Mom wanted a lemon cake for her birthday
Just to note: Marie Curie's lab books cannot be handled without protective gear and are stored in lead containment boxes because of all the new chemistry she discovered.
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It's amazing how often things are similar to what they are.
The sound of scientific discovery is less often "Eureka!" than "Huh, that's funny..."
Well, not always: Plural 'they' is a borrowing from Old Norse ca. 1200 AD, and the earliest attestation of singular 'they' is about a century later.
But, yeah, you'd think 700 years of continuous use would be enough to make it uncontroversial...
The Oxford comma is bad. The “and” conveys the end of the list just fine.
"We invited the strippers, JFK, and Stalin.": a guest list with three items.
"We invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin.": JFK and Stalin are the strippers.
Pfft, catapults. A trebuchet can launch a 90kg advertisement over 300 meters.
Why not link the original?
He did specify a large 3D printer. So it might be 2 or even 3 feet in length.
Ezekiel 23:20
There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
The settlement at Roanoke [...] Still unsolved to this day.
The word "CROATOAN" was carved on one of the buildings in the colony. The colonists had had friendly interactions with the native people living on Croatoan Island, which was nearby. There were later reports of native people with fair skin and beards on Croatoan Island.
So mysterious! Where could the colonists possibly have gone?
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives speeding down the highway.
Ah, yes, the evil bit will solve all our problems.
I think "tailor" is a verb here. As in, the money is to create and/or improve nesting sites for swifts.
That math assumes a flat distribution of popping times, which I suspect is incorrect.
Listening to a bag of microwave popcorn, it starts off slow, gets more rapid, and then tapers off again, implying that kernels are more likely to pop near the average time, which makes it somewhat more likely for two kernels to pop simultaneously.
But yeah, whole bag at once is probably still basically zero. Unless you use one of these, of course.
but it seems too good quality to be custom work and is definitely an official controller.
Left is correct; implicit multiplication takes precedence over explicit multiplication or division.
Counting Crows
The Rolling Stones
Grateful Dead
Def Leppard
Led Zeppelin
The Doors
Also: 
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
–Isaac Asimov, 1980
It could just be a difference of the liquor, or color balance in the photo, but I think that first picture might be an Old Fashioned rather than just bourbon. It has that sort of reddish-purple tinge to it that you get from angostura bitters.
I thought edge cases were the whole point of NNN…
Cause fantasy games with dragons are famously known to all contain interstellar travel.
Well, Ultima did, so it is technically an early feature of the genre.
As an aside, I would love to see the concept of "high fantasy space opera" get more love.
You say that as though he isn't one of them.
Upper Galicia.
Is it just me, or does "we have a proprietary data model that calculates..." sound an awful lot like "we have no actual method of tracking that"?
FNV isn't a Bethesda game.
First I misread the headline as "transgender cows" and then you're in the comments talking about straight people insulin.
I think it's time for bed.
In an 1895 paper, Röntgen used "X" to label an unknown type of radiation. And the name stuck, despite his later objections. (Some languages do call them Röntgen rays.)
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-Philip K. Dick
To me, the real benefit of growth is the ability to have active communities focused on niche topics, like discussion of a single book series rather than a genre or books in general.
I don't know if it's possible get there without creating an Eternal September situation in the broader communities, but it would be nice if we could.
Obligatory: 'lawful' alignment doesn't necessarily entail not committing crimes, only adherence to some sort of code.
But yes, Trump doesn't do that, either.
The thing about fiction is that it has to make sense. Reality is under no such constraint.
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Wait, Mormons have their own alphabet? Why?
Withholding your vote doesn't do anything.
Well, not anything good. But it's mathematically equivalent to half a vote for the major party candidate you like least.
According to Google translate, 新鲜超大充气 is "fresh extra large inflatable". So, uh, I have no idea.
"Tits out" is a state of mind.
Perhaps the same could be said of all religions.