I beg to differ. The true spreadable sign of an evolved civilization is:

NUTELLA!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B004QNVQKK...

Babylon 5: Seasons 1-5 + Babylon 5: The Movie Collection. Third party. From $147.77. If you're in the US.
http://www.amazon.com/Babylon-Complete-First-Seas...

Babylon 5: The Complete First Season (or Second, etc.) $16.89. Buy two and get free shipping.

Just saying.

That's a bad one. Mom went from itching to anaphylactic shock on the second dose. Highly recommend a Medic-Alert bracelet if you don't already have one.

Home Alone and Home Alone 2 but not Home Alone 3

Neil deGrasse Tyson is doing a reddit AMA right now: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ngd5e/i_am_... In answer to a question about time travel:

"Space Station Astronauts routinely travel a few thousandths of a second into our future. Beyond that, get over the fact that for the foreseeable future we remain prisoners of the present."

I'm not awake enough yet to articulate the link between this and the afterlife discussion, but I think there's a parallel.

That's a star-studded panel!

(And a somewhat stud-starred panel, too.)

*Looks over the top of my glasses at seriously*

I was an only child, so there wasn't a large gift-giving or gift-receiving group to worry about. One aunt always gave gifts that made me go O_o though. When I asked for a donation to charity the one year as a young adult, she skipped all of the suggested ones and went to a religious anti-abortion charity.

I'm a single, gay, pagan, Unitarian-Universalist man, with no history of abortion in our family. I have no clue.

A nice envelope, maybe? One that shows that they listened to you?

We actually started the mass meat-marketing program with Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter. NPH is our 5G model, though.