I don't see how an intent of "crippling" the enemy is equivalent to "killing by design".

Blue, indigo and violet are there because evolution knew we'd one day have blushing Bolians to contend with as well. It's forward-thinking, that evolution.

Indeed. And I'm only going off the information in the article, which is pretty limited. But the tone of the article and the stated position of the defense didn't match up at all with the article's take on the accusation. If the accusation itself is unjustified, then perhaps some of the article should have been…

"The prosecution's primary complaint is not so much that the government appointed panel of seismologists failed to predict the earthquake, but that they gave a falsely reassuring statement about its potential effects. "

Ten.

It makes no difference to science what units you use, as long as you label them. I'm sorry this is a pet peeve of yours, but "one million chills" seems a bit misplaced here.

Basically it's a cognitive scientists talking about the flaws in the way we teach, and the way we expect students to learn (as well as giving better ways to teach and better ways to expect students to learn). As to why they don't like school . . . essentially it boils down to "we're not consistently asking them to…

And that's a valuable skill, absolutely. But it's not a skill that takes the place of memorized knowledge when it comes to critical thinking.

I think the biggest obstacle to artificial intelligence is our current physical limits on manufacturing devices for processing and storage.

"Looking up facts" is often insufficient, however . . . you have to know enough about a subject to know that the facts exist at all, and might be relevant to the issue, before you can know to look them up. A broad base of knowledge beforehand is essential to doing most correlating and predicting.

The Hawaiian Islands—smack in the center of the Pacific plate, and quite a long way from any subduction zone—would also like to disagree with the author's erroneous volcano "facts".

Big 'E' Earth is our planet. Little 'e' earth is dirt. Astronomers could discover earth on other planets, in other solar systems. No problem.

While all of these ten items did change the world in unexpected ways, for several of them only the completely-expected change is what's written in the article, and the unexpected change is the part you have to figure out on your own. The vaccine entry is one of them.

I'm going to wait until something is actually published and peer-reviewed before claiming anything resembling "100% proof" . . ..

Wouldn't this mean that our distance estimates for every single other thing in the Universe are also off?

One is better than two.

"First person in history to achieve supersonic speeds outside of an aircraft"

I am super-bummed that all the 4-armed apparel is either sold-out or "coming soon".

They're better funded now than they were 50 years ago, both in nominal dollars and adjusted-for-inflation dollars.

He was actually orange for the whole first season.