You cared enough to comment about it though...

It returns a string. What is null for strings?

I've been using PHP for years, and not two days ago I decided it's probably worth learning python and switching to that for server-side scripts. I got a python cgi script working in about 10 minutes. Then, I just wanted to be able to run python scripts from arbitrary locations on my site. Looking into that, I could not find a single explanation or tutorial website to help me out. Is that just not how python works? Can anyone point me to some resources that will help an amateur familiar with PHP, learn to completely replace PHP with python, on a commercially hosted webserver?

Except this is, as far as I know, the only non-mac laptop with such a high screen resolution, so it actually fills a niche that was previously empty.

Well, by that reasoning, "life insurance" can't exist for anyone, since death is always guaranteed.

Some people are still more comfortable with the laptop form factor, and a discrete keyboard and stand do not replace that design. Maybe the laptop form factor is outdated and dying, maybe not, I don't know. But as of now there are enough people who at least want to keep that an option.

"Obviously, standardized tests aren't everything."

"Test scores have increased since NCLB passed in 2002. Reading scores also are up slightly, and girls achieved parity with boys in mathematics. This is a monumental victory." What?

Tolstoy isn't really western, is it?

It's just kind of odd to refer to it as "a colloid", as if that term were meaningful prior to the mixing.

Where is there a solver in open office?

How does an unaccounted leg from a huge explosion with dozens of deaths imply a conspiracy?

FTA:
"In their time study with the Yupno, now in press at the journal Cognition, Nunez and colleagues find that the Yupno don't use their bodies as reference points for time – but rather their valley's slope and terrain. Analysis of their gestures suggests they co-locate the present with themselves, as do all previously studied groups. (Picture for a moment how you probably point down at the ground when you talk about "now.") But, regardless of which way they are facing at the moment, the Yupno point uphill when talking about the future and downhill when talking about the past."

"In earlier research, Nunez found that the Aymara of the Andes seem to do the reverse, placing the past in front and the future behind."

The second example seemed odd to me, but makes a lot of sense with your analogy.

Put 12 cells in each car. Replace 1-12 as needed.

I suppose it's closer to infinite than, say, the color green is.

You take (sales in 1999) - (sales in 2010) = $8B, the loss in sales for one year, and compare it to $58B, which is over an unspecified time period. This comparison does not make sense. Maybe it's more clear in the video, but I didn't watch it, because I can't skim it.

I'm no fan of the recording industry, but come on, don't be disingenuous about this.