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I knew all those beaching oarfish meant something .

So modern Chinese consider their country to have been stagnant during the entirety of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties? I've read a number of Western books about Qing-era China t…

Groovy's niche is supposed to be the same as Ruby or Python - if you want high performance, it's not the way to go. I've done a lot of Groovy for simple web applications and it wor…

Calling the JVM platform a relic is a major mistake - the number of businesses that rely on the platform is massive. However Java-the-language has been stagnant since Java 1.5 in S…

Obviously both sides will do it! I'm trying to offer an explanation as to why such nasty stuff will show up on news sites - political actors are paid to promote their viewpoints.

Conservative political groups in the USA pay people to basically troll on major news sites/message boards/blogs: http://www.alternet.org/story/149197/are_right-wing_libertar...

In the situation described by the article, the changes in gene expression are happening in the rat's brains . These changes aren't going to make it into the rat's gametes.

the solution: quit journalising and start selling $200 yoga pants!

Politics is unworthy of discussion yet an article like this is acceptable? If Javascript is making all other languages irrelevant why does the world have Coffeescript, Clojurescrip…

Something I've always wondered about regarding synthetic meat: for say synthetic pork, would it be necessary to mechanically 'exercise' the muscle fibers in order for them to taste…

Here's a presentation regarding the 'SYSAV' waste-to-energy facility in Malmö, Sweden: http://www.sysav.se/upload/flash/sysav.swf There's an extensive pollution collection/scrubbin…