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Glyphosate causes cell cycle dysfunction which can result in cancer: Marc et al 2002, 2003. Of course cancer is not the only health risk: The Lethal Dangers of “Roundup” Made by Monsanto
Glyphosate was used by the US as a modern Agent Orange in Colombia: wikipedia

The IPCC says that. Others too

Subject is a bit pessimistic but it's based on my own findings back in 2008 (apologies if some of the links there don't work). The TOS/privacy aspects are probably still questionable for many of these places -- it's the "behind closed doors" sales of customer contact information that bothers me, and that's how crap like this ends up happening. The "Domain Registry of America" can die in a fire (look at how many years that bullshit went on for).

That said: today I use Gandi for the (now 5) domains I own, simply because 1) their web/management interface is better than others I tried, 2) support is very responsive if needed (and if you find bugs in the system, they eventually will get fixed, though it can take them a while), 3) they're affordable, and 4) they offer a good range/selection of TLDs (if that matters to you). Gandi is also fairly aggressive about rate-limiting/blocking WHOIS requests (no I am not a WHOIS scraper -- when you bulk-modify a few domains to change authoritative nameservers... do the math).

You really don't get anything added (that I know of) through companies like Symantec (you'd have known them as Network Solutions or VeriSign). If others have different experiences, cool! Share your experiences and codepigeon can choose based on what he/she needs.

It's kind of remarkable how awful the UIs are of so many registrars. I went through several (including some who had good UIs which turned to garbage (ex. WebLaunching)) over the years (1997 onward). Those I have "deprecated" records for: NPSIS (not sure when), WebLaunching (not sure when, but probably prior to 2009), eNom (2009), and Name.com (2012).

Hope this helps in one way or another!

Funny you should bring this up as your example of an absolute rule. "Correct comma placement", is actually the source of biggest ongoing stylistic argument in the English language: the Oxford comma. Its like the "vi vs. Emacs" of the literary world. This is one of the strongest arguments you could have picked supporting the point you were looking to refute.

Massive example fail.

The Oxford comma is a style issue, sure. Commas in general are not, since their presence or absence can change the meaning of a sentence. I don't think the comma is an "example fail" or anything like the vi/Eamcs wars.

Kcho is a cuban artist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K... I wouldn't be so quick to try and help him, of all the cuban artists he is among the ones with more ties to the system with many of his pieces donated to the government. https://cubaxdentro.wordpress.... Honey pot or not, is a welcome change.

For this reason, I found it a little dumb to consider this the "Pi day" : https://thebehaviorallab.files...

For me (french), you could say that Pi day is April 31, 2015 (31/4/15).

The numbers don't seem all that unrealistic considering karaoke's incredibly popularity in Asian countries (if nothing else, watch the little Japanese girls singing in the video, as it's really adorable).. The typical commercial establishments called "karaoke boxes" feature many tiny rooms suitable for small numbers of guests to sing and eat drinks and snacks in private. These aren't normal bars that do karaoke part-time like western establishments - they're exclusively designed for karaoke, and are suitable for all ages, from children to middle-aged salarymen. These establishments do karaoke all day, and nothing else. A huge number of Japanese families apparently have a karaoke machine at home as well. I'm going to bet the Asian market accounts for at least 90% of the global karaoke market, easy.

The more you know...

DARPA Is Developing Implants To Heal Soldiers’ Bodies and Minds link
Verified case in courts of electronic harassment of targeted individual James Walbert with MRIs of implants in the neck and head youtube
NASA Develops System To Computerize Silent, 'Subvocal Speech' sciencedaily
Harold Holt Murder - Gary's CT Scan Images of device in throat (1979) harold-holt.net
Powering micro-implants using high frequency waves extremetech.com
Literal Smart Dust Opens Brain-Computer Pathway to "Spy on Your Brain" activistpost
Scientists use brain imaging to reveal the movies in our mind berkeley.edu
Who is Elisa Lam? (1 hour long) vimeo youtube
http://www.mindjustice.org/200...
Small implants to trigger muscle spasms for remote harassment link
Whats been possible since the 70's link
https://linux.conf.au/wiki/Tin...

