A bit meta, but something that even the casual readers here can take part in. I'm offering up one of the more cliched fanfic ideas in recent history; you get to give a capsule description (or an entire story) showing how one of the fictional characters in our setting would approach the setup.

If you want to write it as a series of posts, here's Post #0:

Cool scientific paper showing that humans can detect magnetic fields (if only unconsciously). 

http://www.eneuro.org/content/early/2019...83-18.2019

They set up the test subjects in a Faraday cage and measured detection of the magnetic fields by EEG - even if the person couldn't tell anything was going on, the EEG changed when exposed to the magnetic fields, but only in certain rotations/presentations.  

For example, when the field was aligned in a way that is naturally present in the Northern Hemisphere, the subjects (Northern Hemisphere residents) showed the EEG changes.  If the EM field was presented in a Southern Hemisphere alignment, they didn't have the EEG change.

RMH

Nooberdog's Pneuma Pneuma: Life with living weapons is far more moe and slice of life than it sounds, but good fun for all of that. MC is a cute little elf girl, presently just about to test in to the Adventurer's Guild academy at the minimum age of 5 (and 60-some story posts):



but a couple years back IC there was a one time, probably gag option to learn to play the saxophone, which stuck in my mind while reading the backlog, until I just had to search up a sax image and do the thing. So I did a thing!



And Noober liked the thing, and gave me a ridiculous bonus reward to use at some future point. (Apparently it's his first fanart, to go with being his first quest... and he also plays sax himself )

I'm kind of fond of it too, obviously, since I'm also putting it here. Seriously though, check out the quest if you have a taste for cutes with an option on future badassitude.

Previous thread.

Old thread is old.

Quote:Socially imposed monogamy in humans is an evolutionary puzzle because it requires costly punishment by those who impose the norm. Moreover, most societies were—and are—polygynous; yet many larger human societies transitioned from polygyny to socially imposed monogamy beginning with the advent of agriculture and larger residential groups. We use a simulation model to explore how interactions between group size, sexually transmitted infection (STI) dynamics and social norms can explain the timing and emergence of socially imposed monogamy. Polygyny dominates when groups are too small to sustain STIs. However, in larger groups, STIs become endemic (especially in concurrent polygynist networks) and have an impact on fertility, thereby mediating multilevel selection. Punishment of polygynists improves monogamist fitness within groups by reducing their STI exposure, and between groups by enabling punishing monogamist groups to outcompete polygynists. This suggests pathways for the emergence of socially imposed monogamy, and enriches our understanding of costly punishment evolution.

If you have Netflix or an Android TV or Amazon Fire TV that can reach the Rakuten VIKI service, i strongly recommend Strong Girl Bong-soon (AKA Strong Woman Do Bong-soon; link goes to the ATT page I just put up about it). This is a sixteen-episode South Korean live-action series about a young woman with super-strength that mixes equal parts romantic comedy and police procedural into a plot that's just a bit short of being a Silence of the Lambs sequel. Yes, I know what that sounds like. It works.

Oh, and if you have a choice, watch the VIKI version; the translation is sometimes a little clunkier, but it's closer to the original Korean and doesn't sacrifice cultural details for comprehension. I've also found points where the Netflix version actually changes things like the music on the soundtrack, usually to the detriment of the production.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...ident-live

My heart goes to the families of the victims. Apparently the shooters streamed the attack live on Facebook and published a manifesto.

Let’s not give these fuckers the publicity they want.

.... But also just political enough to warrant it being posted here.

Daughters Don’t Let Their Mothers Watch Fox News

How to use “parental lock” to prevent your parents from tuning in to cable news.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016...-news.html

A woman got fed up with her mom watching Fox News, so she locked her out of that channel.  HAH! 

Okay, not a MAJOR thing, but annoying as hell all the same.

Apparently when replying to a PM that had multiple recipients, the default is for the reply to only go to the person that sent the PM.  To include the other recipients, you have to preview the message first, and then add them in again.

Any way to fix this?

I just got notice that there's a new version of MyBB.  I will probably update the board sometime early in the morning (my time, Eastern Standard, UTC-5) on Saturday or Sunday.  More likely Sunday.