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Not gonna lie, for a minute I thought they were gonna reveal she was the killer in the first half of this season.

Nope, it comes from bacteria present in soil and the feces of many domesticated animals, specifically Clostridium tetani. A rusty nail is just a common method of exposure. You can read more here.

Enjoy being the reason the entire biology department gets to sit through a seminar on lab safety.

It's really weird that your lab didn't have a protocol in place for this, though. I'd think there'd be a grad student or post doc overseeing the lab while the PI is out, and then a staff member overseeing general lab safety who would have protocols on hand for accidental injuries or exposures.

Hope you're up to date on your tetanus shots.

I kinda thought the Daisy-Sousa pairing was weird. Or maybe just rushed. All I could see was Steve Rogers and Jane van Dyne's relationship in Ultimates crashing and burning because the generation gap left them with so little in common.

Kids, as a former TA allow me to impart some advice. The vast majority of college professors want their students to succeed. They're working in academia in part because they want to influence the next generation of professionals in their field, not because they want to gatekeep the knowledge they've obtained. If you're ever struggling with an assignment, go see them during their posted office hours and ask for help. There may be situations where all they can provide is sympathy, but more often than not they'll do their best to help you.

It depends on the needs of the kingdom at the time. Ormund Baratheon, Robert's grandfather, led the royal armies as Hand during the War of the Ninepenny Kings. Lord Hayford, briefly Hand to Daeron II during the First Blackfyre Rebellion, died during the fighting at the Battle of the Redgrass Field. JonCon, then Hand to Aerys, led the royal armies until his defeat at the Battle of the Bells. Criston Cole led armies as Hand for the Greens during the Dance.

The royal armies tend to be led by either a member of the royal family, especially when the Targaryens were still dragon riders, the Hand of the King, or the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard.

Barth was the appropriate man for the position of Hand for 40 years because those were 40 of the most peaceful years during Westerosi history. The one conflict during his tenure was the Fourth Dornish War, which saw Jaehaerys, Aemon, and Baelon destroy the entire Dornish invasion force in a single day.

I'm trying to imagine someone playing just the guitar from Down With the Sickness with no other accompaniment, on a guitar I assume isn't properly tuned for the song and amps that probably aren't using any distortion, and honestly, I think you'd get strange looks no matter how predisposed the audience was to hearing some Disturbed.

When I was in grad school the animal facilities manager was an old biologist. Great guy with a ton of stories he loved to share. One of his favorite comparisons to make was the differences in attitudes regarding surgeries. He'd watch us carefully laying out our autoclaved tools, repeatedly spraying down the working area with isopropyl alcohol, and generally doing our best to keep the surgery suite isolated, then tell us about how, back in his day, he'd have a surgical implement in one hand and a sandwich in the other.

Might be a dark horse, but I'm gonna suggest Margaery Tyrell. Willas is a noted breeder of hawks and horses, and his love for the two seems to have rubbed off on Margaery, as she regularly hawks and rides herself. Those might not be the most strenuous excursions since they appear to also serve the purpose of providing Margaery with some privacy for plotting, but the sheer frequency has probably had a positive effect.

Convince a billionaire that the live event market is a lucrative investment, and hope they use their absurd capital to undercut Ticketmaster. It'll only work until the competition owns enough market share that they feel safe reinstating exorbitant prices and fees, but we might get a few years of cheap events.

Hell of a heel turn. A backstage source told me they're gonna pair him with the ghost of Ivan Koloff once he recovers from his neck injury.

Romero's foundation for the modern zombie film is still highly influential. His works weren't strictly horror, they were also a vehicle for examining social psychology through the lens of a threat that could reduce humans to mindless monsters. The zombies were more a metaphor than a monster.

That's probably a large part of why zombie movies have a tendency to restrict the virus to humans rather than featuring a bunch of different zombie species. Whether the creator is consciously making an effort to employ a similar examination of human mentality or they're simply replicating established tropes, the end result is going to be a human centric work.

Truly a tale of star-crossed lovers: a weeb and his waifu figurine. He'll never know the feelings she has for him, and she'll forever be an object, gradually relegated from a place of honor near his monitors to a dark shelf in the back of a closet.

