It sees more cases, so numerically there are more overturned. On average it's rulings are overturned about as often as any other circuit court in the country.

My dad bought a house on the edge of a cherry orchard, eventually Fairchild built a plant across the street and then promptly leaked solvent into the groundwater. My sister and several of her friends ended up with large amounts of settlement money due to possible health effects. The Santa Clara Valley was known as the valley of heart's delight and was world renowned for it's stone fruit, especially apricots. It was fun growing up surrounded by tech companies, on the other hand some of the world's best farmland is now fallow.

We're actually not doing too badly, we have higher income inequality and more poor people but we educate those poor people better than most countries.
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-poor-international-student.html

Meg Whitman...

That's not true, the color comes from the same pigment astaxanthin. The amount in the feed determines the color and can be tailored by the farm. Admittedly farmed salmon is horrible and is a bit like raising lions for food...

Getting to hang out with Felicia Day...

If it's unproven, your insurance company isn't going to cover it, period. So these types of companies are emotionally extorting people by charging high fees in addition to using you as a guinea pig. If the treatment was given for free, as it usually is in proper medical trials it would be a different matter.

Because the average patient doesn't have the background to understand what they're getting themselves into. Without laws to the contrary snake oil salesman can claim whatever they want about a treatment or medication. Do you really want to live in the 19th century?

If it costs $45 for a 5 gallon batch you're probably selling extract beers with liquid yeast. As an all grain brewer who can yeast wash and buys hops in bulk I can knock out 5 gallons of APA for ~12-15 dollars.

Can't tell if humor?

You can't seriously investigate intelligent design, it's not science. Any sane university should run anyone who thinks it is out on a rail.

No, those are different species by at least most of the definitions of the word.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species#Definitions_of_species

Dude, that's the benefit of being a scientist. You get to wear Cosby sweaters or Hawaiian shirts and it's not only socially acceptable it's almost required.

To require no maintenance whatsoever, because there's nothing worse than a car that doesn't work or has issues that make you unsure about driving where you want to go.

Seriously, I could've guessed this after reading this
http://www.amazon.com/Watching-English-Hidden-Rules-Behaviour/dp/0340818867
This is essentially a birdwatching guide fort the English, which the author finds horrifying, but there it is.