Not to disagree with anything in the paper and certainly not with the message, but personally, I would definitely have wanted to see at least one more condition: same resumes with no names at all. That should give nice baseline against which to compare both conditions (e.g. are female salaries marked down or are male salaries marked up).

Also, I wonder what would happen if one were to replace the names with simply an indication of gender (male/female). Unlike the neutral condition, I don't think this would improve the study... I'm just curious if the gender is enough or if there's something specific about reading male vs female names.

I'm a scientist. I write papers that are published in academic journals and I review such papers for journals. Journals use editorial managers to, well, manage, the entire process and you'd be surprised how often those send out automated e-mails that, helpfully, contain my login and password IN PLAINTEXT, just in case I might have forgotten (even if I did not request the password).

In general terms, if you use a website that is able to remind you of your password if you forgot, consider that password known to the world and all other accounts that use the same or a similar password at high risk of being compromised.

Oh and I have an Obligatory XKCD too.

I see your 1 and 1b and raise you:

1c Heart: to be implanted alongside my existing one so I can go to Dr Who conventions and freak the crap out of them (alt: get laid by the Amy / Rose lookalikes).

(and for other the /. angle: I do wonder what hooking up a second heart would actually do to a human - assuming it was hooked up correctly (for whatever definition of "correctly" makes sense here) and space wasn't an issue.)

I thought rule #1 was "Never let suspects stay together" (and "Never screw over your partner")...

I was secretly hoping it'd turn out they did the same thing to the scewered Bush head that Firefly did to carbonite Han Solo's (one in every episode). I'm still looking, but the boobies keep getting in the way of the bodies...

Philips has a television with a moth-eye coating (just that though; not a combination with other coatings as in Sony's approach) available. Just read the review this morning. Seems a bit fragile though - I wonder if this will also apply to Sony's new film (I guess it won't since that'd be rubbish on a smartphone, but TFA does not actually address it):

Amazingly, it works - but thereâ(TM)s a caveat. The filter requires extreme care, so much so that Philips supplies a proprietary cleaning solution to remove any thumbprint smudges. This fragility makes the screen a questionable purchase for those with young families.

No kidding. Even the colour choices for "Library tools"; "Picture tools"; "Drive tools" in the first screenshot look like they've just resurrected the pastel colour palette.

No. Our constitution doesn't allow you to be arrested for thinking about committing a crime, only for committing one.

You'd be surprised

A more natural interface would be speech

But that would be a terrible main interface. I don't want to talk at my computer for hours per day. And I'm pretty sure that people who, for instance, work in large open plan offices or even in a cubicle farm wouldn't want the 200 colleagues in the same room all constantly yapping away at their computers either. As I'm typing this, others are in the same room watching TV and they wouldn't appreciate me dictating this either.

Typing may not be natural but at least it's (nearly) silent. Which is what an interaction with a computer should be.

belief is the opposite of thinking,

Eh? That makes about as much sense as saying the view from my office is the opposite of a banana.

Belief is the acceptance of something as true (sometimes even though there is no evidence for it). In general, I'd say that a lot of thinking underlies a belief since it has to make sense to those holding it. Of course, to some people, anything that some guy in a big hat (or some ancient book) says seems to make sense without further evaluation, but those are the exception rather than the rule.

The opposite of thinking is what the guys who modded you insightful were doing.

The correct formulation of "every possible pattern" is that given an infinite sequence of letters (or digits) from an alphabet A, where every letter is chosen uniformly, the probability that a given pattern of finite length will appear somewhere is 1.

Probably worth adding that the distribution of digits in pi appears not to be significantly different from the uniform distribution.

Notice how that summary is about a product yet it is almost exclusively filled with negatives? Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the.... anti-slashvertisement.

I wonder what happens if the next story is a slashvertisment and the two touch?

Yeah... note to self: don't post ideas that were generated during a lack of both sleep and coffee until verified once these deficiencies are addressed :)

Right, so new idea: let's just increase/slow down the rotation of the earth until our year's length is an exact multiple of our day's length.

Hmmm - too much coffee?

Rather than messing with the calendar itself, has aonyone ever thought of redefining the length of a second so that leap days become superfluous? What would be the catch compared to alternate calendar ideas (apart from having to modify every clock in existence of course)?

Captcha: redesign - seems to fit :)