ummm, maybe it's also due to, at least in parts, a secondary effect simply on the hospital personnel? When you are single lying there in your bed, they are simply much more likely to forget about you than when your family is rushing in all of the time. Being ignored is contagious.

So, Tuvalu is governed by the US all of a sudden? Don't let the Tuvalians (Tuvalites?) hear that. That is neo-colonialism 2.0.

yeah, I can get on board with the magazines. You will need a big screen to appreciate illustrations and whatnot, but novels are just words (unless they are graphic novels or with an occasional illustration thrown in), so to me the size of the screen is not that important. oK, scrolling can (could) become annoying on…

well, at least their breast cancer was cured...:-S

some people's intellacktual diet consists in watching tv shows from dusk to dawn and dawn to dusk, I cannot really imagine they care nor understand

well, thank you, but I have been reading on my phone for about 4 years now (first on the palm, now on Android) and I can't even figure out why people would want to hold a device twice the size of an average paperback up to their face. And, needless to say, no eReader for me. Maybe the 5.3" Note.

above all you need a damn amount of time. Guessing the average length of a song of 3.5 minutes, that makes 50,000 x 3.5 min = 175,000 minutes. Or ~3000 hours. Or 125 days. I am impressed.

50,000 tracks? As in 50,000 different songs? Man, that's more than 3 songs for every day of his life. And recorded and all that. That man is (was) a giant!

yeah, right, like people are still too stupid to record their own audio and make their own mp3s that they then use as ringtones. The business model of selling ringtones is going South because people are getting less stupid about throwing heaps of money away for something they can have entirely free. Why doesn't…

there is a 7 where a 1 should be

Talking loudly on the phone and listening to bad and loud music coming from the crappy speakers of a phone is akin to male dogs pissing on a tree or a fire hydrant. It's a dominance thing, territorial, a I-am-so-awesome-that-I-can-afford-to-give-a-shit-abut-your-indignation type of thing.

you mean those bats in their belfries?

So, is Scarlett Johanson Wonderbra/-woman?

thanks

ok, I stand corrected. No harm intended and let's agree on that the article is a bit shaky with its scientific foundations. Re on the edited, I'd just say it a bit nicer.

"round and round we go" said the parrot and jumped into the fan.

sorry, I forgot that. Of course, you are completely right.

I guess you are rich, then?

love the t-shirt. however, the link does not show it. I guess I have to sharpie it onto my own t-shirts then...

be nice. The cells actually do not create the mitochondria either (ok, you navigated your way around saying that, but I just call you out on it), because they are not part of the cell genome but carry their own DNA. But that's a bit hair-splitting for an article on The Giz. Let's all agree on that exercise increases…