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  1. Endo/Entero-symbionts on Continued Rise In Autism Diagnoses Puzzles Researchers, Galvanizes Advocates · · Score: 1

    My bet:
    * Endo/entero-symbiotic microorganisms

    Known to alter behaviour in insects and small mammals

  2. Re:write it yourself on Does Anyone Make a Photo De-Duplicator For Linux? Something That Reads EXIF? · · Score: 1

    or python, using 10 lines.

  3. Re:Crap on Swiss Federal Lab Claims New World Record For Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 1

    not 4.696 gigawatts!
      4.696 Megawatt! ~ 5 Gigawatt
    off by a factor of 1000

    powerplant ~ 5 Gigawatt
    evac zone@100w/m2 ~ 100 Gigawatt

  4. Re:Keep looking at it... on On Second Thought, Polaris Really Does Seem 434 Light Years Away · · Score: 1

    rename it to "stella endermanis"

  5. Agricultural rather... on What Did Google Earth Spot In the Chinese Desert? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Looks to me to be some kind of agricultural/horticultural research. Some structures are clearly old defunct greenhouses and plastic tunnels.
      Big U-shaped building may house offices. Big blue-roofed building to the right looks like a chicken farm.
    North of complexes is what looks like a dried riverbed, a possible source of water (subsurface). /T

  6. Re:Guh? on Better Brain Implants With Ultrathin Carbon Fiber Electrodes · · Score: 1

    within neuron the signal is transmitted by charge..

  7. Re:What? Practicing biology? Unlicensed? on Debate Simmers Over Science of Food Pairing · · Score: 1

    Its both actually...
    olfactory receptor proteins in the nose... neurons firing... local inter-neurons combining the signals....
    chemical neurobiology/chemical ecology
    (ecology as it relates to other organisms... (plants etc.)... think kairomones! /T

  8. Two US "newspapers" writing highly inaccurate articles are your proofs of European stupidity? /T

  9. Re:Yeah, I think Neal is a few decades ahead on th on Neal Stephenson Reinventing Computer Swordfighting, Via Kickstarter · · Score: 1

    Try out Albion swords.... Really good... I highly recommend the Lichtenauer.

  10. Re:Huh? on Ask Slashdot: Wrist Watch For the Tech Minded · · Score: 1

    I sometimes do quite sensitive elctrical time-series measurements (in a faraday cage).... phone location-updates, messages and calls shows up on these measurements -> can't carry phone... /T

  11. Journalism on Iowa Rejects Video Privacy Protection For Cows · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Trying to outlaw this kind of undercover journalism, would in my view be to undermine democracy.In my humble view, this kind of legislation heads the road to FASCISM. There is a couple of other words for it, but this one fit well enough. /T

  12. Re:GATTACA is the most realistic on NASA Names Best & Worst Sci-Fi Movies of All Time · · Score: 1

    didn't have a medical condition.... just a gene increasing the risk of having a medical condition.... big difference

  13. Re:Long gone on NASA Solar Sail Lost In Space · · Score: 1

    correction... not Neutrino
    Tachyon.

    http://www.startrek.com/database_article/tachyon-eddies
    Know yer starrytrek

  14. Re:Eminent Domain on Pirated Software Could Bring Down Predator Drones · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just declare the IP a state secret. The market value is then zero, as the company cant sell it legally. Buy it from the company for 1 cent. Then classify the contract as top secret. If the company complains, send the people to jail or gitmo.

  15. Eminent Domain on Pirated Software Could Bring Down Predator Drones · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the CIA really needs the IP, they could just declare it as eminent domain. Problem solved.

  16. Re:not a real tractor beam on Researchers Create Real Tractor Beams · · Score: 1

    I've seen tractors with snowplows.
    They PUSH snow.

    btw, even though tugboats sometimes pushes, "tug" means pull. "Tug of war" as an example.

  17. Re:Comet my ass... on Asteroids Flyby — 2010 RF12 & 2010 RX30 · · Score: 1

    sorry... not element... filament

  18. Re:Comet my ass... on Asteroids Flyby — 2010 RF12 & 2010 RX30 · · Score: 1

    Thats a cosmic string element right?
    (Star trek reference)

  19. Re:Also well on Sperm Made From Female Bone Marrow, Men Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    There are some cases of XYY and XXY combinaton but YY is non-viable.

  20. Doctor who? on Cheap Blood Clot Detection Device · · Score: 1

    In other news...

    Doctor Who spotted in India! /T

  21. Re:is this even patentable on Amazon Patents Humans Assisting Computers · · Score: 1

    If I remember correctly...

    The spaceship Discovery, from the 2001 and 2010 movies, used ammonia/oxygen as fuel.
    And ammonia can be derived from shit/piss.

    Voila! /T

  22. Re:Ongoing damage, political opposition to change on Inhabited Island Vanishes Forever Underwater · · Score: 1
    ...Every window is doubled paned...
    That have been more or less the standard in Sweden for more than 100 years. Today they are hard to get, most windows have three layers of glass. I guess its the same in most cold countries. /T
  23. Re:where's the mutation? on Study Detects Recent Instance of Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    >Negative pressure is still pressure

    ehhhh , didn't know pressure could be negative.
    That would be like... negative temperature (in Kelvin).

    Maybe relatively negative pressure to opposing pressure but not absolute.

  24. Re:Yeah this bad music is making me sick... on Pentagon Monitors War Videos Online · · Score: 2

    As things seems to be goin...
    something from "Götterdämmerung" would be more suitable.

  25. Re:Peaches? on Has Orwell's '1984' Come 22 Years Later? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually its the kernel that contains prunasin and amygdalin which are cyanoglukosides.
    When they break down in the body, cyanide is released.

    All species in the Prunus genus contains these substances. Mainly in fruit kernels but also in bark, leaves, roots and flowers.

    They highest concentrations of these substances can be found in Apricot kernels...
    A couple of kernels is enough to kill an adult.