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  1. MIT professor Ju Li on MIT "Yolk and Shell" Nanoparticle Promises Longer-Lived Rechargeable Batteries · · Score: 1

    The new findings, which use aluminum as the key material for the lithium-ion battery's negative electrode, or anode, are reported in the journal Nature Communications, in a paper by MIT professor Ju Li and six others.

    In related news, MIT professor Ju Na has some exiting discoveries in Sodium technology.

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  2. Related news.... on ISRO Launches Record 5 UK Satellites, Part of a Long String of Successes · · Score: 1

    the PSLV is on a run of 25 consecutive successful launches

    Malaysia airlines is also on a run of 25 consecutive successful flights without losing a plane.

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  3. Re:Another great Scalia line on Supreme Court Ruling Supports Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    Brilliant! You're arguing to reinstate the bans against interracial marriage.

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  4. Re:Maybe, maybe not on The Town That Banned Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Now, there may actually be a very few people who do genuinely have the problem, but when you come to do the studies, you sample a large number of people. You do the statistics. You do not conclude that there is no link - studies like these cannot show that there is *no* link. You conclude - correctly - that there is no statistically significant link. But there still might (or might not) be a real problem for a very few people.

    This is like people who claim they have ESP and magical abilities. If there were even ONE legitimate case, they could simply walk into a casino and repeatedly win multi-million dollar wins until every casino on the planet bans them.

    All it takes is ONE "electrosensitive" who can consistently answer yes/no to whether an antenna is broadcasting. Much like ESP and other supernatural abilities, so far they do not exist.

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  5. Re:DRM on rentals isn't the same... on Apple Music and the Terrible Return of DRM · · Score: 2

    That logic seems rather bizarre to me.

    They send you a download. They DRM the file so that it's CRIMINAL for anyone else to make a player for that file type. And their music player deletes the file after playing it once.

    So your argument is that DRM is ok because it's DRM'ed?

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  6. Re:Platform lock-in is the end. DRM is the Means. on Apple Music and the Terrible Return of DRM · · Score: 1

    The server just makes sure to stream music only to genuine apps

    You seem to have made a typo. There's not supposed to be a "g" in "DRM'.

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  7. Re:There are quite a few haters on this thread but on Secret Files Reveal UK Police Feared That Trekkies Could Turn On Society · · Score: 1

    Further, if this was in existence a few decades ago, perhaps we would have nipped Scientology in the bud before it landed in the UK.

    If it were in existence ~1400 years ago, perhaps we would have nipped Islam in the bud.

    If it were in existence ~2000 years ago, perhaps we would have nipped Christianity in the bud.

    And I wonder how many readers agreed with my first line, then threw a shit-fit when they got to my second line.

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  8. Re: 23 down, 77 to go on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    Do murderers get their religion before or after committing murder?

    For rape and other sexual offenses, research did specifically find religion as a strong "before" factor.
    I think there was a specific "before" finding for murder as well, but my recollection on that isn't 100%.

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  9. Re: 23 down, 77 to go on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because, as we all know, the internet is filled with all sorts of reliable information! /sarcasm

    Unlike those bronze age oral histories and iron age letters! /sarcasm

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  10. Re:Good thing climate change isn't real! on Larson B Ice Shelf In Antarctica To Disintegrate Within 5 Years · · Score: 2

    I'll see your http://www.tempdatareview.org/ link and raise you a http://www.davidicke.com/forum... link.

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  11. Re:Good thing climate change isn't real! on Larson B Ice Shelf In Antarctica To Disintegrate Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    My first hit for "Global warming"+"times faster" yields this link: As the Earth moved out of ice ages over the past million years, the global temperature rose a total of 4 to 7 degrees Celsius over about 5,000 years. In the past century alone, the temperature has climbed 0.7 degrees Celsius, roughly ten times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming.

    All the opinions you mentioned are, at best, poorly informed.

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  12. Your sarcasm was fully warranted.
    They "discovered" that the dissolution rate is essentially equal to surface area over volume.

    For their next experiment they will 3D print it as a loose powder and see if that has any effect.

