And meanwhile, we also visit Watney’s crewmembers aboard their Ares vessel, with its winding corridors and cramped crew quarters.

So is that a Golgi body that the acrosome is derived from?

That’s not their only job. They also have chemical machinery for managing blood acidity and shifting carbon dioxide into a form that can be more easily carried in the blood.

Wait wait wait... are you telling me mushrooms will actually function as power ups in the future?!

Should it creep me out that the world’s biggest search engine hallucinates eyes on everything?

This is a corny answer but...

Welcome back kids! I hope you had a great summer. How was camp? Did you get your braces off? Did you do the required pre-reading? No, well it’s time to do the reading. Alright, let’s get back into the swing of things.

The sad fiery fate of all Kerbal stations

I do PET/CT scans which is an imaging study which detects cancer. The imaging agent is actually a radioactive sugar. Since cancer cells are overactive cells they are more hungry for the radioactive sugar than normal cells and show up brighter than normal cells. Unfortunately, this technique is not sensitive to all…

I am suddenly very concerned that the New Patented Boing Laser Hydrogen Fusing engine is incredibly noisy.

How very Geroge Lucas of her.

Asking the “radix n == AI” people to pump the brakes and think about what they’re saying is kind of frustrating.

Spot agrees with this post.

“I bet you can’t land in his mouth!”

That’s easy! Here’s a rough one, somebody can do something fancier if they like.

Wow. I’ve been an astronomy wonk my whole life, and this is what Pluto looked like when I was a kid. Now I’m watching this flyby on my pocket computer. Looks like I made it to The Future™.

Pretty sure he did balance the force.

Exactly. The tension of combat disappeared because everyone got constantly-upgraded mechs that could do anything (unless the writers wanted you to feel bad, in which case some scrubs were killed and their little portraits turned red). Now they ALL have those long guns, so bye bye complicated, staged combat of head…

Thus the robot learned to hate humanity. And humanity's days were thus numbered.