You might think it's safe to say that, but it's completely wrong.

The number of guns in private hands in the US has doubled since the early 1990s. Yet the number of deaths (accidental or criminal) has plummeted, and the number of shootings (accidental or criminal) has plummeted as well. We have safer guns, and better gun education.

The number of accidental deaths hasn't plummeted, it's stayed pretty constant, down a small fraction. https://cbssanfran.files.wordp...

Read the first comment by oemii: https://moonconspiracy.wordpre...

While the arabs are terrorizing the world with their dark-age fascist ideology and portraying jews as blood drinking monsters i think noone is surprised that nobody wants to live with them.

You can be sure that not many people want to live with jews either. I despise muslim fanatics as much as jewish bankers.
https://thezog.wordpress.com/w...

We must mix in different circles then because most developers I know use Eclipse/Visual Studio/emacs/vim.

Thankfully so. I wouldn't touch Java with a bargepole.

Here for example is a photo from a Ruby on Rails conference.
http://globalnerdy.com/wordpre...

Here's one from NASA.
https://macdailynews.files.wor...

And just for giggles here's one from the Windows 10 launch.
http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-co...

Your numbers sound pretty made up, especially anything that's 99% and 100%, or "in no cases." Let me guess, they were "not intended as a factual statement"?

If you get married the only usual out is divorce, which means that men in 99% of cases are on the hook for support for the rest of their lives.

According to the US Census, as cited in this excellent article analyzing child support, only 53.4% of custodial mothers are awarded child support (and only a fraction actually receive all the support they are awarded). Key chart here: https://espnfivethirtyeight.fi...

children in more than nine out of 10 cases living with their mothers

From the same article above, "18.3 percent of custodial parents in 2011 were fathers."

- In seven out of ten cases the judge ordered a transfer of the property into the wife's name
- During 160 contested cases when an order was made to sell the home the wife received more than half of the proceeds in 25 percent of the cases, during the other 75 percent the proceeds were split

In the same article, they make the point that the wife is usually poorer and has a worse employment situation, a correlation that explains most or all of this imbalance. Judges are going to award more financial support to the poorer party, and if you don't correct for that, you're presenting very misleading stats. Though given the totally made-up numbers you scattered throughout your entire post, I guess you don't care.

Models compared with reality.

The big problem with that chart is that all of the model runs start at 0 anomaly in 1983. There is no way all of those model runs just happened to be at 0 in 1983 so the comparison the chart makes is invalid.

No significant average temperature change in 15 years

Look at the trend, and don't stare too much at the 2-sigma outlier in 1998.

https://tamino.wordpress.com/2...

The trend is still as robust as it was. And before you complain that I'm linking to a wordpress blog, you can download the data here, and draw your own graph: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

Models compared with reality.

Which is a graph that has been lampooned as grossly inaccurate for calibrating against a 5 year temperature average instead of a 30 year temperature average which shifts things a good deal.

To bypass that controversy compare a graph from the IPCC itself then instead, you can verify it in their AR5 report here. Not nearly as bad, but very clearly showing the last decade or more trending at the very low end of the models.

Models compared with reality.

@NostalgiaForInfinity: "misguided views like these are responsible for the long periods of stagnation and weakness that China has experienced."

The Economic Importance of Indian Opium and Trade with China on Britain's Economy

The First Opium War

Sugar, opium and cotton

Looking at the black running mean on this graph:
https://protonsforbreakfast.fi...

I see about 1W swing on 1366W average, which is 0.07%

Quoting parent got messed up so just responding as-is.

Your Brown/Simpson allusion is apt. Yes, this has become a country where war criminals freely walk the streets, get paid for speaking engagements, are feted for their oil paintings and occupy our highest office while launching Hellfire missles on a whim. Innocent teenagers? Why not? The MGR (mere gook rule) has become the MAR (mere arab rule) or MMR (mere muslim rule?) In this thread, though, I was stuck on a young hero of mine who is stuck in Russia.

