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  1. stome tools used in documentary "Chimpanzee' on World's Oldest Stone Tools Discovered In Kenya · · Score: 1

    Disney documentatary about orphaned boy chimp adopted by a male adult (unusual). They used stones to crack open nuts. It is not an easy skill to learn. They did not reshape the stones. This suggests stone tools used many million years earlier than than this.

  2. Steward Brand has interesting high tech solutions on Can Civilization Reboot Without Fossil Fuels? · · Score: 1

    His credentials include co-founder of Earth Day and early computer bulletin boards.

    http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Ea...

    He proposes urban living, nuclear power, and GMO, to chargin of faux-liberals.

  3. 100-200 "energy slaves" per citizen on Can Civilization Reboot Without Fossil Fuels? · · Score: 1

    Various googled websites calculate fossil fuel usage for every citizen int he developed world is equivalent to the labor of between 100 to 200 slaves in the old days. (not including their upkeep) Granted a lot of this is wasted in our luxurious "suburban plantation" lifestyle. But could a standard of living be kept in fossil fuel free society?

  4. teachers resisting beyond the basics on Senate Draft of No Child Left Behind Act Draft Makes CS a 'Core' Subject · · Score: 1

    It means more work to design new courses, more certifications, and more areas of evaluation. Since teachers are a major part of system, you have to get them to buy in.

  5. induced quakes have been around for decades on The Arrival of Man-Made Earthquakes · · Score: 1

    The most famous induced earthquakes was Rocky Flats outside of Denver in 1965. It was a waste injection well like these fracking-waste wells. Colorado also has had M5 quakes from agricultural salt water injection in the west near Rangley and coal methane waste injection south near Trinidad.

    Quakes may be associated witht loading or drainign of large water dams. The 2008 Sichuan China quake could have been one of these.

    Geothermal energy projects sometimes have induced quakes. Most geothermal project inject water for heating.

  6. something in the natural world on Slashdot Asks: What Will You (Or Your Kids) Learn This Summer? · · Score: 1

    Must take a vacation from screens now and then.

  7. possibly more video games than internet on Outside Beijing, a Military-style Bootcamp For "Internet Addiction" · · Score: 1

    It just that these are played in computer cafes rather than at home.

    Heavy veido game use is an issue for some young men in the USA.

  8. precedence of merging faluls in China & Japan on Fault System Enables Larger Quakes In California · · Score: 1

    The 2011 quake that clobbered the nuclear reactors in Japan was three historic faults going off at once and one of the largest quakes in recorded history- a rare M9 quake. Although there was a Tsunami seawall and nuclear shutdown systems, they had not designed for this large an earthquake.

    Ditto the 2008 China Sichuan quake- it broke several nearby faults, resulting in a unexepctedly large quake. Neither China nor Japan had seen quakes this large in these areas in over a thousand years of recorded history.

    So USGS seismologists are rightly concerned whether this could happen in the US.

  9. Re: 13 prequels/sequels explain all in gory detail on Coup in Arrakis Capitol Leaves Region in Flux · · Score: 1

    I usually just read the sequels once. There is little clever subtly like in Frank's volumes which I have read several times.

  10. Lucas gave them a lot of money on Why More 'Star Wars' Actors Don't Become Stars · · Score: 3, Informative

    He gave the principal actors 1% of the first movies or a very profitable continuing income source. Takes away some of the motivation to work. https://uk.yahoo.com/movies/ho...

  11. Udacity's failure at San Jose State on The End of College? Not So Fast · · Score: 1

    Since almost half of SJS admitted studies needed remedial instruction,the "tech solves all problems" crowd in the form of MOOC house Udacity proposed MOOC remdial courses. However, remedial students are least likely to have the motivation to do self-learning and the project was a huge failure footed by CA taxpayers.

  12. 13 prequels/sequels explain all in gory detail on Coup in Arrakis Capitol Leaves Region in Flux · · Score: 2

    Son Brian Herbert and scifi hack Kevin Anderson wrote at least 10,000 pages filling in most of the gaps in the story, including the origins of the two families. Kind of takes the fun out of it when it is all explained to you.

  13. extreme narcissim on Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Among young people with all this attention to detailed fitness numbers and the gadgets that generate them.

  14. cellphones used to banned in gyms on "Google Glass Isn't Dead!" Says Google's CEO Eric Schmidt · · Score: 1

    mainly due its camera
    now I see them all over the place

  15. high school science fair project yet? on Scientists: It's Time To Resolve the Ethics of Editing Human Genome · · Score: 1

    My threshhold for a open entry technology is when I see it in a science fair project. A high school student interning in a relatives college or industrial lab could very well do such a project.

  16. "strong incentives" rather than requirement on Musk Says Drivers May Become Obsolete, Announces Juice-Saving Upgrades · · Score: 1

    Like acess to freeway lanes, or much lower toll freeway lanes.
    Like much cheaper insurance.

  17. why not sedative overdoses? on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    It seems to happen to celebrities on a regular basis, especially if they've lost count of doses. And it should be painless too, knocking you out before killing you.
    The faulty "three step method" uses a sedative in the first does and then two more toxic chemicals after that.

  18. contracts says possible location device on Hertz Puts Cameras In Its Rental Cars, Says It Has No Plans To Use Them · · Score: 1

    This was in a country where there was tempting, illegal offroad driving.

  19. running out of unique songs? on $7.4 Million Blurred Lines Verdict Likely To Alter Music Business · · Score: 1

    Hundreds of thousands of peole have been writing music for centuries. I'd think we'd start seeing some "blurring" of songs now and them. Also one may have a subconsious memmory of music they heard before, but think is new.

  20. common with 19th century novels on Some of the Greatest Science Fiction Novels Are Fix-Ups · · Score: 5, Informative

    Including famous authors like Dickens and Hawthorne. You'd get a new chpater in every monthly magazine.

  21. urinalysis used in eastern medicine on Dog Sniffs Out Cancer In Human Urine · · Score: 1

    The one I heard most is Tibetan medicine - inspection and smell or samples. Their partitioning of disease is different too, so its not exactly what western medicine it looking for. I suspect that for some aspects of urinalysis the human nose is as sensitive as an analytical machine and can be trained. A dogs nose is even mroe sensitive.

  22. similar to classic fingerprints on On the Dangers and Potential Abuses of DNA Familial Searching · · Score: 1

    Which as much as an "art" as a tested science. In situtations of a partial fingerprint there are fewer characteristics to match a database. And they have been incorrect in the past as in the case of the Oregon lawyer mistaken for a Spanish terrorist. Although you may be given the broad odds of a mismatch, I wonder what if there have been actual studies. For example, randomly reduce fingerprint caharacteristics until there are multiple partial matches and see if any are correct.

  23. remove bad YY posts with downvotes on Yik Yak Raises Controversy On College Campuses · · Score: 1

    Musg like Slashdot operates. It takes five downvotes.

  24. what is your favorite Nimoy scene? on Leonard Nimoy Dies At 83 · · Score: 2

    (This can be his non-Spock roles too)

    Mine is when he silences the loud music punker on the bus in whale movie.

  25. strange photography hobby on Leonard Nimoy Dies At 83 · · Score: 1

    He lliked to photograph large female nudes in a teastful, artistic way. Kind of like when Ruben painted them.