That will probably happen to you too, but fortunately, you won't be famous enough for anybody to comment about it on the internet.
Dammit, Louie! He's a doctor, not a theologian.
Well, I bet they have thought of that and that someone is even doing it. But I think the reality is that even when you have plenty of seeds, and even when the seeds are handled and stored correctly, it turns out to be challenging to replicate the environmental conditions that allowed the plant to flourish in nature. Sort of like how you can have fertile males and females of an endangered species, but it isn't always possible to get them to mate -- you can have the necessary fundamentals, but other more ineffable qualities play an essential role, too.
Why does art have to be accessible?
"Myth" has a more nuanced meaning than "something fictional"; it's accurately used here even if you're a hardcore fundamentalist Christian. (Which is not to say it won't tork those people off. But they are often pretty easy to tork off.)
They should really look at their infrastructure and figure out what it can do well that it is already built to do, and then improve on that, rather than blindly adhering to the same old goal they had twenty years ago. Because chances are pretty bleak that they're going to suddenly get faster than the blogs and tweeters who are scooping them, much less while simultaneously becoming more "distinctive."
Yeah, the forgetting and having to rememorize is standard D&D magic-use (or at least was; I dunno if the latest editions of the game have changed it), and actually comes from Jack Vance's far-future-with-magic series The Dying Earth (also mentioned elsewhere in the comments).
Yeah, it's not so much the not walking that would be the most depressing part of paralyzation below the waist. When you had mind-control powers.
Marvelous.
A useful reminder for all the aspiring artists out there (or aspiring anybodies out there) who think success is a panacea. It might make your life a little nicer than before, but in the end, you're still you.
I always liked "To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
Yoda is so weird, man. All the Jedi in all six movies universally recognize him as, like, the wisest guy in the whole galaxy, and all the Jedi in all six movies immediately proceed to totally disregard every piece of advice he puts out there. It makes sense he hung out with Chewbacca, since Chewie was also used to saying things that made sense and then being systematically ignored.
"Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter" is in my top five movie lines of all time, though. Even if you are a strict materialist, I think the idea is worth keeping in mind.
"Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter" is in my top five movie lines of all time, though. Even if you are a strict materialist, I think the idea is worth keeping in mind.
How much good Bono and U2 have done is debatable, insofar as celebrity benefit work of all stripes usually involves (1) drawing as much attention to the celebrities as to the cause, and (2) spending a lot of money on the spectacle. But they almost certainly have gotten a shitload of people to sign up for Amnesty International over the last 25+ years, and that's pretty inarguably good. He also did actually go to Africa and, like, work there for a little while, back before The Joshua Tree came out and he wasn't so famous that such a thing was unfeasible. He wasn't like Mother Theresa or anything, but it's cool that he actually was on the ground and not just writing songs about it thousands of miles away.
Anyway, yeah, he often comes off as a pompous blowhard, but reading a few interviews with him will make it clear that he is totally aware of that and pretty self-deprecating about it. And then he keeps on doing it because talking about African poverty is more important to him than appeasing the haters, which I think is cool.
Anyway, yeah, he often comes off as a pompous blowhard, but reading a few interviews with him will make it clear that he is totally aware of that and pretty self-deprecating about it. And then he keeps on doing it because talking about African poverty is more important to him than appeasing the haters, which I think is cool.
I haven't read the Pern books in forever (and never have gotten to The Ship Who Sang), and I can't remember any of the details -- just the dragons and the thread and Masterharper Robinton. But I remember what a crazy-weird experience they were to me as a junior-high kid. I think I went in expecting swords and treasure and magic and probably orcs, just based on the "dragon" in the titles, and got this trippy set of stories about friendship and music and ecology. And ladies! Ladies kicking ass! Probably it was a really healthy reading experience, and influential in a way that I'll never be able to unearth.
I'm going with: some kind of cosplay/porno site. Because that is the only way this is good news.
That is my favorite part of the comments on every io9 science post ever. First, all the commenters who critique the researchers' methods solely on what's reported in the post, as if no nuance or complexity or additional points might have gotten lost somewhere between the lab or journal and the writing of a blog for a large mainstream audience. And second, all of them who pounce on the most immediately obvious objections without ever seeming to contemplate for a moment that if it occurred to them, Random Layperson Reading the Internet, it might just have occurred to the scientists who had to write up a proposal, obtain funding, and face review by their peers, somewhere along the line.
The internet is a great tool for letting everyone else know how smart you're convinced you are, that's for sure.
The internet is a great tool for letting everyone else know how smart you're convinced you are, that's for sure.
They go with me wherever.
And it makes you do a chant and want to walk around the entire weekend trying to pull out people's hearts.
I'm not saying your overarching argument is wrong, but I don't know if I'd list this as a negative.
I'm not saying your overarching argument is wrong, but I don't know if I'd list this as a negative.
Well, they are still among them. Sort of like how I am "among the sexiest young swimsuit models of the world" even though I am neither young nor a swimsuit model.
It's so soft in here.
It's so soft in here.
This is total BULLSHIT. Crystal skulls are BULLSHIT. They will not save the world; they do not have magical powers. Everyone who has HALF A GODDAMN BRAIN knows that.
The skulls are just fancy containers for billion-year-old alien ghosts. The magical powers of the ghosts are what will save the world.
The skulls are just fancy containers for billion-year-old alien ghosts. The magical powers of the ghosts are what will save the world.
