On the flip-side, the front-line anti-malarial Artemisinin (from the annual woodworm) certainly does work and the shrub was recommended for that purpose as far back as the fourth century. To be sure, 42 other treatments were similarly described in Ge Hong's work, the vast majority of which are presumably ineffective…

Late reply, but no. The shot was too dark for any ship name to be visible.

I betray myself here, but there is a fantastic Harry Potter fanfic titled "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, an AI researcher out in California. It examines the world of HP through the eyes of a Harry well-schooled in the empirical method, one who questions why and how such a mad world…

Poe wrote on both.

Does this mean I'm a wizard?

In case anyone else is curious, the song is "To Build a Home" by The Cinematic Orchestra.

For no apparent reason, my download consistently stalls halfway. I've had this issue with no other app, including ones I've tried since, but I can't seem to get Fairway Solitaire. Balls.

Rock of Ages. Good stuff.

Hey, that's not a question...

The Star Wars: Technical Commentaries site that you linked regarding the Endor Holocaust is magnificent. It is as true and pure a demonstration of real "fandom" as I've ever seen. Painstaking yet surprisingly interesting research that includes proper scientific analysis of something that isn't and never will be real,…

The name "Hit Detection" is a fantastic moniker for a video game consultancy company. Excellent choice, all things considered.

There are now extended, unskippable ads to view certain Kotaku pages? In the immortal words of Will Smith, playing Del Spooner in I, Robot... "Aww, hell naw!"

Regardless of whether they came up with the concept or catchline first, I'm certainly not sure, that is a fantastic name.

Wouldn't the gravity exerted by the slow accumulation of an entire planet's worth of anti-matter cause irrevocable and probably fatal perturbation of orbit of Earth, if done anywhere near Earth or even when the anti-planet approaches Mars?

A new J. C. Wright book? Amazing. His "Golden Age" novels may not have been the best written, but it's easily my favorite SF series of the past decade for the sheer panoply of ideas it introduces.

From a search of Amazon for potential buys, Remic's book is titled "Theme Planet" rather than "The Planet."

Sword of the Stars II: Lords of Winter is coming out on Friday the 28th.

Adult kidneys are indeed transplanted into children, given that the child will "grow into" the kidney. Kids older than two years typically have enough potential space in the abdomen to accept the transplant. The main issue is perfusion, not size, so the common practice is to use long-term blood volume expansion and…

Exactly. Strep bovis endocarditis is basically pathognomonic for a colon carcinoma, though only certain biotypes have shown a definitive association. Perhaps Fusobacterium presence suggest a benign tumor-state but that's far less helpful.