That's indeed a very good point. Nye just seems to be too nice for that kind of task.

Guess somebody has to do this kind of yeoman's work.

Since the students are "customers" I find the high success rate in US colleges rather suspect.

In my experience European professors are far more inclined to fail students.

This is not much to go on but slide 13 has a bit on the vortex development:

http://fire.pppl.gov/FPA12_Richardson_GF.pdf

This thesis though should hit the sweet spot:

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~jgregson/images/JamesGregsonMAScThesis.pdf

A hoax Jeff Bezos invested in. I'll take it you didn't bother to read any of the links.

Try Amazon, after all Jeff Bezos already invested.

Could you explain the profit part to me? That'll be most interesting.

They hold a couple of patents and published three papers (the rest in the list is references on their approach to fusion).

Thanks. Every bit helps :-)

Two 8:9 screens would be fine, but with Word two pages view at 1080p is not quite enough pixels. Just lacking that extra bit of resolution to make it annoying.

Or the company provides the minimum insurance to meet the ACA mandate and forces you out into the private insurance world to get coverage wholly on your own.

I'm not complaining about it mind you, I'm just stating that 1099 isn't the only thing companies are doing to avoid this these days.

Yes, but while the techie whines and sweats it, the musicians put in all the work for the love of it :-)

Only a real orchestra offers massive parallel musicality, and they scale pretty well under a competent conductor.

it was first written about on ancient Chinese turtle shells

Probably even true :-)