Great post! Thanks for sharing the first person account. I would think the living apart would have made a pretty big difference for y'all. It probably would have seemed a lot stranger if you were used to hanging out at family reunions/gatherings early on.

I think you're right about teaching being the biggest aspect of it in the rock/spear primitive tool time. But I would guess that hand-specific weapons would have come about as soon as we had more precise one-handed weapons, like bows. Almost any tool has better control when designed specifically for one hand, so I…

Yes, that would be installing TOR and the TOR browser, available free here: [www.torproject.org] . I tried it, and it was an easy intall and setup, but I didn't find much use for it so I deleted it. But worth giving it a try.

Yeah, in the same vein, I think "cooperation" is the wrong word, because it's not usually the person's choice when they develop a handedness. More of a tendency toward protection that leads to parents/teachers encouraging kids to use their right hands. I'm sure it was a survival advantage to be able to use the…

Just to let people wondering know, based on my account it appears that you can grandfather in your old data storage plan for now. I was paying $5 per year for 20GB of google storage previously and that was already credited to my account. I hope I'll be able to renew this come December rather than switch to one of the…

Just recently upgraded to a DSLR and had to go looking for a case so I could travel with it. Lots of looking later (on a sub-$100 budget) came up with this: [www.amazon.com] . Can't be happier now that I've had it for ~3 months. Fits my camera with 24-105L attached, kit lens, 50mm 1.8, strap, cleaning accessories, and…

Where is there a market for gallbladders? They're only slightly more useful than your appendix.

Hmmm...that's interesting. Anyone know a chrome extension that makes html5 load preferentially over flash if it's available? I have KillFlash installed, but it just loads a blank box where clicking on it loads the flash player instead of html5.

That's freaking incredible. I wonder if there is any makeup involved or if it's all extreme post-processing. Well done. But that being said......

So I think one of the most useful things is to find someone who you line up with on opinion of one or two cameras/lenses and continue to follow their reviews for possible future purchases. I have found I agree with a lot of what both dpreview says on more objective measurements and what Kai from digitalrev says in…

So I'm surprised this hasn't already been added, but this is all I have to say, and not at all in an ironic way:

Way to filter = scroll past that article. I don't care about anything relating to biking or android, so I just don't click on those. I don't think there was much tricky about the title "Incredibowl i420". The three articles before this were about wikipedia, cameras, and html, so it's not like they were ignoring tech.…

Well done sir (or ma'am...not sure who wrote this). I will definitely be saving this for a potential beach trip later this summer. And the chem major in me looks forward to the process of making it.

Maybe they chose 1000 feet for its in between height. This says birds stay lower for general flight (although the testing they're doing at 350 feet may be dangerous) and migrate at altitudes more like 5-10 thousand feet. [www.stanford.edu]

I feel sorry for but really want to see the first flock of birds that decide to take a flight path directly through this thing. Those look like some seriously deadly blades moving pretty damn fast.

Thanks! Sorry to hear about your friend. I'm not an expert in either oncology or this new treatment (I'm in Emergency Medicine, so I have a more general background), but here is my guess. The prostate encircles a small canal, the urethra, making it an ideal target for high-energy destruction. Also, it is very small…

For the people wondering why so much focus is being put on this for prostate cancer and not others, it's because surgery on the prostate has so many very problematic side effects. Most local cancers can be effectively treated with surgery (including lung, breast, and even pancreatic) with minimal side effects.…

I use dropbox for all of my documents (nothing in my local docs folder on any of my computers). Only thing stored locally are my photos, which I backup to a hard drive. Saved my ass several times to have all of my documents stored online and available from any computer connected to the internet. An extra 5GB from…

She's got a kind of Zelda-in-Link's-clothing look going on in the third picture.

Yeah, in that case I'd look to the Pro line. While the Air would be fine for working with the T2i's photos, the integrated graphics might mean actually taking a hit in terms of video editing ability. Wait until the new ones come out, and then you can either splurge for the new version, which will probably last her a…