I've seen about as many articles about dog attacks where it was a wandering pack that had escaped confinement or something similar. But anecdotes aside, your point about gun regulation is actually very good. If only we could do something similar to regulate dog ownership, but guns and knives are not self-replicating.…

Try reading the conclusions of the study instead of cherry picking data to support your previously-held conclusions. Despite those stats, they still concluded what I quoted above. You've probably heard the Mark Twain quote- about "lies, damn lies, and statistics", but I think this one is more appropriate- you're using…

That CDC report actually makes the opposite point you're implying: "Although fatal attacks on humans appear to be a breed-specific problem (pit bull-type dogs and Rottweilers), other breeds may bite and cause fatalities at higher rates....Fatal attacks represent a small proportion of dog bite injuries to humans…

Because of this comment and the millions of others just like it they actually did this. With this very laser no less- [www.slashgear.com]

Airdrives do this and have been around for a while now ([www.amazon.com]). They're better than these earbuds for exercise because the wire wraps your ears so that they pretty much can't fall out.

Patents only matter if you're trying to sell something and profit from it. You can copy stuff to your heart's content for personal use.

Airdrives ([www.amazon.com]). Not quite earbuds because they don't actually go into your ear, but they're the best headphones for me because 1) They don't fall out. Ever. 2) They're not noise isolating. You can actually hear that car that's screeching off the road and about to hit you. My only problem with them is…

Nice overview- had no idea there was such variety in cargo bikes (I've never actually seen one in use). We had a similar issue (need to carry kids+junk on bike), but instead of a dedicated cargo bike, we got a trailer for a normal bike. Seems to do everything a cargo bikes can, but you can disconnect it and leave it…

Yup. Don't forget the forms, paperwork, and approvals required to get a factory up and running in the US. It would take years for them to get anything going in the US. The cheap labor in China is just a bonus- the speed at which they can get things going and the infrastructure of all of the suppliers nearby are the…

Yeah, that's a pretty bad demo. They needed to also use a phone without anything on it that would've slid down the incline & off the table. Also, that demo phone only had a tiny little business card-sized patch on it. I use the kits with die-cut sections made for specific devices, which they now seem to sell under a…

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True. Our health care system is royally messed-up and set up so that no one really has any incentive to do what is best for everyone. The best way I've heard our health care system described is as three people who go out for dinner. The first one (the doctor) orders the food, the second one (the patient) eats it, and…

Part of the problem is that insurance companies like having double-blind placebo-controlled studies (as are required for drugs). That level of proof of effectiveness is utterly impossible for prosthetics. Then you've got the extreme complexity of how many ways it can benefit the user- improved fitness, quality of…

My mother used to teach disabled kids. One of her favorite stories was about a little girl with no arms who painted with the brush in her mouth. She was so good at it that all of the other kids in her class (who did have arms) thought that they were doing it wrong and started painting with the brush in their mouths…

I've seen many cases where it's the opposite- they charge insurance companies more because they will pay it in order to charge people much less if they pay without insurance.

Walking is completely different mechanically from running. In walking, you "vault" from leg to leg kind of like an inverted pendulum. This ankle provides a critical force at pushoff where it is needed to make gait more efficient and natural, but I doubt it could keep up with the greater forces required for running.…

Seconded. I also suspect that this study did not control for the number of statistical tests (see [xkcd.com] for a good explanation of this).

Better, not perfect. I was particularly miffed at how they handled the dimpled car episode. They expected the dimples to not make the car more fuel efficient, as that is what the science says should happen for something the size of a car, yet the car with dimples did get significantly better mpg. At the end they just…

They've gotten much, much better. Back in the first few seasons I'd have agreed with you. But the last few seasons have been much more controlled and scientific. It's still entertaining and made for TV, but now most of the time I think, "but what about..." they answer it in the next segment. I'm with Groucho- the…

The needles are now so small and thin that they're nearly pain-free, but they're also testing inhalable insulin now. I was almost in a research study to test this stuff, but my blood sugar was too good for me to be included. I could care less about getting the insulin into me- that's the easy part and the tiny needles…