Blinding things can be tough, sure.

But the efficacity is inevitably what the researchers think it should be. Get some researchers with a negative opinion of yoga, and you'll get negative outcomes.

As a good generalisation, I don't take sociological studies seriously unless they figure out how to double blind it. Otherwise the effect inevitably hoes away when researchers with the opposite bias try it.

In the pre-youtube/streaming/filesharing era, people were a lot more forgiving of clip shows. Not that they were ever good, but now they get rated as the absolute worst, rather than being average-bad, which is contextually more realistic.

Now you can watch "Ten times Deanna uses her telepathy to deduce the obvious" on youtube, so a clip show is far more redundant than just being a spruced up rerun.

I think it depends on how much you think Sub-Rosa is aware it's cheesy camp and how much you like that sort of thing.

Whereas even in '87 a stranger impregnating you in your sleep is very rape-y even with the sci-fi premise; then raising the rapist, Troi essentially abandoned to her new motherhood, Riker irritated he isn't the father/rapist ... the "It's a badly adapted phase II script" really shows.

It's probably Shades of Grey, because modern audiences.

Even though that's not even the worst episode to bookend season 2.

The intersection of common sense arguments and facebook memes is the null set.

I'm not aware of any common sense arguments to the contrary. Gun ownership rates and murder rates are uncorrelated, as you'd expect.

The plural of anecdote isn't data

You should use all the data then, rather than cherry picking a subsample.

Nope, it's actually the data that when people have guns, the overall murder rate doesn't really change.

Yeah; when I was at six pints of coffee a day, I'd get debillitating headaches if I went more than one day without it.

How many gallons a day is high?

Well, we have seen explanets directly. Just not most.

Well, we have imaged a couple dozen exoplanets directly. But we'd see those ones if they were in the Solar system too.

So, the actual answer is that rings are collisional, and the parts of the ring at different distances from the planet will precess¹ at different rates if there any asymmetries between the planet and the ring, so the parts of the ring will keep moving slightly differently and bumping into each other until they settle into circular² orbit around the equater, where the symmetry means there's no differential precession.

¹err, wobble

²excelt moins can make non-circular, 'cause they break the symmetry

The Arctic is sunny all summer, and dark all winter. The temperature changes a ton, as do hunting conditions.

In Grise Fiord, for instance, the average high in July is 7⁰C, the average high in February is -27⁰C

No, despite the headline their results overlap within the uncertainties of previous estimates of how much rocky material is in the Oort cloud.

Which is 0.1%-10% of the Oort cloud (this measure favours the high end, but it's one object). Still, let's say 10%.

The Oort cloud is ~0.01% the mass of the Sun

Stars are ~10% of ordinary matter.

Ordinary matter is ~10% of (Ordinary + Dark) matter.

So it falls ten million times short of what you'd need (as an order of magnitude estimate)