My understanding is that it's an 8-part story. Not that that's going to stop me from buying it in comic format.

Borg and Cybermen, actually. You can see where they have synergy.

My understanding is that they've since revised that comment and have sent out engineers to physically look at Engine 5. So I think we can write it off as "Musk got a bit overexcited following the mission abort, but after a few hours of sleep he's thought it through more."

"Duke Nukem? Quentin Tarantino. Duke Nukem requires over-the-top action and humor, along with that sort of underlying indi self-deprecation and satire. Tarantino would find just the right people to rip off in just the right combination. Bay's Nukem would be unfunny, which is unacceptable. "

MJT++

Mass spectroscopy? Or does that not count as "common"?

How could this possibly predict natural disasters? I could see an argument for economic or political predictions, and I guess if lots of people are searching for symptoms of a known illness that might indicate that an outbreak is in progress, but are people going to start searching for "tsunami" before one actually…

Fortunately, it was explicitly stated that only humans were affected by Miracle Day, not all animals. So feel free to keep eating that burger.

You had a perfect opportunity to use the topic tag "bananapocalypse," and you wasted it. For shame.

I haven't even read this post yet, but from the title alone, I know the answer is "yes."

Dune. Arrakis. Dessert planet.

This is basically what my friends and I concluded after seeing the movie; the only way for that scene to make sense is if the first 2/3 of the second film is setting up why Sinestro would want the yellow ring, and only then does he put it on. If they start out with Sinestro being evil, that's it, the film's over.

I don't know if "cutesy" is the word I'd use to describe it, but my favorite ridiculous medical problem name has to be Exploding Head Syndrome. No, it's not like that guy from Scanners.

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Wait, they studied French people...and found a cohort who never ate olive oil? I find that hard to believe.

I hope you don't forget to celebrate Tau Day then too.

Based on their FAQ, they reuse text. Although some match so perfectly, it's hard to tell.

I came here ready to pooh-pooh this article for being overly optimistic and unrealistic about the potential of this research, but this is actually a pretty good take on the E. chromi project. Basically, the team prepared genes which can be triggered by standard BioBricks parts and which produce various human-visible…

No discussion of the Ackerman function (aside to a link where David Morgan-Mar explains the concept)?

Really, no reference to Cracked.com's excellent discussion of Dunbar's Number, What is the Monkeysphere? And when I say "excellent," I mean "hilarious and scatological, but also insightful and thought-provoking."