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products of an asymmetric reaction performed without enantiomeric control can selectively catalyse the formation of more products with the same handedness -- this is called autocat…

I'm a climate scientist, and I built this game using a dataset from Ember Energy ( https://ember-energy.org/data/api/ ). The UI is ugly and the code is uglier, but the game is weir…

this is an absolutely valid Bayesian approach to this problem. sadly, this point is not even touched upon in this article, which deals solely with minutiae of the probability distr…

to make a fair comparison here, you need to normalize per mole of metal. these enthalpies of formation are reported per mole of oxide, but there's twice as much Al per mole of Al2O…

I don't think people are upset because they "got big", but because they were acquired by a corporation that signals a core shift in their ideals. If they were bought by Valve, or e…

I seriously doubt the correlation between "liking porn" and "refusal to purchase a device that does not have official porn apps, especially considering I could stream porn from my …

New events? New sectors? New systems and subsystems? New content from Chris Avellone?

Just playing devil's advocate here, but are you sure that the same sort of start-up culture pervaded the industry when these single-letter-NYSE companies formed (some over a centur…

I have never seen this notation used, but perhaps it is mean to represent steradians (the unit of solid angle)?

You totally can get good at it, it's a skill like any other. I've won like 40 games out of 200 or so, and I'd say that I win about half of my games I decide to play past the first …

IIRC, the whole "99 cent pricing" paradigm originated not as a method to subtly reduce the apparent price of products, but as a way to force cashiers to give change for all purchas…

Screencaps: http://puu.sh/2zwIE http://puu.sh/2zwJJ

Maybe not viewing, but the article also talks quite a bit about filming, in which Glass has a concrete advantage.

Some bitcoin wallet clients, like Electrum, can recover your wallet from a seed that you can write down or email to yourself. Electrum: http://electrum.org/

What did they teach?