Even before Mosiac, 92 I guuess, On a borrowed college account, in the telecom university in Paris 92 , a buddy of mine was studying there either I bought my first wired Magazine before that , or just after ( ) . The web didn't exist at the time ( just before Mosaic) I aimlessly wandered with gopher and was it…

A little less ad hominem, appeal to authority ( or condescencence ) would go a long way into making a convincing er...argument.

As persons with adavnced degreees in science related subjects might now (your) anecdotal evidence is hardly of any impact in a general discussion about evolution (or any other subject indeed) .Dont know much about evothink, I have read Lorenz though and a good body of work since that has proven convincingly that…

Passionaria said "Why people should continue the myth that beautiful = young I don't know."

Important addenda to your flow chart...

You are not an anomaly. Koozies are basically unnecessary, if you are the least bit interested in drinking a beer, it will be finished before it gets warm. Special cases may apply, but the average drinker will not have any use for it.

This HSBC sheltering of wealthy people from paying taxes is part of a growing body of evidence that shows laws, rules and institutions are skewed in favor of the most affluent. You could argue that in order to get wealthy you have to get in bed with the state ( not heroism by my standards) . People of wealth lobby to…

AH ! The glamour of war. Nothing I like better than to read glorified account of carnage, violence and institutionalized murder. Let us keep making war the heroic path to conflict resolution.

Data from the world Bank. Except for 2013 we have beaten the US consistently in rate of Immunisation for measles. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.I…

This is where as say that damn! you beat me to it.

Aren't we encouraging these kids and others to do dangerous stunts and harm themselves just by looking at the video, and more so by having a post about it?

So minus 40C and 15000 meters high when he was ejected, at almost 1000 km/h. Now I understand.

yes Beef, when an alarm sounds you should run in a disordely manner, trample on everyone, and get the hell out of the building. Even if it's a false alarm... Or not. There's such a thing as a proportionate response, basing it on evidence, facts. Not fear. The French government got in toomey for buying too…

Remember H1N1 back in 2009? It did get overblown way out of proportion. I live in Mexico, and the country practically shut down, meanwhile (big) pharma was riding high in the wave of fear selling tons of (expensive and innefective) antivirals. The media had a field day... Serious analysis show that it was…

BenIcio del Toro, not Benecio

I'm wondering what the world would be like if every country took the same kind of measures... If any country , after careful and secret consideration, decided to send a drone carrying bombs to any other country, and kill targeted citizens. We should come up with a name to describe the peace of mind every inhabitant of…

Yeah,

IBM should be suing everybody and their assess for patent infringement, starting with Apple.

Yeah! wipe the Palestinians from the face of the earth! Nice solution to middle east problems. Reminds me of another solution somebody called final, wasnt' a very good one either was it?

Its nice to see tools that can make the body count more lopsided than the 20:1 we now have. Huurray for weaponmakers!