If the racially diverse cast consisting of: a red headed Caucasian male, African (American) male, native South American male, blond Caucasian female, and Asian female aren't on TVtropes some where I'm deeply disappointed in how the website has failed to meet its purpose.

Sarah Haskins - get to work.

I think it can be boiled down to:

Irrelevant? It may be an anecdote, but it's absolutely relevant, and as the article points out the anecdote is representative of thousands of cases each year.

They should totally publish those neon flash cards. As an engineer I sometimes get self conscious that my knowledge base isn't broad enough. I'd love to have the parts of the 20th century every world leader should know condensed in an easily digestible format.

That is some relief.

I'm a grad student working on the Farnsworth fusor (or Inertial Electrostatic Confinement device as we call it) that has the world's record fusion rate for an IEC device, and I did a major double take when I read that line.

One should not underestimate the simple fact that, unlike lawyers and businessmen, students of the STEM fields are typically not trained to be good communicators or to amass fortunes, both necessary to be a politician in the US today. The US as a culture might examine the societal structure that makes these two…

This is nearly my reaction to this piece, with the one adjustment, that sexy face doesn't communicate resignation to me so much as a void of personality. It seems completely flat, perhaps so the viewer can project their own thoughts but just as likely because personality isn't relevant in photos where the subject is…

It's always funny comparing the original series and anything post TNG. In the original series they'd typically fight at many kilometer distances and fire torpedoes at warp speed. TNG not so much.

Looks like one of the Bussard collectors to me...

While I agree aren't particularly good at writing good jokes by and large, the best political joke I've heard in quite some time was from the other side:

I'm getting the feeling that I don't go to the right parties. Apart from a conversation in high school where I (the only person at the table who didn't identify as Catholic) was the only guy to admit I was a virgin, my sex number has never come up in conversation and I seriously can't imagine asking someone how many…

This actually feeds into my conception of Jar Jar as fulfilling the archetype of the Holy Fool in mythic story telling. His bumbling (intentional or not) destroys the old order so a better one can take its place. There wasn't room in the story for Jar Jar to be the hero nor the personification of chaos, so that left…

Passive safety features have always been a part of the AP1000 design, well before Fukushima. It is required to be considered a Generation III+ design. More may have been added post Fukushima, but the main elements of passive cooling have always been there.

The US has zero experience building and operating Thorium.

I grew up watching TNG and grew up thinking when I was old enough to go to bars they would be chill places like 10Forward where I could have a drink and some pleasant conversation with friends.

Thanks! That looks really cool.

Could we please get some links to tools for improving our working memory? I have to imagine there are flash games or apps out there that do what was done in this study.

That's where it's at.