I feel pretty comfortable with the assumption that Putin ordered a lot of the killings you find listed on spots like https://larussophobe.wordpress... I think I would have to be a real optimist otherwise. But I'll admit. He doesn't hold a candle to Stalin :)

No argument to your correction of 50+ cleared for release. I was thinking that they did not have a commitment (that was broken) but that doesn't mean much.

"Through a technique called spectral beam combining, multiple fiber laser modules form a single, powerful, high-quality beam"

this sounds really familiar

have a trip to Stockholm on the agenda. If you've got any suggestions for things to do

I've checked what people think about the various capitals (more Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen rather than Helsinki) and where one should go (I was more curious about living than visiting but whatever.)

For Stockholm I think what is mentioned is Skansen, Gamla stan and the Gustav Vasa museum.
http://www.vasamuseet.se/en/
http://www.old-town-stockholm....
http://www.skansen.se/en/kateg...

Whatever it would be my picks I don't know.

I haven't been to many museums. I've been at both Skansen and Vasa but I don't remember much from it and I don't really see what's so interesting with an old wooden ship =P.

Sometimes museums has had free entry here in Sweden depending on who's in charge of the government so if that's the case I guess that's a nice opportunity to go visit some :)

I can understand the idea of visiting places for education (maybe more so for kids? If you got any there's places like Tom Tits Experiment which may be worth a visit too, likely more so! ;D http://www.tomtit.se/english/I...) and culture & history too even though here in Sweden for whatever reason the in fashion thing is to deny it / act like it doesn't matter but I assume most of the world don't and think it's interesting.

I know while I think the middle-east would be the least place on the planet I wanted to live in and possibly visit too .. (maybe along with parts of Africa though stunning scenery may be nice) what would be of some interest there and in Egypt is exactly the things IS want to destroy and remove because they don't like different cultures either / want no traces of them / want no-one to care.

This is so fucking nasty and obviously ruin things forever:
https://gatesofnineveh.wordpre...

The few things worth bothering about ..

Anyway, not a Museum guy. In Sweden I would rather want to travel some rural road either just with agriculture landscape and vast views or through and wooden avenue or places where animals has grassed on the sides or something such. Or venture out on any lake or in the case of Stockholm the archipelago.
(Or I guess for some others maybe up in the northern mountain regions, if you where long up north maybe visit Boden and http://www.rodbergsfortet.com/... ?), possibly Gotland and Visby.

In Norway people would take about the fjords and hiking in the mountains there too, in Denmark you've likely got the same agriculture landscape and Bornholm & Hammershus to visit instead for instance.

On the lake side we've got lots of lakes and Vänern is the largest lake in EU and our biggest, Mälaren which sit left of Stockholm is our third largest but it's also large ..

If one wasn't in Stockholm I guess there's lots too see at various places. Anyway, I don't know what's best. And it's likely ok to not visit anything beyond just being in the city considering there's so much water IN the city too =P, so at least there's all that to take in regardless :)

Enjoy your stay :)

If it's about seagate hds you can take a look at seaget.With this you can dump the buffer and memory of your harddrive. Here is an explanation https://blacklotus89.wordpress... and here is the code https://github.com/BlackLotus/... Maybe this can be used to dump the firmware as well (somehow)

It's hard to take the "facts" seriously when there appears to be obvious fraud involved. Climategate continues as temperature data seem to be systematically falsified:
https://notalotofpeopleknowtha... (Yes, it's a wordpress site, but data is from nasa.)

How can you take scientists seriously when being "right" becomes the agenda instead of pursuit of the truth? Critiques should be embraced to ensure we didn't miss something instead of being quickly dismissed as ignorant "deniers". Present ALL the facts transparently and truthfully - including funding - and let the scientific community draw the conclusions. Chips and heads fall where they may.

