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This headline isn't exactly accurate and the article is misleading. PFOA was used in the process of affixing Teflon to surfaces but is not present in the pan itself. PFOA has built…

“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this probl…

I had the same experience so I just bought their iOS port of Graphing Calculator. It's cheap at $10, it's excellent, but mostly I wanted to say thank you for doing such a ridiculou…

Not even a little bit but that's a fascinating device. The hearing aid you linked uses light to activate a transducer that's been placed against the tympanic membrane (eardrum). It…

Again, the law and custom already cover this. When you hear a siren you're to become alert for the possibility of flashers behind you. You are not supposed to just start pulling ov…

The only reason this even looks like a problem is that humans don't follow the law. In most jurisdictions if there's an emergency vehicle running flashers and/or siren behind you o…

It's a poem. Edit: It's a mediocre poem.

To some extent for Big Tobacco this might be like BP hedging on solar power. Nicotine is still best extracted from the tobacco plant. I doubt they'll fight vaping forever. What I s…

Note that I'm addressing the Snopes conclusion more than the comments of the HN poster, except insofar as he/she used Snopes as a source. The key elements of the Snopes article are…

You're hitting the nail on its flattest head here. The metaphors are deliberately broken. The ways in which they break are meant to show aspects of the system. Theorems have charac…

"They also found that the man had a small sack with an iron key, about 20 silver coins and two bronze coins." This is exactly what I'd expect to find when searching a skeleton half…

It's also absolutely real and has been fairly common. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush_syndrome It's hard to understand why Snopes has this marked as a myth. The specific anecdo…

It does sound a bit like Thud, doesn't it? From your link: Thud is a board game based on the earlier dwarfish game of Hnaflbaflsniflwhifltafl. It is played mainly by Dwarfs and Tro…