Pakistan begs to differ.

And given the low power of most psychology experiments I am not surprised by this result.

How does that work? If you are not watching or monitoring them how do you know they aren't showing any symptoms?

I have my physical chemistry students build a Raman spectrometer using a 300 mW green laser pointer. So they absolutely do have a real-world use. The cheapness and power is what makes it a worthwhile and feasible experiment to do.

I am not sure what you mean by this. The content in question, Breaking Bad, can be watched as many times as you want.

I am not saying $2.40/episode is ideal, but there are benefits to the streaming model as well: watch whenever, where ever you want, instantaneous gratification, can't be lost, scratched (this is huge in my house with three kids), etc.

Huh? It is $3 an episode, or $31 for the whole season ($2.40/episode). Seems reasonable to me....

The link says that is an "interim rule, to be effective for a period of 120 days from the time of publication", which was December 14, 2006. So it seems that this rule is no longer in effect.

Exactly.. Every time I throw a "recyclable" tidbit into the regular trash I like to think of some descendant in the far future having his day made when he unearths my piece of valuable trash.

It is a mixed bag, honestly. And seems a lot of the best and brightest stay here while the dregs return home.

'If we litigate, we have a chance to win.'"

Win what? The ability to stop people from watching your shows? I would have thought people would want their shows to be watched. If they don't, why do they make sell them to the cable company?

Helium-2 has a negative binding energy. That makes it pretty impossible to me.

I think you mean helium-3. Helium-2 is quite impossible.

This makes me want to throw-up.

Having "the people" review NSF grants, the same people of whom half believe that antibiotics kill viruses (imperiling all of us when they strong arm their spineless doctors into prescribing antibiotics for colds) and think that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, is a freaking ridiculous idea. Furthermore, the idea that targeting grants individually in NSF, whose budget, at $7 billion is 0.2% of the total budget is an effective way of cutting the deficit is asinine. And to top it all off, that measly $7 billion is one of the major reasons the United States is still a power in science and technology at all, especially as private R&D collapses in the face of the recession (in the short term) and Wall Street's fetish for quarterly results.

Fuck you, Eric Cantor. Fuck you, ignorant Republican douche-bags. I am D-O-N-E done. We are going to Hell in a handbasket, and instead of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic (which would be bad enough), you are stealing life jackets from children and setting them ablaze because the water is cold and we need to keep warm.