Unfortunately, that article is worthless and I don't know where I can find the actual paper.

While the article describes 1.2% of Britons between 15 and 51 years of age as being "internet addicted, it does NOT tell us how much the likelihood of depression increases among those addicts when compared to non-addicts.

I don't see a discussion of depression rates by age or other socioeconomic factors, either. People under the age of 30 are more likely to have been online their entire adult lives, people from wealthy families are likely to have been online sooner in life. People over 40 have divided experience- life before the internet, and life after - examining the mental health history of this particular subset of study participants would be very illuminating. I honestly would not be surprised if the study discusses all these factors and more.

This moment in history is the ONLY time we will have the opportunity to study differences between people who experienced life without the internet and people who have had access their entire lives, and it's a damned shame that these lousy newspapers distill such interesting science down to water cooler conversation points.

NASA's constellation program was ill-conceived waste of taxpayer money. Florida's been a "purple" state for the past three elections, and NASA has a tremendous presence down here. To argue that cutting NASA's budget is politically motivated is to say that Obama's administrations *wants to lose votes* in the state of Florida, which is patently absurd.

What's happening to NASA is like an alcoholic stopping the sauce. Not only do they save a bunch of money, but they also free up a bunch of time and brainpower to pursue better things.

I hate to break it to you, but playing a game in which your actions have significant consequences for the story and your party is unpleasant for a lot of people, myself included.

I walked away from Dragon Age because I didn't want to have to commit to multiple playthroughs to enjoy all the content the game had to offer. The game was a chore - when you have to look online for character primers so that you don't make the mistake of leveling up characters whose alignment doesn't match your playing style, when you have to sacrifice following interesting storylines because you'll lose the perks or powers that come with strong loyalty, when you have to play the game through 2-3 times to access all the content, it's just no fun!

I've been playing Mass Effect 2 for a couple days now, and and very happy with it compared to their previous titles. The story's interesting, the gameplay doesn't get bogged down with complicated inventory items or repetitive sidequests, finishing a mission deposits you back on the ship (eliminating travel time), and the cutscene renegade/paragon triggers are lighthearted and enjoyable, as opposed to being moral quandaries.

Airbags and bumpers serve two entirely different purposes.

If this material lives up to the hype (unlikely), your next car will feature both items.

I'm curious to know more about the 28mph -> 5mph assertion. That stat was given to the media because it sounds impressive (grant guff), but how does it compare to the deceleration of a traditional auto bumper.

The point is that until car accidents are #1, the motivation to make a sacrifice as significant as the right to drive your own car simply won't exist.

You'll see self-driving cars within a decade of cancer being cured.

If the only major cause of death is car accidents, people will wake up to the danger and accept automation.

Hmm. When I'm reading something like the editorial from the front article, what gesture do I use to navigate to the next page of the article? back to the previous page? How do i pick a single link, optimized for a mouse click, out of the field of ridiculous links you see strewn across the top and left sides of every text site? What about when I go to a site like the NYT, which spawns popups when I click on the screen? How will I scroll down on a site like that without inundating myself with advertisements?

My point is that web developers aren't thinking in terms gestures and mobile applications when they code their sites, and that a lot of the functionality currently present in websites is completely and utterly geared towards mouse users.

If tablet computing miraculously takes off, it will be because the OS is extensible to the web, allowing developers to tweak their products to behave less like websites and more like applications.

One think I've noticed is that websites are poorly optimized for gesture-based navigation? If any novel UI implementations are going to come out of an Apple tablet, this is probably the place to look.

While human core temperature is generally 98.6, our skin temperature is typically between 85-95 F, depending on environment and where on the body the temperature is measured.

Cell plans might become simple data contracts in the near future, and if that happens cell providers will have no problem with letting you run up your bill by tethering. Even if they don't, there are other possibilities:

An ad-hoc network of cars communicating information in real-time about the traffic ahead, able to inform drivers about the average congestion speed so that traffic jams clear up ten times faster?

Social driving, you can cuss out the asshole who cut you off as he speeds away from you, have a good morning chat with people you recognize in other cars along the commute?