Dam you Wattsburg (no h) PA. Growing up there has ruined my ability to spell.

Near there. In a town called Wattsburg (no h). It screws up my spelling to this day.

Yep, as someone who grew up outside of Pittsburg and lived in France for a while, I agree.

It is another case of Woman Laughing Alone With Salad !

In high school, I worked in a call center that took calls for hundreds of infomercial products (if you called the 800 number on screen, you got me).

I did some googling. Looks like it is photoshopped. :(

Ugh. Science writing on Jezebel.

Every time there is an article like this, someone posts this comment. I suspect they come from engineers.

My boyfriend and I went to Disney World a few years ago and had a blast. Were also in our late 20s, not really into kids or Disney movies. We went in November, before Thanksgiving. It wasn't crowded or too hot.

From my experience using US electronics in Europe and Africa, you should be fine with your apple charger.

Echoing secretagentman's response, it was the suburbs.

I am glad you like astronomy and are considering a STEM career. I am finishing up a PhD in astronomy myself.

I was trying to convey my observation that people think that there is no gravity in space while simultaneously thinking planets orbit because of gravity. It is the cognitive dissidence that I find amusing.

You are correct.

It doesn't surprise me either.

But, to your credit, the Earth's orbit is only slightly elliptical (it's eccentricity is 0.0167). Usually the orbits of planets are depicted as exaggerated ellipses in textbooks.

Sorry I was unclear. I am also not a health practitioner and I have no beef with you. I just thought since no one in this tread brought it up, I would discuss a bit of the statistics behind the recommendations.

From a Journal for Nurse Practitioners article on the controversy around breast self-examination:

The eight glasses of water thing is an urban myth: http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/…