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I'm one of the guys who made the website, and I thought a lot about these things too. You have good concerns. My group talked to doctors and epidemiologists before starting this pr…

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Very good observation. I'll defer to our network of doctors and take their feedback on this. Thank you!

We might. There's some worry that e.g. showing a heat map of the data might be alarming, so we're trying to figure out where the balance is between transparency and cautiousness.

Yes, we get trend info. We're storing a cookie in your browser with a UUID that is associated to your temperature reading. If you submit temperatures for multiple people in your ho…

Carson here, site developer. Thank you for the positive response so far, but also feel free to leave us constructive criticism. If you want to contribute to this effort, the GitHub…

You might be on Firefox. I just fixed this!

You may be thinking of alpinism, where this is perhaps a little true. It's not true at all of rock climbing.

Your comment doesn't make sense. You can't choreograph the result of coin flip, but you can definitely rehearse a rock climbing sequence so that you always nail it. I can promise y…

It's also worth mentioning that 95% of the Nose can be free-climbed by just about anyone that really trains for it. It's hard, but it's not that hard. The Dawn Wall, in contrast, i…

It's just very different, to the point where you can't even compare the two climbers with the same ruler. Honnold's biggest achievements are notable because of the risk he takes wh…

Yep, that's exactly what he did.

There's just one safety line (it's called the lead line) and it runs through -- in the video you watch -- quickdraws (or slings with carabiners) that hang on bolts. On other pitche…

> Apple chose to put a much smaller battery in this model (75 watt) compared to last year (100 watt) for the purpose of thinness. You mean watt-hours (Wh).

Yes, very sorry. "Some charlatan has stolen a Ziggy and passed it off as his own!"

Wow, I didn't know that in particular. I hiked the John Muir Trail last summer and often looked into the distance at some crazy steep peak and wondered how the hell John Muir nabbe…

I think part of the reason base jumping is banned in Yosemite has to do with the spectacle of it. The National Park system was founded with a mission to preserve the serenity of ou…

Free soloing does mean no rope however, which is the important bit. You're speaking of rope-soloing , which can be done either free or aid. If you don't have rope with you, whether…

This isn't about the article, but I would like to point out that New Hive is really a _fantastic_ publishing platform. There's just an immense amount of creative content on it. It …

Relevant video from QI: How many moons does the earth have? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1zuAQAhhMI

For those interested in watermakers, it's possible (and perhaps affordable) to build your own! http://www.albin25.eu/our-a25ak-dido/34-dido-stories/60-dido...

This is controversial, but Alain Bombard ( http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/obituaries/24bombard.html ) sailed across the Atlantic, surviving on seawater, fluids from fish, and pl…

No, I wouldn't say pricing is fundamentally an infrequent activity, although analyzing the "idiosyncratic risk" may well be. That's not all that's going on though. For example, inv…

In principle, you should be able to follow their progress on the project's posts page: " rel="nofollow">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-p... . Their late…