I love my Apple stuff, but this is an idiotic lack of interoperability. Apple should have ditched lightning for USB-C in the iPhones. And don’t get me started on Lightning charging for Bluetooth mice & keyboards. On the audio side, it’s pretty disingenuous for Apple to say, on the one hand, “the future is wireless, so…

2, 5, 6 and 8 still work on that reading.

I suppose we can console ourselves that both words (and all others) will be promptly supplanted by the meaningless :| emoji or vigorous-nod-GIF

Heresy, Pinker (figuratively). Be curious to know how you felt about shifting cultural meaning if “Pinker” felt the “Santorum” effect.

Claire, I think you need to fix your large onion math. I think your large onion is 3 times as big as your small, or your large onion is 1.5 times the size of the medium. (I wouldn’t necessarily assume diameter increase is directly proportionate to chopped volume increase, but that was what you described going small to…

People look like their names, okay. You’re born blonde (or with two different eyes and look like a freak) and you’re called Marilyn. A lot of people have the same stereotypes, so would guess your name. Why do we assume you grow into your name?

“Let me have my guilty pleasures”: I get it. Leave it there. Don’t wade into the findings up to your ankles to correct another website, furthering misconceptions evident in the readers’ comments.

Hold on. How is he biting that straight line between 4 and 5? This guy’s a charlatan and his sandwich-cred must be revoked.

Understood. But it’s not about instincts. The heading of the piece assumes that certain behaviours/desires are not intrinsic. It then assumes that reaction to affection is. I’m not sure that’s right. Kids may think bugs and broccoli are ‘yucky’. I’m not sure our parental response should necessarily be “your kid’s…

I don’t know about the ‘no tickling rule’. I know that has become a popular view. I don’t know that it is based on robust studies on child psychology, as opposed to politics. I obviously appreciate the message of “your body is your own”. I wouldn’t want to suggest overcoming resistance to strong objections. But I also…

Awesome parenthetical.

Don’t worry, dudes. With those savings, you’ll all be able to help pay down the national debt. An additional 7 trillion in 10 years, that’s about $160k of debt per taxpayer. I’m sure we can agree to all share that evenly, and with tax savings over $1,000/year, it’ll be gone in no time! Like the icecaps. But, you know,…

Dude, these aren’t weirdly-shaped. They’re all symmetrical, in two dimensions. I was hoping for some insight into the cucumber-with-a-tilt, and the age-old question: “if I’m cubing a sphere, do I opt for perfection and chuck tiny outer-wedges? Or do I preserve and use all? Or do I lick those bits and try to stick them…

Rather glossing over fluorine, probably the principal distinction between “natural” and “unnatural” toothpaste. There is a reason why it is added to drinking water and “unnatural” toothpaste. You’re less likely to get cavities (see e.g. the Cochrane reviews footnoted here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridati…

If a reporter’s job is not “learn what powerful people are talking about in secret, and then share it with everybody else,” then I sincerely do not know what the fuck it is

I’m not sure (2) is that easy, either. Capital gains are a feature of most OECD countries. There are a host of reasons for their differential tax treatment: see e.g. from pg 11 here: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/fr/taxation/taxation-of-capital-gains-of-individuals_9789264029507-en;jsessionid=30f2hoq93jeep.x-oecd-live-0…

Also works with underwear!

Sure would be nice if they let you put this in your Nike+ running app, so it would just check GPS and give you audio cues.

A bunch of these aren’t equivalent. The replacement matches the adjective without the amplifier (e.g. creative=innovative, dangerous=perilous, expensive=costly). Some are arguably over-amplified (e.g. excellent>very good), and some are only equivalent in a specific context (very sharp, very special, very thoughtful).

Siri: turning on and off the Philips Hue lights (I’ve given up on specific lights); setting timers; setting reminders w. geofencing, etc. (it’s good); calendar appointments (it sucks at parsing location/invitee/title); Shazam; units of measure conversions; and amusing my wife when I ask it to internet search and it…