Are they particularly popular? Other than mine, I’ve only seen one other person with them in the wild. I also have these which are sturdy — my only complaint them is that if you’re not a slender person, your ass is going to be hanging off the sides. Frankly my heart still belongs to the old classic style ones but I…

Are they particularly popular? Other than mine, I’ve only seen one other person with them in the wild. I also have th…

I love the Tommy Bahama chairs. They’re backpacks, which is a feature I didn’t know I needed but now absolutely can’t live without. Come with a pillow. Wide seat which is great when kids are piling into it. Cup holder. Zippable cooler thing in the back. Sturdy and holds up to a lot of abuse.

I love the Tommy Bahama chairs. They’re backpacks, which is a feature I didn’t know I needed but now absolutely…

This is some of the breakdown.I’m not sure how it compares to state diversity as a whole, which likely skews the racial disparity

This also didn’t break things down by area, which I would be curious to see. Is it safer in cities, for example, when you can quickly go to a hospital if things go South?

Accreditation and integration into medical community is key but we also have crap prenatal care in this country. The stats this is based on are from 2012 — it’ll be interesting to see how (if) this changes for more recent years when ACA was in full swing.

But that’s not a healthy recommended diet. Restricting your calories that far is not healthy. I’m talking about a healthy, gradual diet.

Oh it’s definitely an argument against this kind of rapid weight loss. I just meant that since most people don’t approach it in this manner, it doesn’t necessarily alter our understanding of how their bodies will respond.

And also have a better chance of maintaining the weight loss. This study is interesting but it doesn’t really have any bearing on how we should think about healthy, recommended eating and exercise habits.

There is no evidence that calorie restriction is bad for you — severe calorie restriction is. If you are trying to lose weight and consume 2500 calories a day, reducing that intake to 2000 over time is not bad for you. In fact, if you are obese, it is probably in your best interest. Often switching to a healthy diet…

Just for context, this is the process people on the Biggest Loser go through. They consume far fewer calories than are recommended for a human to subsist on and exercise to the point of exhaustion — they basically (yes, voluntarily) spend 5 months being coached into having a severe eating disorder. They lose weight at…

I’m rooting for this. Tyrion = third head of the dragon.

I am still pretty peeved with her over the whole murdering an innocent child thing, but this did thaw me towards her a little.

First of all, AHHHH.

ha, me too! They’ve been married for 40 some odd years, so I feel like that sentence holds water.

We got the “some people are assholes” talk very very young which made me a little haughtier towards ignorant racists than I probably should have been at the age of 5, but meant that as a kid I more or less brushed off most snide comments.

Child of an interracial couple here. I forgot about it probably 97% of the time — as a kid, the only time I thought it was noteworthy was when assholes we were around made it so (and I realize I am on the luckier end of the spectrum in that percentage break down). We always had very frank conversations about race…

You're totally welcome to disagree! But if it wasn't meant as a children's book it certainly wouldn't have been submitted in that awards category — and won them.

My point was that those women all worked consistently through their 40s and are still working because they’re viewed as powerhouse talents. But if you want people specifically in their 40s, sure. In addition to ones I added when I thought of them after (Adams, Blanchett, Cruz, Weisz, Theron) you have Cameron Diaz,…

Possibly but not necessarily. Peet was never known as a particularly strong actress. Women who are — Winslet, Berry, Streep, Davis, Blanchett, Theron, Woodard, Adams, Hayek, Cruz, Moore, Benning, Bullock, Dench, Weisz etc etc — are working consistently into their 40s.

We can definitely chalk it up to perception.