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Been trying to learn javascript, and starting to wonder if my browser intends "console" as a noun or verb.

Faysee solves a problem I have with Snapchat: giving my friend feedback on whether I thought their message was funny or not, and worth posting on Facebook or Twitter, for example. …

I'm interested in these comments. Do you have references and/or search terms for further learning?

It's not clear how memories degrade as you rely on videos more, but it is an interesting hypothesis.

Not clear what you lose. Your brain probably still has whatever memory of these moments it would have without the video, and you can choose not to watch the video. All I think you …

here is a way to combine technology and transparency to make it more difficult for someone to do this: guns owned in America have mandatory geolocation installed. guns lock if geol…

Thanks, but it's not clear to me that cells die without telomeres or at this Hayflick limit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayflick_limit says they enter senescence. They stop divid…

Can you explain this divide further? I thought the idea was that telomeres are like chaff that the DNA drops over the course of many replication cycles instead of losing "more impo…

Hamming makes clear his remarks are about how to do "significant things," and he is using science as a microcosm to describe what that is, only because it is the microcosm he is mo…