I often hear basketball fans say, "The NBA is much better when the Knicks are good." What time are the people who say that remembering lmao?

(potential Dune spoiler alert) I'm told there is not a giant spice eel-human that bends space in the Dune movie? WTF?

When I say "Fergie", which of the following people do you picture? Or do you picture someone else?

search bars where you click and it doesn't let you type in and search; it loads a new search page where you enter the search--why?

Has anyone figured out glasses while wearing a mask after all these months?

Season's greetings from the Larkin Lab.

Watching the new Beatles doc two things are notably inspiring: 1) how bad the songs sound when they first play them and then how steadily they improve them and 2) that English people apparently also make fun of English accents.

Are there people out there for whom bluetooth works?

Making spotify list with those particular late 70s/80s guitar solos--distorted mid-range tone, bebop-inspired chromatic transitions, and played by people like Larry Carlton. Very niche, but if you can contribute, please do. Doc Edge you may have ideas: open.spotify.com/playlist/3Wct9…

Teaching/reading teaching statements from faculty applicants, many people believe mere lecturing is not effective. However, we still formally present scientific work via "talks". Have folks seen research presentations that strongly challenged that paradigm? What did they think?

What's the top city for actors with New York accents portraying would-be working class natives of the city? Philadelphia? Chicago?

An age old question: what is the better long, slow, water-titled song off the second side of The Cure's Disintegration, "Prayers for Rain" or "The Same Deep Water as You"?

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very disappointing mango season for me thus far. couldn't spend the money back in Feb/Mar for magozz from S Asia and the stuff I've seen in the stores here in the Northeast US is even worse than usual!

what was the ranking for songs they wanted as the theme for The Drew Carey Show between "Cleveland Rocks", "The Heart of Rock & Roll", and "My City Was Gone"?

When writing with a Boston accent, why do people write BASSton and things like that? It is not how people with the accent say it and the name of the city is not a good word to demonstrate the accent anyway.

undergrad physics majors northeast US: BU is hosting the 2023 Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics Jan 20-22. Deadline to apply is Oct 10! The link is aps.org/programs/women…. Travel supported to/from. Please send this around widely to any interested undergrads! #CUWiP

I don't care for the look of this building, but it's useful for knowing where Union Sq, Somerville is from a distance and, I must admit, I am often shocked at where it is when I see it!

Please submit abstracts for the Bacterial Communities Focus Session 04.01.21 at APS March Meeting 2023 in Vegas by 5pm EST Oct 20! We welcome abstracts addressing experimental and theoretical insights into the collective behaviors of bacterial biofilms across all scales #apsmarch

Are there ads for the Vatican elsewhere or is the Holy See targeting the lingering Roman Catholic populace in Boston?