I often wonder - how does a for-profit hospital make a profit when it is required (at some level) to treat patients who may not be able to pay for care?

Eventually, our corporate network will notice that the word "weed" has started showing up at an increasing rate, and that the letters "nsfw" are showing more frequently, and giz will get put on the list of blocked Internet sites. In case I get cut off unexpectedly, I just want say it's been a nic

Much like your central nervous system, virtually all of the mechanical features of the plane are driven by electrical signals that travel down the various wiring harnesses and electrical buses in the fuselage. Stray E-M radiation could introduce uncommanded responses from things like flaps, ailerons, fuel transfer…

I have doubts about fire. We always seem to envision the our newest technology will one day rise up and confront us with our own mortality. Frankenstein will track us down. Nuclear fission will destroy our world. Our computers will turn on us and terminate the human race.

Oh great. Now plancking will become the new meme of FTL travel.

The plot from Quantum of Solace eerily(?) reflects the story of Bechtel, who signed contracts to privatize the Bolivian water supply in 1999 (although only for a single city, granted) which resulting in the outlawing of the collection of rain water and the doubling of water rates throughout the country...

Apologies for being redundant, but here's the entire litany: (I have it written down and repeat it frequently)

My wife has had MS for over thirty years. Seven or eight years ago, I read a study where statins were cited in reversing the effects of the disease in lab mice. We asked her neurologist, and he reluctantly wrote a prescription, as her cholesterol levels were borderline anyway. The statins have never had any benefical…

I haven't used an actual alarm clock since the first watch that had a built-in alarm (mine was a Casio, I think).

One might assume that Da Vinci never saw one of these machines, but I'm pretty much convinced that he observed them in the future before being sent back through time to draw the pictures and steer human technology in the right direction.

We'll see. JetBlue did this a couple of years ago. The idea is that if you remove one or two inches of padding from the seats in 33 rows, you can add another row at the back of the aircraft. JetBlue also reconfigured the seats to have a little more recline in the upright position, so even with limited recline, the…

I can't escape the idea that each and every frame of the film is studied at length and in detail, so that nothing gets into the finished product by accident. Some continuity goofs maybe, occasional film crew in a reflection, maybe, but overall you're seeing what you're intended to see.

I always like it when they say things "well, call it what you may, but it works" - as if they have reliable evidence that booth babes are correlated to higher sales across a range of products and customers.

I'm willing to stick around until somebody mentions "fanboy" and then I'm outta here.

Tried throwback Mountain Dew once, threw it back immediately.

Um, OK, except that EPIC isn't a government agency...it's a 501(c)(3) which is a non-profit organization.

Sinclair Molecular Chain? I always lose that stuff.

Immense. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Most people think Apple succeeds because of the reality distortion field, they just don't quite get it that the field extends to Apple's supply chain also, which allows it to build shiny devices with desirable features cheaper than the competition...

Now we know why Spidey's costume doesn't include a cup.