In fairness, I didn't read the actually study, but given what's written here, it kind of seems like they're jumping the gun a bit to me. Isn't there a correlation/causation issue lurking?

Heh, when I was a kid, I had a bad habit of sticking things in my ears and went through the exact same ordeal. I had a small magnet and two pieces of envelope thickness paper stuck in my ear and a non-ENT nurse spent 15 minutes trying to dig them out with a pair of tweezers, which was absolute agony. It took the ENT…

Mister_Roboto and @bigbox: thanks for the help!

I'm just curious though... even if there was no return train or it was unavailable to him, why not follow the track back in the other direction? The article says "hours later," so if that's true, it wouldn't be an impossible task. I think there's some missing details too...

Do I think I'd have any trouble getting this on my sweet 20 y/o gelding? No. Do I think you'd have to be out of your mind to try to put it on a hot 2 y/o stud at the track (like this is designed for)? Yes. That being said, it's not particularly hard to put on. Here's how you would: Depending on how stretchy it…

That we exploit an innocent and helpless creature for a product that has a readily available and viable synthetic alternative? Yes, that does make me sad. Does that exclude other things from making me sad? No. What's your point? @EndangeredSpeciesM, it's an extension of the fact that the existence of horse meat makes…

What a sad thought that this sort of practice still exists.

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The problem is your definition of "exists" and partially of "observed." To "exist," in this context, means to be in a certain state with probability one. Without "observing" a particle, it exists in multiple states with corresponding probabilities, altogether which sum to one. Of course, to know that the particle…

How environmentally safe is this, though? I'm not saying coating a tree in this stuff is automatically bad, but my first instinct says so.

My fridge at home has a drawer at the bottom with an "Express Chill option." I can fit about 16 cans in there and they'll be quite cool in 15 minutes. It seems more practical than one or two cans at a time.

Ah, ok. I definitely dig the transferring of the guts.

Yes, that's a federal law.

Seriously. Any guitarist who is more worried about the look of their amp than the sound shouldn't be allowed to play guitar.

This isn't particularly new; it's long been established in psychology that the more depersonalized the communication medium, the more the participants lie. I disagree with the "makes sense" paragraph though. It's not that people are worried about getting away with it so much; it's more so that the depersonalization…