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“I can’t stress how nice it is to have the option to clip this speaker onto a backpack with a carabiner for, say, camping or hiking” Read more

While fair, I would take the opinion of a body professional on this sort of thing. Read more

Yup. Body tech here. What he's doing is dangerous. 

No need for the attitude - please try acting like the professional you are claiming to be. All those cars have wind deflectors, low seating positions, and bodywork that are exactly what I was talking about with cars designed to run without a windshield. Your render does not include that (or at least not that I can… Read more

You explained your plan. It’s ridiculous and pretty unrealistic with any sort of practical budget.

Spend the Extra $$$ and get non Harbor Freight Cut off disks that don’t explode Read more

1) it would be hilarious for them to secretly form a Daft Punk cover band. Read more

People, people, attention:

Daft Punk didn’t die. Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter are still alive, very wealthy and still making music. They just decided not to pretend to be robots anymore. They will continue to make music, individually and together, work on soundtracks and produce other bands, for…

Some calories will wind up in the broth, since the noods themselves are fried, and some of the fat and starches will leech out of the noodles and into the broth. So, technically, it’s not calorie free.

1. Nissin admits their product is suboptimal. Read more

You could same the same about giving airtime to a president who suggests to inject sanitizing chemicals, but we get what we vote for.

Thaaaaaank you! Bugs the hell out of me too. I know science educators anthropomorphize complex topics to try to help lay people understand, but it does not work and if anything makes people understand even less. People really gotta knock that shit off.

Exactly. I feel like the real reason people here are upset about this is that it feeds into a racist/right wing narrative. That is, of course, bad. But the origin isn’t the point. The point is that this was a reminder of how bad we are at handling these kinds of things. That said, it would probably be nice if China… Read more

In fact a lot of the current research I’ve seen on Nature is saying that it now seems most likely that the virus was transmitted to humans in the countryside around Wuhan and carried by them to the market. The busy market being a crowded, busy super spreader environment which is why it was noticed there first. Read more

“it takes a while for it to figure out how to become more and more efficient in human-to-human transmission.”

one of my biggest things I hate is when people, whether scientists or laypeople, attribute intelligence to the random dice of evolution

So this.

As a toadie of the trump administration, his opinion has no value, and in fact, should be discounted lower than an average layperson.

Eh,... Until we reach a point that we know what happened (if we ever actually do) his opinion as an expert has some value if it is consistent with the facts. Discussing his beliefs without talking about ballpark probabilities is irresponsible. Read more

“Normally, when a pathogen goes from a zoonot to human, it takes a while for it to figure out how to become more and more efficient in human-to-human transmission.” Read more

“Redfield was careful to couch his statement as simply an opinion but cited his long career as a virologist in justifying his belief.” Read more