"No biological principle exists forbidding the same plant from reproducing by both spores and seeds"

BUT THE REAL THING WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT: the genetically modified salmon is triploid, and therefore sterile (which is good because it prevents the transgene from getting into the wild and affect the ecosystem at large). But it also means that the company is pulling a Monsanto monopoly-ploy on us.

This times a million. I continue to be blown away by how our own society seems to be lining up to look exactly like Vinge's view of the future, from education to gaming to communication to our approach to terrorism.

Great article, I think the main discussion points around GMO's should be the topic of the environment and subscription farming, rather than people screaming about whether or not it's safe to consume.

If your god is a higher and perfect being then he knows these things don't make sense (to us), he knows what it looks like (to us) when he does these things (again, to us), and what's more: he knows exactly what it would take to make these things make sense, but doesn't.

As a scientist, I wish this would stop - but it won't so how about we move from the pathetically small 400-sample analyses and get real with the tens of thousands? What if a parent aborts a child based on the presence of said genes? What if someone identifies as gay and doesn't express x or y gene? Do we understand…

And, in fact, would have exposed people to a lot less radiation.

Exactly. The study only measures what the test subjects have already internalized from the surrounding environment (about college, about grades, about the student-teacher relationship, about the meaning of all this within the specific context of 21st century Western society, which has its own particular scarcity…

Temp workers are hired to merge some files.

Oh, these are all very straightforward:

Has anyone mentioned "The Dervish House" by Iain McDonald? Because if not I would like to mention "The Dervish House" by Iain McDonald. Near future setting, computer trading and the abuse of, robots and the abuse of, genetic things and the abuse of, and Istanbul, Istanbul, Istanbul.

It's probably the result of a long cultural history of women being objectified and presented as prizes or goals to men, and the cultural residue of woman-as-property. There are a ton of articles about how various types of media portray women as rewards men are supposed to get just for waking up every day, so when…

The reason behind the law prohibiting a person from carrying an ice cream cone in their pocket goes back to horse thieves. A thief would untie a horses and the horse would follow him away licking the ice cream cone. If he was caught he could beat the charge by saying the horse chose to follow him.

Mass Effect is my favourite game series, and one of my favourite stories. As long as the show (or proposed movie) is NOT about Shepard, then it will be great. The whole point of the games is that it is YOUR character, so my game experience was different than everyone else.

"Play God- Pay the Price."

Paper wasps had started building a nest inside my son's matchbox car garage on the patio. I spazzed when I found this out due to several wasps pouring out of it and wound up flipping over the toy garage.

Jealousy.

This one has to be in my top 5. Do not get it at all...

I can't wait for the next video where it's black and white, and you see hands struggling to remove the film in tiny pieces while a voice-over says "has this ever happened to you". Then they go on to promote the 3M Paint Defender Removal Spray that dissolves the film so you can wash it off with soap and water.

So, the League of Chinese Cockroaches, in collaboration with the Oregon Monkey Clan, cooperating with the Burmese Python Population of the SouthEast, purchased the services of the Jersey Plague Mice and their uneasy allies, the Global Fruit Fly Consortium, to surveil the Behavioural Pigeons of Peoria by subcontracting…