In California, you could buy this car and get $5,000 state and $7,500 federal tax credits - lowering the cost of the car by $12,500. The standard gas version of this car is looking to run ~$16,000... well equipped probably $20k. So long as this is in the same ballpark, you -could- be driving an EV for under $10k, and that is a steal for a brand new car.

http://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2011/06/17/rumors-and-the-rising-river/

Local solar astronomer here - Current global warming trend is definitely not Sun driven. We went through a prolonged period of solar inactivity over the last 5 years and what do you know, temperatures kept going up. We also monitor the Sun in every conceivable wavelength and from multiple angles, so it would be pretty hard to have some significant amount of energy hitting us that we don't know about.

This guy should have let the "honeypot" article sit around and see what happens first, rather than having the explanation article AND have it be posted on slashdot. Doing this interferes with the experiment by making it less likely to be picked up - anyone who reads the slashdot article (or the article it links to) first will not believe and propagate the honeypot article.

There was not a single female ("Eve") alive at that time, there were at least thousands of females, and those females were all reproducing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

This image explains it pretty well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MatrilinealAncestor.PNG

go and just grab all the GPS transmitters and put them on city busses or something and then watch the church ppl looking stupid.

You don't need to help them out, they look stupid on their own just fine!

Timothy McVeigh was a white, middle aged, Christian, army veteran... And he killed 168 people. It is the second deadliest act of terrorism in the United States, behind 9/11.

Profiling someone based on their age, gender, religion, race, etc, is not only unconstitutional, it also doesn't work.

I was thinking the exact same thing!

Its not like they randomly selected this guy off the street, swabbed his johnson, and said "This might be the rapist!"

They must have already had pretty substantial evidence to be able to get him, so really the low probability doesn't matter, because 1/13 means that 12/13 chance it would have cleared him by finding someone else's spit on his stick. The DNA evidence still makes the case against him stronger.

GUILTY!

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I am so sick of news reports claiming that if you alter one entangled particle, that the other entangled particle is affected too - like if you push one, the other one moves. IT DOESN'T!

What happens is if you measure the state of one particle, and then you measure the state of the other particle, they are always equal (or opposites, depending on the entanglement type).

Think of it this way... You have a CD burner that burns two CDs at the same time and puts random data on both, but the random data is identical. Obviously, no matter how far away the CDs are, if you read them, they contain the same information. There is absolutely zero information transfer going on here!

Carbon-12 is stable. Carbon-14 is not stable, and has a half life of about 5700 years.

Carbon-14 is generated in the atmosphere by cosmic rays hitting a Nitrogen atom, and the atmospheric concentration of C14 to C12 is about one in a trillion.

Natural atmospheric CO2 can be created with any kind of Carbon atom, but fossil fuels will only create C02 with C-12 atoms (since the C-14 atoms would have long decayed). So if we find out that recently the atmospheric concentration of C(14)02 to C(12)O2 is different than the concentration of atmospheric C-14 to C-12, then we can determine the quantity of CO2 in the atmosphere that is created by burning fossil fuels.

Following along that same line of data, we can also take ice core samples and examine the atmospheric makeup in the past, so that we can verify to check natural levels of C(14)O2, and ensure that they are much lower than current levels.

I am not familiar with Thomas Friedman, but it seems to me like his explanation of the evidence is just a bit dumbed down so that he doesn't have to explain the periodic table, isotopes, stable and unstable atoms, decay rates, and the other sorts of things that average day-to-day people gloss over at. :)

I always thought micro started with a u.

I have a question... If we already have laws that prevent animal cruelty, then why do we need a law specifically for having sex with an animal?

If you ask me, the process of butchering millions of chickens, cows, pigs, and sheep every year is far bigger deal for those animals than the perhaps ten thousand a year that are forced to have sex with a human.

I don't think that we should put people in jail for bestiality for the same reasons I don't think we should put people in jail for having anal sex or a scat fetish. The law should not be used to dictate morality, and no matter how icky you think something is, there is someone else who enjoys it.

This isn't news. I got in trouble for all sorts of shit when I was in school, and I don't recall ever trying to make a news report about it.

The school bans candy, the child disobeyed, the child is punished. Seriously, that's all. I got in trouble for running when I was in school - that doesn't make them fascists, and the school wasn't just trying to make an example out of me, and my parents didn't get enraged and scream at the principal. No, instead, I stopped running, I took my punishment (Staying after class), and that was that.