Conductive materials moving through a magnetic field will induce an electric current.

I use a special cooking instrument called a "knife". It's basically a long, sharpened piece of metal that you can use to pierce the outside of the vanilla bean and get the seeds out. You can use this "knife" for all sorts of other kitchen jobs, as well. You can find one if you have a fancy chef's store nearby.

So you're right because you cite an about.com article that says Americans started lots of tree plantations in the early 20th century? What about the 200 years before that? Yes, there are plenty of tree plantations up and down the eastern US, but they largely replaced old growth that was cut down. And most any…

If people can't remember that they dumped change out of their pocket 30 seconds ago, then they can probably afford to lose it, and therefore I don't think anyone needs to feel sympathy for them.

I'd bet there are some mountaintops in the US where you can see five million trees.

Your entire comment is utterly wrong. The eastern US was COVERED with trees pre-settlement, and yes, the reason you can't find many old stands is because Europeans cut them all down.

Looks awesome, until you have to buy a whole new doodad to close your garage door.

I don't know how this guy puts Bob Ross to shame. You can't even see his hair in the video.

ALL HAIL OCEAN EAR

Well if you want to be pedantic about it, all those are true, since they use the word "after" instead of "because of" or "from".

Man or Astroman! were doing this kind of thing, but way more awesomely, before Gizmodo was even born. (or Daft Punk, for that matter.)

I'm getting one for my chair at work. I don't videoconference; I just want to use it when people stop by my desk to talk or ask questions.

To quote George Carlin: "If they're supposed to be so stealthy, you don't actually have to build them. Just scatter some junk in the woods and say one of them crashed."

My understanding was they decided to stop short of drilling all the way down to it because they were afraid of contaminating it. I don't think they expect to find anything bigger than bacteria there, but who knows.

If waste compounds aren't removed, they'll eventually stop reproducing and then finally die.

It looks like they're in pre-made chambers, so lumping together into a colony probably wouldn't be a problem. But the nutrition and waste removal problems would still be a concern, as far as I can tell.

Don't worry; your stomach lining actively repels hydrogen ions in like, several different ways. The biology of it is pretty awesome.

I guess I'm a portraiture noob, but which one of the above pictures is better? It's nice that I can simulate an eye and some facial contours, but I still don't know how to make it look nice. Maybe for another article?

There are lots of parasites that do this sort of thing. There is a parasitic barnacle called Sacculina that climbs into a crack in a crab's shell as a tiny larva, then grows inside the body and finally busts out of the crab right where its egg sac would be. The host crab never reproduces or molts after that, and it…

Thanks. The SciAm article paints a much clearer picture of the syndrome, and it sounds like they have EEG evidence that they are true seizures, and not intention tremors.