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There've been other studies to this effect, though, and not just for adolescents. Papers often attribute the effects to a combination of lifestyle comparison, echo chambers, and em…

Manufacturing environments are probably among the best use cases for "the Internet of Things" but also magnify the security concerns tenfold. Stuxnet was a similar attack on networ…

"...there have been multiple other apps that required me to use my Facebook credentials to log in. Facebook, it seems, is now core to the mobile Web experience." Most social networ…

Lockheed will probably lap ITER within the next few years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_beta_fusion_reactor Let's not forget that the end-game for fusion is "virtually limitl…

We could boycott networks & technologies that infringe upon our ability to exist as private individuals and to self-determine: Don't use the wifi toothbrush or the Fitbit, don't us…

"Open Link in Incognito Window." (Though I agree that paywalled content is a nuisance, albeit with some granularity regarding the necessity of paywalls to continued access to quali…

People barred from flow often experience intense anxiety; I'd imagine that the "addicted" programmer not experiencing code flow would just replace that need with something like a h…

"Our men at the Wernicke and Broca Station Posts suggest that the good Ambassador Moustache is not as trustworthy as he seems..."

My money's on 69. Rudy Rucker had some interesting conversations with Gödel about a deterministic universe in which (because time is illusory) backward time travel exists: http://w…

If the universe was "made of mathematics," then there would necessarily exist a Grand Unified Theory. But, Hawking asserts that Gödel's Theorems imply that not only does a Grand Un…

A life is certainly not a story, since we are never the sole authors of our circumstances. If you accept the "narrative model," a whirlwind of events and situations authored by oth…

Perhaps when we select books to read them, we only do so in order to describe ourselves as a "Calvino reader" or a "Russophile" as much as the author rejects Bukowski so as to be t…

Yes, I am a strict logical positivist. Without reproducibility and meta-analyses (or rigorous empirical observation as in climatology, paleontology, etc.), no theory exists, becaus…

I wonder if the physiological substrates for important memories would be preserved in a Ship of Theseus scenario. My hunch is no.

I apologize for the disillusionment that will follow: 1) Negligible senescence occurs mostly in organisms radically-different from humans and we have no idea how to edit those path…

Perhaps the authors mean to suggest that the consumption of other perspectives allows one to better empathize with others, and in so doing, become better-equipped to reduce their s…

Seems like a just-so story until the methodology of their quantitative analysis is publicly-available.

When a scientist measures the behaviour of particles in a carefully-defined system, they can replicate that behaviour such that they can say, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the …