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And it wasn't until the 1970s that the US banned lead paint in houses. 200 years after Ben Franklin wrote that it was bad. Like, clearly plastics are bad. And yet, humans like the …

I'm curious to know if "newly discovered" species existed 20 years ago and were actually just discovered, or if they are a new species that didn't exist until recently. Is there a …

It's a poorly constructed sentence (and unfortunately the last, intended to inspire hope).

I think the questioner is asking if "50% chance for $100 is the same as a 10% chance at $1000" should be "50% chance for $100 is the same as a 10% chance at $500"

It's unclear what your point is about alcohol and drugs which are highly regulated.

Differences in wall-to-wall distances at middle and longer distances are less important than in shorter distances. The article uses a 100m race. But consider a 50m race. 3 cm over …

Driving while using a mobile and drunk driving are qualitatively different for at least one important reason... If I'm talking or texting while I'm driving, I can stop if traffic p…

Ugh. What kind of business person waits until their personal taxes are due to find their expenses? This should be done quarterly if not monthly. Use a separate account for business…

If I were a competitor, who wanted an honest race, is there anything my team could do to neutralize either of these techniques?

Based on the timeline, he had to have contracted Ebola pretty much the day he left. That seems pretty unusual, isn't it? How long was he there, a couple months? "Symptoms usually o…

Couldn't have happened to better people!

Have you looked at Plover? It's target audience is stenographers, but it can be used by anyone who wants to type at 250 wpm. http://plover.stenoknight.com/

Yes. It's called a coordination problem: http://raikoth.net/libertarian.html#coordination_problems

Is the price of something determined by how much it costs to make or how much someone is willing to pay for it? I believe the correct answer is "It depends and both". If you think …

The quadrocopters you're seeing on youtube generally have very specific navigation requirements that require lot of infrastructure and preparation in the area they're flying.

Don't forget space travel! Both from within the gravity well and intra-solar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propu...

Reminds me of a Cory Doctorow short story that takes place in the near future. In it, US Customs can't view your Google search history, but they can view the ads served to you as a…

I've never thought that dystopia meant fictional. Does it have that connotation for everyone?

You both miss the point. The plural of anecdote is not data and the singular is "Who cares?". For a man born in 1895, life expectancy was 48 years. For a man born in 1985, life exp…

>Does he have problem with his sexuality ? You may not be aware of this, but this question will likely get you downvoted as it will be perceived as homophobia (or at least heterono…

If only the North Koreans could read about life in 2004 Darfur and then travel back in time to escape the division of the Korean peninsula in 1953.