This will get little coverage in news outlets around the world, but its worth spreading and this article is as good as any to mention it. The Japanese Lower House, in the Diet, passed a bill which set up a National Secrets law. Essentially it is an anti-whistleblower law. It has many of the usual sections present in other countries save for one. The bill sets forth that all information dealing with "nuclear energy" will be considered a national secret and releasing any information without the oversight of the government will basically be illegal.

This means that if something bad is happening at the Fukushima plant, then we have to rely on someone doing the moral thing and telling the world and then going to jail.

The bill still has to go through the Upper House but it's likely to pass without much opposition even though the media and the public have been strongly opposed to it. It seems very likely that the bill is there to cover up any bad information that might tarnish Japan or TEPCO's image.

Japan state secrets bill on track to become law despite protests

How is "drive itself" not an option?!

I think you missed the point, and probably because the OP didn't carry the results of the 'experiment' out to its conclusions. The OP was suggesting that we use games to make concepts in quantum mechanics more intuitive to KIDS. I've always wondered if we can bring the concepts and teaching of harder concepts, to kids at younger ages, if this won't spur more quicker advances because less time is spent in the more valuable years simply trying to grasp current ideas. For example, there was probably a period where basic algebra was considered a "college subject" and not fit for teaching to anyone under the age of 18, yet in most places, the concepts are now taught in high school and sometimes even earlier. Calculus is now becoming a normal high school subject. If we can get these ideas into kids' minds at earlier ages, then later on expanding on the concepts won't be as time consuming and we can move past this period quicker and into more theoretical realms. My brother who is also a physicist often wonders if we could make Lie Algebra regular 12th grade curriculum, what that might do to the advances in math and physics.

I'm going to put my self out and just state that in our current system. Voting for a third party IS a wasted vote, in that it potentially weakens the party that might have been closely matching your ideologies and might have won had you not voted for that matching third party. Its a lot like how the Tea Party has caused a a weakening of the main Republican party, which provides more strength for the Democrats. Telling people to run out and "vote third party" won't solve any of these problems. If you want to truly fix this then you need to overhaul the voting system currently in place.

I feel this video series explains the problem very well and shows potential solutions.
The Problems with First past the Post Voting

Japan's fiber already works something like this. NTT laid a lot of fiber years ago and I believe a lot of it was subsidized. Today they still do the same and when you want to sign up for it you call them and they can run it to your house or room. Then you sign up for an ISP who deals with delivering your data to the net. You pay a bit each month for maintaining the line and the rest for the isp access. It's really convenient and a 100/100 is about 60USD a month.

A thought just occurred.

There's often talk about whether there is a lot of Helium-3 under the surface of the moon since the astronauts brought back rocks containing lots of it. Shouldn't this helium show up in a spectrum analysis of the dirt plume from the crash?

There's a tendency in Japan to place the blame for serious problems on the people up top. For instance, political campaign scandals in Japan, which may often only involve people in the middle of the organization, can and have landed many politicians in jail. It works similarly with the yakuza and likewise with corporations.

So even though the fault clearly lies with the moderators, they're trying to blame the person at the top, the founder.

Then I wish someone would explain to me how WBC can picket almost anywhere with relative ease, but something like "Occupy Wall Street" gets relegated to "free speech zones" out of the way of all eyes and ears.

If that's not censure, then I don't know what is.

Ghost in the Shell just got a bit closer to being real. Now we just need to advance microbot and nanotechnology.

Technology, the result of engineering, is applied science.

I can concur with this. Anytime I hit the heavy crowded areas, Shinjuku, Akihabara, I basically lose my connection a lot. As soon as I'm headed back up north toward Saitama and Ibaraki, signal/connection comes right back no problem. I use a Galaxy S2.

This was brought up on here once before and there was a good solution to this. Go get yourself a gun carrying license first. Get a gun or simply by a part of a gun, like the barrel. Get a gun carrying case with a lock. Also get a heavy duty lock for your bag. When you travel and don't want something stolen from your bag, bring the piece. Tell the counter you are checking a gun (part). Even gun pieces are treated like a whole gun. If TSA wants to check the bag they will need to do it while in front of you, after that you can lock the suit case and they won't be able to open the suitcase after that. This is the gist of it.

I don't know how posted this, but I read it on here and found it to be a very good idea.

Still in use on every modern Japanese cell phone.

It's funny you should mention something like this. In Japan, there is a lack of an online purchasing system. Stuff like Newegg/TigerDirect don't really exist and there are loads of brick and mortar stores to shop at, meaning shopping around in Japan can be quite a challenge. One of Japan's version of BestBuy, YodobashiCamera, actually has a system where you sign up for a point card and then everything you buy and use the point card with accumulated points. It just happens to work out such that the points equal the sales tax usually, and sometimes you even get sales that let you acquire say 5% more points from the purchase price. These points then work as real money where 1 point = 1 yen and you can return and buy items in nothing but points. So if I bought a 10,000yen item I would get 1000 points back if I paid in cash (credit cards only got you 8%). I always thought this system was somewhat ingenious as it sort of created a system where once people started buying big price items from there and started getting points, its likely they would want to continue to return. Even with the point savings though, many other stores still tended to have much better prices on some items than Yodobashi did; you just couldn't use those points there :).