The conditions of workers in sweatshops are not significantly different from the conditions in English and American factories at the beginning of industrialization. To get from those conditions to the ones we have now, the workers had to stand up for themselves against the bosses and the government. It was bloody business.

I think it is important that the workers empower themselves, not have their workplace conditions dictated by government, their bosses, or, worst, a foreign government. Where you get the revolution part of the industrial revolution is when the workers realize that each of them have goals that may not be the same as their society's goals, and that their own goals matter.

The only way someone can improve their life and work conditions is by seizing the power to make changes themselves, not by having change dictated. Only people who have taken power are people who are able to rule themselves. People who accept conditions given them, no matter how sweet those conditions are, are still working for the man and not living their own lives.

Uh, no. There is no such thing as “scientific proof”. There is scientific evidence, which can be very convincing, but nothing is ever certain. There are logical and mathematical proofs, but those are different things.

Yeah, if I ever come across one of those I'll let you know. Don’t hold your breath.

Nobody has stopped farmers from producing seed crops except themselves. The enormously higher productivity of modern varieties of wheat, corn and rice developed in the Green Revolution are the only things that allow the planet to support six billion (with a 'B') people. In fact, it is only because of the surplus food that is produced that we have all the choices in heirloom varieties that I see at my local grocery store. When I was a kid, there were only one or two choices of tomato, big and little. Now there are a dozen choices in all colors and sizes. The same abundance of choices is available in many other foods.

Developing and producing these new varieties required enormous investment in time and money, and then it took more investment to make them available to farmers worldwide. Learn something about the man who fed the world and how he did it.

D'oh. Never mind. It does say they have to look at the ad, at least for a second.

But TFA says nothing about going so far as gathering information on who is actually looking at the billboard, only who is present. That's a pretty significant difference and they don't fall into your positive feedback loop. Also, even if you see that 57% of the audience are male, 18-35, you'd still want to reach out to the rest about 43% of the time.

That's because being in orbit is falling towards the ground but moving horizontally fast enough to miss.

Nope, sometimes things just die. Like passenger pigeons and dodos and Tasmanian wolves. They didn't turn into something else. They didn't leave any descendants.

Wow. Wings are not flaps of skin. They are limbs. Next time you eat chicken, ask for a wing. Tear it apart. That hard stuff in the middle of it is bones, just like the bones in your arms. And feathers came before wings - turns out they are excellent protection from extreme temperatures and lighter than hair. That's why humans use down comforters and coats instead of bearskins to keep us warm.