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Well, I’m sorry to have to disagree. It’s quite permissible to say that a fact or phenomenon implies something despite not being a...

I’m this way with so many things. “I don’t know…” “…but I don’t think so.” “…but it seems likely.” “…and I really can’t even guess...

I’d like an agnostic option.

My favorite debunking story: In my philosophy class at university, the professor asked everyone in the room who believed in ghosts to...

Also learned about Joanna Southcott’s Box. That’s some gaslamp/urban fantasy fodder right there. “Southcott left a sealed wooden casket...

Yesterday I learned about the Manchu Han feast, an extremely traditional Chinese imperial banquet which has only rarely been tried in...

Finished Halting State by Charles Stross, which is basically a cyberpunk thriller written in 2008 and set in a a decade or two in the...

We salute your sacrifice.

A new, hilarious data point: just found out today that the latest medical patient electronic intake forms my Dad’s group uses is...

There were a whole bunch (Electron, Starbolt, Impulse etc) who had ambiguous energy powers that could make them expies of various...

You’re quite right, she’s from Toronto.

As I recall there was a fairly clear Sun Boy expie too, though I'm not sure we ever got a name for him.

You’re quite right - Superboy departed the Legion (and the series title, which was Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes until then)...

Yeah, I am over Skink at this point. He was a cool weird character the first few times, but overstayed his welcome long before he showed...

Thanks to recommendations here I've now finished Fever Beach, Carl Hiaasen's latest, and it is pretty good, and very up to date (it came...