One fun one on that is all the dog owner reviews on tennis balls.

None of us are 21yo professional athletes. It would be funny to imagine how many of us could have beaten her if given her training schedule and resources through college, but that’s a big hypothetical.

I think a large part none of her team spoke up is that they knew it would look transparent to only complain about a rule after it caused them a problem.

It’s a somewhat deliberate choice to have the episode resolve with a suggestion that lowered policing lowers crime rates, given the current controversy of skyrocketing violent crime rates thought to be linked to reduced policing.

Synthetic fibers.

As far as I know, no coffee shop uses the provision where tips are counted toward minimum wage, no.

Not for counter service.

That one always struck me as a ridiculous act of pretension, basically pretending that Twilight is less respected than Dorian Grey, Things Fall Apart, and Journey by Moonlight because of bias against disenfranchised groups.

You wouldn’t give Trebek a starring role on Star Trek because of his years hosting Jeopardy, right?

But if Young Adult novels, which have long been majority bought by an adult audience that wasn’t able to move to more complex themes than Harry Potter, starts having adult themes and storytelling, how is it “YA?” Just the grade 4-7 reading level?

Wow! How observant you are. Is your middle name Sherlock? Have you ever won any medals or international contests for your high-level research skills? P.S. The FBI called. It wants its intern back.

My impression was that, even when there are metabolic differences, they’re basically negligible, with the cliche thyroid disorder being less than 100Cal/day. SES and racial factors similarly have a pretty small attributable risk considering how widely-cited they are. Impulsivity and other personality factors appear to…

while the farmers and ranchers keep voting as Grandpa and Great-Grandpa did

It’s not population-adjusted, and the population is still growing.

I think this is a good example of how childcare practitioners generally lag decades behind the science, if their perceived wisdom is based on science at all rather than folklore.

With the growth of the internet, it’s become easier to catalogue and organize alternatives for any given context, although using the tools is still often the domain of interested professionals. As such, it isn’t that hard to find, for example, topiary plants that meet your needs and climate better than boxwood, such…

My wife teaches preschool (first pre-k, now twos) and we got a bunch of books to help with curriculum development, and the recommendation to bring in weights (especially the smaller standard-set sizes of fixed dumbbells) shows up fairly often, sometimes in physical education texts but mostly numeracy. Familiarity with…

Meanwhile, I’m here wondering if the costumes come in size dog in addition to size yappy rat.

Overeating on a certain day of the week and then burning it off over the rest.

It’s hard enough maintaining a Jewish home without letting Christmas stuff sneak in (my wide also wants to toss the television, but I want it around for acculturation, banning anything with less than an 80% on metacritic or that I don’t think is good). For the practical reasons of avoiding fights, non-shabbosdik toys…