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I did notice Phil's shorts in one yesterday. And the weather was bad so the women were covered.

And delayed again (does Ingenuity at least get to munch on peanuts while waiting for takeoff?) ...

I am probably way too amused by a speaker named Gibbons at a meeting of anthropologists. :D

Same with my mother.

No, it was a science journalist named Ann Gibbons. To quote Merriman & Cameron: Grant Hutchison

Yea I meant that while the media panics, the authorities should keep a clear head, keep pushing the vaccines, and counter the wrong statistics with...

Disappeared? We have no evidence they were ever there.

Which speaks more to the nature of human imagination and our penchant for logical fallacy than any innate merits of the paradox. Not at all....

Who would be in charge of deciding how people should think? If humanity had the capacity to direct thoughts in such specific ways I think the most...

You need three things--the angular separation of two lensed images, the light-travel time delay between those two lensed images, and the velocity...

I expect that's not what you meant... In any case, it's been in this ~80% range for a while now. Maybe if it is indeed a dust event, it's...

And how does a gene with a poorly chosen popular name relate to what you said about psychopaths and the military?

Yes...but it's sterile with a lot of variety, at least. There were (and are) a lot of clipart farms from which to download but most people seemed to...

In the first few days after our new refrigerator was delivered I noticed that items placed next to the ice dispenser would freeze. The ice maker and...

I don't suppose you have an actual thermometer in your fridge? "Half power" doesn't really help. In a sub-zero environment, it's not unusual for one...

My Dad is still in that stage!

While not as dramatic a change as promised, I think in terms of American spaceflight the space shuttle really was quite a stark change, it made types...

I watch the same show and hadn't thought they were particularly titillating. It was a bunch of women wearing their work clothes, and yes, they're...

I mean, you remember my kids' names, so that's something?

I noticed yesterday that the legs of orbital launch structure have now been cut off horizontal, presumably in preparation for the "table" to be set...

Min caught a fly yesterday, mostly. (I had to help.)

That was me as a kid. And still today!

The personal risk calculation for people over 30 in the UK is currently a no-brainer--you're more likely to come to harm from Covid than from an...