"This disconnection was probably intentional on Turing's part, rather than deliberate exclusion on theirs, as his attention was drifting away from computing towards bigger questions about life."

Once upon a time I traveled back from Denver on a commercial airplane carrying a lightsaber replica almost EXACTLY like that one from Star Wars Celebration 1. Good old modified Heiland 3 cell Flash unit. We'd gone to the con that morning and did not have time to change before leaving for our plane so I thought it…

Getting drunk? I see this happening for a little as a $20 bet between bored sober people.

Hmm....now where did I leave my lightsaber?

PSA for America: Have you found an object, and you don't know what it is? Is it carefully manufactured with a complex surface? Does it have many buttons and/or lights? It's not a bomb. Real life is not like Hollywood movies.

I miss the days when abandoned Lite-Brites and lightsabers weren't treated like explosives.

I can see someone getting drunk and thinking it would be a great idea to use it on themselves or another human being, so the warning not to use it on people makes a little sense. But what sick bastard would even consider using this on a pet?

Nope. Practice of any sort is boring. I want my Mandarin language pill now!

Look - the outbreak in Africa is horrible. There is no disputing that. But the CDC? No, they don't think there is a serious threat to the United States; because there isn't. The conditions that have created such a horrible outbreak in Africa simply don't exist at the same levels in the United States, and absent…

There is no serious threat to the US. This is an absolute disaster but it is a disaster caused by local conditions including the lack of anything approaching a modern health system, local superstitions and customs that seem like they were designed to spread the disease and inadequate attempts to isolate the affected…

Thank you for posting this article - this needs to be told. It needs to be told and every single person that has any power in our government needs to take immediate action, from the President on down to the CDC. The WHO has useless as usual, right now they are on a photo-op tour for the next week of countries where…

No, it's 8 gigs of shared ram. CPU and GPU share access to it.

In the sustainable energy future, we could be heating public buildings with sewage. No, "sewerthermal" is not quite what you think. Rachel Kaufman has a great article explaining it in NextCity, and describing how Seattle's next sports arena might use it.

I believe the big theory on what humans dream about has to do with our brain trying to learn, basically like it's running simulations. A lot of the crazy stuff in dreams might be part of being human, since the stupid part of our brain actually believes all the stories we hear, read, or watch, even if the smart part…

There should always be a large and dangerous group of people who are the lowest of the low, worse than the Disdained. Completely fallen out of any social order, regressed into a subhuman state. Cannibals,Marauders, Rabid Mutant Harlequin Zombies, what have you.

As if riding horses was safer than driving cars (it's not). Toyota's troubles mainly come from idiots driving their cars. There was nothing mechanically wrong with those vehicles and it's been proven by countless scientific bodies, several times over.

You realize that the alternative was horses. And horse shit. Major cities before cars smelled like horse shit - rats infested the area feasting on the undigested parts of food from the horse shit. Stories about places like NYC having horse shit literally stacked 60 feet high. And no, there was no market to use it…

How could cars/the internal combustion engine have changed life for the worse?