Here’s why: a few years ago, Cook’s Illustrated ran an experiment using grapes that showed high levels of pesticides.

Yeah, but it’s the correct answer if you use tau instead of pi.

That begs the question: approximately how many peanut butter cups are present in a single slice of the pie?

Except you get to throw your lot in with the Devil, who, as we know, has all the best tunes.

What would I get out of uploading these people’s consciousness to the cloud to put them in holographic avatars?

I think Pratchett had someone like Buggy Swires or Wee Mad Arthur taunting Fred Colon about splashing if he fell, but I don’t remember enough details to find the quote. Regardless, the specific sentiment & diction combo is from J. B. S. Haldane ( https://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy3221/spring10/HaldaneRightSize.pdf…

Physics checks out. An elephant falling that distance would splash.

You can have it! Because while you can get a household’s worth of power out of a core the size of a refrigerator for (say) sixty years, the fuel will have to be highly enriched and there’s no remaining volume for shielding—so everyone in the house will be dead or dying within a week.

Yeah. In practice, California keeps having days when there’s an excess of solar energy near noon and a relative dearth of any sort of juice in the afternoon. Utility-scale energy storage is still woefully inefficient, and there’s no light visible at the end of that particular tunnel. Even with the best will in the…

I had to do the math. 80 mm by 80 mm by .0001 mm = .64 mm^3 , or .00064 cm^3 . With gold having a density of 19.3 g/cm^3 , and the bid spot price as I type this being $59.85/g , recovering a single leaf’s worth of gold will get you about $.739 worth of metal.

The back end of your proposal never happens,

Well, that’s one of the central lessons of economics: you can have anything you want, if you can pay for it.

Each Rolls-Royce model will cost $2.7 billion. That may seem like a lot, but for nuclear, it’s positively bargain-bin pricing: the Hinkley Point C plant, by contrast, which was granted a permit in 2012 and has been under construction in Somerset, England, for the past three years, has a total price tag of $31 billion.…

Building on that: it’s not a binary with paradise on one hand and extinction on the other. We can make things incrementally worse by dumping yet more carbon into the air, and better by reducing it. (Diminishing returns sets in eventually, but since we’re still looking at figures like the USA emitting ~5.1 gigatons of…

This is waaaay too complicated for there to be a simple yes/no on that one. Part of the problem is regulations don’t really allow for the possibility of guys doing things for the lolz—let alone guys whose MANAGEMENT STYLE is to play at doing things for the lolz. Just trying to get his head around the question, Matt…

Allow me to seriously suggest simple replacement, without even so much comment as a card after the opening credits reading “In some scenes, the part of Shuri will be played by an actress with sense.” Let Black Panther 2 go down in history as the highest budget film appearing on “List of characters played by multiple…

Ooo, fetish wear for people into glycosidic bondage.

Link goes to another outlet summarizing the paper, and even that article is behind a paywall.

They want the engagement.  They don’t want to deal with the fallout from engagement.  Since there’s no obvious way to do this, they attempt semi-random “Hey, this might work” changes every now and then.

I think in the Greek manuscripts it’s Jesuspodes.