A better approach: launch a campaign to only buy drugs with a "MADE IN THE USA" sticker on them. Know your grower!

not unless they learn to speak chinese

Yeah, I get that there have been disasters in Federal education standards like No Child Left Behind; but I wouldn't make the jump to thinking that no Federal standards would be the solution. Imagine the trouble it could cause for interstate commerce if one state decided to start teaching the metric system instead of…

I think the answer to that question is to impose federal standards. You can argue whether or not its a good thing that there might be certain standards in education that we want the entire nation to adhere to; but federal money is definitely the way that you enforce those kinds of standards.

You...Can't...Hide...Secrets from the future!

I think Adobe shouldn't waste its time fixing this: who cares if Mac users can't trust Flash, its only a matter of time before Mac stops supporting Flash anyway. In fact, if I were Adobe I would just draw a line in the sand and stop supporting Mac for future versions of creative suite. I know, from a business…

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I'm not actually talking about scientists or religionists, I am talking about science and religion. I think you would have a hard time showing me a religion that did not expect its followers to believe something despite a total lack of evidence: it's called faith, and its a central tenant of every religion I have ever…

I'm not upset that people have discussions about Science and Religion, it only bothers me that the field I work in gets more than its share of it, and that it often overshadows the science we are trying to express.

I was so excited to see a post about Fermi on Gizmodo, and so disappointed that it quickly devolved into another ridiculous conversation about the intersection of Religion and Science. What it is about Astronomy and Astrophysics that brings this out in people? No one is interested in all the new astronomical objects…

In many ways, science is the opposite of religion. Religion invokes faith in an attempt to prevent people from trying to disprove it. Science invokes skepticism in an attempt to encourage people to try and disprove it. The fact that science continually attempts to disprove itself is the strongest mechanism we have for…

I think its a hell of a stretch to say that the kind of functionality demonstrated in this movie is what Siri can do. First off, the natural language processing shown in the video could maybe be handled by a system like IBM's watson, but Siri is not going to understand that kind of subtlety. Second, Siri still has to…

Does it come with a tripod? Because I can just image how easy it would be to take images at 350x holding your microscope in your hand and trying real hard to be steady...

Oooh, so buying these for burning man

Let me know when the release Song of the South in 3D with all the folksy down-home racism in tact...

Well, I can agree that it would be nice if Apple gave their users the choice whether or not to use Flash.

Making the BIOS interface less scary and easier to understand does not sidestep the issue of people understanding that their machines have software the boots before their OS. An intuitive GUI can have the same functionality as a command line. In your analogy, its not slapping a pretty picture on them and doing it for…

Seriously? I would make the argument that any consumer who gives a shit about accessibility wouldn't buy an iOS device because they can't handle a technology that powers a huge percentage of online content. But even so, you can develop a Flash application using the AIR runtime that will run on iOS, Android, and even…

not to play devil's advocate too strongly here, but I think that were GUIs go, mainstream understanding of basic CS concepts follow. I am sure everyone here has to deal with people who don't even know that their machine HAS BIOS, let alone what it is or what it does. Maybe this will help.

And who needs keyboards for that matter? There is nothing wrong with punch cards in MY book. I hear they are going to try to store data magnetically now too, new-fangled sorcery! But seriously, let's be honest, we don't even NEED a GUI for the OS, it could all be command line terminal based; but at some point we all…