It seems that every time I feel a twinge of regret for not majoring in the Liberal Arts, I read a phrase like that, which makes it go away.

I'm glad you said that. If I were to paraphrase, they all pretty much boil down to, "In the future, everyone will agree with me about what I now think is important."

"One of the truisms of Western history is that a German guy named Gutenberg invented the printing press.."

Twenty some years ago, I attended a Planetary Society symposium on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Carl Sagan was in attendance. During one presentation, a physicist described an Orion-like interstellar probe whose fuel supply would comprise all the atomic weapons ever built. At this unexpected…

Wow. I'm really sorry for you.

So, by "normal" you mean a candidate whom you can hold over a barrel because they need the income more than you need their skills.

Why do you care that a candidate left another job? If they hadn't, then you wouldn't even be in a position to hire them, so why is that a negative?

The title is downright offensive.

God is a geometer, but she does science on the side.

It's not the case that every place on the globe is getting warmer, so GW might not have been the most accurate name to begin with. However, those places that are getting warmer can be found all over the planet. So a more accurate name might have been "distributed regional warming", or even better, "anthropogenic…

Not evil as much as misunderstood.

Whoa, did we see the same movie? The theme of Dark Knight was precisely that violence can't solve problems.

Hmm. perhaps it's just as I, or just like me.

Heck yes!

"quit until" is not quitting.

And as synthetic languages go, Ido is a nice alternative to Esperanto.

That sentence doesn't make sense. My ability to stop safely is directly determined by whether the person behind me is tailgating.

In my state, yellow means "stop", not "yield".

Yellow does not mean "caution". Yellow means "stop". (In my state.)

I'm going to have to watch that episode again, because that's not my recollection.