Fear of losing credibility, reputation, and funding is corrupting scientists and ruining science.

If you look at the data you will find we have been flat for the last 20 years

Bullshit. The temperatures have not deviated from the same trend established in the decades before that.

https://tamino.wordpress.com/2...

Most computers that shipped with Windows 7 have an OEM activation right in the BIOS. Last time I reinstalled Windows 7 on my Lenovo laptop, I used the official ISO from DigitalRiver (not available there anymore), and instead of using my license code, I followed the instructions here and used my OEM activation. Everything activated and ran normally. This is completely legit because the license is in the BIOS.

There are two problems with making Greece and example: they did not spend irresponsibly, they became insolvent only after Germany forced them to shrink their economy

LOL you must be from Greece, their debt-to-GDP ratio was poor to begin with increasing every year through budget deficits. They went insolvent because the market understood they had no chance of paying their debts and interest rates skyrocketed. It's rather hilarous to blame Germany and the EU for the terms of the loans when the market would sooner lend money to a drunken hobo than to Greece, it was either that or bankruptcy.

You can of course argue that they're now trapped in an evil circle where the austerity measures are killing the economy and they should default sooner rather than later, but they're just where everyone deep in credit card debt are - they spend what little income they have paying interest and don't have any surplus to improve their situation. What you're blaming Germany for is doing just enough to keep the Greek economy from dying, but not enough to cure it. That's right, you rich uncle isn't going to come in and solve all your problems. From all the gratitude they're getting I'm guessing that the next time they'd rather not bail anybody out at all.

Sorry but you missed a few vars. The equation is closer to that one ( and is self-explanatory )

According to the FBI, there were 1.2 million violent crimes committed in the US during 2011. FBI — Violent Crime

According to the UK government, there were 1.94 million violent crimes in the UK during 2011. www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_296191.pdf

There are almost exactly five times as many people in the US as in the UK – 314 million vs. 63 million. The violent crime rate in the UK is 3,100 per 100,000, and in the US it is 380 per 100,000 population.

I see they have gold colored print, that has to boost the sound quality by about 10 bucks. But is Monster selling titanium-plated connectors for them yet? Have any advertisers signed up to preload audio advertisements on the cards? This doesn't seem ready for prime time. Sony, give me a call just as soon as you're ready to start charging me a monthly fee!

I'm not going to complain about "playing god" but this definitely approaches immoral conduct. Change this gene in something with a larger brain and you could create animals smart enough to deserve human rights. At that point the only ethical course of action is to give them said rights. The problem is the lack of a proper legal framework for such. Our science is in the 21st century but our laws are 19th to 20th. It's practically a very small step from this to sheep or monkeys.

We need to start defining legal rights for intelligent, non-human entities immediately.

Its misleading to specify torque at zero rpm, your power is zero because there is no movement.

What does movement have to do with anything? Do you even know what torque is? Here, let me help you with that. In a nutshell, it's force. There's all kinds of forces in the world that don't result in movement. Lucky for you. You're sitting in a chair, aren't you? Demonstrating an instance of force without movement all by yourself. Amazing, isn't it. Forces get applied before movement starts.

All of the above cars you mention can beat the tesla in some or many of what people would call performance specifications, such as acceleration...

Tesla P85D 0-60 mph 3.2 s
Audi S8 0-60 mph 3.9 s
Yes, the sports cars can beat it. It's a SEDAN. A five door liftback sedan. For crying out loud... And for the record, the curb weight of the Audi is 4685 lbs. The curb weight of the Model S is 4647 lbs. The Model S is lighter than the gasoline car in the same class and price bracket.

Efficency isn't hard to see - in the case of pollution its co2/distance. coal power to charge your battery isn't going to be any better for the environment than economy fossil fuel cars. Its not my opinion, a simple google search would show you this if you took off your fanbois goggles.

Really? Truly? Sorry, those links are probably too hard for you. They require you to calculate the efficiencies yourself by dividing. Here, let me help you.

