Asparagus. Sometimes you don't need a double-blinded placebo controlled experiment.

I learned that the approach you're talking about was called topological optimization. But yeah, not new and horribly incorrect article. There is no way in hell that beam is stronger than an equivalently *SIZED* beam of steel (i.e. ~1cm dia). Stronger per weight, yes.

Something similar happened to me when I was a Summer Intern at Ford with everyone replying to all to the entire list of summer interns for a while, clogging up inboxes with jokes. The main difference was that Ford was paying us to be there instead of the other way around like at NYU. Lots of interns got fired over…

This is a fine idea, but I think it works better on your body than on a table. Calibrate once and you don't need a table to type on. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/cue/skinput/

This is a great idea, but it's certainly not new. Just a new vendor entering this market. Emotion (http://www.frankmobility.com/e-motion.php) and Quickie extender (http://www.allegromedical.com/wheelchairs-c540/quickie-xtender-power-assist-p189918.html) had versions of this that I used at MedTrade years ago.

The logical reason for this is to combat the unreasonable fears and phobias solders inevitably develop as a consequence of the horrors of battle. This is about letting soldiers come back to a normal life instead of being a non-functional PTSD-stricken homeless guy. This is a good thing- take off the tinfoil hat.

An iPhone would not be able to capture the data they need because of its low accelerometer sampling rate of 1kHz (iPhone 4). To capture any kind of impact or blast you need ~12kHz+. Two pounds is heavy, but I bet that's mostly battery. Hopefully some of it is additional armor or padding.

That's only half of it- don't forget the ~$1M you have to pay for that patent from start to finish.

The reason it's called the "God Particle" is because the publishers wouldn't title the book "The God Damn Particle", which the authors preferred because it was so hard to find.

My how things have changed. An extension that is available in Chrome by not Firefox. I think I'll be using Chrome to surf Gawker sites until someone gets around to writing something similar for Firefox to circumvent this horrible new comment system. Why does every change Gawker/Gizmodo has made in that past few years…

Is there an equivalent to this for Firefox? I'd love to be actually be able to read the comments again.

I think this baby hammock should come with a set of these for this reason: [www.gadgetduck.com]

I stayed in a house built into a Banyan tree during my honeymoon in Hawaii-[www.southpointbth.com]

I'm a Type I with no pump and a Dexcom CGM and this setup works way better for me than a pump and no CGM would. I took my A1C down from 7.9 to 5.7 just because I knew what was going on between finger sticks. It doesn't cut down on the number of finger sticks (in fact I need an extra one for calibration), but I have…

You only really need lube/coolant if you're cutting steel or something else hard that generates a lot of heat- we only use cutting oil on aluminum if we're hogging out lots of stock per pass with a big bit. That being said, this is a CNC *ROUTER* not a full-on endmill. That frame has virtually none of the stiffness…

Other fun roach facts- When a roach run fast enough (~50 body lengths/second) it raises up and runs on its back legs only. Like a human. Except that for the roach the force of the air it encounters lifts its front end. A human moving that quickly would be running about 200 miles per hour. From [science.howstuffworks.c…

[zombietools.net]- The Deuce isn't even the biggest or most expensive one.

I love that XKCD, but in their defense the article does say "might" and "may" about these findings. It's Gizmodo that's reporting these speculative findings as certainties.

So much better with the right music...

ConclusionS. The part before that said "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." You're right in that they are not concluding that Pits and Rottweilers are not dangerous, but you're being…