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“Why you can’t *make* liquor thats 100 percent pure alcohol”

Its not our fault that the other didn’t properly disclose post-publication edit.

I’m just going to leave this Safety Data Sheet for Molecular biology grade 200 proof Ethanol right here. http://www.fishersci.com/ecomm/servlet/…

Molecular biology grade ethanol contains no contamination from benzene or other chemical separators, it is often made through a molecular sieve system. It is produced for…

Exactly, and if you get “molecular biology grade” ethanol, you can buy 200 proof that contains nothing except ethanol (until you open it and it starts absorbing water)

How did this post not include absorption spectra of native chlorophyll?

Showing how much of the spectrum is not absorbed by plants is important for understanding why this matters. Basically all of the 550-650 visible spectrum is completely wasted by most common plants. This is the whole reason why we see plants as…

Actually if you look at the absorption spectra of chlorophyll A, B and the carotenoids , plants *don’t* absorb much in the 550-650 nm range (mid-green to yellow), which is why we see them as green (and when the chlorophyll dies off when leaves turn, yellow, then red). So, while plants use the highest energy blue…

It requires carrier support, the only workaround that I know of is to route your voicemail through Google Voice, then in the dialer settings you can configure it to use your google voice number as your voicemail number. Once you do that it will just suddenly work.

You'll get the option to play voicemails right from the…

I wouldn't call that "rocking". I'd call it ignoring the built-in API that puts visual voicemail where it belongs, in the stock dialer.

Android has an API for visual voicemail that puts it right in the stock dialer (the same way that Google Voice can be configured to do). Blame your carrier for wanting you to use their fucking proprietary bloatware app. (I'm looking at you AT&T).

You can set it up so that your carrier number uses Google Voice just as a…

And at the end of the day if you're still feeling the need for a "real" OS for that one random thing your chromebook can't do. Crouton it and you've got the best Linux laptop ever built.

Elephants are pretty smart. I'm sure they could be trained.
Of course we'd be obligated to provide them with guns of an appropriate size. Surely the NRA couldn't have an objection to that.

And if the elephant is hunting you back isn't it just that much more sporting?

Gluten - Free (with purchase)

NO CAPES!

10 hours ago in the bug tracker:

Android Engineering is aware of an issue affecting Nexus 5 users running Android 5.0 which causes significant "Miscellaneous" battery usage while WiFi is enabled. This appears to be caused by an abnormally high number of IRQ wakeup events. We are continuing to investigate this issue.

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"although I could ask the watch to set an alarm for instance, I'd still have to scroll through and tap the time I wished it to go off on, rather than just saying the hour and minute."

Um... no? I have the original G watch, setting an alarm completely by voice works just fine. You say it all in one command. "Okay…

No, he's not high. Those are acid trip thoughts if I've ever seen them. Mr. C. K. is tripping balls.

Assuming the "entertainment consultant" part is a pretty big assumption. Funding is pretty tight after all.

So, as a PhD student in molecular biology (undergrad in Biochemistry), how would one go about getting a job like yours?
(Or just yours, the "The Santa Clause" school of job placement is... acceptable.)

4 packs of buns, 5 packs of hot dogs, freeze or feast.

For the love of god, NO ONE tell George R. R. Martin about this.

http://i.imgur.com/3Lz4Dx0.jpg Don't forget the last one!