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  13. Re:I'll save you 30 seconds of Googling on Sorority Files Lawsuit After Sacred Secrets Posted On Penny Arcade Forums · · Score: 0

    The parent post is a hoax.

    Their secret handshake is actually "the shocker", and their robe colors are "saran wrap".

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  14. Texas Judges on Texas Admonishes Judge For Posting Facebook Updates About Her Trials · · Score: 4, Funny

    Michelle Slaughter
    Earl Gallows
    Trigger Winchester
    Otis Hangem
    Billy Bob Guilty

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  15. Re:Ehhh What ? on Mandelbrot Zooms Now Surpass the Scale of the Observable Universe · · Score: 1

    it's a real shame that the voyager doesn't include a mandelbrot set.

    They were going to include one, but they were unable to complete it by the launch date.

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  16. That's odd... on Denver TSA Screeners Manipulated System In Order To Grope Men's Genitals · · Score: 1

    indicate to the scanning computer that the party being screened is a female. When the screener does this, the scanning machine will indicate an anomaly in the genital area and this allows (the male TSA screener) to conduct a pat-down search of that area.

    That's odd, when I went through the screening and they mis-entered me into the scanner as female, it didn't report any anomaly.

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  17. Edumacated on Why America's Obsession With STEM Education Is Dangerous · · Score: 1

    Full sentences harder. They verbs.
    That why liberal arts and humanities important, otherwise sentences would no verbs.

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  18. HOT BREAKING NEWS! on No, It's Not Always Quicker To Do Things In Memory · · Score: 5, Funny

    NEW SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY!
    For n equal to one million, an O(n^2) algorithm is slower than an O(n) algorithm. Even when the O(n^2) algorithm is run in RAM, and the O(n) algorithm is disk writes being buffered and optimized by the operating system.

    I'll take my Nobel Prize now, thank you.

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  19. Molten Ice on Huge Ocean Confirmed Underneath Solar System's Largest Moon · · Score: 1

    If this magma reaches the surface it could result in lava flows.

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  20. Re:As an Engineer/Journeyman Machinist I can tell on The Origin of Life and the Hidden Role of Quantum Criticality · · Score: 1

    Or.........
    as a computer scientist you could look into the field of evolutionary algorithms, discover that evolution is an applied science used by half of Fortune 500 companies, discover how evolution does work, and write your own code and witness first hand that evolution works.

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  21. Re: Salem Hypothis: Be careful not to paint with on The Origin of Life and the Hidden Role of Quantum Criticality · · Score: 1

    Let's say 30% of the population are creationists.
    Let's say 10% of Engineers are creationists, because creationists are less likely to pursue the field and/or because their education convinced them to no longer be creationists.
    Let's say 1% of scientists are creationists, because creationists are less likely to pursue the field and/or because their education convinced them to no longer be creationists.

    Result: Any creationist claiming to have a "science degree" has something like a 90% chance of turning out to have an engineering degree.... even though engineers are unlikely to be creationists.

    That's the Salem Hypothesis. Creationists claiming science degrees tend to be engineers, even though engineers tend not to be creationists.

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  22. Re:Quantum commuicantion on The Origin of Life and the Hidden Role of Quantum Criticality · · Score: 1

    studies =shown there is no difference in effect between placebo groups and the group receiving EMF radiation

    Which only goes to prove that the negative health effects of placebos can be as severe as the negative health effects caused by EMFs.

    We need a law banning EMFs *and* banning placebos.

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  23. Re:Misleading assertions on The Origin of Life and the Hidden Role of Quantum Criticality · · Score: 1

    If you think organisms can't get rid of solid waste products, you must be full of shit. Chuckle.

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  24. Thank God on How Activists Tried To Destroy GPS With Axes · · Score: 1

    Thank God he did this. If the GPS system had been launched we'd all be dead by now.

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  25. Re:Science by democracy doesn't work? on Science By Democracy Doesn't Work · · Score: 2

    The denialists will still come up with an alternate interpretation of cherry-picked data from some crackpot blog, to prove you wrong.

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