As a person who works in a laser lab, I was very offended that existing green laser pointers were dubbed "fake". If anything, having a hand-held diode pumped solid state laser is way cooler than just a plain green laser diode.

Usually what happens is that someone wants to build on another person's research or use their method for their own experiment. If they just can't get the method or experiment to work, questions will be raised, especially if multiple research groups can't get it to work.

The "science" in the entire movie was pretty WTF, not just the red matter. It's much more fantasy than science.

Yeah! When I get into a game, I lose the desire to eat. I think fostering a gaming addiction would be a great way to lose weight because you stop caring about the outside world and your own bodily desires and functions.

I go for strawberry Pocky. Man, I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who loves Pocky during a movie! Rather than buying popcorn and expensive candy at the movie theater, I go to the supermarket and get a packet of Pocky. It's easy to conceal and not noisy to eat.

Our campus cops are not real police. If they see something happen, they can report it or in some cases "apprehend" someone until the real police arrive.

There was an assault on campus last week. The aggressors were around 20 years old. To my sheer amazement, our overweight, mid-30s or older, smart-ass campus security people actually chased them down a few blocks and caught them. There must have been some catch to the story. Perhaps the assailants were overweight, crippled, high or something that would have disadvantaged them somehow...

And you need a complete step-by-step photo walkthru down every residential side street? I can see the value of google street view for finding a business; and given the choice, most of them will opt in to such a system. But why do you need a photo of every residence in the city?

As a person without a car, I find photos of residential areas extremely useful when flat hunting. When someone is advertising their house for rent, they usually only post pictures that make the house look good. I was so happy when google did my town, because instead of "driving past" (which real estate agents here always tell you to do before they actually show you the house) I can just look it up on street view! It gives you an idea of the quality of the neighbourhood, position of the house relative to the sun (hilly town, so you don't want to get stuck with a house that gets no sun), and anything else you can find out by driving past the house.

Perhaps there is more to the article... Have they compared people from cities to people who already live in the countryside? A person who grew up in a big city would be used to all the stimulus, so when the extra "load" is removed, they improve 20% according to TFA. Does this 20% surpass the mental abilities of people who grew up in the countryside?

So city people are some kind of mental superhumans, and once removed from their highly stimulative environment, they ourperform the non-city people.

I think that's just object avoidance.

I've been using Interclue for a while now, and it's not as you describe it. It is actually useful and unobtrusive. The little window only opens up if you mouse over the small icon that appears next to the link. It isn't anything like Snap which is horrendously annoying.