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The author lost me at the end when they said to stop pulling up dandelions. Dandelions are not a native species (at least in North America) and are not a good food source for nativ…

For overcoming pitchiness, the "one weird trick" I learned from a singing teacher is to imagine you are moving in the opposite direction from the actual pitch. If you're going high…

When CBSA searched your car were they doing it as a power trip or were they doing it for some unexplained reason? The latter is just part of the job. I travel quite often to the st…

No, DHS did not "steal" your boat. They confiscated it and you'll get it back by following some lengthy and convoluted appeal process. But I seriously don't understand Customs and …

Yep.

These guys are claiming 4 to 8 hours, 4,000 feet etc. http://www.uniteddrones.com/aether-aero/ Heck even 10 minutes flying and one day solar recharge would be awesome in an urban a…

It's important to distinguish two, seemingly contradictory positions: 1 People won't love me for who I am. In fact, it's the job of the rest of the world to show me where I need to…

1. I believe that was addressed in the video. These are very short range devices that can be recharged by solar energy or by sitting on power lines. 2. See the video. 3. You might …

But the nice thing about a publicly financed health care system is that early interventions become much more likely when people aren't forced to make decisions like "Should I spend…

One reason is that it represents the first acknowledgement that health care is something that every man, woman and child should have. That's not to say there aren't horrible things…

When I was a kid, I used to read paper books in bed, at the dinner table, relaxing on the couch, sitting on the toilet, riding the bus, in my room when I was supposed to be doing m…

"To the oncologist who told me I couldn't survive: fuck you." Although maybe he did you a favor by externalizing the thing you had to fight. Sometimes life is funny like that.

I'm astonished that anyone would hesitate for even a nano-second to give this kid anything less than a godspeed and God bless. I'm sorry, but the kid has already launched himself i…

You write "it creates good behavior within society through induced paranoia toward people who have a mindset toward committing crimes" I pointed you to stats which showed that peop…

Except that that's not at all true. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/pro-gun-myths-fa...

Meh. Still sounds like an absolute bargain for a government project which always entails tons of overhead starting with a complex and time consuming procurement process, project ma…

Actual actual link http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-01/first-solar-may-sel... Also has more information about incentives etc.

Sounds good in theory but I don't think the average doctor, let alone the average patient, is capable of independently weighing the pros and cons of every novel treatment. And then…

I don't see that shutting down the FDA is a good alternative. There are countless therapies that are dangerous and/or ineffective and plenty of unscrupulous or incompetent people w…

Over the years there have been a few joyriders with little or no flight experience who have stolen planes. Some landed ok some not so ok. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1870…

Damnit, Aaron, we still need you.

I think you missed his point. He wasn't trying to establish that New Guineans somehow "invented" the idea of not sleeping under a dead tree, merely that the author wasn't personall…