That's silly. You don't have to be a politician in order to be political. I'm political because I take an active interest in politics. He actively promotes conservative politics, Republican candidates, and trashes Democrats. He's political, through and through. He might also talk about other things - I'd rather peel…

Haha, I'd be a pretty dumbass IT guy, don't you think? I'm just a tech-oriented science nerd who thought he had a good idea this one time.

It is crap. I'm in my twenties, and when me and my friends were in college "movie night" meant going to the house of whoever had the biggest TV and watching downloaded movies on burned discs. Then Netflix launched, we eventually graduated and got jobs, and none of those guys pirates anymore. It's faster, and worth the…

It sounds like if the administration had half a brain to ask someone in the IT department if my idea was feasible they could be saving thousands in printing and fax costs. Big organizations. They make me crazy... and I have to deal with a hospital and a university.

Yeah, at the university we scan to PDF from the copier (which is great for journal articles that aren't online, so I don't have to check out the whole journal), but that wouldn't work in the hospital because the lists need to be seen by lots of people. The cath lab schedule, for instance, would have to go to the…

Well, to be totally fair your penis is actually several inches longer, but much of that is inside of you. Naturally, the only important part is the, err, functional bit - how far it goes into your partner, not how far it goes into you. I have no idea how guys typically measure themselves, though, so I can't really…

Depends how you measure them! When they asked men how long their penises were they found the average was 6-8". When they brought out the measuring tape they found it was 4-6". Apparently we have a 2" buffer for the peen, just like they say men add 2 inches to their height in online dating profiles.

I work in a hospital and, because of the size of the facility, we literally fax things between departments dozens of times per day. OR and cath lab schedules, call lists, nurse staffing reports, all sorts of stuff. Probably thousands of sheets of paper per year that all ultimately get recycled within 8 hours. I…

I work with a cardiology group, one of whom has a PhD (in addition to his MD) in the etiology of cardiovascular disease. Unless your credentials are at least as impressive, I'll take my advice from an actual expert. You can claim that it can't be linked to heart disease, but the medical community disagrees with you,…

This also fits the naming convention for their laptops. You don't buy the MacBook Pro HD. You just buy the MBP, and presumably tell them apart by model number, year they were released, or specs.

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?"