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Another masterpiece of science journalism from the BBC!

Plant something other than grass. Seriously. I'm experimenting with yarrow in some problem areas on our property: a hot dry and sandy septic bed and some embankments with crappy so…

But when other countries have tried to loosen their drug enforcement policies it is the US that has historically leaned against them very hard with the big sticks of trade sanction…

Wow. Just a raft of unfounded assumptions there. For example, warming won't necessarily create farmland in Canada (much of the topsoil in Canada is very poor anyway) but will certa…

Eh, seriously? "By 2030, the benefits of these three sets of sector policies would include 94,000 premature deaths avoided annually and GDP growth of $1.8 trillion-$2.6 trillion pe…

If the OP works for the company or is a stock promoter it might break some rules. Talking about your own investments (even hyping them) is not against any rules. The Internet is aw…

If you're interested in motion picture sound design, you'll want to read about the groundbreaking work done for The Exorcist way back in 1973 http://theexorcist.warnerbros.com/cmp/…

Exactly. Editing WP for money is a conflict of interest unless you're being paid by Wikipedia. Hellbanning is the most appropriate action.

From what you describe, WP was totally correct to ban your organization. Your business model was to inject commercial links into articles. The fact that you think you provided some…

Back in the early 1970s the Canadian navy tested a small hydrofoil ship for antisubmarine work and coastal patrol. It could travel at 60 knots. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_…

Some of this is disturbing and some is not. I don't know why the article makes a big deal out of predictive policing and it's roots in counter-insurgency. Putting police officers w…

I wonder if the information they are collecting can be just as useful to the bad actors (particularly the government). As in "Oh look there's still an open bakery in this sector! L…

Not to mention that the Koch bros really only have two items on their agenda. No taxes for rich people and no environmental regulation.

Why are you talking about "lethal dose" when the issue with atrazine is specifically a proven link to birth defects at very low doses?

It would be more interesting to know how that compares, perhaps per hundred words, with other bodies of text, professionaly edited and not. And, for an article on finding grammatic…

And you are repeating this 'rather bigoted saying' here why?

One of the most astonishing books I've ever read is Unbroken, which is the true story of an American pilot (and Olympic athlete) who went through a similar experience as a POW of t…

"Is there some benefit to knowing the fate of Facebook?" If you care about social media in general then yes, the fate of the world's largest social media platform is tremendously i…

Looking through the lens of 2013 it might sound stupid. In the cultural context of the mid-20th century it was perfectly appropriate. Fifty years from now the word "iPhone" will pr…

The actual argument was not critiqued, so yes.

A line-by-line dissection of a writer's pposition is not an ad hominem attack. Slamming Jezebel for some supposed disposition for ad hominem is itself, ironically, an ad hominem at…

From Jezebel: "Camille Paglia has been trolling since before trolling was A Thing. She's the OG of barfing up archaic assertions about women, men, and feminism, justifying them wit…

This. Given the choice of dealing with a world that is always shiny, bright, cheerful, smooth, clean, and instantly responsive and a world that is frustrating, demanding, ambiguous…

"... the 'left' using lethal force to ensure that people pay for other people's healthcare." WTF? Here's a message from the civilized world where publicly funded healthcare is an u…