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"trying to keep everyone happy when that is an impossibility." This is something I think we can all agree upon. There's no need to denigrate people who may feel triggered or are of…

Last I checked, Reddit was hosted on private servers. Hence, what you can say on their site is dictated by their TOS. The Internet is not a place where you can "say anything you wa…

I think the clone I'm semi-remembering was a PC game. Regarding your second question: There were very many unlicensed Nintendo games. I don't know how many of these Nintendo fought…

I seemed to recall such Mario clones as well. Nintendo is quite protective of their IP, so I have to think that they must have threatened legal action. Does anyone know? Is there p…

This statement surprised me. Is it really true? It appears that there is conflicting precedent: "The first approach is from the 2nd circuit "The Subtractive Approach" (Altai, Nicho…

In any case, it doesn't hurt to try and grow some milkweed in one's own yard, which many of us in my area do.

For anyone who, like me, was unfamiliar with this reference: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Darmok_%28episode%29

I'm all for correcting oversimplified news stories, but I don't understand why you call this "significantly less direct". As far as I can see, it's exactly one step less direct, i.…

It seems likely that for the people designing such web sites, these "bugs" are actually features, since they get paid by the click, accidental or not.

Could you please explain this comment? (I apologize if it is addressed in the article, which I have only been able to quickly skim since I'm at work)

Ignoring all the other things that affect cancer rates, a difference between Argentinian and American beef does come time mind: I believe that grass fed beef is still the norm in A…

I get this in Firefox (I'm at work): An error occurred during a connection to www.wordsapi.com. The server rejected the handshake because the client downgraded to a lower TLS versi…

"The subjects were eight long-term Buddhist practitioners (mean age, 49 ± 15 years) and 10 healthy student volunteers (mean age, 21 ± 1.5 years)" Why not recruit older controls?

Actually I'm sure that elites feel a sense of moral duty, for example to their family members and friends. That's a problem we all have: Extending our ethical intuitions to everyon…

Thanks for bringing this up for the people who aren't familiar with the history of the term. In my opinion, "cargo cult" is overused and overly specific. We have a perfectly good w…

You're lumping them all together again, but each issue deserves to be discussed by itself. Regarding GMOs, what is interesting is not the fact that an organism was geneticially mod…

Of course eating non-organic produce is better than eating no produce at all. Eating only organic is a straw man position.

Whether or not an organic diet (whatever that may be exactly) ultimately proves to be healthier, it's wrong to describe the movement to eat such food as a "ridiculous cargo cult". …

But you can get a lot of that out of your tap water with a filter, which in my opinion makes tap water the healthier choice.

Alan Alda has done a great job of bringing charisma and humor to science shows without dumbing anything down. The key is to find a comedian/actor/whatever who has a genuine interes…

Maybe it's just because people believe the police are ever-so-slightly easier to change than the federal government, which seems far away and immovable.

You're making plenty of sense, beers or no I would say that the V7 gets it's power from the flatted fifth interval, aka the tritone, aka the most dissonant interval this side of a …

I feel the same way about gaining insight from studying the history of music theory, but I have to disagree with a couple of points, too: 1. Studying the history of Western music t…

I completely disagree. For one thing, a lot of what one learns studying Common Practice music theory most definitely is applicable to modern styles. Things like dominant function, …

Has anyone figured out what the refresh rate of this display is going to be?