2012 Coal 33.8%
2012 Internal Combustion 32.8%

Coal is more efficient. Not a lot, but it is. It's definitely not radically worse, or even slightly worse. So shifting from petroleum to coal for transportation is a gain, made better by the fact below about the efficiency of electric motors in transportation applications.

Also you are highly misinformed with electric motors, they are often 80-95% efficient when very lightly loaded and are near 50% efficient at peak power at half the no load speed - these are basic facts even a high school student should know.

Really? I guess you haven't made it to high school yet. I'll just describe the graph for those who won't follow the link. At 10% load the tested 25 horse power premium efficiency motor hits 80% efficiency. At 40% load, it hits 97% efficiency and it never drops below that, all the way out to 160% of its rated load.

and yes 10, 20, 30, 40 years from now we will replace our industrial electrical power production with better sources, but cars last 10 years at best. So right now the wrong thing to do is buy electric if you care about pollution.

My infernal combustion car is 14 years old, thanks. Right now, if you care about pollution, and can afford the gasoline-competitive electric cars (either of them), you can also afford to cover your roof in solar panels from one end to the other. I can't, just yet, but someday I will. At which point I won't care what "industrial power production" is doing.

Then again I don't suppose facts are your thing.

I replied with links. With numbers. You didn't. You should stop typing now.

CO2 and temperature fluctuations.

As I ask in my revisited post: If this is not done to be manipulative why is the adjective "exponential" only used when discussing profits, growth, etc.. and not done for costs, losses, or anything negative?

What you aren't getting is that whether or not terms like "exponential" have marketing value is a completely different question from whether or not a particular curve matches an exponential model.

Yes, fancy terms invoking rapid, continued growth have marketing value (i.e. are manipulative). If they were claiming, say, factorial growth then it would be obvious that they were lying or performing some kind of trickery to get that result. Instead they're claiming exponential growth, which has the virtue of being a correct model for past growth and good marketing copy.

Now, you're going to point out that firms report annually. Yes, they report annually. If you take those annual figures and graph them you get an exponential curve.

If you believe this is not to be manipulative,

Whether or not it's manipulative is totally orthogonal to whether or not growth at a fixed percentage over any time period is "exponential" (it is, period).

The parent posted a graph of Google and Facebook revenues over 5 years. Irrespective of any marketing value of the term "exponential," the curves drawn in the graph are (mathematically) exponential in character. If you're going to keep arguing that these specific curves are not exponential - despite the evidence of your own eyes - then I don't know what to tell you.

I don't think you understand what growth/interest/etc. rates are. There's a silly exercise they sometimes make you do in junior high or intro business courses where you calculate "simple interest." Basically that takes the form of amount = principle + principle*interestRate*time. That is linear growth (it's easy to see the y=mx+b form) and your comments make a certain amount of sense in that light.

Nobody who's not trying to rip you off uses "simple interest." If Google's year over year growth rate is 20% that means in 2014 they grew by 20% of their 2013 size, not 20% of their 1995 (or whatever reference year) size. That gives you the sum of a series where:

amount = SUM( lastYear*(1+rate))

as opposed to "simple interest" which is:

amount = SUM(firstYear*(1+rate)).

If you work out the analytical form of that series (hint: it's a simple geometric series) you end up with the exponential growth formula I gave you in my previous post.

I've always been a little surprised that people don't see the problem with expecting the value of their house, their savings, or the economy to grow by a certain percent every year. Perhaps it's because they didn't ever get past that "simple interest" exercise and really think that growth rates are linear as opposed to exponential.

Want the graphical gut check? Here's a graph of US GDP:

https://andrewjohnharrison.fil...

Here's Google and Facebook's growth:

https://businessmodelinnovatio...

All are clearly exponential.

I don't think you understand what growth/interest/etc. rates are. There's a silly exercise they sometimes make you do in junior high or intro business courses where you calculate "simple interest." Basically that takes the form of amount = principle + principle*interestRate*time. That is linear growth (it's easy to see the y=mx+b form) and your comments make a certain amount of sense in that light.

