Guess what has a fantastic ROI? Effective treatments.

Yeah, it's all just a giant conspiracy between people who have devoted their lives to medicine and drug development. Sound ridiculous? Because it is.

I can be reasonably assured that most articles on i09 about pharmacology and psychiatry will grossly misrepresent issues and have a straw man thesis. This one is no different. Find some writers that actually understand drug development and psychology, please.

Well, we know from the movie schedule that Civil War is where they're heading. So the answer is almost certainly affirmative.

If only people would get over their irrational fear of nuclear energy, we'd have safe, sustainable, plentiful power within a couple of decades with dozens of generations of fuel already extracted and a solution to the nuclear waste storage problem to boot. No need for pseudo-green tech with a nasty production waste…

Who cares? The Dalai Lama is a hypocrite whose line is notable for a backwards, brutal theocracy and who leads a government in exile that is extremely intolerant of heretics. Also, the title originates in a craven political move (see Altan Khan and the 3rd Dalai Lama). that's just scratching the surface. The Dalai…

A contraction is counted as a single word. "I am" is two words. "I'm" is one.

Not to mention their opposition to humanitarian GMOs and other aspects of human and social progress.

It seems to be the new chic for prominent liberals, conservatives, and libertarians alike to bizarrely live up to the twisted stereotypes their opponents trumpet. It's the spirit of our age.

If it scream perpetual motion machine, that's because you're not paying attention and/or reading significantly lacking descriptions. There are no claims of over-unity performance, or even any extraordinary efficiency. The system consumes energy in order to produce the effect.

The identity of Baktiotha is not remotely a mystery. I'm puzzled why anyone familiar with the literature about Coptic Gnosticism would find it ambiguous. It's known to be documented in other texts as an appellation (or emanation/avatar) of the Christ.

It's a literal translation of a common convention in many languages (using a conjunction between units of ten). For example, in German "forty-nine" is neunundvierzig (nine and forty).

Actually, a lord of serpents would have had positive connotations in that time and place.

The whole thing reminds me of this: http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/…

The vitriol was unwarranted and the misogyny vile. However, it was clearly not a misinterpretation of her intent to read it as making the point that tampons should be subsidized/free by way of leading question, because it is her MO to ask "obvious" questions and she indeed explicitly said "I WANT FREE TAMPONS." http://…

Single gear, suspensionless, heavy frame material... That is neither "massively functional" nor remotely "pretty damn close... to build[ing] the perfect urban bicycle." Saying it was designed for NYC is not even a comeback, as it doesn't address the serious shortcomings of the design which are still quite relevant in…

This is serious anthropomorphizing and plain poor science. Eliciting the appearance of an emotion or reaction is not remotely equivalent to eliciting the same or even cognitively comparable emotion or reaction. Of considerable relevance is that dogs neurologically lack a developed emotional cortex. They have very…

If Pacific Rim is him showing some shine, there is no hope.

Twists like that need to be undone, one way or the other, for both effective deployment and landing control. Just riding it out would have been a recipe for serious pain. He was too low altitude to have time to spin out the twist, so cutting loose and deploying the reserve was the smart option.

Hovering is the bane of everyone who's ever had to clean a ladies' restroom.