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The only fresh strawberries I ever eat are local and in season. Everything else is just too disappointing.

It's clear that there also needs to be a change in culture and training among police services to discourage the intuition-based practice of deciding someone is guilty and then pres…

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For many human movements, the relation between intensity and injury is a u-curve with high risk at extremely low intensity (atrophy) and extremely high intensity (overuse/repetitiv…

Sidenote: I recently finished reading The Story of the Human Body by Daniel Lieberman, in which he addresses this issue (among many others). The book is absolutely fantastic, an en…

I highly recommend Deirdre Barrett's book Supernormal Stimuli for a fascinating and detailed review of this phenomenon in its various manifestations in human societies.

Seriously, America: how is ANYONE still arguing against universal, single-payer health care?

I used to work in a building with a family of peregrine falcons living on the roof. It was never a dull moment outside our window!

Humans are domesticated primates, and like all domesticated animals we demonstrate the canonical properties of neoteny, or the adult retention of childlike traits: physical traits …

America has some of the worst worker protection laws and regulations in the developed world: occupational health and safety; minimum wage; paid time off (vacation, illness, parenta…

In that case, is my clothes dryer a robot? In addition to its timed dry setting, it also has a feedback setting in which it runs until the clothes inside have reached a (configurab…

The secure https://www.nature.com link works but the insecure http://www.nature.com just returns 404.

I love running just about anywhere (except on a treadmill, which is just intolerably drab), but my absolute favourite places to run are on forest trails. There is something indescr…

There’s a curious anomaly, though: if you try to scroll using touch screen scrolling, the page happily moves up and down, even while JavaScript is blocking nearly everything else o…

Positivism is particularly clever.

I'm in my mid-40s. For about 15 years, I sat at a desk writing code and slowly dying. Three and a half years ago, I started running three times a week. Then, a little over two year…

Here are my thoughts on learning to run: http://quandyfactory.com/blog/167/what_you_need_to_know_to_s...

From the technical overview: Our approach builds on generative image models that leverage adversarial learning, which we apply to video. The basic idea behind the approach is to co…

There's another factor as well: for older houses, most building codes require that the roof be reinforced in order to hold the weight of a solar array on top of the shingles. But i…