Nobody who's not trying to rip you off uses "simple interest." If Google's year over year growth rate is 20% that means in 2014 they grew by 20% of their 2013 size, not 20% of their 1995 (or whatever reference year) size. That gives you the sum of a series where:

amount = SUM( lastYear*(1+rate))

as opposed to "simple interest" which is:

amount = SUM(firstYear*(1+rate)).

If you work out the analytical form of that series (hint: it's a simple geometric series) you end up with the exponential growth formula I gave you in my previous post.

I've always been a little surprised that people don't see the problem with expecting the value of their house, their savings, or the economy to grow by a certain percent every year. Perhaps it's because they didn't ever get past that "simple interest" exercise and really think that growth rates are linear as opposed to exponential.

Want the graphical gut check? Here's a graph of US GDP:

https://andrewjohnharrison.fil...

Here's Google and Facebook's growth:

https://businessmodelinnovatio...

All are clearly exponential.

Picking up on the "hovering" in the summary "Now memorialized accounts will have the word 'Remembering' hovering above a person's name", I was going to ask a sarcastic question along the lines of whether there would also be a "tasteful" angel's wings icon alongside the "hovering" text.

But looking at the linked facebook page" all I see on the example is "Remembering" placed above the person's name. No apparent "hovering".

The words actually used by Facebook are "We’ve also redesigned memorialized profiles to pay tribute to the deceased by adding “Remembering” above their name", so why does the summary use "hovering", which seems just wrong?

Have fun explaining that to the feminazis.

That's kind of a strawman argument, as according to them PIV is always rape

Hey has this occurred to anyone during a Top Secret Clearance investigation by the government? All this happened to me in the last three years and my life is basically ruined. What happened to me is profiled on the blog address below: https://dictatorialgoverment.w... I've tried contacting as many law firms as possible but none would take my case. Also all Federal Government agencies including the Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney's office, and the FBI declined to take my case. Does anyone know what I can do to notify the public and the world in general what a vicious and horrible government the United States has and officials there could physically hurt someone and commit felonies and get away with it.

Arithmetic is not math. Here is an example of actual math: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/

Exercise: There is a gap in the reasoning in the link above. Where is it?

Because the people behind gtk3 are actively hostile to everyone but the GNOME project. Not only breaking functionality that non-GNOME projects need, but seeking out GTK applications and pressuring them to remove functionality just because GNOME Shell no longer uses it.

Details and further criticisms are all over the web; a couple starting points are here or here .

GTK is generally seen as a dead end these days. Many if not most of the folks who develop GTK apps that aren't part of the core GNOME project are scrambling to port to QT or something else. And GNOME itself is a struggling project and has been bleeding market share for 4 years now.

The Video in question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Jail for deniers:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p...
http://dailycaller.com/2014/03...

Murder:
Comment by Bluecloud
https://twitter.com/RichardTol...
There are many more... some directly from Greenpeace. But I'll let you do your own research.

Death penalty:
https://tallbloke.wordpress.co...

...8000 word bile filled rant full of lies when he got dumped...

Yet another person who never bother to actually read The Zoe Post. It's amazing really. Of all the things which get completely misrepresented and demonized during Gamergate, that post gets spun out of context the most. The polar opposite treatment is given to the "Gamers are Dead" articles by the way.

The only reason it's in any way related to the games industry or ultimately Gamergate is due to one, brief, hilariously and critical throwaway line

Friggen Nathan Stupid-Red-Pants-Wearing Kotaku-Writing Grayson.

In a way the differing ever changing advice regarding nutrition is no surprise. Conducting studies on people who you can't really control poses lots of problems when collecting and analysing the data. This can create a situation where different studies seem to come up with different results and then journalists or people with a vested interest can run away with the results they favour, over blowing the facts to fit their agenda.

