Here is a picture of Elmo from Sesame Street, gazing lovingly at a sweater worn by late and beloved children’s entertainer/educator Fred Rogers,

I’m willing to bet that not a lot of the people who worked for Eva Perón, Eva Braun, and Michèle Bennett failed to describe them in glowing terms at the time.

Hygienic concerns, like the ones voiced by Leah Chernikoff at Elle.com in 2018, are valid. “In my cub reporter days at the New York Daily News I set out for a weekend in the city wearing a brand new pair of flip-flops and then sent them into a lab to be tested for bacteria. They came back with nearly 14,000 strains of…

Having a child is not a luxury,

Driscoll has been producing, patenting, and growing new varieties of strawberries for years. From a process perspective, the only thing new about these is the marketing.

Why does string cheese string?

But what, exactly, are nursing parents supposed to do with this research. . . ?

I groove on the esthetic of “Analog Week.” Still, since measuring pan temperature isn’t something people most do with their cell phones in the first place, allow me to note that IR thermometers are cheap and idiot resistant:

Hear, hear. If the marketeers are trying to sell stuff with implications that it’s good for you, it’s responsible journalism to mention what science we have that shows it’s bad for you. This avoids the silence-implies-agreement trap, and avoids loaning the journalist’s credibility to incredible claims.

You just need to add another buzzword. Contaminate it with one part per quintillion of uranium ore and sell it as a homeopathic heavy metal poisoning and radiation sickness cure.

Still using it, no expectation that’ll stop. FDA mentions talc’s use in cosmetics, rice, chewing gum... FDA: Talc.

With a hundred and ten lobbyists close at hand.

Hmn. Spouses can’t be compelled to testify against each other...

Aspidoscelis neomexicanus. It’s complicated; they can come about either through parthenogenesis or by hybridizing Aspidoscelis inornatus and Aspidoscelis tigris. And as Wikipedia puts it:

I’m afraid that’s too oversimplified to be useful.

How many Democratic voters are (A) going to make up their minds who to vote for in the primaries based on details of environmental policy, and (B) want that information presented in the form of a debate rather than position papers?

Since “wasabi powder” generally isn’t wasabi (although some imports might contain a percent or two Eutrema japonicum, depending on the brand), one’s usually better served by just buying ground mustard and horseradish to begin with.

Can you miss something that was never yours in the first place?

Shoot, I can’t even find any ghost chili peppers with real ectoplasm.

Ease up with the straw man, there. Nobody here is saying “‘science’ should only be done by ‘real scientists.’”