When you see "this is mine" and then see a pic attached, does anyone else expect a penix pic? I guess desktop screenshots or number of monitors pics are logically not that much different.

I'm a PhD physicist and I still only get paid $1.25 an hour. At least your $1.25 in 1970 is worth close to $3 today!

By the way, I agree that there are close to equal proportion of males and females that are "geeky". They just happen to be in completely different areas. :-) I would also like to add that just because a man is a geek, it does not mean he exclusively only wants to date women who are geeks. Two people in a relationship…

Oh. I agree. But scientists spend almost 14 hours a day (almost 7 days a week) in their labs. (There are recent articles on io9 about the working hours and coffee consumption of scientists.) So if lab = whole life, and one still has desire to mate, then... i'll get you arrive at the solution. :-)

Typo! "rare" not "rear". No pun intended. :-o

For those wondering, the headphone plug is used as an external shutter release. I didn't know the iPhones had this feature. One improvement that comes to mind would be to have a microphone picking up the *click* sound after a photo has been taken. I find that the time for the phone to save a photo varies between each…

Haha. That laptop padding is one of the most ghetto things I've seen!

To visualize the devastating impact on Cambodia's population due to Pol Pot, look at this plot:

How old is your mother? (Asked in the most polite tone possible.) There certainly are female nerds. But I'd say that's a more recent phenomena. Just take look at the participants of the Solvay conference in the 1920s: one female (Marie Curie) with 28 males. But it's not that much different today. A (female) physics…

Huh? I don't think subset means what you think it means.

True story. This use to be one of the few ways us particle physicists could get laid. A lot of these ladies were not particle physicists, and were just hired for some temp work. The physicists got to spend many hours with them in the "dark room" analyzing "data". Then one day computers were invented, and we embraced…

back, back, forward, A. Right?

Lead is best for shielding gamma radiation. What you need is a faraday cage or a superconducting shield for shielding against r.f.

+1 for the comment too. You may have saved me $50 on buying a device that sounds great but never end up using. :-)

Bad luck Brian: Thinks he's getting a vaccine. Gets HIV instead.

This is where I think the sunrise simulators can really help. When your eyes detect light, your body naturally inhibits the production of melatonin. So having a light increase slowly in brightness 30-40mins before your actual alarm time should help. Too bad, I sleep with a pillow over my eyes so often it doesn't work…

Utilitarianism: would reclining your seat ALL the way down bring you more pleasure than the displeasure of the person behind you? What if it was just reclined half-way down? Is there an optimal solution? "Just because I can" doesn't cut it.

Why not tether it to the ground to the ground to stop the lateral drift when they are landing? It shouldn't add more than 1 lbs or something. It looks hella dangerous and they broke the damn thing at the end.

Great idea and gorgeous. I am a noob though; that's why I have a noob camera. When is it good to use a polarizer filter? I know that light becomes polarized when it is specularly reflected at angles greater than the brewster angle. But when it real life should I use it and what effects do I gain?

I understand what you're saying too. I guess it depends on the definition of "typing"—-is it merely the physical act of pressing keys or is it the whole process of composing comprehensible text of some quality. When I "type" I rely on spellcheck so much, and I mainly do technical writing so I am always alt-tabbing to…