Now I will contradict myself and say that really nutrition advice hasn't changed, well at least science based nutrition. Eat a varied diet, avoid overly processed foods and simple carbohydrates, more importantly do lots of exercise. Only then worry about what number of eggs are optimal for health.

What really bugs me about nutrition is a new wave of "scientific based" advice which is contrarian to most other previous advice. A good example is the idea that saturated fats are good for you and carbohydrates and vegetable fats are bad. A number of highly moderated posts above link to the article The Questionable Link Between Saturated Fat and Heart Disease by Nina Teicholz. The article is a condensed version of her book which gets an absolute pasting The Big Fat Surprise: A Critical Review; Part 1. She accuses scientists of bad practice and hiding data, yet quote mines studies leaving out the conclusions which undermine her thesis.

Another Slashdot poster gave a link to what he claims is the page from the book in question:

https://leonsmom.files.wordpre...

depicting a pregnant woman in an illustration, he explained.

To be fair, The specific illustration is kinda hot: https://leonsmom.files.wordpre...

Kids need so much -- nature; human interactions; emotion coaching; music; manipulating blocks, sand, and water; physical exercise; and so on. Computers (or other screens) crowd that all out so quickly as a "supernormal stimuli". Sure kids can learn computers young, but the human mind is adapted to grow a certain way within a natural environment and an extended family/tribe. Best to avoid computers/screens as long as possible IMHO, as it will happen soon enough anyway. We did not let our kid have much screen time until around age four, and I still feel that was too soon, and rapidly became a losing battle after age six to eight or so. Sure, like you I'm proud of my own kid's accomplishments with computers, but I also realize they come at a cost of other missed opportunities.

BTW, John Taylor Gatto essentially says "gifted" programs are a scam, carving off those who might otherwise be natural leaders and making them a cog (if that) in a bigger system of social control.

The Albany (NY) Free School and its high school equivalent are examples of places that gets a lot of things right, IMHO.
http://www.albanyfreeschool.or...
https://tubmanschool.wordpress...
"Harriet Tubman Democratic High School is the only democratic educational institution for teens in the Capital District. We offer a supportive and personal learning environment for young adults from diverse backgrounds. Our staff strives to teach young adults how to think for themselves by encouraging critical discussions and respecting student input into their educational process. Our students learn self-motivation and, in the process, discover independence and self-reliance."

Contrast with, at the other extreme, a place like Choate Rosemary Hall,in the words of one of its students, Alfredo Brillembourg '16 News Staff Writer:
http://thenews.choate.edu/arti...
"In his essay about elite education, writer William Deresiewicz asserts, "Elite education forgot that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers." This idea of higher education refers to a stage of formal learning that further cultivates young minds. Indeed, Choate is an establishment of higher education and it excels in its academic teaching. In light of this, Choate has very high expectations for its students and acts upon them by assigning heavy homework loads, frequent assessments, and rigorous course work. Although this method does promote good habits and a high level of learning, it does not encourage students to think for themselves because there is simply no time for us to do so.
In response to this stress-inducing environment, students are forced to figure out the system of boarding school, rather than actually taking in what they are being taught. Choate scholars need more time to be able to relax and embrace their studies. Choate must steer away from teaching kids to cheat the system of higher education by supporting a more innovative learning environment that will allow kids to appreciate what they are learning, rather than simply learning it for the grade. Choate's methods for education must work toward teaching kids how to think for themselves because it will allow for more success in life as a whole, rather than simply teaching how to succeed through the system of higher education.
The pressure and demands imposed upon students at Choate force kids to resort to techniques such as last-minute studying and memorizing, which are not conducive toward actual learning and will harm students in the long run. The large workloads are a huge source of stress for students, and they cause students to lose interest in pursuing other subjects because they have too much to understand at once. Likewise, the long hours of school and sports combined wear students down, and rather than appreciating intellectual topics outside of school, kids are too caught

So you're going with "think of the children...err...grandparents". That always goes over well on ./. Exhibit A:

"Many of these deaths could be prevented and are known as “excess winter deaths.” Age UK said countries which experience much colder temperatures, such as Finland, Germany and France, have significantly lower winter death rates than the UK, because the UK has the oldest houses in the EU."

