Cacao.

On a busy city street, I can see both sides of the argument. In a city, there's kind of a social agreement to share space and to respect other people's need for it. And you have to admit there is some expectation that if someone gets into a car, they should be pulling away soon. Sure, you do technically have the right…

If you want something truly minimal, you could go with Japanese tabi boots. What they are is basically ninja shoes; no laces, just little clips that go up to about half-calf level. Very little structure to them except for a little flat tread. The big toe is split, and the rest are together. They're getting some press…

I suppose I do look at it from a utilitarian standpoint, in that I believe that a society with universal health care is better than one without. But just purely on the basis of "rights", I also believe that a right to be healthy is fairly fundamental. Again, I would draw a parallel with law enforcement, because when…

You would have to put China, India, and the US all together to get as many languages as the island of New Guinea.

This is one of those LH posts where I can't believe people don't know this. Maybe I'm underestimating the number of people who grew up with no fresh produce in their house.

Forget branches; what about the roots? How can something like this stay standing for several years? Either you'll have to replace trees as they get older, or the trees will eventually take down their own building.

The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory is in Tallahassee, Florida. It was mentioned in the video.

Figures that this happened in Florida.

I guess I don't see how you think a functioning society needs law enforcement but not health care. And I'm also not sure why you think you don't reap any benefits from the health care system. You probably already have, and if not, then you certainly will at some point. And we all benefit from people being healthier as…

All the more reason for you to be required to buy insurance. Because when you do have to use the health care system (unavoidably I might add, unless you have some sort of catastrophic death), then other people will have to pay for your care. The alternative, asking you to pay your own way, and refusing to care for you…

Re: Car insurance depends on having a car:

Here is where the lie is exposed. You would like to think that our super wealthy have gotten there by working hard, when it's not the case. Our whole financial and tax system is weighted toward making it easy for the rich to stay rich, while keeping the poor poor. Blue-collar people who think that the rich have…

I have my entire library broken down into giant playlists according to moods. There's a more fun, uptempo one, a rootsy blues-folk one, a chill-out one, and so on. Each one has multiple days' worth of music, so I just pick the one I want and shuffle it. I'll always get a good mix of stuff I listen to a lot, and stuff…

My feeling is that most people who dislike dubstep also dislike other forms of electronic music; it's not really the genre, it's just the electronic form itself. Most of them can't really distinguish dubstep from other genres, but they vilify dubstep because it's extreme in its sound, it's popular right now, and so…

Yes, it's the cross-sectional shape of the hair. Rounder, more like a cylinder = straighter. Flatter, more like a ribbon = curly. Although perfectly straight is basically impossible, so the gravity effects mentioned in the article apply no matter what, just to different degrees.

Cilia and flagella are two different kinds of structures. Cilia are too short to curl in the way described above. Also, I don't think any amoebae have flagella, but I'm not completely sure if they have cilia.

The wikipedia article uses Theia as the name of the protoplanet before it was split into Earth and Moon, as opposed to the body that collided with proto-Earth.