Tooth decay starts early. A great deal of it occurs before puberty, during which time children crave sweets and haven't really gotten the knack of good teeth brushing. Optimistically, 42% of Americans have had a cavity by age 11.

The idea that primitives don't live long enough to have tooth decay problems is silly.

Pot tends to disable the critical faculty. You think you have more creativity because you fail to quickly discard inferior ideas.

Wow. Just wow. You don't think there is a massive legalization campaign?

A typical bachelor's degree in engineering involves no more than 5 courses per term for 8 terms. Discard the wasted 1 course per term of humanities or other irrelevant drivel, that leaves 32 courses total, each of which consists of little more than learning the contents of one book. Look at a college catalog and degree requirements, figure out what those 32 books are, buy them and learn the contents. Buy a computer and teach yourself enough programming to be able to handle some problems in your field, also learn some of the standard software in the field that's freely available (or available as student edition), like SPICE. You are now short of a college education's "well-rounded rich engineering base" only by the absence of some lab courses.

About $4000 plus room and board for the time it takes to learn the material, some hands-on experience, done. As a bonus, no exposure to depraved fellow students.

It's not 1937 any more.

China's aggression is limited by what they think they can get away with.

Ever see a big black box hanging on a line between telephone poles? It's a repeater. A weakened, degraded signal comes in, is boosted and resynchronized, and is sent out as good as new for another XXX meters. Rinse and repeat, just apply money.

Natural selection happens in seconds for unsuccessful prey animals, and sometimes in a single generation in cases of newly introduces disease.

For something operating relatively fast, consider the population of American elms compared to other trees after the introduction of Dutch Elm Disease.

Let's not see the same post repeated by a jerk who is compensating for some lack of size in a critical location.

According to wikipedia Napoleon was of average height (1.68 m, 5' 6", in modern measure.)

Unusually tall women tend to be less curvy and have lower levels of estrogen. This might imply lower fertility.

The Dutch are 0.001 furlongs taller than 150 years ago, or 6.5e-18 parsec.

manufacture enough testimony

Right there you're admitting he's guilty.

No, the defendants, regardless of citizenship.

Obama gave NASA the job of advancing the cause of Islam. From that moment onward, nothing from NASA is to be trusted.

The problem with the federal government funding this is that the expense will not be minimal, and in all likelihood the training will be superfluous. What will happen is gov't money will end up in the hands of proselytizing greenie professors and their employers, to provide less useful information in hundreds of hours than apprenticing 10 hours to a licensed electrician would provide.