Superposition, wave function collapse and other quantum effects are supposed to govern everything. But I don't seem to recall any such weird experiments that do not involve any particle traveling slower than the speed of light.

Are there any such demonstrations that involve only interactions between particles having nonzero rest mass?

Make sure to explain the scenario to the contractor up front. In detail. More than once. Give them a chance to raise their offer to include this. Ask them again how certain they are about their ability to estimate their bug rate. Let them sign a separate page describing this in simple language.

Have a process to clearly separate bugs that are covered by this from modifications for which they are paid separately. For some small things that are arguably not bugs but modifications let them have the benefit of the doubt and pay them for it, anyway. Make sure they know it.

I think it can be done.

I wonder how this affects high-accuracy geodetic GPS measurements. The GPS coordinate system is defined by the Earth's axis.

Ground control to Major Tom! Your ammonia leaks, there's something wrong. Can you hear me Major Tom?

It would be nice if someone could smooth the motion in this video with a plugin like Twixtor.

If you are investing in a light source that will not need replacement for a decade then why, exactly, do you care so much about it being shaped like a light bulb?

LEDs don't like heat. Packing the equivalent of a 100W incandescent in a shape that pretty much minimized surface are to volume ratio is a very bad idea for heat dissipation.

LED light panels make much more sense.

Construction of the first Westinghouse AP1000 reactor unit at Sanmen Nuclear Power Station started at April 19, 2009. It is planned to go online at October 2013.

The AP1000 is a pressurized water reactor using passive cooling and safety systems i.e. it does not rely on engineered systems like pumps or electricity for safety - only passive effects like gravity and convection.

Yes, it's a big upfront investment. But ongoing fuel costs are negligible so the overall cost of produced electricity is not much more expensive than coal. If you add the health and environmental costs of coal that are forcibly paid by your neighbors then nuclear is cheaper. Of course, if construction is delayed for 12+ years because of incompetent regulation the interest costs of that delay will balloon out of proportion.

BTW, my signature line below has not changed in the last couple of years.

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There is a little known form you can find on the USPTO that lets you ask for your patent not to be published until granted, just like in the old system. If not granted you can still try to keep it a trade secret.

The catch is that you can't use the filing date as the priority date for international patents. The reason patents are normally published after 18 months is because of international patent treaties.

IIUC, this proposed change is meaningless - you can already get it now if you are willing to give up international priority and keeping patents secret and still getting priority is impossible without renegotiating those treaties.

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We live in a world of information. So let's teach them about information. What's the meaning of information? How has it been encoded, stored, reproduced, processed and transmitted throughout history?

It should include some material about the concept of processing information by an algorithm, but I'm not sure actual programming classes are really for everyone.

A CCD was operated at 100 Hz instead of 50Hz (PAL) and alternating frames had different exposure times. The two interleaved video streams were merged in real time into a high dynamic range image and then compressed into a standard dynamic range image where details could be clearly seen in both dark and bright areas.

This was connected to a videoconferencing system and worked very well when the room lights were turned off for a projector. You could see both the presenter's face and the projected image. A standard camera showed the projection as a white washed-out rectangle and the rest of the room around it was almost completely dark.

Kites use two orders of magnitude less material than a turbine of equivalent swept area. Water is two orders of magnitude denser than air.

This is starting to add up to something that doesn't sound so diffuse any more.

Thermodynamics governs the maximum efficiency of powerplants based on thermodynamic cycles. IIUC, electrochemical powerplants like this fuel cell can exceed thermodynamic efficiency limits (but not the conservation-of-energy limits based on potential chemical energy of the fuel, of course).

I challenge anyone to find a quote from Lomborg suggesting that he questions climate change or its anthropogenic origin.
He does, however, make a pretty convincing case that focusing on it diverts resources and attention away from some other very serious issues. But I guess it's easier to vilify him than to actually LISTEN to him.

A magnetotorquer applies torque, not thrust. It's a nice propellantless way to maintain orientation, though.