Ooh . . . I like that idea. I am going to try that!

EDIT: I was originally too snarky with this post. I can't think of a non-snarky way to post it, though, so I'm giving up.

The Oregon vortex is well known to fans of vortices in Oregon . . . an old assay office that kinda slouched its way downhill and is crumpled at all kinds of weird angles.

I accidentally the whole article.

Best I can tell, it's some combination of replies, and the "prestige" of the commenter (Frank N. Stein is pretty far up the list of posts, but with only one reply to him . . . probably because they have such a large number of quality posts already).

Only some of these are impossible by our current understanding of physics, too. "Worldships" will apparently never happen because "why would somebody ever build a big ship?" This article is a mismash of "we think it's fundamentally impossible" and "nobody will ever feel like it", which are two very different bases…

Yes.

2050: Future Tech 1

That perhaps it's possible to treat our objectors as actual human beings—both showing them respect and taking their concerns as worthy of consideration—without compromising what we know, by the evidence, to be true.

Looking him up now, and not knowing much about him before this article, I'm learning some interesting things. He never actually "doubted" global warming . . . rather, he believed global warming was caused by human-produced carbon dioxide emissions, but thought the skeptics raised good points, and thought the…

So it's possible that some climate change skeptics were sincere and honest in their skepticism, rather than amoral paid shills of the oil industry?

There are some comments under the Psychology Today article by another researcher who quit anthropology after studying this group. He claims that Fajans is seeing things he never saw (he saw their children playing quite a bit, never saw adults harm a child to prevent them from playing, etc.)

Super cool to make, but the fumes when it burns are kinda noxious . . ..

11) No more courtroom trial episodes.

Oh, that's true. It's much easier to get gigs of data on a tape.

If I'm not mistaken, that's about 385,000,000 punch cards.

When it comes to medicine, I doubt that doctors are wrong "just as often as any other individual".

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2461806?uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21100942109403

"Scientists have suspected that copulation can put animals at risk for predators, but they've lacked the empirical evidence to support this claim, until now."

I'm always needing to reference my "humidity map" of the ocean floor . . ..