incorrigiblerobot:

It is my unpleasant duty as the commanding officer of your husband, Captain Lorth Needa, to inform you of his death in the service of the Empire…

In The Line of Duty is my latest distraction and features letters home to the loved ones of those killed in the noble cause of plot advancement. Guys in red shirts, Imperial officers, bright-eyed Marine grunts on alien worlds. They drop like flies, but someone’s gotta write those letters home saying Ensign Rickey’s never coming back.

The premier letter is from Darth Vader to the wife of one of the guys he choked in The Empire Strikes Back.

That’s gotta be awkward, right? But Vader was his commanding officer. Who else was gonna write it? 

Still… awkward.

Oh fuck yes.

sasquatchmedia:

Hello Peeps: I’ve submitted a proposal to South by Southwest to present my dissertation data during one of the Interactive Panels in March (talk about bringing my doctoral research to a wider audience).

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Doreen can’t moonwalk but sometimes she tries. It’s a halting reverse lurch where she moves her shoulders around like some kind of misdirection from the fact that she’s simply walking backwards. Doreen smiles the entire time, humming a few bars of Beat It. Her face gets all cartoon-thermometer red until she explodes in laughter, as if she fooled you. It’s so great and I’ve seen her do it at a presentation before.

So please, vote for her panel, Conversational Journalism: Do’s and Don’ts of Audience Participation.

The industry has also argued that sugar is sugar. Heaney said his team found otherwise. They grew pancreatic cancer cells in lab dishes and fed them both glucose and fructose. Tumor cells thrive on sugar but they used the fructose to proliferate. “Importantly, fructose and glucose metabolism are quite different,” Heaney’s team wrote.

(via tiffehr)