No, because their own technology would predate the patent and thus invalidate the patent.

absolutely not, that's the point. It shouldn't be considered a negative outcome.

So, if your 12-year old daughter can go camping with a (girl) friend of hers and the father of that friend, you wouldn't allow it either, right? Because that'd be extended, unsupervised content in personal situations?

yes, there are sexual predators out there, but no, a priori considering everybody to be a possible sexual predator is just stupid. Let's start splitting up schools again into boys and girls' schools and only women can teach girls and only men can teach boys, because, you know, rape!

No, he got remorse, but then it was clear he couldn't get over Jessice, so she glammored him into forgetting him. Without his memories of them together, nothing kept him in beau temps and he left for Alaska

While we're at it, can we bring back Hoyt? I have a huge puppycrush on Hoyt ^^

European male here. Just checking in to say that I feel like we should applaud the authorities to do their jobs, sometimes. Completely different case, but still: a couple of years ago I was a supervisor on a playground as my student's job over the summer. Every wednesday we went to the swimming pool. One wednesday…

I will (and have done so for a couple of articles!)! :)

I just recently discovered this "roygbiv" site, but I'm really amazed about the quality of the content! Thank you for writing these pieces, they really deserve to get more coverage!

Oh please, without philosophy of science science would still be trying to verify theories instead of falsify them. Science is only what science is now because of philosophy of science. Saying we don't need philosophy of science is claiming our method for finding truth is the final method for finding truth and no…

Causation would be another great example. A lot of scientists are looking for causal connections and mathematical relationships between variables (e.g. a ball falls because of gravity, and gravity can be expressed in a mathematical relationship). Philosophy of science will ask: what does causation mean? What is the…

it goes both ways. Seeing an authoritative entity like the FDA refusing the blood of gay men makes one wonder if they're not all filthy.

She left it in the sink?

Moving it doesn't necessarily damage the car. Tipping a smart car will cause damage to the panels. Joke vs vandalism :)

What happened?

Well, it's qualitative research, not quantitative. He didn't do an experiment, he just did 8 case studies and concluded some stuff from it. Generally these case studies and their conclusions can be very good, but sometimes the conclusions can be wrong generalizations. i wouldn't just blame the researcher though, since…

From 1987 to 1992, the Russian military detonated nuclear weapons underground, with the goal of disturbing tectonic plates and electromagnetic fields as a weapon, in Project Mercury and Project Volcano.

Thanks for this great article :)

I'd actually like to see Neill Blomkamp do it...

The results were different, yes, but not starkly different. Meta-analyses of all variations and all replications show that there isn't a big variation in the results. The 10 percent figure was for the variation in which there were several authority figures that were in disagreement over wether or not to continue with…