are really…

Holy fucking Jesus Balls...Is there something in the water around here?! God forbid you have any opinion other than "THIS IS AMAZING!" *seal clap*

*shakes head* I liked your post and didn't think it was "Diminishing" at all...*le fucking sigh* Some days Jez..Some days..

While your first sentence had a fair point, but the rest of it was really bitter and reductive and stereotyping all rolled up into one.