Steroids usually make you gain weight. Not having "a lot" of your small bowel would be an excellent reason for not gaining weight, though. It can also cause short bowel syndrome, if you lose enough of it.

Until you have a heart attack.

As neat as that would be, memory is really complicated - even now, we're still at the point where we can talk about Hebb's postulate and synchronized firing (and where it doesn't apply), we can talk about CREB and PKA, and RNA and protein synthesis... and maybe Golgi outposts... but then some magic happens and we have…

Oh my god, that burger looks so real I could taste it!

On a whim, because I didn't know, I googled it... and the googles tell me crocodiles have a cerebral cortex. And apparently that makes them very special and crafty. But you don't have to take my word for it! *insert Reading Rainbow theme here*

But whether you're visiting a site via manually entered URL or QR code, you have to pull out your phone (recognizing the URL alone doesn't do you any good, after all). The difference is that getting to that site via QR code is faster (snapping a picture versus typing in a URL), and thus more convenient. Whether it has…

I dunno... I mean, sure, piracy will never go away, but that's not to say that you can't protect profits and minimize its effect. For instance, I've had several friends tell me their piracy went down when they got a Roku box/Netflix/Hulu Plus. Convenience, for $8 a month, is a pretty easy sell, even to an avowed…

I don't understand the "QR codes are so inconvenient!" complaint... when Stephen Colbert performed Rebecca Black's "Friday" he had a person on stage waving a QR code - exactly the kind of thing that Tumblr page submits as stupid and useless... except it was both pretty easy to pause and scan, and way, way more…

The 11 year cycle of the sun is a wave of peaking and ebbing. It doesn't flip on and off. So, being that it peaks later (in early 2013, according to NASA, not this year), the sun isn't currently "catatonic," but nearly as active as it has been or will be in a 22-year period (11 years forward and back from now). Of…

"What's taking so long?"

Hmm... I think we have different ideas of what it means to be honest and unbiased. I don't see anything wrong with the media following a story that has a bias as long as it's legitimately newsworthy - the Watergate scandal, for instance, was initially written off by the Nixon administration as "liberal bias," but was…

It looks like a TV remote... but I'm down for better pictures (and getting better every year).

This study suggests you're wrong on both counts - they're not as fat as you think, and you're fatter than you think. ;-)

To further what Still not my name has said, plenty of people (on Reddit and otherwise) fully supported the change that removed and explicitly bans any material that sexualizes children (including fully clothed children, such as Reddit's much-maligned /r/jailbait/ subreddit). The interesting thing about Reddit, though,…

It's true! Everyone on Facebook is younger than you, and there are no people of your generation (or even Boomers) on it. None. It's all these damn kids! Kids these days, you know? Explains everything.

I prefer bemusement! It's the b-version of amusement. Cheaper, not as satisfying, but it gets the job done.

Is it just me or does Andrew seem really angry in all of his posts today?

That leaves an awful lot of things that could go in this container (more than it excludes, I imagine). Hopefully most people will know it won't dispense cupfuls of butter or brown sugar, or whatever.

So news reporters are allowed to be dishonest for the purposes of uncovering news, but scientists aren't, even when they're investigating newsworthy things? This still seems like a double standard.

It seems to me that there's no reason Facebook can't be used to spot symptoms, in the same way talking to someone via text message every minute of the day might help you spot symptoms. If you know the person you're monitoring, and follow them over time, it seems relatively simple to track changes from their baseline.…