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It's possible. Personally, I've always had a soft spot for the idea that Eden in the Bible was really not on Earth at all, but Mars or some other location in the universe. The flam…

That's on the surface, at least. We keep learning how life on our own planet exists places far below sea level, and not just in the ocean. The same could be true for any number of …

Paywall free link: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

Tesla had wireless power transmission working over a century ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power#Tesla.27s_exper... "At his Colorado Springs laboratory during 1899–19…

Listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s The modern pronunciation we're familiar with kills much of the rhyme and meaning.

If you only gathered the same data on a regular basis, then you might have a startup on your hands. The name should somehow incorporate Fear and Loathing. You'd also want metrics f…

Comic Sans is an awesome font. People act like it is an attack on their eyes, but harder to read fonts make information easier to retain: http://www.futurity.org/hard-to-read-fonts…

Hopefully the military is supporting this research also. Lots of vets with missing limbs that could use this. Maybe one day a soldier could even go back to active duty after losing…

Good post, but I think the "don't collect it", "don't store it", "don't keep it" warnings may fall on deaf ears. The reality is that businesses: (1) aren't sure of the value of the…

'As Xi Jinping himself said during a visit to Seattle on Tuesday, “There is no such thing as the so-called Thucydides Trap in the world. But should major countries time and again m…

When I first read this I was a little pissed at Apple, but what if brew were to install everything to /brew? It doesn't need to install into /usr/local.

> I think the EE team make sense to be created "on demand" and not as a permanent solution For the size and intensity of effort going on at Twitter, I respectfully disagree. Once t…

Would be interesting to see a comparison/benchmark similar to: http://www.davidhunt.ie/raspberry-pi-2-benchmarked/

Like what? When considered as a whole of the combination of what is possible with the stdlib and all of the best gems available, Ruby can be written clearly and tersely. Those are …

I'm a long-time Rails developer and unfortunately this release doesn't excite me, though I appreciate all the hard work by the core team/continued support from 37signals. The reaso…

> Note also that this "budding free society" was responsible for horrible atrocities against the native population until fairly recent times. Doesn't excuse it, but I can't think o…

I know I'm in the minority but our street has had house parties fairly frequently over the past years since we've lived here. Here's our story: When we first moved in, we went to e…

One of the more successful, though still brutal, experiments in handling crime, in my opinion, was the penal colony in New South Wales, Australia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His…

"The reason is a mixture of widespread ignorance about floating-point arithmetic and the desire to get maximum performance." Hopefully developers don't misinterpret this to mean th…