Your “budget” laptop recommendation is still $800. Not budget for many students. Maybe don’t dismiss the $400-500 laptop out of hand, but do the legwork that these students need to help them identify which budget laptop will be the best option for them. This might be a chromebook, sure. But a midrange chromebook will…

No, you’re right. Perlman will be a huge shock if she’s nominated. She appears twice in the movie, and her first appearance is one of the weakest parts of the film. Her acting is fine, but the scene itself is poorly integrated into the rest of the narrative, and I think that matters. Plus, she really didn’t have much…

That is 100% what will happen. And no one in the Academy will get the irony.

Yes, and established scholarly hubs have been doing this for a long, long time (see: the Stanford Literary Lab). Granted these places and researchers have a more defined, more scholarly purpose, but the process is basically the same: employ computational analysis in the field of literary studies. I read an entire book…

Yeah, I started reading the article and my first thought was, “Oh, look, we’ve got an amateur Franco Moretti on our hands here.”* The Stanford Literary Lab has been working in computational literary analysis for years now.

Not to get too far into the weeds with this, but you realize the phenomenon (I’m not calling it a problem because I don’t think it is) you point out—watered down math and science classes for non-majors—cuts in the other direction, too, right? There are perceived “easy” humanities classes that attract a lot of…

Oh, they definitely have the money to prop up bankrupt diocese, but they won’t allocate that to struggling diocese and that’s intentional. It’s by design. This is the intended effect: to insulate the Vatican so that it can continue to sit upon its enormous hoard of wealth. The Vatican doesn’t give two shits about…

We put an umbrella up to cover part of the shallow end of our pool a few years ago, and now we can’t live without it. I never would have thought it would make that much of a difference, but it’s so nice to have a little bit of shade covering the pool so that you can get out of the beating sun for a few minutes at a…

Thermacell is probably your best bet for that job. That said, thermacell’s stuff has some limitations: It’s pricey and refills aren’t necessarily cheap, and the conditions have to be right (ie: calm without much breeze) for it to be most effective. But within those parameters it works alright. But really, nothing…

Every time I see a story about these two dipshits posturing about a fight, all I secretly hope for is that Ultimate Fighting Champion Pete Becker gets to face off against the winner.

Bravo

This. We had the really horrible low flow toilets circa the late 90s in our house and they were terrible. Always clogging. Finally we had enough and replaced all three with toilets rated at 1000g MaP. Problem solved. Basically, older low flow toilets are a pain and clog up. But the news ones don’t, so long as you get…

I can’t believe the hair and makeup folks didn’t put her in wigs, because I know I wouldn’t want to process my dark hair to blonde for a role and then have to process it back. That’s going to be murder to get right, and it’s going to wreak havoc on her hair.

This has nothing to do with whatever affair that Ariana Grande is happening. And I know she’s Glinda so she has to be blonde, but holy hell that shade of blonde is horrid on her with her skin tone. Just terrible.

Of all of these suggestions, only radiators and fan blades seem like good options. All the rest have pinterest fail written all over them. OK, maybe screens are OK, too. I just don’t care about screens enough to think that they need painting. 

My brain is broken by the picture of Hell ‘n Blazes’ bathroom: four sinks, three mirrors, five chandeliers. Nothing is in alignment. It’s giving me a nervous tic.

This article is really frustrating for all the places that it lacks information or draws really weird inferences based on incomplete information.

Some, but not much and its efficacy is highly in doubt. Basically, you can strengthen the muscles around the joint to make it as stable as possible, but you can’t ever really eliminate the angle of the femur from the hip socket to the knee that makes women more prone to tearing an ACL. If you land wrong on a jump, or…

Yeah, at 74 he had no chance of getting the host job (plus I think he’s best in small doses). But I would have liked to have seen his guest host stint. 

I admittedly didn’t watch all (or even most) of the guest hosts, but I was impressed by Minhaj’s week. It seemed to me like he more than some of the others that I saw, took the format and within that week was able to extend it. I felt like, in that week, we got a sense of how he would adapt The Daily Show to make it…