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Comment Re:why not just publish them? (Score 1) 163

We will see a change; either people will pull their heads out of their asses, or they will be removed.

Sorry, but do you mean the people will be removed, their heads will be removed, or their asses will be removed? I'm curious because one of these will require a novel redesign of the guillotine...

Submission + - Atomic Bombs Help Solve Brain Mystery (sciencemag.org)

sciencehabit writes: The mushroom clouds produced by more than 500 nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War may have had a silver lining, after all. More than 50 years later, scientists have found a way to use radioactive carbon isotopes released into the atmosphere by nuclear testing to settle a long-standing debate in neuroscience: Does the adult human brain produce new neurons? After working to hone their technique for more than a decade, the researchers report that a small region of the human brain involved in memory makes new neurons throughout our lives—a continuous process of self-renewal that may aid learning.

Comment Re:facebook is an american company (Score 1) 559

Well yes, it would be an ad sales office, that's Facebook's business. And judging by Facebook's own careers page and the statement in this article where a US representative of Facebook says they pay taxes on their business activities in Italy, it would appear that it is indeed Facebook. Unless you can point to evidence to the contrary, your counterpoint is unfounded speculation at best.

I would also suggest that selling ads means it has at least some control over the site's content, regardless of whether the actual servers are located there.

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