We naturally move through spacetime on geodesics, which could be defined as “the trajectory along which you don’t feel the effects of gravity”.

The people in the traffic jam are being equally irritated by the concept of “space”.

We should name them after oil company executives.

We’re bags of bacteria, made up of cells that are bags of mitochondria.

Looks like a 5.57 around Mendocino.

• The side effects of medication can interfere with diagnosis and treatment

• Pain can be a useful diagnostic indicator itself

• They see people in pain all the time, so it doesn’t seem like an exceptional state to them

• People with low pain tolerance, and people feigning pain to get opiods, are overrepresented in the population of people seeking medical care, so experience conditions medical providers to overweigh that as a potential factor

One dead baby duck was caught floating in the pool over the weekend, though the cause of death was unclear.

Did they charge it with vandalism too?

I can’t see the content (except for a thumbnail).

The rest of its brood had already dissolved.

I think the real difference is that fantasy (and science fantasy) has parallel sets of rules (natural vs supernatural), neither of which reduces to the other. It’s the irreducibility that’s critical, whether or not the rules are strictly spelled out.

Relevant article (PDF):

Mussolini, Sacco-Vanzetti, and the Anarchists: The Transatlantic Context

“All I got is one subcutaneous memory chip with a site license for Autodesk?”

It should be considered a universal law of corporate behavior: any information that has theoretical value will eventually be sold.

Even if current management has no intention of exploiting it, they’ll be replaced by the board, or the division and its data will be spun off and sold for its IP—that’s just corporate nature (i.e., the purpose of a system is what it does).

Depends on your position on philosophical realism.

I agree, but I also see a tradeoff: people instinctively feel a greater sense of agency when the effects of their actions are closer to the cause; if it comes weeks later it can seem more random even if it’s more reliable. Even if people know their votes counted, it can feel disempowering and depress future turnout.

The platform combines two proprietary technologies. One is a high-resolution multiphase parallelized two-photon microscope, which enables researchers to reconstruct a neuron's brain-wide projection pattern without cutting brain tissue. The other is a dual-color expansion fluorescence in situ hybridization technique, which precisely maps gene molecules within cells and can detect six genes simultaneously.

Both of these seem a bit wild in their own right.

Math Olympiads (if the horses had to answer the questions, like Clever Hans).

The U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) provides a comprehensive set of standards which guide those who build the U.S. government’s many websites. Its documentation for developers borrows a “2% rule” from its British counterpart:
. . . we officially support any browser above 2% usage as observed by analytics.usa.gov.

Reminder to self to always use FF when visiting .gov sites.

Idealistic people work harder than anyone—for idealistic causes.

They don’t work so hard for companies that betray their idealism.

Pope Francis: ”Today the ugliest danger is gender ideology, which cancels out differences ... Erasing differences is erasing humanity.”

St. Paul: ”There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Jesus Christ.”