I was a vegan for a year. Lost a lot of weight and felt pretty good. I had NO issue eating honey. But I was a vegan for the health benefits, not because of some fundamental pro animal (or insect) agenda. Cheese was the hardest thing for me to give up and now I am back to eating anything and have the waistline to prove…

Or if you are doing number 4, you are a member of the US Armed Forces. That is common practice in basic training and dress functions.

OK... so if the female has the penis and the male the vvagina, wouldn't the easiest answer be that the scientist has the genders backwards? =) Guess the Penis carrier in this species also has the egg(s) and the vagina owner is the one with the semen, which makes it backwards.

Netflix customers are paying Netflix for the content. Comcast just provides you a link to the "Internet". If Netflix content is using a huge chuck of the available bandwidth, you are arguing that it is Comcast's sole responsibility to pay whatever it takes to provide that content, in whatever form Netflix wants to…

Cable companies are just that "companies". They have a responsibility to earn money for their investors. So if you want terabits of bandwidth, you are going to have to pay for it. Routers are not free, fiber is expensive to lay. ISPs spend Billions every year upgrading their respective networks to account for…

First of, depending on peering agreement, sometimes there is costs associated with them. It really depends on how much traffic is flowing across those peering links and who stands to benefit most. Comcast pays others to connect to their network, and vice versa. In the case of a content provider like Netflix, if you…

Folks have done amazing math that can represent micro interactions at a macro level. There will likely be a lot of evolution over the years, but it does not seem that far fetched to envision a programmed reality in which the environment is real enough to fool folks into thinking it is real. The mind is actually very…

Looks no worse than most TV special effects.

I feel your pain. there is a lot of vitriol in this semi-anonymous world of blog posts. The only advice I would propose, is that folks do not read them if they cannot let those comments roll off their backs. Having a dialog may make things incrementally better over years or decades, but honestly, the only real person…

You seem to suggest that lack of faith is still faith. I am not sure that makes much sense. Without getting into the deeper pointless argument of God or no God, whether one has faith and believes or lacks that faith and does not believe doe not seem to somehow equal some sort of "anti-faith". Like saying I cannot have…

I am guessing, but seems that the story suggests a "hit" rate. I am guessing that is how many embryos come to full term. Perhaps that is much better than standard breeding, so they can make more pigs, more reliably. Otherwise your diversity argument is a pretty strong reason not to do it. And since most companies are…

I was always a fan of Captain Hindsight

Great information.

Lets think Critically.

The Headline is accurate. Otherwise every advance would have to say something like "Moon lander touches down after 13 billion years of evolution".

Big oil probably would not be nervous at all. They already have the infrastructure to refine oil. All they would need to do is stop speculating on drilling and the expense attached and convert that to certainty... growing algae and converting it to crude. Assuming that cost would even be the same, it would be a HUGE…

Crap. I JUST ordered and received the Nest from Amazon. If I had waited a few more days, I could have got the $40 gift card too.

My online name "Mako", like the shark, (and my Xbox gamertag) is one I have used since before there was much beyond Archie, Gopher, Telnet and FTP. I got the name from an old D&D character I used to play with my friends in the Air Force. I liked the name. It was short, easy to say (although for some reason most people…