I know they target the normal vision for these movies, but the fact is that a huge amount of people don't have normal vision and can't watch these 3d movies well. I have astigmatism, and most others I have talked to with a string astigmatism have a hard time with these movies. Personally, my eyes can't focus well, but I know others that get dizzy or headaches. It isn't main steam because they ignored a huge population base!

This proposal utilizes entropy, like any energy source, not heat. Sure, if it provides a clean energy source, that will help global warming. I listened to an interview on the radio and what they want to do is use the waste heat from fossil fuel plants to produce these high entropy states, and thus tornadoes. It's a great idea, but in the larger context will it increase our reliance on fossil fuels? Or it can be used on nuclear plants to increase their efficiency. I don't know which way it could go.

Or you can read Leviticus

"The science of age of the Earth is the basis of nuclear medicine & power. Should our leaders understand it?" Maybe not understand it mathematically, but I think everyone should understand what 'radiation' and 'nuclear' are. There are so many misconceptions that some people fear everything other don't fear anything. People don't understand just how many discoveries and applications nuclear physics and nuclear medicine has brought. Bill Nye is being polite, since I'm online, I won't. If he wants to deny the age of the earth, then deny him X-ray's, most cancer treatment, MRI's and so many other or our medical treatments. (I'm exaggerating of course, I'm from Saskatchewan where the first medical treatment of cancer using radioactive material was invented and performed, and as a physicist in training, I'm damn proud of that.)

Right now hog farmers are filing for bankruptcy by the droves. Pork prices are extremely low and the high feed prices mean that farmers are losing money on every pig they raise. The worst that will happen is that bacon becomes more expensive.

which is why I'm starting to love my university (university of Saskatchewan, top end physics and comp sci), my computer science department spent a couple years investigating the most successful teaching programs in the field. They wrote their own textbook but just did it in pdfs for us to either print or download or just read online. They told us to return our textbooks (required on the main website to put a textbook). Also my linear algebra prof said any textbook will do, she hates the one the department uses anyway. Tons of books in the library so I just use that. Last, my classics prof said we can use open domain translations as long as we cite the material.

I saved a ton on textbooks this year, only needed one physics book.

Cosmic Rays are high energy particles (mostly protons) that hit our atmosphere. They hit with so much kinetic energy that about 1 MILLION neutrons are created by each particle. Since our atmosphere is mostly nitrogen you get the reaction of neutron + Nitrogen 14 = Carbon 14 + proton. This then forms CO2 that is absorbed by plants (and up the food chain). I'm taking this straight out of one my physics textbooks, I found it pretty fascinating so knew exactly where to find it :-)

I recommend everyone watch this TED talk about how the current stock market works. People don't even know what's going on in the market anymore, it's a completely uncontrolled environment.

"That's impossible, trolls aren't real."

"Then how do you explain all the dead unicorns." Metalocalypse referance.

But that's the point, it's layers of redundancy. You'd have to have failures across not just one center but ALL centers simultaneously. The chance you get of that is the chance of each one going down multiplied together (.1*.1*.1*n).

ok, I agree, it can happen, but the chance is on a logarithmic scale. So, a huge failure is unlikely but it would be...well huge. Data loss is inevitable, why not put things in many area's at once? The 'earthquakes' are easier to deal with for the 'country' but for the individual, they should invest in long term 'earthquake control'. That's probably a HORRIBLE analogy, but it's all I could come up with.

we live in an age where information is distributed, even if statistical. (hell I made a fake Facebook account and somehow they found my mom, and she is no where close to me) a meltdown of information can't happen unless there is a world wide melt down of power. we have backups, but also ways of statistically restoring those backups.

The Quantum Diaries is one of my favorite blogs, it's updated by particle, nuclear and plasma scientists all over the world. They have a great range of topics too, not just about the data coming out of the LHC and the range of theories, but also the life of a scientists, how papers are published, covering conferences, heck even on the day in the life of cleaning a detector. It's a field I'm working to get into, so it's especially of interest to me but I recommend it to anyone interested in the world of high energy physics.

On a side note, there's a write up of what was talked about the the Neutrino Conference that happened last week. Even aside from faster than light travel, they are finding some very weird things

The whole gaming market has this all over it. Not just booth babes but in the games (comic book industry is worse). It's not just the women that are oversexed but them men too, look at all the shirtless brawny action hero's in games. Just wanting to point out booth babes aren't the only sexualized content of the gaming industry.

Intent is the important aspect here. If the person had no intent to plan by a set of rules is he part of the system, if he was using a set of rules to make the plans then he is a control mechanism.