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Food is essential for society and it strikes me as a very bad idea to leave it all in the hands of a selfish mega corporation with an exceptionally poor track record.

I don't see how this can be different than an ordinary expedition in this regard.

The video is from Belgium, where RFID cards are the norm.

Here's a rebuttal to that: http://www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/o4ei0/regard... …

I second this.

Thanks for the references. Are they solid science? all I have personally come across about the paleo diet is unconvincing and does not stand up to scrutiny. "I want to believe" would be my stance.

Which book was it?

Fascinating stuff, thanks for the link

The graph looks accurate, there has been no real breakthrough since the copper oxides.

The situation is not similar in Sweden. In fact, from the entire planet, Sweden is one of most dissimilar places.

Absolutely, every place I have ever worked for avoids this kind of things.

Not true at all: the scale bar says 20um, which is 0.020mm. This is 20,000 nanometers or about 200,000 atoms. Not even remotely atomic (nevertheless impressing, because it is really 3D).

Please keep your flame wars to yourselves. You are just hurting your own case here.

Paper title: "Batteries for Efficient Energy Extraction from a Water Salinity Difference" Why comment if you didn't read the article? is this "humor"?

The exciting part is that it generates electricity while desalinating water. That's a nice combo.

Just curious, how do you measure something like that?

Also the thermal issues are relevant. It is a common misconception that quantum effects are the limiting factor in Moore's law.

Could you provide a link to said study?

There's a Canadian startup making a device that gets (part of) its energy from the difference of ion concentrations in salt/desalinated water. http://saltworkstech.com/ …

I'm with you. All points were painfully obvious. "Try to find the shortest trip", "Check for a nice departure and arrival time". I mean, really?

It's more about him comparing himself with Newton and "forgetting" to cite previous work on his field. Not that he's not brilliant though.

Martin Rees just commented on that: "I think, however, that this is one of the increasingly frequent instances when the Nobel Committee is damagingly constrained by its tradition that a prize can't be…

Experimental error seems likely to me once again. 10ns at c is 3 meters, over 730km + uncertainty in time of particle generation and decay + detector uncertainty...I don't buy it. From the project sit…

I don't know whether to take this course or the machine learning one. The both seem very interesting, but I only have time for one. I don't care much about robots, and was partly sold by Ng's separati…

Thank you for making that site. I liked your examples, and it has sparked my interest in design.

Yes, but the actual being human is the result of a long time of evolution of the physical human body i.e., there are no indications you can recreate a human mind without having a human body attached…