They pulled the 24,000 years quote from a Ukrainian ecology minister, but I don’t know that she had any basis for saying it.  Strontium 90 and Cesium 137 are the more plentiful radioactive isotopes that were released into the environment by the disaster, and both of them have a half life closer to 30 years.  24,000…

Considering they brought people in to operate the nuclear plant for another 14 years after the disaster, they probably have some protocol for managing the exposure of workers in the area.

$4.6 billion > $0

Plenty of Apple enthusiasts out there who can and will crack open their boxes to do their own repairs and upgrades.  Remember the 2010 Mac Mini, which requires a paint scraper to pry open?  It’s a silly process but if you have patience a hard drive upgrade can be very rewarding.

Auto makers won’t come up with data that proves that safety and reliability is keeping them from meeting their emissions goals because such data doesn’t exist.  They’re not meeting their emissions goals because they’re focusing their marketing on larger, less efficient vehicles that have higher profit margins.  They…

I use my GTI to transport octogenarians(+) back and forth from church.  It’s not difficult to get into a hatchback.

Favorable comparison to REM is hard to pull off in Athens.

I don’t think free speech gives you a fundamental right to thousands of dollars worth of services from Apple, and it’s fair to question whether incitement to violence and defamation are protected speech. 

How do you shoot 41% from the field as a 7 footer?

Responded before reading. 

I took cartography as an undergrad and we did not handcraft any diaphragms.

This is one of those games where you wish both could lose, purely on account of their sleazy coaches. 

If the water starts at a higher level, the tsunami will be able to reach higher elevations. They won’t be any more frequent, of course.

I worked my way through college as a math tutor (and I had 2 other jobs. . . and a massive student loan). It was an amazing thing learning how to see math from other peoples’ perspectives, and it made it clear to me that the biggest problem with math instruction in the US is that we really don’t have the resources to…

I don’t think there’s any set of instructions that will help in this case.  Likely there are just too many cars for that road for that time, which I saw plenty of times when I lived in Boston.  Any time I could swing it I took the train or bus instead.

Okay, now trying recruiting hundreds of devs and artists to Dubuque when they know they’re likely to fired at the end of every big project.  There are plenty of software companies already in the less expensive areas of the country, but all of them have difficulty recruiting and difficulty keeping the staff once…

I know about the protein needs since I lift myself. He’s probably good with more like 150g but it’s probably not going to hurt him long term for his pee to smell like ammonia. There’s plenty of reason to suspect steroids, though, given that by his recollection he gained 0 pounds in 7 weeks for Pain & Gain at the age…

They’re not selling as well as the punching bags with his face on them for some reason.

I feel like most of his snacks are protein-related. Assuming he’s doing lifting at one or both of his workouts and he’s on the Hollywood steroid dose, he’d need to eat an absurd about of protein to maintain his muscle mass. So lots of chicken, a bit of beef and fish, and protein shakes.

I thought of this as a 15 year old's reaction to "My Last Duchess".  He can't be serious, right?