... generally speaking, against them on February 2nd (two months hence!) when the lucky 20 are called. Most actors aren't ever nominated for the big prize. People seemed surprise to read in an old Oscar Mythbusting column I wrote years ago that the majority of nominated actors (approximately 67%) never receive a second nomination. But I did the research and it's true. Even less likely than a ...

Will we ever get real-life teleportation devices? How invisible will an invisibility cloak make you? What are the rules for plausible time travel? A new television series will look at technologies found in science fiction and what could become fact. The Science Channel has just announced a new series Sci-Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible, inspired by the book by string theory co-founder ...

Wondering which methods actually work? Many people can agree that the holiday season is one of the busiest times of the year, and it’s probably one of the worst times of the year to get sick. With so much going on, you can’t afford to let your children catch a cold or flu or fever or whatever else. This is where your trusting mommy advice comes in. While there’s lots of ...

While at NRC this weekend, I heard an argument/precept about teaching comics that I've heard before but have never directly commented on herein, so I thought I might finally do so. The idea is that teachers need to be careful about how they teach comics because doing so overtly and directly in a way that might fully explicate the text might be a way of subsuming students' popular culture ...

James Fallows points to a recent survey by Pew in which a shocking percentage of Americans believe that China is more of an economic superpower than the US. This is of course completely false, as Fallows goes on to explain and then illustrate with a photograph of dormitory conditions at Chinese universities. I’ve discussed previously that rural China is as valid- if not more so- a ...

Listening to head of the BCS is infuriating. In this 7-minute clip he evades all the questions about how the current system sucks and while he acknowledges that there might be more money in a playoff, he throws out 2 myths about a college football playoff. Myth #1 Playoffs mean you have to get rid of the bowl system. I don't understand this one at all. The current bowl system has 34 bowls, ...

As a tech writer, I regularly cringe at all the bad tweaking advice out there, and disabling the system pagefile is often a source of contention among geeks. Let’s examine some of the pagefile myths and debunk them once and for all. What is a Pagefile and How Do I Adjust It? Before we get into the details, let’s review what the pagefile actually does. When your system runs low on ...

Former New York lieutenant governor Betsy McCaughey debunks some common myths about the US health system. Here is an excerpt from her December 14, 2009 New York Post OpEd, "US Health Care Still Tops":... On Nov. 20, for example, Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) pointed to a large blue chart showing the United States in last place in health performance. "All of these countries have much ...

Having no system at all would be better than the insurance system we have today. With no system at all, I could pay reasonably for my care. With insurance, the fees are all jacked up to maximum so that insurance pays the most. Under our current system: Time I waited to see a primary care doctor in Washington DC = 6 months... See More Times my health care has been denied (rationing) by the ...

... ;s video to You're Only Human (Second Wind). Along to help them out, later on in the show, was their B team who matured and were eventually empowered to work on mythbusting themselves (I assume mythbusting is a verb). They were in - Jamie and Adam were even big enough for a guest appearance on CSI. The best parts of course, were when they had competitions between the two, such as when they ...

... ;spending one day in Wythenshawe transformed my view'. Sir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester City Council, said the Real Lives campaign was about redressing the balance and 'mythbusting'. And so it was, but there's more to it than that. Not just the big numbers - £600m invested over then years, another £152m on its way, a £20m refurbishment of the local hospital. The small ...

I have lots of content brewing, but nothing ready to serve just yet. So I send you elsewhere this Monday morning. Jim Hines on Mythbusting the "my book is my baby" trope Jackie Kessler breaks down the Harlequin Horizons Problem, for those who missed it the first time around. and does a follow-up. And another breakdown that makes my points for me, thank you Jackie! If you don't ...

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... the morning after to learn if a cannon-fired frozen chicken can penetrate a plane's cockpit window. But how well do you have them memorized? Mental_Floss magazine puts your knowledge of the Mythbusters' mythbusting to the ultimate test with their "Myth...Busted?" quiz. Be warned. I scored an 8 out of 10 and the shame of defeat drove me to down an entire bottle of whiskey, ...

... said to give advice according to some. I would really like this thread to be a place where woman can share positive section birth stories and experiences. I don't want it to be a platform for grandstanding or mythbusting or any other rubbish! Just good section experiences so that any mums who are going to be having a section aren't going to be scared out of their wits! That is it, and ...