I like to think it is more a matter of the particular radio frequency, not the power level, having an effect. Of course, if that is the case, that could be exactly why we haven't heard more about it, if you take my meaning. ;)

I'll just leave this here, just in case people forgot about this story.

Wish I'd known about this YESTERDAY! :/

My eyes!! Kill it with fire!!

I'll just leave this here.

Wasn't there also a recent report blaming Monsanto's GM maize for bee colony collapse syndrome? My understanding is that the GM corn was designed to grow from seed only once, and not flower, forcing farmers to buy the seed again every year. As a result, bees can't pollenate, and their hives die. Of course, Monsanto…

My stepfather would love one of these for his trips back from Karl Strauss.

SSDs and laptops with discrete GPUs.

I'm curious to know how well this performs up against my George Foreman deep fryer, which has a spin cycle to remove most of the oil from the food via centrifugal force.

1. Bosch PS130-2A Hammer Drill/Driver ($159)

Does there really need to be a setting for 8? That seems to be easy enough to do without a special guide, provided you are cutting all slices at once.

I thought the current reboot Bond series was doing away with the gadgetry, but I guess this is tame enough to be ok. Of course, it's been done in a Bond film before, when it was called a "signature gun".

I remember watching a documentary of a tribal culture somewhere (which I think was called "the Marrying Tribe", IIRC), which had a polyandrous culture. Overweight women were considered the height of beauty, mainly as the result of multiple childbirths (fertility being their most-prized trait), and the men of the tribe…

The problem I have with this is that they were instructed to give a specific false answer, not make one up on the fly. Remembering a specific answer, even if known to be a lie, will make the person access memory (eyes go left). Having them lie on the fly with their own made-up answer would make them access their…

My Thermos Sipp vacuum insulated stainless mug works great. Rated for 5 hours hot, 9 hrs cold, but I find stuff stays hot MUCH longer than even 5 hours. Taking it apart to clean thoroughly can be a pain, though, and the silicone gaskets don't seem to seal as well as they used to as a result.

My Thermos Sipp vacuum insulated stainless mug works great for that purpose, as well. Rated for 5 hours hot, 9 hrs cold, but I find stuff stays hot MUCH longer than even 5 hours. Taking it apart to clean thoroughly can be a pain, though, and the silicone gaskets don't seem to seal as well as they used to as a result.

I wrote a group paper in college which was basically a pro-NASA argument, explaining how without futurists like Clarke and NASA, we wouldn't have the communications infrastructure we rely so much on today. He is definitely one of my favorites!

What happened to the mouthwash that was supposed to keep these same germs away for 2 weeks at a time before needing to use the mouthwash again? Didn't Giz report on that about a year ago?

I just backed my first Kickstarter at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nomiku/nomiku-bring-sous-vide-into-your-kitchen for a sous vide water circulator you can attach to any pot (Sous Vide Supreme is not an actual circulator, and the PolyScience models are WAY more expensive). It hit the goal the next day (after I…

Dammit, you beat me to it! LOL