By some accident, or because it is played on a loop, they watch the same informercial that duped Alex earlier.

A distinction is to be made between slow horotelic rates and bradytelic rates, also slow but essentially a different phenomenon, as demonstrated by the marked difference in survivorship pattern, from which the existence of bradytelic rates have been deduced.

I thought he was supposed to be my mentor. But, in actuality, what did I know about the often beguiling world of adults?

Big Science (science performed by large terms, of large scope, with government or corporate funding)