You *do* need a lens hood... just not very often. My photography teacher was all about having a UV filter and a lens hood on at all times just to protect the front glass. I bought into the UV filter (the minimal protection is worth the $10), but not the hood. Big ups for the replacement caps, though. I'm awful at…

Threatening children is never okay, regardless of what the other person did. Only douche bags and crazy people do it. Period.

That makes sense. See my other post (above?).

That's kind of cool. I've always found backpacks to be more comfortable, but living in Seattle, rich people don't take transit, and don't carry backpacks (they carry briefcases, or attache cases, pretty much exclusively it seems). Though it does depend. You can tell who works for a technology firm because there are a…

I... don't think spending $200 on a backpack is going to help. If you wear a suit to work, for instance, you're gonna need to give up the backpack, or just accept that it's an unfavored look (hey, be a trendsetter). If you wear a t-shirt and cargoes to work, you probably don't need a backpack that looks like a…

Unless it hits the 16:9 aspect ratio, which would make it better for watching movies... but worse for app developers who would have to redo all their graphics.

Well, therein is where we go to the standard. "I assume the police have more information about this man than we do." I mean, what if they found cocaine in his pockets? Or residue on his skin or clothes? We have to logically accept that we have literally no information about what substance was used, and thus any…

Or a rapacious need to make other people look dumb on the internet. I mean, I get how you could read the headline and see it as wrong. Not sure how you could read the headline and the article and still not see it, but whatever. But to read the headline, the article, and a dozen comments covering the same thing and…

Huh. Lived in Florida for 14 years and never saw a tornado. Now I'm in WA, and wondering about that little blip by Seattle.

Holy shit. Every comment except three are pointing out that that's Tower Bridge. Seriously, people. Imagine the headline begins with the word "A," as in, "A London Bridge Dons an LED Gown for Queen’s Diamond Jubilee." That would explain why it's correctly identified in the text of the article.

Oh, hey, I just said this same thing further up, only to scroll down and find someone had the same idea! Just imagine the headline starts with the word, "A..."

Imagine the headline with "A" at the beginning... as in, "A London Bridge Dons an LED Gown for Queen’s Diamond Jubilee." But I'm just trying to live by the principle of charity.

Pretty much any stimulant can cause hallucinations in high enough doses. The dopaminergic pathways of the brain stem that are affected by cocaine (it's a reuptake inhibitor) are the same ones that cause the "positive" symptoms in schizophrenia - hallucinations, delusions, disordered thoughts, etc. In fact, when…

Psychology is a social science. Since you mention faculty, I assume you're talking about schools, in which case it's pretty individual. UW, for instance, houses the social sciences within the College of Arts and Sciences, which includes everything from dance and drama to linguistics and languages to mathematics,…

I suppose I wouldn't care if athletes were employees of the school, rather than students. I may be a little rosy in my view of academia, but I think you should either be there to learn or not be a distraction. I fully support the notion of athletes getting degrees - the average sports career just isn't that long, and…

Don't worry, I understand most people don't become famous, and I'm okay with that. However, schools do compete on the quality of their academics, and a good PhD researcher can bring in millions of dollars per year in grants that pay for things the school would otherwise have to buy (like expensive neuron culturing…

As someone who came from a family that barely scraped by, I can't say I have any sympathy for someone who is brought into college just to sell tickets. The idea of paying student athletes seems demeaning to college in general - that you should only have to work hard and study if you suck at sports. I don't doubt that…

There's a Nobel Prize for the person who describes the cause(s) of atrial fibrillation, mark my words.

Pay college athletes? For what, exactly? Maybe I'm just jealous, but that seems awfully unfair to everyone else who goes to college. But at least I have an iPhone. Eat that, football guy!

I'm pretty sure the parades are to impress the people, not us... like Stockholm syndrome for an entire nation.