What you’re misunderstanding is that it is counter to the interests of a parasite to kill its own host. Parasites that are so virulent that they completely kill off a large subset of their hosts are counter-productive. They may be temporarily very successful, but will ultimately doom themselves to extinction as they…

The first study does nonetheless show an effect of a particular type of therapy on reducing suicidal ideation. They mention that both treatment groups had no differences in psychotropic medication use at the start of the intervention and, in fact, that during the intervention the better performing treatment (DBT) was…

I’m curious why you believe that to be true. A quick Google Scholar search yielded some pretty decent data.

The FDA never approved thalidomide for use by pregnant women. They only approved it in 1998 for treatment of leprosy.

I kind of agree with you to a certain extent. This ‘solution’ is seriously extreme and non-ideal. I doubt it’ll see much application outside of this experiment. But I also feel that you don’t understand the full scope of the threat to amphibians. This isn’t just an issue of saving a couple of cute species here and…

It felt like a beta product because it was a beta product. It was called the Glass Explorer program. That's why it cost $1500.

This infographic is unscientific and peddles a number of common myths about nutrition. For example. the thing about ‘sodium attacking your body’ and raising your blood pressure: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-ti…

That’s an easy opinion to hold when you and the people you hold dear aren’t at any risk of being mauled or trampled over by a wild animal. You would be shocked by how many people have stories about terrifying encounters with wild animals in rural parts of developing countries. It’s easy to believe that elephants are…

Well, Castle in the Sky was actually made before Jones’ Castle in the Air was even published. I sometimes wonder whether the similarity of the names is what drew Miyazaki’s eye to Howl’s moving castle in the first place.

I agree with the gist of your comment, but the pedant in me has to point out that only one ghibli movie (Howl’s moving castle) was based on a Diana Wynne Jones book. Other movies like Tales from Earthsea, Arrietty the Borrower and When Marnie was There were based on books by other female authors though.

Nope, Microsoft has said that they’ll be doing the rollout of Windows 10 reservations in waves with Insiders and new device purchasers getting priority.

First of all, this particular controversy is more about race issues than about feminism. Swift is in no way, shape or form an advocate for issues of race. I don’t think she’s ever even made a public comment on race before. Her being an advocate for feminism shouldn’t give her a blanket pass on all other social justice…

Ah you’re right - I completely misremembered what the book said. It actually gave an estimated figure of 500,000 years. But also just because DNA stored at -20 or -80 will start to degrade after a year doesn’t mean it can’t be useful. If enough other samples of DNA are kept, a complete genome can be reconstructed from…

I recently read Elizabeth Kolbert’s book ‘The Sixth Extinction’ and it mentions that tissue stored at the perfect temperature will contain intact DNA for a maximum of 65 million years. So our tissue sample collections should be good for a few million years, assuming that human civilization continues to exist and…

The ruling does not stipulate that Google has to remove any search result in response to every request. The EU factsheet about it states the following: “Individuals have the right - under certain conditions - to ask search engines to remove links with personal information about them. This applies where the information…

I don’t know anything about OS X but, just so you know, Windows 10 will be free

Self driving cars can fix some of the major flaws of public transit. Currently, public transit can get you between stops fairly efficiently but getting to and from those stops can be a hassle and if you want to travel a longer distance, you often need to make multiple transfers. I think there are a lot of people who…

This is one of the most toxic misconceptions around. Reducing child mortality does not result in greater population growth (at least not in the long term). Time and time again, we’ve seen that when economies improves and when scarcity and epidemics are no longer major problems facing a community, women opt to have…

Those requirements just make no sense. Fruit snacks and peanut butter aren’t healthy? Potatoes have to be eaten with bread? Also what is with schools pushing milk on kids. The health benefits of milk are unsubstantiated and there’s also good evidence that it’s harmful. Also what about lactose intolerant kids?

Are you being serious? Continuity and continuum are totally different. They’re similar insofar as they both work to smooth the transition between different computing form factors but they’re totally different in the way they function and in their approach to the problem. I guess the names sound similar too.