Deep brain stimulation has been tested in humans for some conditions (most notably Parkinson’s), and is safe and doable. But it is extremely expensive, dangerous (we kind of have to put an electrode in your HEAD), and permanent.

I would be shocked if technical language in any field was less precise than simpler language. Its obviously less clear to outsiders (and definitions can be divisive in certain fields) but jargon typically develops because it is genuinely useful shorthand. Fuchsia, magenta, and rose are all "pink" to me but I'm certain…

Of course - I'm simply not one of them, and find his fans almost as baffling as those of Christopher Nolan.

Who gives a shit what Whedon thinks about anything?

I'm sort of sad that Ken Liu gets all the attention for another author's trilogy here. I like Ken quite a bit, but this article ought to highlight the author rather than the translator I think.

The fun part is that there is no 'real world' illustrative function or trait or system of interactions to help the layman to put their heads around the principle of 'quantum tunneling'. They define the concept with other impressively named concepts like 'Heisenberg uncertainty principle' and such but it soon becomes…

some should put a teapot into orbit around the sun(a la Bertrand Russell) .It would serve no purpose, but it would just be great to know it was out there.