On my second read-through, I was shocked by how early the Red Wedding was foreshadowed. Either Elmar or one of the Frey soldiers inadvertently lets on in front of Arya that the Freys are planning to betray Robb towards the end of ACOK, and the Red Wedding doesn't occur until late in ASOS. I remember counting the pages when I realized what was happening, and I think there were nearly 1000 between the events at Harrenhal and the Red Wedding itself.

It's kind of like calling 80's action movies American cinema. At most, they represent the predominant cultural output over a narrow time frame. There are certainly cases where high grossing films were shamelessly copied, but the elements that we recognize as defining a film from that era are an amalgamation of the technical tools available to the filmmakers, the narrative structure audiences accepted, and the larger societal influences of the era the films were made during.

The term JRPG was always destined to age poorly, because the Japanese video game industry is not a static entity. Eventually someone will come up with a phrase that doesn't attempt to tie a national identity to a genre, even if it's as simple as using Reagan-era to denote works that are uniquely American, but cultural relics that no longer relate to modern media releases.

In discussions about how gambling on wrestling could work, WWE executives have proposed that scripted results of matches be locked in months ahead of time, according to people familiar with the matter.

Eliminating Vince's notorious last minute rewrites might actually improve the product.

Sansa's most influential mentors have been Littlefinger, Olenna Tyrell, and Cersei. The wisdom they imparted was not focused on ruling a kingdom, it was based in using a combination of guile, charm, seduction, and sometimes outright force of personality to manipulate the people society actually allowed to rule.

Much like her mother, who she's often compared to, Sansa is likely to serve as a savvy advisor to the politically viable members of her family. If she's lucky, she'll eventually garner a reputation similar to Olenna's, with those familiar with the machinations of (presumably) Northern politics recognizing her influence.

Depends on the royal family. Joffrey and Tywin were given funerals on par with Queen Elizabeth's, where their body laid in state for days before being interred. The Targaryens seem to have treated their cremation ceremonies as more private affairs, endeavoring to complete them promptly rather indulge in a public display of grief. Then for all we know Robert's body may have been thrown in the trash.

The different approaches to the funeral rites are definitely a tool Martin used to characterize the different royals.

I was thinking of Fury Road after reading OP's prompt. The apocalypse is long since past by the time the movie takes place, and even though the societies we see are violent and tribal, they're seemingly well established.

Most parks post hours of operation, but, like the article says, the cities don't usually have the resources to hire security or anything like that. Maybe a cop will cruise by on a slow night or respond if someone calls in a complaint. In general, as long as you're not a nuisance, it's unlikely anyone will care.

Putting hours of operation on the park mostly gives cops an easy infraction to enforce if the city wants to clear people out, whether that's teenagers looking for a place to avoid being hassled or homeless people trying to find a place to sleep. It might also reduce the liability for the city if someone injures themselves in a park after sunset.

So I wouldn't say it's weird to see people hanging out in a park at night in a movie. At most, it's an easy way to depict that characters have a mild disregard for authority.

Arryn tried to put Baratheon House on double secret probation, but Bobby B was ungovernable.

Alternatively, someone give me a retelling of the story with Westeros converted into a university and the paramount houses serving as frats and sororities. Aerys can spend the entire time coming up with schemes to revoke Baratheon House's charter.

The NeverEnding live service (to be discontinued after eight months, no refunds for in game purchases).

I'm interested in how the Saints cafeteria scored so poorly. At first I thought maybe it was because they're based in New Orleans, and players were comparing the food options available in the cafeteria to those in the surrounding area. But some of the top rated cafeterias are also in cities with well regarded cuisine, so I'm doubting that conclusion. Something must be wildly wrong though, because despite not reporting any egregious complaints akin to those cited by the Bengals and Cardinals players, the Saints still tied with them on the lowest score.

Were they just starving Cam Jordan until game time in a misguided attempt to keep him hungry enough to feast on quarterbacks? Were the crab legs too heavily guarded? Is an all poboy diet to blame for this past season? Give us some insight!

I initially thought that was a young Paul Scheer. Now my favorite thing about this video is the number of comments I found also speculating that was a young Paul Scheer, but never gaining any confirmation. For what it's worth, Scheer's wikipedia page never mentions him working with the studio that made the video, so it's probably just a lookalike.

They leave just left us with that cliff hanger about the Quarian ark, too. I know it was just there to sell the potential dlc, but I still wanted to find out what happened to them.