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One thing I've always wondered: How does Consumer Reports afford to purchase all those cars (and other expensive items that it reviews)?

> Parnia is currently working with a number of hospitals on a project to investigate out of body experiences. One of the components of the study is to place objects on high shelves…

The article has been updated to clarify that this is merely speculative: > Authorities would not comment on whether the events were connected to Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings. …

Whenever I hear stupid questions like "Do immigrant engineers depress engineer wages?", I'm tempted to say that it's as simple as supply and demand. But supply and demand are not s…

Aren't you double-counting here? On net the merchant only loses the merchandise. The net debit to the merchant's account is zero.

Unlike most keyboards which have the ctrl key on the bottom left corner, MacBook Pro keyboards for some reason have the useless fn button at that location, and the ctrl key to the …

> why are geographically proximate people of more moral worth? This seems to be the implicit assumption whenever certain segments of the political class bemoan jobs being "shipped …

Here's some context behind the essay: http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin.html

I thought this was an interesting point: According to Wikipedia[1], > Franklin did not propose DST; like ancient Rome, 18th-century Europe did not keep precise schedules. [1] http:…

To be fair, The proportion of NYT writers and editors that is numerate is going up, but in absolute numbers, there are more innumerate people at the NYT now than there were 12 year…

> Nowadays more children attend school than ever before, but they learn much less. They learn almost nothing. The proportion of the Mexican population that is literate is going up,…

While those are interesting counterexamples, they don't come close to modeling a realistic "age-at-death" distribution. There isn't any such distribution whose median would be sign…

> it ends up being closer to median life span - so an overstated number of centenarians (people over 100) could significantly skew things. Could you elaborate? Isn't the median alw…

It doesn't seem that using Adblock Plus is in any way illegal, but I can't help but feel guilty that I might be unfairly benefitting at the expense of websites and other users. Is …