Well, comparing breast and prostate cancer, the latter receives significantly less attention, and the money going to prostate cancer research is significantly lower, to say nothing of the difference in donation volume, despite rapacious overhead in breast cancer fund-raising. One can complain there's no need to raise…

I'm pretty sure it looks like this:

For about 5 seconds I considered the possibility of buying it, wiping it, and installing Ubuntu just for the hardware that didn't look quite so utilitarian. I decided it was still a no go, but those 4 of those five seconds were pretty serious.

4. Everyone seems to love Jasmine, but I have yet to see her or Aladdin get a TSA patdown. I remain skeptical of how they manage, as it would help me a lot at the airport.

To say nothing of the fact that Lumière explicitly says, "After all, Miss, this is France," but that said, OUR world's France doesn't have enchantress cursing an entire castle of people who's only crime was working for a jerk, so perhaps, "it is not OUR world" after all.

A friend of my wife had a similar experience in the Peace Corps, though in this case it was her good friend who was raped by a local, and they were both terribly disturbed by the incident, evacuated, and given no help after that. It seems pretty obvious that there need to be some major changes made.

I've seen that list before, I think it does a good job of making the point that lists for women on how to avoid rape are pretty much bullshit. Sure the list uses humor, but a biting one to be sure and if it makes a man who thinks of himself as a good person reevaluate his actions or even how he treats the subject of…

What blows me away about this story is how many journalists are treating this like perpetual motion. Also, the number that have called this process carbon neutral is only a degree less staggering; some have added the caveat that renewable energy is necessary to produce carbon neutral fuel, but even renewables produce…

Did you get the sense this plant is using the Sabatier reaction, the Fischer-Tropsch process, or some other process?

It is safe to say we don't see eye to eye on this. The Hubbert curve has been successfully applied to predict oil field production across many oil fields through the world, as well as the production of countries - it successfully predicted the US's peak oil production and subsequent decline. It remains to be seen if…

Until we see a figure of X joules in to the plant to get Y joules equivalent of fuel out, this entire story should be treated with the highest level of skepticism. We've known about the Fischer Tropsch process since the 1920, but there's a reason we don't use it to make fuel for our cars. We're not going to start…

There was a difference between US missiles in Turkey and Soviet missiles in Cuba. Russia's conventional army was larger than the entire NATO allied force and in a purely conventional war the Soviets would have likely routed NATO; IRBM's in Turkey existed as a way to prevent a Soviet invasion of Europe. From…

If they did then newspapers would never be able to print a photograph of a crowd scene. People hold a copyright of their performances, but not their likeness.

It's absolutely a gray area. A newspaper photographer can take a shot with people in it and print it without their permission. I'm not clear what the legal distinction between that and CreepShots is as far as privacy rights go, so I personally haven't objected on the grounds of right to privacy for the victims of…

How do you mean problem?

Privacy is a fundamental right, but the Internet is, by its architecture, not conducive to guaranteeing anonymity. Some level of obfuscation can be secured, but ultimately it is a public space. What you do in public is inherently not private.

In my experience, it's not boots in their arses that scientists lack. There is no lack of motivation, researchers do their job because they think it's interesting.

I have an aunt who used to live in Mazomanie, WI and would tell amusing stories of various groups protesting their nude beach, or trying to get it shut down. Amusing mostly because the were both terrible upset and completely ineffectual.

I remember reading a National Geographic a year or two ago wherein someone wrote a letter complaining about an article on modern day peoples celebrating Celtic traditions as it featured white bare breasted women.

But we have to keep the bewbs covered for bullshit evo psych reasons- Oxytocin! Dopamine! Bonding! Conjectures without a whit of testing or even a working model! Science!