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Didn't even use a throwaway account to make your slightly dissenting opinion, brave. I see the same things in my area with the light rail that was years late, millions overbudget and still is lar…

Don't forget about Freespace!

Simple video that shows how the Magnus force works: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JdMSpiIqU

Very true. I used to volunteer with an advocacy group that helped parents whose kids were wrongly taken by CPS and what I saw of the system scared the crap out of me. It does some good work but the sh…

Viable fusion is always 30 years in the future. This collaboration targets 15 years. Here's hoping.

When a full 20% of the population is diagnosed with a disorder, that's either a serious epidemic or there's something wrong with the term disorder. Teachers and parents want tractable kids..…

"New study links widespread ultrasonic 'firefly' devices with disappearing insect populations and [other unintended ecological disaster]." - Headline from 2042

I would say this is definitely not a good book for beginners with little to no programming experience. I don't know anyone who got past chapter 6 who was not already very familiar with programmin…

In the long run, explosion in demand for GPUs will help lower prices and push the technical envelope for enveryone, including the gamers complaining in this article.

Sapiens, Ghost in the Wires

Mundane description of this anyone?

Diferentiating your company with an "exclusive brand experience" has led to another kind of race to the bottom. More and more brands are trying to be the most "iconic", "relev…

Interesting but not surprising. Pharmaceutical companies, for instance, don't publish or cancel studies that show unfavorable results all the time and no one makes a fuss. Who knows the loss to t…

Potential downsides to consider: 1. What happens when we remove the "negative" side of using plastic products? Why use less if the worms can eat it all? I'm guessing production and cons…

Huge point. I agree. The flu virus has mutated over loads of generations before it arrives again (it circles the globe with the seasons). The vaccine is a total crap shoot.

Participants took folic acid (lab created), not folate (the form found in nature) which has been shown to be far more absorbable. Folic acid also binds to the folate receptors, preventing folate from …

great piece, thanks

Nice, I didn't see their posting. Interesting idea.

Thanks for this. I don't own a house and I live in a poorly insulated apartment building that gets full sun all day most of the year. It's a great candidate for solar panels but mostly out o…

What did I just read? "Any noise or unintended observation of them can cause data loss." Unintended observation?