NenyaVilyaNenya commented on Science Fiction Is Making You More Clueless About Science

"@Evlsushi: I don't think it's a particular type of sci-fi. I believe the point is that sci-fi media and media containing science is often negatively biased against science (When science goes wrong!"

NenyaVilyaNenya commented on Science Fiction Is Making You More Clueless About Science

"@NenyaVilyaNenya: (the cursor hit the submit button on my previous post) Gattaca and Brave New World are the two examples I can think of right now that don't get something wrong, and that's because they don't give detailed scientific explanation. Non-scientists have to understand how frustrating it is for scientists to see their chosen field represented incorrectly. I know lawyers who get frustrated with law dramas as much as I get frustrated with shows involving biology. Isn't it the same for people in other fields? I think misrepresenting anything in any type of media leads to people who specialize in that area being angry mainly because of one thing - The public (who, as a whole, take what is supplied by the media as truth) is wrongly educated."

NenyaVilyaNenya commented on Science Fiction Is Making You More Clueless About Science

"This doesn't surprise me at all. What surprises me are the negative comments. I can't count the number of times some form of media (including novels, short stories, films, television programs, news media) have gotten something wrong about biology."

NenyaVilyaNenya commented on What Urban Fantasy Tells Us About the Future

"@vinylrake: Agreed. The io9 staff just don't want to admit it."

NenyaVilyaNenya commented on Stargate Universe Slowly Truckin' On Its Space Journey

"@rek: The executive producers and co-creators are Brad Wright and Robert C."

NenyaVilyaNenya commented on Scifi Books that Have Been Banned in the Twenty-First Century

"I was introduced to His Dark Materials when I found the first two books in my Catholic school's library. @ggodo: "God is not what we've been worshiping this whole time." Yep- The Authority in the books is the first Angel, not the Creator of the Universe."

NenyaVilyaNenya commented on Mother's Cookies Goes Out Of Business, Kills Off Circus Animals

"@LastVigilante: All I know is they sell them in Wisconsin. I love these cookies. I must go buy some now."

NenyaVilyaNenya commented on Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Transgenic, Glowing Animals

"@Arryma: The dual chromophore systems are also very cool."

NenyaVilyaNenya commented on Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Transgenic, Glowing Animals

"Oh GFP, how I love how you can be linked to Pkd2 and make the coelomocytes in my little C."

NenyaVilyaNenya commented on What Will Remain of Us 100 Million Years After the Apocalypse?

"@JediTrilobite: I was going to post about World Without Us, but you beat me to it."