Yes, storm chasers have the right to chase a storm, but they are blinded to the fact that they also have the RESPONSIBILITY to do so safely.

You have the right to go out into the street and start yelling racist stuff, but you'll probably get hurt badly if you do. Storm chasers have the right to be on the roads, but that doesn't mean they're not causing other people harm while doing so.

Anything that includes circuitry would be affected (destroyed) by magnetic storms from the sun. In 1859, telegraph wires visibly sparked across the United States due to a geomagnetic solar storm, the largest recorded in history. I just hope my phone in my pocket doesn't take my leg off.

Indeed, apologies: bad migraine.

*cell=sell ... too many synonyms :-/
"...and sell these renewing stem ..."

Research is a noncommercial endeavour, and as such patent infringement cannot occur. What these "researchers" were trying to do with these brains was something akin to a commercial endeavour, whereby the can extract the stem cells within the dead children's brains, grow them as eternal cell culture and cell these renewing stem cell cultures to real researchers. If they were performing non-profit research, they could use whatever technique the wanted to ... it's like a hobby.

You can go tinker with your car and fabricate a new intake manifold on your own to make it go faster, and not be afraid of being sued for patent infringement because you used some company's design for an intake manifold. When you start racing professionally with that car seeking sponsorships and purses, then you've committed patent infringement.

AT&T offers SMS/MMS/Data blocking on an account. In fact, it's even at online check-out on their webpage. It asks if you want to disable SMS, MMS, or Data from any line so that you won't get charged and won't receive any of those things. You can also opt to pay per use, or to buy a set amount or an "unlimited" amount. Can't miss it.

Also, the higher altitude regions, such as mountains, have higher electromagnetic energy due to being closer to the turbulent atmosphere. It's possible that this could result in hallucinations of all sorts, and explain the many mystic experiences of such regions.

For those that suffer from migraines, these lights and balls should be familiar as "aura", or scintilating scotoma. For migraineurs, these lights last longer because they are caused by changing bloodflow to the occipital lobe over a longer period of time. It most assuredly activates the same neurons that this magnetic stimulation of neurons produces. I would not be surprised of reports of concomitant parosmia, or olfactory hallucinations, with the display of ball-lightning caused by magnetic fields.

Actually, the APOE4 allele that predisposes to Alzheimer's Disease / Dementia also embues its recipients with a higher IQ. The hypothesis is that the brain burns out quickly, so perhaps chess players do become progressively more illogical as they burn out their logic circuits quickly in earlier life.

Indeed, double bravo! Thanks for being rational. I'm also a scientist and I cannot stand the "flimsy house of cards" of climate change that is absolute taboo.

The simple fact that the Climate Researchers in TFA used incorrect statistical methods but "arrived at the correct results" is ludicrous. How can we postulate a "correct result" if the method is flawed? If your method is flawed, the experiment is meaningless. This is the same reasoning that Creationists use: "Here's the result we want, how can we make the pieces fit post-hoc?" If the methods are wrong, the results are not simply wrong, they are meaningless and you cannot extract "correct results" from them.
But of course, climate "scientists" do not do science, it's more akin to social studies. The idea that we, the most advanced species on the earth, have no effect on the climate is short-sighted. But no climate study I have encountered has any scientific method behind it to prove any specific causation. The term "science" is applied to anything that takes effort, planning, or nifty machines that print graphs; but that's not science. Science is like chess: you set up your pieces, or methods, so that the result is irrefutable: checkmate.

The real question you should have used as a rebuttal: does the GMU "video game designer" program give its students the opportunity to CREATE a RESULT that they can use to get hired? If so, golly. If not, it's a waste of time.

Education is a means to an end, not an end in itself. Just because you get a degree does not entitle you to the wonderful career of designing a video game for 60 hours a week while being paid peanuts.

I know a ton of people that would love to think they're getting an education by being taught "video game design". Just because they've taken a few tests doesn't mean they can create a good video game, and no employer is going to take a degree in the place of experience and results to show for it.

If you owned a video game studio, who would you publish? Some guy who sat on his ass and got a degree in "video game design" from some no-name school? Or some guy that programmed and released for free an innovative game over the internet? I'd take the guy that has results. The degree is not going to help you, showing an employer you know what you're doing through a tangible product will get you hired. Bring a disc or web address to an interview, not a piece of paper.

That's the free software developer's fault. They developed and released free software with the intention of it being free, not with the stipulation that if it is ever worth something that they should get a cut.

If those free software developers wanted to go through the process of patenting/copyrighting the software, investing millions in PUBLICIZING IT LIKE GOOGLE/ETC. do with it, and generally provide the support of a large corporation, then maybe they would get a cut of the software.

Software isn't just the code, it's the marketing and more importantly the support from the company AFTER SALE. Free software only works because there is no financial investment from the creators after the point of sale. They get the ability to put it on their resume and hope to get recognized so they can move on up. That's the difference between an IT person and a Business person. Don't blame the business person for taking the IT person's FREE SOFTWARE and providing the billion dollar industry of SUPPORT and MARKETING to back it up.

Armed Guards outside a complex is security through obscurity. The security is in hiding the information inside the complex by using armed guards to keep your adversary out. Wars are won and lost with information, not with guns or bases. This is the real world, not Starcraft.

Your chess analogy is interesting but flawed. Yes you can see all of the pieces, but what you cannot see is the information inside your opponent's mind. That information, that tactical quality, is what is going to defeat you, not the queen and the rook. Again, the battle is with information (knowledge and wisdom), not guns and steel.

I'm a neurobiologist, let me explain. The brain requires the nutrients in the blood to work properly and to maintain its network. Smoking causes atherosclerosis, hardening of the blood vessels, which allows less blood to flow into the brain, meaning less nutrients available for the most nutrient hungry organ in the body. Viz. you brain will have a lower capacity and a delayed response time. In the water-shed regions of the brain, between two arteries, these regions will receive decreasing levels of blood-nutrients, meaning those regions eventually die off. Some of the most critical watershed regions are in the dorsolateral frontal cortex, which is a critical functional area for working memory, basically the region that IQ measures, and executive function or the ability to make the best decision based on the information available.

Sure, there might also be a correlation that lower economic class individuals are more likely to be smokers and also more likely to be less educated. However, I know many high class individuals that smoke leisurely. Ever hear of cigars?