It really burns my noodle when people who have benefited from good luck, good health care and/or won the genetic lottery take their good fortune as proof that they have somehow found the Holy Grail of parenting, and proselytize whatever kinky path they've taken as The Way.

What's your damage, Heather??!

well fuck me gently with a chainsaw.

Haha well basically when we started dating (we're gay btw) and being cute and discussed if we ever got married someday... lalala... and she just said "I call dibs on proposing, so you know." Over the years I've tested her saying, "what would you do if I proposed?"

I got all the way to the check-out at the supermarket today when I realized I forgot my Honey Maid Graham Crackers and I left the line to go stock up. "This is wholesome" FTW!

Yes you can be whelmed. It just means turned upside down (implicitly with force). It's not often used any-more, except in a few English and Welsh dialects.

ACTUALLY, the number of colors that different people perceive depends on a lot of interesting factors. There's a fascinating Radiolab episode that talks about how there are distinct patterns in how different languages develop different names and categorizations for colors. (A term for the color red inevitably comes…

"for infants, toddlers, and small children"

Just repeating a previous post about vaccinations and why it is so goddamned important to get them!

You could make the argument, though, that these kids are going to leave college and eventually have a hand in creating the real world as they turn into adults, get jobs, and move up in them. It's a shitty thing to think about, but real, permanent change in the way society works isn't going to happen until it gets into…

The problem with 23andMe is that the FDA has decided that their services fall under the category of medical devices and thus must abide by the regulatory framework that govern medical devices. Whereupon 23andMe promptly failed because they were unable to prove satisfactorily that their protocols are validated. The FDA…

While I can understand what you're saying, it seems to be borne out of a belief that crying is a choice you make and not an instinctual response. Certainly, sometimes it's something you can keep under control or not, but for a lot of people who feel under attack crying is a physiological response that you can't…

I AM EXCITED!! I WAS SUMMONED HERE BY THE GLORY OF THIS POST! Also this fan art is the best fan art because it features the best Sailor Scout.

How about using our mapping of the human genome to unravel the complexities of trisomie so instead of practicing chromosomal racism?
Dr William Mobley was told a decade ago that Down syndrome research would end his career, now he is at Roche Labs testing a molecule which promises to normalize the learning and memory of…

Fun fact: Graham Crackers were invented to curb masturbation. I am so not kidding.

But breast milk is made of chemicals too. EVERYTHING is made of chemicals.

I did a lot of sewing growing up and whenever I wanted to alter a pattern or something the person teaching me to sew would say "it's just an engineering problem" and in my mind I was like "if I can do this, then I can totally be an engineer", I'm not actually an engineer, the sexual harassment scared me away, but I…

Super Awesome Science Girl,

That IS awesome. Congrats on the successful defense! I just went through all sorts of nostalgia reading your post. I had never really thought of what fostered the desire to have a career in a STEM field till all of this hubbub over LEGO and the "what it is is beautiful" ad recirculating in…