Apparently there are other factors involved besides heating oil prices. Then there is the classic "they turk urr jerbs!!!" Ignoring all the jobs that would be created with large scale clean energy adoption....not to mention stability. North Dakota is about to loose all the jobs they just got because Saudi Arabia feels like it. And I guess you didn't see any of the examples I cited where sweeping environmental regulations were put in place that fixed the potential problem without any overall economic damage. (For exhibit B see my other post)

Murray Salby. I'll refrain from the ad hominem on him and leave his personal history as an exercise to the reader even so it provides an obvious motive for being a denier (whoops I did it anyway). His argument seems to boil down to something like "natural CO2 emissions fluctuate and follow temperature rather than the other way around and are greater than man made emissions so AGW is no big deal" which might sound like a eureka moment (i.e. Everyone accidentally had it backwards!) but is in fact wrong:

https://andthentheresphysics.w...

Whatreallyhappened...classic data cherry picking for misdirection. I've debunked those enough in similar threads, I'm over it.

Indeed the climate has always been changing. It has been much hotter and much colder on earth. What that statement ignores is that neither of those conditions supported human society! The current bout of climate change is different because it's being caused by humans at an extremely fast rate. Sure the earth will recover but human society might not. If you think elderly deaths are bad, what happens when all of our farms have to move 1000s of miles and the 90ish% of humans that live within ~100miles of a coast have to migrate?

"I'm happy to be corrected" ....sadly, human nature suggests otherwise.

Transhumanism is currently a hodgepodge of religious nonsense, visionary science fiction, and practical self-improvement. I confess I am a bit swept up in the romantic ideal of it. I love the idea of human improveability in the form of intellectual and technological advancement, extended lifespans, higher quality of life, and even post-scarcity economies.

The religious nonsense part of it is best embodied in Ray Kurzweil's singularity (also known as the nerd rapture), the idea that humanity will soon upload our minds to computers and live forever. I can't imagine us not having this technology before the end of the century--especially with efforts like the UK's Human Brain Project and America's BRAIN Initiative AND a proof of concept with researchers mapping a worm's brain into a legobot and having it "come alive". HOWEVER: I also don't pin any personal hopes for immortality on this research because we are making copies of our minds, so even if my mind joins the singularity, I will still die--probably bitterly jealous of my immortal self having all that virtual sex in technoheaven.

For me, the science fiction of transhumanism is all about vision and inspiration, and not about dreams of salvation and immortality like Kurzweil promotes. The science fiction part of it is most accessible through Star Trek, but in reality our transhumanist future will probably be more like the wild visions of Charles Stross' Accelerando, or my personal favorite the Quantum Thief Trilogy by Hannu Rajaniemi. These books drop you into settings filled with Matrioshka brains (Dyson Spheres made of computronium), and force the reader to confront all the uncomfortable otherness that comes with virtual life.

Another great science fiction resource is the Creative Commons Eclipse Phase RPG, which takes place in a future where humanity has colonized solar system and extended out into the Oort Cloud. Each planet and environment requiring different engineering and culture adaptations to survive. You can download all the books in PDF format. These books are a fantastic jumping-point for the imagining what a post-human future might look like.

This all said, I am not a fan of Sirius' encyclopedia. I was looking for practical, real-world things I can do right now to enhance my life through science and technology. Instead, I got very thin treatments of many subjects, overstatements of medical advances, important subjects left out (like the 19th Century Russian Cosmism movement (precursor to transhumanism)), and a general lack of leads to new areas to research. I get way more information from Wikipedia-surfing than I got from this book. I do appreciate his efforts though. If he gets more people into the idea of transhumanism, then more people will collaborate on it, we'll have more hacks for better living, and more people thinking about the future and human progress.