Those yuppies who live on Starbucks are going to be surprised to hear themselves referred to as "lower middle class." I always considered the term to mean more of the Archie Bunker strata.
I always appreciate it when Alex thinks something I've written is worth including on Neatorama, but...
You're not going to believe this, but just today at my site, I talk about how embarrassing it is to spend so much time editing a story, then to see the ONE typo I overlooked being used as a blockquote somewhere else. I have corrected "an batwing" at Mental Floss already, but quotes are forever.
Science teachers, both good and bad ones, are also at the mercy of what is known at the time they learned the facts, AND the quality of their own teachers and texts.
Thats what fascinated me about this. We already breed animals for certain traits, and we can now map genes. Breeding existing animals to match a gene map of a bygone animal is a whole new area.
Oh man, I remember my friends and I doing the Igor walk during the chorus when dancing to Walk This Way! That song and Young Frankenstein were too contemporaneous (and too huge) NOT to associate them, but I had no idea they were really related.
Those are three interesting ideas there. I'm sure the statistics needed are available somewhere, it would just take time and a little math and graphics work to make it so.
You're not going to believe this, but just today at my site, I talk about how embarrassing it is to spend so much time editing a story, then to see the ONE typo I overlooked being used as a blockquote somewhere else. I have corrected "an batwing" at Mental Floss already, but quotes are forever.
Remember, it's pronounced EYE-gor.
Fake!
That's not a real spaceship.
Photoshop.
Shop.
and
First!