Her posture, I concede, is strikingly Monroesque, though that evidently is no claim to individuality after Marilyn Monroe, Madonna and a hundred other clones of the Platonic Monroesque ideal.

For example, imagine if research offered hope of a different intelligence-enhancing therapy, one that would allow individuals to gradually upgrade their minds to a metahuman-equivalent level.

Tail calls can be implemented without the need for an additional frame on the call stack.

[A]t eighty a body is living on borrowed time.