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A more generous interpretation of their comment is that they are glad that some legal precedence has been set. The same case would not go through courts for another decade.

>Don't forget that the "fruit" for scientists is fame, not the truth. This is a pretty shocking thing to say. It's not true whatsoever for the field of physics. Is there a particul…

I use this every single day on my locked-down work laptop. It fixes so many sites! I recommend it as often as I can, and I'm surprised that its use is not more widespread.

David Foster Wallace makes the same observation in his article "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction," which I read in the excellent "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do A…

After a little more than a decade away from video games, I'm finding myself really enjoying 1st person horror games with no combat element: Soma, Amnesia: Dark Descent, and Outlast…

There are some really good responses to lisper's post: what about 96% of the universe's mass, neutrino mass, what about gravity for that matter. (zing!) The thing about those parti…

I'm not sure that the information from such experiments is only really relevant to applications in microgravity environments. (Hopefully I'm not misunderstanding your point too muc…

Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin

>>This is the case for most novels: you have to read seven hundred pages to get the handful of insights that were the reason the book was written, and the apparatus of the novel is…

I was about to post the same view (though I hadn't bumped into Exploration vs Exploitation before). One year I decided to blow through as many books as I could, and the next year I…