Thursday evening roundup

Where the racists are (or appear to be).

Alexandra Petri's handy guide to responding to critiques on the internet (hint: it includes ALL CAPS). Here's another case-in-point, from Jezebel.

This $hit is part of the body-hatred problem.

There's nothing wrong with leveraging animal sex to get people interested in science, but I agree that the world could use more critical science journalism.

Math is hard; let's go shopping.

We can add to the list before this list--to the categories of people who get asked annoying/intrusive/presumptuous questions--vegetarians (and vegans). Like "where do you get your protein." Actually, that one's just stupid. Of course, tone matters a lot. Asking with curiosity rather than incredulous accusation works. But if you're not prepared to ask an omnivore how they meet their nutritional requirements, you needn't ask a vegetarian.