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Well, given the overwhelming emerging evidence of social attention and behavior in plants, and given that it makes evolutionary sense that "social attention" would provide a fitnes…

Yes, you just aren't as good at it as the octopus. Maybe if you practiced more?

It is hard to extend morality between species. The idea of parents sacrificing themselves for their children seems to resonate as highly moral, and is also a common pattern in biol…

except the mother has to care for her eggs until they hatch. So I guess we'd be fine only eating the males...

>Octopuses seem to have quite a bit of independent cognition in each of their arms, which are wrangled by the central brain. Yes, that's inherent in the design. All grey matter (op…

Yes, but always remember the plural of applepus is apple pie

But not as cool as "Whales on Stilts"

with the exceptions that an intern is (hopefully) going to learn from their mistakes and improve

The promise of capitalism is to improve people's circumstances and thus make them happy. The promise of buddhism is to make people happy regardless of circumstances.

As someone who has lived both primarily outside and primarily inside, my preference for categories, for putting things in boxes, has a direct connection with my willingness to put …

So there is some interesting research about brainwave syncing during effective communication, which certainly includes personalized instruction (tutoring) or small-class learning. …

Checksums! Bah, I used to have to code uphill both ways in the snow, and I liked it!

You mean "win the lottery" "twice"

> What I hate about Airbnb is all the hidden fees and ridiculous homework you have to do when leaving. Regulation could have gone to fix that but yeah here are some flying pigs! Ai…

> there are people who own apartments in NY that couldn’t afford to live there if they weren’t able to earn some money from renting out their space on AirBnB. Yes, but also turning…

Don't know about NYC, but in the midwest there are hotels that specialized in providing construction workers a home away from home for 1-2 weeks. You get a bedroom and minimal kitc…

As a married guy, I see my wife's ring every day.

And I have a friend of a friend whose entire business is helping people sell wine for 20K a bottle and up. Emphasis on "and up" I also have a friendly relationship with a local win…

Cleansing the Doors of Perception by Hudson Smith.

Yes. I assume you mean the thoughtful person whose probing questions unlock and unblock everyone else. Lunchtime conversation is only one enabler of this. I suspect the person is H…

>New users wonder how to call functions. They form an intuition ("use parenthesis"), but it's unreliable. "Oh, parenthesis are optional--oh, parenthesis are only optional sometimes…

> So no matter how similar homeschooling will look to government-controlled schooling, people with power will never stop attacking it because of that crucial nuisance. Just like in…

Nothing gets past your professor. There, fixed it for ya

Nearly 3 Billion Birds Gone Since 1970 The first-ever comprehensive assessment of net population changes in the U.S. and Canada reveals across-the-board declines that scientists ca…