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Reminds me of Dickens' portrayal of Sydney Carton in Tale of Two Cities. Dickens' ability to peer into the soul of Carton moved me in ways no longer work has before. "It is a far, …

> LIDAR: An airborne laser scanner (ALS) is mounted to a helicopter skid pad. Flying with pre-determined guidelines, including altitude, flight path and airspeed, the ALS pulses th…

The recent move of Adidas back to Germany seems to contradict your assertion: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/25/adidas-to-sell-...

This begs the question: as human productivity is increasingly usurped by machines, what will happen to the human manufacturing population? Will we finally figure out a way to distr…

One of the interviewees mentioned that meditating was very difficult because he kept having thoughts that were not supposed to come up emerge. My immediate thought was to what I le…

The first half seemed to be about fear mongering but I found the last half more balanced. And discussing the Three Marks of Existence as the full breadth of what meditators are sup…

There was stuff dropping away … [and] electric shocks through my body. [My] core sense of self, a persistent consciousness, the thoughts and stuff, were not me." This sounds to me …

100 people involved? That's a lot of people who could potentially slip up.

I went to a conference recently where an MD/researcher in this field discussed the latest state of the art findings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83u-i73ppr8 Long story short, t…

Agreed. This is why origin of life scenarios are so fascinating!

If you are at all interested in the origin of life and the role of energy therein, I cannot recommend any single source of knowledge more than the following paper as it has literal…

> The U.S. Justice Dept. launched a criminal investigation, and in 2007 the company and three top executives pleaded guilty to fraud for downplaying OxyContin’s risk of addiction. …

His claim is hyperbolic, but only from the perspective of the way that scientific research has been conducted for the last 10-15 years. Prior to this, many researchers were forced …

As a company that has a huge grip on higher end hardware sales, I definitely think they will stay in the space. That being said, product innovation certainly needs to happen for th…

Product innovation I would think

When Apple Pay came out I was astonished. It's a brilliant move to act as a middleman between a device that almost everyone possesses and currency. After all, what is more profitab…

Why do you think the era is over? Are people buying less cellphones and laptops?