Hm, agreed. It still makes intuitive sense for all the reasons pointed out above and in comments, but as for statistical data, well...

Well said. (Plus, it's the plural of datum!)

I don't mean to quibble, but that is some French-soundin' German.

I like that the man who invented PayPal and founded one of the most successful private space ventures and is dedicated to putting colonists on Mars (and yes, who founded Tesla Motors) is breezily referred to as "a car mogul," like he's heir to Chrysler or something.

Yeah, no, I saw his name above. I meant to say that I might even have known his name/it might look familiar as I'm typing this. But thank you, I *am* the guy who often overlooks the obvious.

I wish I had a link or book to reference, but I seem to recall some interpretation similar to this (maybe based on, I don't know) that made claims less on physiological difference and more on phenomenological understanding. I'm pretty sure one anecdote given involved some Roman general marching through rough…

I've seen this artwork before, spaceships with stripes and stuff. I vaguely recall maybe even knowing the artist's name before... but is this from a classic novel or series or anything?

Just read it for the first time! I can second this. Beautiful and didn't feel dated a bit.

Polish and Czech movie posters are absolutely amazing, as well, and many are very similar. (Please, please google them! you won't be disappointed.)

Thank you, Charlie Jane Anders. This is one of my new favorite articles on io9 now. I think you nailed it.

@Traveshamockery: heh. Well played. Also, Mr. Gaiser, you lost all credibility when you questioned the hotness of Tilda Swinton.

They're talking about two different things.

I'm not a pot smoker myself (fwiw: nothing against pot; I just don't enjoy smoking things generally) but how does this seem "counter-intuitive"? It seems pretty intuitively true/likely to me...

Maester Pycelle both led an AT-AT against the Rebels on Hoth and died hideously while Indiana Jones watched in horror because he "chose poorly."

Thanks for the update.

That's true. It's just refreshing is all, and I felt like saying something nice about it, but because I can't help myself, I probably slipped a cynical edge into my "isn't this just nice?" commentary. Too much Kurt Vonnegut as a kid. (I regret nothing.) (About the Vonnegut, I mean.)

So all I have to do to create my Northern Lights is to grab an electromagnetic coil off the shelf in my closet where I keep them, put it inside a handy metal sphere, take that and put it in my vacuum chamber with just a hint of gas, then shoot electrons into my vacuum chamber at the whole thing, and I can see Aurora…

I'm tired of team-ups. How about some new third option, neither vs nor &.

But if memory serves (especially in light that anybody is capable of this), they played it well when it was brought to their attention — didn't the Stones give k.d. lang writing credit and work it all out amiably without the need for litigation or namecalling? I must have been HS or college when that came…

This article has some of the most eerily open-minded and rational responses (for the most part) of any io9 article I've seen in a long time.