Kills 500 Americans per year, you say? I think we could all do with fewer Americans. Any way we could beef up that figure?

That's likely because there wasn't one. It went from 3.1 to 3.5 to 3.51.

Funny...CFLs are responsible for much less mercury emissions than traditional light bulbs if you count the mercury released during generation in even moderately coal rich generating mixes. They're not in any sense worse for the environment. Not that I'm an environmentalist...I've just taken the time to look into the topic.

The latest research I'm familiar with says the Neanderthals probably never went extinct at all, but rather inter-bread into larger human populations and essentially merged with humans. The large eyes thing might have played a role, but I don't see how since the premise that they became extinct due to a weakness (or at all) isn't broadly accepted anymore.

Theobromite has a weak CNS stimulant effect, although it does have other effects which may be more noticeable (elevated heart rate, ...), and you're right, there's more of the stuff. But with caffeine (the more potent stimulant) you're looking at somewhere in the vicinity of 40-50mg/ounce of 80% dark chocolate, which will have a greater stimulant effect than a cup of black tea. Two such chocolate bars is going to be equivalent to a small coffee. That's more than enough to account for the effects I feel when I eat chocolate.

Here's a good article: https://www.amanochocolate.com/articles/caffeineinchocolate.html

Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobromine

This is a commonly held myth. There are other stimulants present, but caffeine is the strongest stimulant in chocolate, by far.

Pentax 6x7. Not the later 67 or 67II, but the 6x7. They really do look like a somewhat larger 35mm SLR with a slightly extended mirror box.

I had my 6x7 mistaken for a 35mm more than once.

1. Film cameras < 35mm were once common and some retro photography enthusiasts still use them (For example the 110 and 126 formats which were both extremely popular at one time. If they're not still made, they were until very recently.) Although to be fair I'm impressed that the author of the poll knew about medium and large format cameras ( > 35mm)

2. Almost all digital cameras are neither fixed-lens (otherwise known as fixed-focus) nor SLR. The most common examples of fixed lens digital cameras are web cams and cheap phone cameras. I'm fairly certain the author actually means point and shoot or compact cameras (very few of which are fixed-lens), but terminology matters. (Read more here.)

3. Mirrorless cameras with interchangeable lenses also fit into none of the above categories and are increasingly popular. (Read more here.)

4. Many DSLRs, especially the more reasonably priced ones are not 35mm. If someone is using a DSLR for casual use, chances are its sensor is smaller than 35mm, generally cropped. I'm not sure what "conventional 35mm size" means here, as from the outside many medium format professional SLR cameras looked virtually identical to 35mm SLRs, especially through the 70s. (Here's one example.)

I send about five a month which breaks the survey.

My university has a maximum GPA of 4.3, for an A+, so 4 is an A, 3 is a B, 2 is a C, and so on. That's why the poll is a little silly. I currently have a 4.2 because I have straight A+'s with one A in my masters program. It's not difficult to get A+'s at this university in computer science, provided you take courses which cater to your skills. (Systems courses in my case.) Besides, nobody cares about your marks in grad school anyway.

I wouldn't trust anyone to know what they look at when they read code. Not because I think they're lying, but because other research shows that people often have no idea how they perform complex tasks. So I'd be very skeptical if even your most candid account of how you code or how you read code showed much correlation to how what you actually do when you perform these tasks.

This is one of the things that makes teaching so difficult. If it were just a matter of explaining what you do, it would be simple, but for many tasks you don't actually know. You have to learn all over again when it comes time to teach it.

I don't know how other universal health care systems are run, but in Canada you have a fair amount of choice when it comes to who provides your care. The government isn't directly making any medical decisions or directly providing patient care. In other words, it's single payer, but not single provider. The government essentially acts as a single insurance company, where choices about what care is given are left up to the attending physician and are subject to available resources as in any system.

It's not a perfect system, but it's also not what most people think it is.

That's a pretty silly thing to say. Canada's system is universal and ends up costing the tax payer less. AND the wait times are similar. Overall, I'm pretty happy with our system and how it stacks up to the patchwork of semi-functional and generally inefficient systems that Americans have to navigate.

Pretty much, yeah.