I’m kind of curious whether there will ever be a huge and pricey collectable market for old cellphones and whether this will be the line that will be sought after in say... 30 years?

Please remember the habit of the U.S. Government ignoring reality on this topic, with a kind of a ‘damn your logic’ attitude extends also to the legislative branch.

I’ve been thinking about the same thing and I’m thinking no. The only other comparison I can quickly recall is the tobacco company who outright lied about the addictiveness of nicotine. They conducted their own studies and buried the results and their own executives testified before congress that “there was no…

Being literally stabbed in the back.

Very psyched! One way or another the fight probably would end relatively quickly. I hope they have some demonstration events or something leading up to it. It’s not like the pit crew can swap out a chain saw or a hydraulic pump in between rounds right?

Thank you very much for all the details!

Can anyone speak to measures that aren’t voluntary and whether enforcement is adequate? There are checks for whether fertilizer components are actually being used in farms and not explosives right? That means the data on volume of use is there right?

Sadly no. It was a long time ago.

Years ago when I was in college, we spent a week on this in bioethics. Aside from genome editing likely being a tool of the rich we read up on opinions from artists who think their babies would thank them for giving them a uniquely shaped head(I think it was octagon), whether a genetically enhanced kid meant for…

Someone once told me that though the movie exagerrated the size of the of known raptor fossils at the time, they actually discovered raptor fossils of that size years later after the movie. I always thought that was kind of neat.

The dummy package did get stolen. My video setup didn’t work out sadly, but inside the package was a note saying something a long the lines ‘Thanks for letting me know someone is stealing my stuff...blah blah blah... I know who you are now... blah blah’ I didn’t want to do anything too incendiary like a booby trap in…

I welcome more amazon lockers anywhere as the one convenient for me is nearly always full. I kind of wonder whether the first apartment buildings that will have an amazon hub will be the type to already have a doorman or centralized secured mailboxes already though.

I’m not vegetarian, but I cut down on animal products a little over a year ago for health reasons (30lbs lost at one point, some came back as muscle!). Three servings of meat a week (if that, and many times it’s fish) and only one serving of beef a month (and sometimes not even that).

For those who are thinking that it’s just about the numbers I’d like to you to consider...

I’ve been reposting this alot so I but it seems to be more and more applicable these days.

I’ve helped with clinical research manuscripts and worked for some professionals who are actually the peers in the peer reviews process. Medline and Pubmed are simple and are great for just checking the existence of sources. It even helps verify the accuracy of the reference list (you’d be surprised how often someone…

This one’s about the financial meltdown in 2009. Gotta admit, I’m not sure which craptastrophe is fighting for more space in my brain right now.

For comparison, Three Mile Island footage in all it’s 1980's camera glory from inside the melted core. Approximately 50% was melted in that case.

For those of you a little worried about the fat or dairy of the cream, you can whip up refrigerated separated coconut milk or coconut cream, sweeten it and flavor it as you like. It’ll still soften the cookies as it should and adds a coconut flavor to the cake depending on how much or how little you flavor it. I like…

Decades ago, I think it was in San Francisco, before smart phones and GPS were readily available they tried to do a bike sharing thing. They basically bought a bunch of bikes in a very specific color and had a very specific public branding and left them all over the city. The idea was that if you saw one and it…