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Would higher altitude not correlate with colder, gray, gloomier (highly scientific term) winters?

I imagine the 20th century was the worst time for it because we had more sophisticated data collection and analysis methods, but failed to recognize our own inadequacies when using…

This paper by one of the team members has more detail about the process used to narrow down the search field to a list of galaxies and identify possible locations of the event: [ed…

Apologies, I'm not one of the researchers involved in the discovery. I'm just the web developer who built the announcement site for UCSC. Ryan Foley will participate in a Reddit AM…

There are before and after comparison photos here: http://reports.news.ucsc.edu/neutron-star-merger/media/

A team from UC Santa Cruz used the data from the Swope telescope in Chile to locate the source of the gravitation waves and observe the light from the event. The data provides evid…

I once had a job making ice cream and it bothered me that I had to add yellow food coloring to the banana ice cream. We used real bananas and didn't add banana flavor. But I was to…

It is not in Facebook's monetary interest to identify or remove fake or questionable news from our news feeds. By it's nature, fake news is emotional. It causes an emotional, gut-l…

It doesn't necessarily seem _political_ to use flag mottos for release titles.

I think they see this as a key differentiator between iOS/iCloud and Google services and they want the public to know about it. In a post-Snowden world, it's worth noting the diffe…

[And on video]( http://www.cnbc.com/id/101733893 )

Thank you for a thoughtful, detailed response. It seems like a mix of job exposure and natural curiosity led you from language to language. Throughout this thread, I've noted a dis…

Just curious, as you moved from language to language do you think there were any patterns as far as the timing of your moves? Did you jump into new languages as they emerged or wai…

Asking science to refute marketing claims is a huge distraction for science.

I don't think your definition of Godwin's Law matches its stated definition. However, I want your definition to get forked into its own law because it is an incredibly astute obser…

It seems like I read a story like this several times each month. It is good advice. We all know it deep down. Yet the "I'll sleep when I'm dead" culture of constant work persists. …

I was thinking the same thing. Always, always, always have a contract in place. I really feel for this guy, but the way this went down, he provided them with his best work on the h…

When you launch the updated Messenger app on iOS, it asks for permission to use your contacts. The alert message was sufficiently creepy that I didn't give it permission to "sync c…

This was my thought too. The OP's friend seemed to be responding to each communication with leading statements and not once does it elicit a "tell me more" or "Oh goodness Mike, wh…