I don't think you know how actual research works. There are many researchers working independently and even with drug companies to develop cures. A magic bullet that can cure a multitude of disease would make the people/company rich regardless of how much it actually costs.

Unbelievable you actually got modded to +5...

Mod parent up. The farmer used the beans for an unintended purpose, and tried to buy beans on the cheap.

Even if you hate Monsanto and the related patent laws, the farmer is in the wrong here.

The strong light coming from the left-area is consistent with a bounce flash. The left-most person has a high amount of directed light, while the rightmost does not. The rightmost is also shielded from the potential flash behind the person carrying the right-most child. If a bounce flash wasn't used, then perhaps a strong reflection from the sunlight from an object. Also, if a remote flash unit was used, it may not show on the metadata.

The picture looks processed, but mostly to bring out the shadows and highlights. Not sure what the rules of the photography contest are, but not submitting the original raw is a little suspicious and this whole mess could be cleared up easily by the photographer.

Many technologies in physics are classified as nanoscale, such as nanoparticles 100 nm. I've heard it also defined for 300 nm. Nanoscale simply means in the nm-range.

To get 1 nm resolution, you would need a "pico-scale" device.

I have no need to block static ads. I get annoyed at ads with motion though, but they're easy to block. Animated gifs, just hit ESC in Firefox, they stop.

Then I use flashblock which disables all flash-based content. I can selectively choose any content to view it, such as youtube videos and the rest of the flash ads are still blocked.

Ads still get through, and I'm not annoyed at all the flashing/blinking and bandwidth-hogging ads as they are blocked or stopped. Easy.

Seems to require a facebook or google+ account. While I have both, I do not want my rss reader integrated into social apps.

There's been a few cases of people being completely cured of cancer by programming their immune system. Of course, there have also been a few catastrophes, such as when the researchers didn't realize the same protein the cancer exhibited also appeared in another area of the body, so the immune system naturally attacked both good and bad. Patient dies.

These massive awards go to researchers who have made truly novel discoveries. They tend to be older researchers past their prime who have already reaped rewards of their research (fame and likely money).

Funding for general research in life sciences has dipped to an all time low, with success rates less than 10% (it was much higher before the economic crisis a few years ago). The top amazing research by big groups still gets funded, but there is still some excellent work that goes unfunded, particularly by young up and coming talented researchers. These young investigators don't yet have a name for themselves, and unfortunately that impedes their ability to get grants and thus do their research.

The Gates foundation is an excellent example of how this can be done -- In today's economy, I would prefer to see something similar than a massive pot going to a few amazing but well established researchers. Of course this wouldn't have made the news if it wasn't over the top...

In drive by wire shifting to neutral or any other position doesn't do anything when the electronics that control it malfunction. Dunno about the key, but that might be true also.

Patent applications are abused right now. There's too many vague patents out there, and many have prior art. The time to invalidate a patent, and cost of litigation just makes patent law ridiculous.

Patent applications should be screened much more thoroughly, but of course, this just means that it would take longer and be more expensive. Something needs to be done, but abolishing patents is not the way to do it.

Or maybe you just have a strong immune system. There are others not concerned with cleaniless who get sick all the time.

I've bought textbooks from overseas before as they were 1/4 the cost of a one here and nearly identical (paper is cheaper, quality control is non-existent and rarely some chapters/questions are different). The textbook explicitly says not for purchase or resale outside of India (or whatever country).

He made $37,000 in revenue according to the article -- this isn't just a few books, this is an import business he set up. In this case, the student bought and sold them for profit. This is clearly trying to circumvent the publisher's distribution methods.

The publishers are douches for marking them up massively for first world countries, but it's their right and they're within the law to do this. They rightfully went after him. Will they get paid? Highly unlikely, but at least they prevent copycats.

Again I think the publishers are dicks for gouging students, but, until a law is passed preventing this, or another method of textbook distribution is created, they can do this.

Sure it is. You know how expensive a professional engineer costs? How about several engineers and other employees? These companies don't sell millions of hearing aids a year, it's a niche market, with lots of products to choose from.

It's a good thing insurance covers the cost, unless you live in the USA -- then you're screwed and can only afford 10 year old tech...

So the ball might be going 10% slower at the catcher -- the calculation still gives a number near 1000 fps, good for a ballpark figure. Also, they may have recorded at a very high rate, but skip frames during playback to show reasonable detail at a reasonable speed. They may use the full frames to analyze the motions that we cannot see from the videos they have posted.

It also has to do with how the drivers respect cyclists. When I was in Japan, the drivers were highly respectful of each other and those around them (generally, and compared to North America). Compare that to the other extreme, the middle east where cycling is also extensive. Cyclists get hit all the time -- a car I was in bumped a cyclist and everyone just went on like it didn't happen while I was in India.

Perhaps in Japan people don't need helmets as you say, but they should be used in other places. I use a helmet when I cycle to work, my head is too important to worry about my hair!