What's wrong with canola (from a health perspective)?

Tax isn't charged on the tip. It's a 5-cent difference, then.

Heh - I read that as "post-ironic" at first.

Target Field does, actually. At the "State Fair Classics" stand (which also has walleye and a pork-chop-on-a-stick).

My favorite one is a combo. 1) If my phone is on silent and I miss a call from one of a few phone numbers (close family and friends, basically), it responds with a message: "This is an auto-reply because my phone is silenced; if this is an emergency, respond with "unsilence" to activate my ringer, then call again."…

I think the author means limitations more in a sense of "these are the limits" than in the sense of drawbacks, if that makes sense.

Tasker is also effective at re-activating the ringer of android phones.

I definitely could be understanding deviation incorrectly, but doesn't the five-sigma level mean 99.999942% is within the confidence interval?

Hi! I commented about the misleading phrasing of the title. You're right, I didn't misunderstand at all; however, I *am* an analytical chemist, and scientific words mean a lot to me. I think it's very important to use them accurately, and here, they weren't. Also, even if I understood it, others might not, and if I…

Watts are not a measurement of light, they're a measurement of energy. Watts are still just watts, even if one light bulb can use the energy more efficiently than the other can.

Hi, Alan. I don't believe I was creating a straw man. The article, or at least the headline, *explicitly* states "a calorie is not just a calorie," which is what I was arguing with. While it's possible I didn't get my argument across clearly or thoroughly, I didn't make something up to argue against.

Fair enough, but I guess I wish the commonly-used terminology would move towards something more accurate. As you say, the difference is in the macronutrients.

Actually, that's generally not true for protein.

A calorie is absolutely just a calorie. A calorie is a unit for measuring energy. Energy is the ability to do work. A calorie is NOT a literal, physical thing contained in food, just as energy is not a physical object.

Chemical & Engineering News ran a brief article on this a few years ago. Researchers think they know what chemical the haters can't taste: 2-dodecenal. They're not sure yet what causes the bad taste.

No, she's not.

I was going to correct you, and say that the closing talk in Denver was about baseball and optical illusions, but apparently they had it in Denver twice in four years.

Carbonation acidifies, well, anything, whereas nitrogenation doesn't. This is probably the cause of the "crisp" versus "smooth" distinction.

Yeah, if it'd been HF I'm pretty sure they would dead already.

Yeah... there's almost no chance this actually works.