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2017: "After nearly 100 years, the Carmel River runs unobstructed again and set a record for high flow levels in January."

"How filler words and tiny pauses keep conversations from going off the rails"

"If there was one thing you wish people understood better about astronomy, what would it be?"
You may think it's a long walk down to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts compared to the solar system.

Rock Paper Cynic: The Hunger Games as told by Lewis Carrol

The author's comments in 2004 about the infamously bad SyFy Channel miniseries.

2004: A traffic engineer discovers that, in some circumstances, if you design the road right, you can actually make it safer by removing signs, lane lines, curbs and the like.

It inserts superfluous syllables directly into otherwise clear wording!

"Safety Last, the 1923 film starring Harold Lloyd, features one of the most iconic scenes from the silent film era."

Still good advice a decade later.
1. Are humans involved? 2. Is the sample size big enough? 3. What type of study? 4. Be skeptical of “proof” or “cause” 5. Search for caveats