Then again the regulars also know that the claim that you haven't heard of those things is an exaggerated claim. Also I have to admit I didn't know about the rat bombs before.

There's this little thing called advancing technology in our culture. And it just so happens that it's always driven by need. I guarantee that as soon as it's no longer viable to use practical slave labour in the textile industry and agriculture among other fields to produce cheap goods with reasonable amount of…

Yeah, I was pretty happy to see that, too.

The fact that despite popular belief, world poverty is decreasing, disparities between countries are decreasing, and human population is starting to peak.

There is nothing like waking after brain surgery.
Underwent a de-bulking craniotomy to remove a damaged temporal lobe and a tumour last May. I woke and stretched my fingers, raised my hands to my face, wiggled my toes, looked around the room, testing my body, checking for paralysis, for blindness, for loss of…

Terry Pratchett made a documentary about assisted suicide which is very sad, moving and enlightening. I very much recommend it.

Terry Pratchett (yes, that Terry Pratchett) who is suffering from Alzheimer's made a documentary about this and in support of passing a law like this one in the UK. The documentary shows how this is done in several European countries, and a couple of cases where people decided to die, including one man who invites…

The ECs were obviously tested on women over 165 lbs. First, there is no way you're going to get a drug past clinical trials with a sample population of only petite women. Second, the 2011 study is a meta-analysis of prior studies.

notice how almost every comment here is directed at pharmaceutical companies' thin privilege, the inadequacy of the BMI index, and the stigma of being obese....rather than considering the fact that being overweight makes most applications of modern medicine more difficult. It's almost as if there were concrete health…

Ok, I've tried this and it did NOT work. Maybe I was doing it wrong.

the fact we think of having children as a right, for some reason.

Really needs clarification that the new location is about 1 mile from the *old location*, and NOT 1 mile from Stonehenge.

This is where critical thinking comes into play. If you think critically, you take the facts, reject the framing and evaluate the facts on their own merits.

Best Star Trek movie made in years!

Because that's the best Fantastic Four movie we will ever get - and at the same time, so much more.

M&C

I mean heaven forbid we discuss stuff like this on a science fiction site, right? The nerve, I swear!

Terrible explaination Casey lol... You should really emphasise the fact that each "clip" was made from ONE single photograph, sometimes a couple (owl landing in snow is created from only 2 single images)
That is the amazing part about these, and what also sets it apart from just being a regular movie, you know, still…

I don't mind being UNDER THRALL. Thrall was a pretty cool leader and I think he bathed more than Vol'jin.