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I agree that lack of physical activity is another likely factor for changing hormone levels and their secondary effects. However, I know of no reason to think that these changes ar…

Half a century--two human generations--is not nearly enough time for evolutionary pressures to have the sort of effect you are talking about. Least of all in a society of abundance…

If the bolts holding the payload in place shear away under the lateral force of supporting the payload, the payload may fall and hit the hard inside of the launch vehicle, making t…

This does indeed suggest that there may be other factors at work. I could try tossing out other ideas, but they would be little more than hypothesis. (Bending during the tipping pr…

The launch vehicles themselves may not be that fragile, but payloads often are. Multimillion-dollar satellites can be damaged or completely non-functional from effects as small as …

As noted in the how it works link (posted twice on this page, or at the bottom of your chart), they've assumed you have the average emission levels for all sorts of other activitie…

About 30% of first marriages and 40% of second marriages fail within the first ten years (and, as the parent noted over 50% of first marriages fail-- see table 41 and the appendix …

To elaborate on cperciva's (correct) point: On a projective plane a parabola contains a single point at infinity, connected (both figuratively and topologically) to the two open en…

It's not like the IPCC was trying to hide this. If anything, the entire way this scenario played out should be a reassurance that the IPCC and cooperating scientists are acting in …

The original article indicates fewer, but slightly stronger.

As a fellow believer in not bothering to go to class, my feeling on the matter was always that I would go to class if and only if it was at least one of (1) more efficient than rea…

It looks like there are too many "unspecified" articles to learn much from this visualization, other than a moderate decrease in the number of articles in your "startup" category, …

Real life situations have finite cutoffs in behavior that remove many pathological problems with certain statistical models.

Except that in real life there are no distributions with support outside of a finite interval in space or time; there's always some point when you stop running the system...if some…

Chi-squared distributions are well approximated by normal distributions close to the mean. The point is not that arbitrary statistics will necessarily always be perfectly behaved (…

What Zed is saying when he notes that meta-statistics are normal is that, thanks to the central limit theorem, the average and standard deviation of data sets collected from the sa…

You can get some of the PISA mathematics test questions (on which Hyde & Mertz variance ratio claims are based) from the 2006 PISA at http://www.pisa.oecd.org/dataoecd/14/10/387094…

The original paper by Hyde and Mertz can be found at http://tctvideo.madison.com/uw/gender.pdf . In it, the authors reference data from the Program for International Student Assess…

As noted above, the collection of all sets cannot be a set in any set theory with specification, regardless of regularity: Call the collection of all sets S. We specify T by T=\{x|…

The collection of all sets is not a set under ZF set theory, regardless of choice. Such a collection, if it were a set, would imply the existence of a set of all sets that did not …

Previous discussion of this article at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=772556 (slightly different URL, but same text).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=783912 was a Wired article on that topic on HN two months ago; perhaps that's what you are remembering?

I noticed that as well; I assume people basically all tended to check page length at the same point through the page--presumably at some boundary between content sections.

I was going to post a comment directly disagreeing with this, and citing the large number of Jewish dating sites, but these are really only used by people on the more religious end…