Such critters make a fun appearance in "The Apocalypse Codex" by Charlie Stross.

Right, so, to be clear: you'd like us to stop all emissions immediately. Research first. Got it.

The science doesn't bear out your reasoning. There are other arenas where our subjective test and intuition and anecdotal experience amounts to a walloping big heap of worthless against the rigor of controlled studies. It can be a big frog to swallow, but there you are: science is a tool for connecting us with…

The kicker for me is how pliant and amenable the puppy is. Like the worm infestation and its attendant woes has entirely consumed his playfulness.

Fun... OR WRENCHING?

My partner just said, with a tone showing shades both of awe and horror: "They totally just Pompeiied like a million ants!"

"Star"? Not according to Urban Dictionary:

Me thinks the thousands buying Fuelshark show there is a market out there for homeopathic gasoline. I could make millions...

Exactly! Just like those people who poo-poo perpetual motion machines... WITHOUT TESTING THEM PERPETUALLY!

Because children under the age of majority aren't persons who can enter into legally equitable contracts, and the risk of exploitation by their guardians (not to mention the risk of injury) is greater than any societal benefit to be gained by allowing them to be employed?

There's white squirrels in a residential complex park in Boston, near North Station: http://www.flickr.com/photos/violent…

Fun fact: The font used for the game's title is based on Austen's handwriting.

We're the largest secular membership organization in New England. With probably the most attractive members. The website is being rebuilt; but you can connect to the group through Meetup and Facebook.

I'm one of the organizers of the Boston Atheists. Every year or so, we take a group of people down to the Scientology building on Beacon Street to watch their orientation movie and try their luck with the e-meter. The better to know one's neighbors, the idea is. In the years we've been taking these field trips, the…

B-roll footage from everyday life in the Capitol of Panem?

Is there a quadrilateral that can't be decomposed to triangles?

There's a category difference between "hero" and "superhero", which I suspect accounts for the disparity in Moore's argument between stories for the developing imagination of children (read: boys) and stories meant to feed the imaginative appetite of adults.

This fact was mustered by Sam Harris (one of the "four horsemen" authors of so-called "New Atheism") in his argument against universal religious tolerance.

I use Excel for this kind of analysis, as well as (for larger projects) Perl. My research deals with cognition and poetry.

Oh, neat. What was the bindery, can I ask?