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lol, for the few comments that did this, that's most likely just standard internet posting. The "location [X] is in the title, thus I'll make a comment about location [X]" is parti…

Holy shit is that reblog of a blog post facetious. Have you looked at the original research cited? Curiously enough, that blog post doesn't bother to post the charts of the immense…

This was a good comment, and I'm sad that no one was able to chime in. =/

It's still a serious problem, but it seems like the $1 trillion outflow number is the authors' projection for the next year, based on their estimate of accelerating Q2 outflows. Re…

While the above parent tree of comments is mostly correct, I can't help but feel like the commenters are just regurgitating sound-bite memes. I wish there were less of an echo cham…

Tangential comment: News is bad because it focuses on the sensational and misses the actionable. That's actually what frustrates me most about this article. For people who do plan …

I remember from intro bio that there is a category of plants (ones using the CAM metabolism pathway) that close their stomata (openings in the leaves) during the day to save water.…

Anyone have statistics for admittance/denials for different categories of travelers? I keep seeing these anecdotes get lots of attention on Hacker News, and all the comments just r…

...that's irrelevant to what he was saying.

Just curious: which aspects of this elementary math education would you say could be taught by automated high-quality means, such as the combination of interactive games and questi…

http://books.google.com/books?id=IU7U7hDpr5cC&lpg=PR7&#3... I highly recommend this excerpt as food for thought, bottom of page 4 - page 5: "Political candidates' campaign discours…