Whoah! Are you the real Boris Konrad, German Memory Champion? Awesome! Celebrity commenter!

One of the original studies to which you're referring to ([www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]) has been poorly replicated and didn't actually look at any brain data at all; only self-reported drinking habits of a few thousand Italians. It is true that moderate use is not associated with significant levels of dementia or mental…

This is basically how the British walk in public places. I live in Cambridge and i can go across the entire city and not make eye contact once. While this may make you a more efficient walker, its really alienating. I can usually pick out Americans pretty easy because they're the ones that will bother to look at you;…

i use the logitech ipad keyboard, its got better action than the mac board and looks nicer but essentially the same. a problem i've encountered with some of these smaller bluetooth keyboards is the missing keys (function keys, pound symbol, delete key). A very convenient fix has been AutoHotKey: [www.autohotkey.com]

I think the most exciting part of Komisaruk's work that it could lead to therapies for female paraplegics who are unable to attain orgasm via touch. His work builds towards the idea that stimulation of the vagus nerve elicits the orgasm. This could be applied externally.

Very good points. Do you think there's any merit to the thought that psychology's central law (if you had to have one), is in fact the primacy of subjective experience, and the value of subjective report? I have heard that so long as we have self-report, psychology will never die...

Glad you asked. There are a few notable things human language has which have not been reliably observed in animals; i'm not an anthropologist, and you can find these in any antro 101 textbook, but the most relevant to this discussion:

honestly, how many primates flicking off the camera photos are there?

One should keep in mind that language is more than communication. The distinction is important, and elementary.

my guess is TLE was referring to the release of Blueprint 2. Or 3. Or maybe that masterpiece with Linkin Park.

Mayim is trying to dress for Hollywood while trying to live an Orthodox life. So, maybe cut her some slack.

Domes are actually quite efficient material-wise, and given the need for high ceilings, also very structurally sound. Double domes are therefore quite practical, as well as being fun to look at.

This is the exterior of the museum.

I wonder how this finding affects the "TRex: predator or scavenger?" debate. Presumably this should decrease their speed estimates...

thinking? or hoping?

Here's another way of getting rid of being annoyed by the Newsstand icon: download the Guardian app. Every day you get the ENTIRE paper, edited for your iPad. Free until January. Effing brilliant.

So true! Asimov's cloud theory is a great metaphor for the social sciences!

You bring up a really important point, one that's often lost in the reporting of science on blogs. These claims are made based on stats using the mean ratings over a big group of women (+1700). And not everyone gives the same rating. But this kind of science has to generalize at some level in order to say something…

Agreed. Much as i want to view coding in the same sort of glossy limelight of creation that is now associated with blogging and media development, the devices most attuned to the cloud celebrate consumption above most (but not all) actions. Its a point made very well before by Brian Chen in Wired:

The lead picture doesn't do a whole lot to eschew the negative associations put onto the pentagram...