The best part being that all of those enhancements were applied to an area not in the original photo, but recovered via an "uncrop".

arxiv.org is where a lot of math (CS, stats, physics, quantitative bio etc.) papers get put up these days. However being uploaded there doesn't guarantee they've undergone peer review, so caveat lector.

That's why you should support the Federal Research Public Access Act

Most of the statisticians I know use R.

Comparison with SPSS.

Use the same software to predict which teachers are going to act like idiots, and intervene before that happens?

Recursion FTW!

As with any get rich quick scheme, a bunch of copycats will show up doing the same thing only at slightly lower prices. This will solve the problem. How? Well as the copycats compete the prices of these "books" will keep on dropping until profit is minimal, at which point the service offered - nicely bound hard copies of Wiki articles - will actually be worthwhile. With any luck, they'll start bundling the articles into more logical collections too.

Obviously, the one with the goatee is guilty.

There may only be 1 supertasker in 40 for now, but that proportion can only increase if the non-supertaskers carry on trying to multitask while operating heavy vehicles!

Bah, wrong tab. Where's the delete function when you need it?

It seems there's already software (Tribler) that bypasses the need for host sites.

Supposedly the software (Tribler) is already available.

Since this requires shining lights on the object to be digitized from particular angles, two or more independent vision systems (e.g. in driverless cars) would probably interfere with each other.

But if they're really smarter and morally superior, they'll be happy to pay to 'uplift' everyone else too. No really, humor me for a moment...

It's difficult to imagine the true implications of genetic engineering, but I think it goes far beyond making yourself taller or smarter. We're talking about throwing vertical evolution out the window in favor of horizontal evolution. Want someone's genes? Previously, the only way you could get them (and only for your descendants, not yourself) was to mate with that person. But suddenly you can get them for yourself and your descendants, just by making a copy.

And that changes everything.

Because the only reason people compete along class lines and try to keep wealth "in the family" in the first place is that we're genetically programmed to do so. Why? Because people who invested in their families were more successful at passing on their genes.

But wait, with genetic engineering, suddenly the best way to pass on your genes is simply to have good genes that people want to copy.

In other words, once genes are just data, like ideas or, to borrow a Dawkins phrase, "memes", the Darwinian War of The Genes is over. Which means the only important game left in town is the War of Ideas.

And the already weakened ideas of racism and classicism, having no basis outside the War of The Genes - will be among the first casualties in the new War of Ideas.

The iPad screen is larger than 5" though. Sony's Pocket Reader is alright for novels but not for journal articles or other large format PDFs.

Yeah, but this wasn't a medical test, it was a scientific test. The goal was not to diagnose but to further basic research.