Recent content by BlooVooDoo

I was tempted to go with this GIF, but I really like the tiny giraffe.

The Common App is absolutely a factor in lower acceptance rates. Students are applying to more colleges and, as a result, even the Ivies are getting a much better applicant pool than they used to. Top schools can pick and choose to some extent.

Unfortunately, as this thread suggests, there will be fewer schools for those fewer students. And the elite schools aren’t competing on price. They have no shortage of highly qualified applicants. 20 years ago, the average acceptance rate of the Ivies was about 18% (Cornell was ~30). Now they...

Hope armor is a part of the new kit.

Dude, we can all see the history of your posts. If you’re going to do the Gish Gallop, at least put some fucking effort into it. To this point, and despite prior experience, I’ve given you the benefit of doubt regarding your ability to understand and your sincerity. Thanks for clarifying you’ve...

I didn’t say you did. I said you’re defending what he said and not very well. There is no attribution for the statement, so I can’t evaluate. With that said, I doubt I’d find much to criticize about how they arrived at that figure. The more salient issue is the interpretation of the statement...

No, you didn’t. You linked a website that offered a simplistic explanation targeted towards people with even less understanding about biology than you and your interpretation is akin to that of religious fundamentalists debating sentence structure in the KJV. What RFK said is incorrect in every...

I’ve got an idea for a horror movie franchise about this. I’d call it Reviewer Number Three. So far none of the studious has called me back.

Is the soul distributed among all the cells and if so, is it equitable or do some get a lesser portion? In which organelles does the soul reside? On first principles I’d think the nucleus, but there’s a strong, if philosophically contentious, case to be made for mitochondria.

Why? Is it the number of studies or the price tag? Do you even know how much was budgeted to those studies? What do you think the cost of vaccine hesitancy is?