thank you for your contributions to science

I suggest a direct approach as a question: "how do you think I feel when you say that?" or "why are you diminishing my accomplishments?"

I guess it depends a lot on circumstances but this has worked well for me if it's a friend.

if you're circumnavigating the globe, eventually you will care, at least a little bit.

A small bit of trivia that isn't worth a top-level comment: according to wikipedia, when Magellan's sailors returned from the first circumnavigation of the globe, they were off by a day and surprised by this.

(Also according to wikipedia, the loss/gain of a day by circumnavigators had been predicted a few hundred years earlier by Abulfeda, a geographer/historian/prince)

certainly rolls off the tongue better than "first decade of the 2000s" which is what I usually say :/

never heard that before, but i love it

i propose we add "aught-eez" to the english vernacular

(Pineapple bacon and jalapeño - op is playing games with our emotions)

I met a guy at the pool who was trying to double his swimming distance each time he visited ... 4 lanes, 8 lanes, 16 lanes, etc... that was about 10 years ago, wonder how he's doing now. Maybe he's the guy who made this mathematically absurd chart.