from a massive 160 litres per adult, per year in 196

While some individuals with severe autism could certainly use the therapy, other people on the spectrum, such as people with Asperger's, may not require genetic manipulations of the sort — which could have a profound impact on their personality and psychological awareness.

Also, their prions! (And possibly spongiform encephalopathy.)

By necessity? Nothing.

Yes, super-classy.

Making things work very, very well is pretty much the hallmark of being German, I think.

I wonder what they did with all the scenery once Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson(!) were done chewing the living fuck out of it?

No, I just stopped being young. ;-)

This is less an explanation of why the so-called Fake Geek Girl is a myth and rather an exploration of the myth surrounding the Fake Geek Girl and the origin of the perceived threat they pose to Geek culture (whatever that is).

Look, if we're talking about bringing back Who monsters on strength of weird voices alone, my vote is for the Monoptera.

For once my misspent youth comes in handy!

More importantly, when is Harmony Gold going to go after the Australians for infringement?

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Marauder

I sincerely hope that these prosthetics are practical effects designed purely to allow Tom Cruise to run in this scene, and will be "enhanced" in post with CGI or some such. Otherwise, that's a pretty high level of terrible that they've gone and achieved.

In Canada, politicians re-introduce the abortion issue at their own peril, due to our general distaste for politicians who openly espouse their religious views.

Crouch End (via Wiki).

Ditto.

The science and cultural items are pretty complementary to the science fiction (&c.) content — io9 is as much about fostering an atmosphere wherein thoughtful SF can be produced (see also the weekly writing prompt, CJA's occasional writing tip) as it is reporting about it.

io9 often covers the science beat in addition to Science Fiction (and fantasy and horror and assorted flavours of speculative fiction); I'm guessing George's "Psychology" tag brings this in under the aegis of science coverage.

You say that like it's a bad thing.