I should also note that while anyone can look at least adequate in a $3K tuxedo, you have to be veeeery secure in yourself to put on a clown suit, or go from James Bond to a needlepointing cat fanatic somewhere in the neighborhood of asexual-or-maybe-homosexual in 1980. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Hijack…

I’m pleased to see they cover another one of Roger Moore’s iconic looks:

MY MOMMY SAID NOT TO PUT BEANS IN MY EARS

Bean-nighe.

California Department of Education, Model Curriculum Projects, Media Studies, page 107:

HMX battle scones.

Building on ACS Dropout’s point, here: the easy way to find out the context is to go find a copy of Rebecca Skloot’s _The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks_ and read it. One of the research topics at the time was diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer; one of the approaches was to try to grow cervical cancer cells…

Their data source is, to be blunt, cheap, easy, and noisy. (They’re comparing the brightness of two patches of the moon.) From Earth’s Albedo 1998–2017 as Measured From Earthshine ( https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL094888 ) their data was so noisy, they had to make a judgement call even to…

Trust in journalism’s understanding of scientific process erodes further with inability to distinguish marketing stunt from study.

First things first: You need a headcount. How many trick-or-treaters are you expecting this year?

Yes, I am qualified to act as a veterinary pharmacologist. I’ve read R. Crumb AND listened to Snoop Dogg.

Basically, if the government doesn’t figure out a way to raise the nation’s borrowing limit, the government will be forced to default on their loans,

Let me give you a pro tip: Anyone that starts off their video by speaking to the social media platform and not the people using it is usually a psychopath. That’s like walking out of your house and saying “Good morning, car!” or “‘Sup mailbox.”

Since B5 wasn’t JMS’s first rodeo, the storyline was designed from the start to be tolerant of character and actor changes. From JMS’ newsletter of 5/20/1994, archived at http://jmsnews.com/Messages/Message/18461 :

The stuff really is incredible. For mechanical removal, I’ve used Lodge pan scrapers ( https://www.lodgecastiron.com/product/pan-scrapers?sku=SCRAPERPK ) and Scotch-Brite Dobie scrubbing pads.

Which will work great for the guys hiding, if they can breathe vacuum.

You, and me, and crates of ripe lychee

The soaps also contain almost no weird chemicals, like some liquid options that can leave behind a layer of film on the skin.

One of the advantages of the empire structure is it enables more global institutions and control DESPITE being made of disparate folks battling for resources and control. It’s not like there weren’t tremendous internal conflicts within (for instance) Imperial Rome, or the Victorian-era British Empire. Nor do they rely…

  Pfft. Sigma-Aldrich Ethyl alcohol, Pure 200 proof, ACS reagent, ≥99.5% . https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/sigald/459844 $134 / liter. Drink it quick before it hygroscopically absorbs water from the air and drops to mere 190 proof. Okay, somewhat under .1% is methanol, which will make you go blind—but the…