MickiMonster is totally right. Lots of big drug company trials are p-hacked, among other obvious examples.

As I recall, one of the main characters, Jondalar, is some kind of migratory sex teacher for primitive tribeswomen; he goes from village to village, teaching women the joy of sex. A single copy of this book taught everybody in my fifth grade class everything we needed to know about sex.

I had Hulu for a brief while, the free three month period I think. I tried watching Fargo on it. After about three episodes, and being forced to watch the same fucken ad for I think Hyundai cars literally dozens of times, I gave up and pirated the show. And canceled the Hulu subscription. It’s a terrible service. I am…

It just means 'awesome chicken.' It's not a word you'd use around your grandma without feeling a little bit bad, but you'd use it around your relatively hip boss or your mom and dad. Sure, the root of the word is 'chingar,' but trying to equate it with 'fuck' in English is a stretch. There's a joint around the corner…

Doesn't everybody with an iPhone use Siri for pretty much everything, like I do? Google searches, adding appointments, dictating text messages, and of course, getting driving directions? I assumed that was pretty much universal on iPhones, and the Google equivalent was equally universal on Samsung phones...

A lot of what is special about Amazon shipping is the guaranteed arrival date: you can pick the date you want your item to arrive at your door. Most other outfits seem to give you a window of a couple of days at best.

I have to agree with other commenters here that the fact that several of the authors of this paper have walked the conclusions back, and there have been big corrections made to them, and that respected scientists are calling for retraction, should all have been mentioned by LH here. Based on what I've read, these…

That's definitely an advantage to being part of a more recently created religion; the people who took down the revelations of Mormonism in the educated 19th century were much better informed about the actual way the world is than semi-literate desert tribesmen who came up with Islam, Judaism and Christianity.

There's a pretty awesome scene in one of the Riddick movies where a group of Muslim pilgrims are praying toward Mecca (which is somewhere light years away, back on Earth) by looking up.

They didn't try to legally challenge the warrant. That would have been the ethical thing to do.

I grew up in Petrolia and used to hike up and down the Lost Coast every year as a kid. Made the Petrolia-Shelter Cove run in one day once, when I was young and fit! But as you say, it's best done as a three day trek with campouts at Big Flat and halfway between Big Flat and the mouth of the Mattole. Another great run…

That brief sentence displayed such a breathless pile of falsehoods and bullshit that I am amazed you fit it all into one line.

What's irritating is that there probably are some Republicans in the Senate with a modicum of scientific background and intelligent heads on their shoulders who could have chaired the committee. Fewer of them these days, to be sure, but there was no need to give this to an actual moron like Cruz. He got it because…

I grew up in Alaska, around sled dogs who happily sleep in a hole in a snow drift at 40 degrees below zero. At that temperature your pee freezes when it hits the ground, if not before. Admittedly, huskies have a bit more fur than your average Lower-48 wiener dog or whatever. But the idea that dogs in general need…

Cortado, Gibraltar, Piccolo. The drinks with a milk/coffee ratio in between a real macchiato and a cappucino are widely served at good coffee spots. Never heard of a "flat white," though.

Serious question Eric- What is the point of a 4K tv, let alone an 8k one, if we can't even distinguish the pixels on a 1080p tv at normal viewing distances? I mean yeah, I've looked at 4k displays up close and they look awesome when you push your nose against 'em...but have we all forgotten that my 55" screen at 8…

I'd have to disagree. At least in the case of the Bradley story, he was absolutely spot-on. Experienced editors and journalists will I think agree that you kind of develop a feel for quotes and stories that are too-good-to-be-true. I remember the first time I read a Stephen Glass story (in Harper's magazine), and it…

Or you could, you know, skip the silly add-on and hit <F11> for full screen browsing without the chrome.

satalac, you give me the impression that you are being paid to make comments like this. Do you work for the US government?

Nah. They've just saturated the US tablet market. Nothing to do with android and surface tabs, which are still not really selling. The ipads are just too durable. Everybody I know who's got an ipad 2 (me included) still has it cause it works just as well as it did on day 1 for the normal tab use case, which is looking…