Are you implying that you somehow knew that testosterone levels dropped only in men who'd fathered children? 'Cause I'd like to know what it was that tipped you off. I mean, how did you know it was biochemical in nature instead of prosocial behavior (men following the mores of society that dictate the behavior…

Sadly, if our leaders are seen doing anything - really anything at all - that isn't related to politics they're accused of shirking responsibility and/or pandering to voters. So, if Obama did even one of those things he's be pasted by the Republicans as lazy or not taking care of business during an economic crisis.…

No one wearing a beret is allowed in my biker gang. You're allowed to have a combover only if you can drive an F1, fly a plane, and research climate change (hey, we're a progressive biker gang).

This would have been awesome several years ago when I was using my iPod Touch for music. Now, the cord wrapped around would just get in the way of my SGS' touchscreen. There's still no good solution for that... luckily my Klipsch earbuds came with a wee velvet bag that I put them in, then into a pocket. Not perfect,…

The University of Washington lost half of its state funding in just three years - $207 million in just the 2011-2012 biennium. As a result, tuition rates have gone up by 20%, which prices out a lot of potential future researchers (I could never have afforded to pay back student loans at today's prices), while…

Damn your Slate looks big, Mat. What is that, 12 inches? I bet everyone in the room was staring when you whipped that thing out. Personally, I think it's a little too big. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but I think 9 inches fits better in the hand.

I love the idea of military tech that is horrendously ugly and functional. Need your helicopter to pick up more stuff? Slap another engine on it. Where? Who cares.

Mistook a fishing boat for a gunnery target? I'm hoping it was supposed to be one of these and not one of these... 'cause then he'd need an eye exam as well.

What are you trying to say about my Pucci shoes? Next you'll tell me there's something wrong with my Rolox.

You've never heard of monoprice.com? ... where do you go when you need a cable, then? Do you pay $30 for an HDMI cable? I... I don't even. I need a moment.

It's his personal style. He's known to be a prick. One former supporter and fellow blogger met him at a party and he spent the whole conversation mocking her in front of his friends, even after she asked to get a picture with him.

"The dataset is missing important information if they try to derive it all from dots. Both quantitive and qualitive data could be injected to improve it but yeah, that we can identify people merely from those movements of dots is amazing in itself. But it would be hard to argue that it wouldn't be hit and miss."

I'm not sure I was clear... the BLM link is nothing more than a simplistic illustration of the capacity people have to identify characteristics about a person by their movement. It's not intended to be comprehensive. Hence the exaggerated movements, which make the states easier to identify. The fact that you can look…

So James E. Cutting, currently at Cornell University, has done some research into how people perceive other people through their motion. It turns out people are pretty good at recognizing other people this way. If you imagine being at, say, an airport to pick someone up, like a brother or sister. You know what they…

I can always tell when someone is on the wrong side of a political argument because their most vociferous detractors say things like, "He's an idiot!" or "He doesn't know the first thing about economics!" and never, "He doesn't understand the first thing about economics, and here's a cogent explanation of how I came…

I don't mean the material of the surface. I mean everything about the surface. I can use my trackball as it perches precariously on my knee, on the rounded arm of the sofa, on the 2" wood arm of my poang chair, or (as mentioned before) simply resting against my torso as I walk around the room. You'd be hard pressed to…

After having used a laptop for several years and neglecting my desktop, I recently repurposed it as an HTPC. Nothing special, I built the whole thing from scratch myself, but it was a fun project for a couple of days (mostly waiting for things to arrive from Amazon/Newegg/Monoprice).

Someone else != Sprint, or necessarily another existing US wireless carrier.

I don't know, I suppose it depends what they're pumping through the heart. The electrical conduction system is (more or less) entirely within the heart, so unless they're pumping something weird through the heart that slows conduction between the SA and AV nodes, I assume the 1st degree is part of the normal…

So that donor heart they show you coming out of the back of a van had what looked like a fairly substantial 1st degree AV block... I've never been involved in transplantation, so it was interesting to me to suddenly realize that the recipient would have a new heart rhythm - and while obviously this beats dying, they…