That statement from WAC and the subsequent quote from Rev. Murphy made my day. The distinction between faith and science was put simply and eloquently. Nice to have these kinds of allies in the fight for science!

"Perhaps Twitter just isn't the place for important conversations".

Unless gold companies want to dig deeper—often in arctic areas that are notoriously difficult to mine

I totally get what you're saying, but it's this kind of attitude that makes it difficult for people who need help to get it. Telling people with ADHD that they just need to work harder is as bad as telling people with depression they should just smile more. The topic is more complex than that.

They really have lost sight of their way in the last year or two. They used to be about serving their fans but now Valve is becoming more and more like EA or Activision.

So true. I have to note that I only use the steam client on my machines, and refuse to install origin (based on the permanent distrust of and dislike for EA). I like the fact that steam consolidates and groups my library. But there are obvious issues with the library as well.

I love all these to-do lists but the one thing that is really frustrating is that everything is dependent on gCal and iOS calendar. I am not an independent freelancer who lives out of a coffee shop working exclusively in the web. I work in a corporate environment that utilizes ActiveSync / Exchange and the fact I…

"Correlation is not causation" has become a meaningless piece of internet lingo deployed by people who neither understand what they're talking about nor bother to want to learn. It's a destructive type of nihilism about the pursuit of knowledge employed by people who need the results of research in their own lives but…

as a dad, i'm grinning from ear to ear. somewhere along the way, truthfully, we develop an almost sixth sense for these kinds of things, based upon of corse, minor things that have happened over time. all dads do, moms have the same thing, you know the whole eye in the back the head (in truth, they just recognize…

The EPA is run by the companies it's supposed to regulate. The entire upper management of the EPA is a bunch of former or future private sector execs or lobbyists.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Didn't know Honey Badgers could use tools. We should add them to the Uplift Candidate List.

Definitely a boat, here I did the work for those so-

This is a 1971 Citroën SM Interior. And it still looks better and more modern than todays

I tried all kinds of shit to stop the bullies when I was a kid. Ignoring, playing, being nice, fighting back. You know what worked? Telling. And no, they didn't like me. But they obviously already didn't like me, so I gave no fucks.

The French authorities have said that all the DNA tests will be destroyed afterwards (except the one of the eventual rapist of course) so there'll be no biometric data left after the investigation is closed. And no, I don't think they're lying but I do think a lot of people have read 1984 way too many times and are…

I'm in full support of getting a DNA sample of every person in the country (and to enter the country), putting it in a federal database, and using it to solve crimes. That's a kind of security measure I can get behind.

Remember, teenage brains are still developing, their hormones are out of wack, there is evidence to show that they have trouble putting things in perspective. Its a very scary time to go through something like depression, to not have the experience to know whats going on with anything, to feel peer pressure and adult…

Sometimes when you wanna get them in the red, you go a little too far.

You may joke about it, but I've friends who are biochemists and tell me this every single day. We are fucking up with our chances to find so many incredible compounds for EVERYTHING, not only medicine applications.