Neanderthals aren't disabled human beings, they're a completely different type of hominid. Now there's some debate about speciation (whether they're truly a different species than h. sapiens), but calling a neanderthal disabled *human* doesn't make sense. It would be like saying coyotes are disabled wolves. But yeah, there are certainly ethical concerns about cloning a hominid.

A genetic bottleneck is one way to look at it, but diseases that developed in one isolated population can wreak havoc in a different isolated population regardless of the 2nd groups genetic diversity. Look at what happened when Central Asian plague reached Europe in the middle ages... a huge portion of the European population had no resistance and got wiped out. So: bottlenecked low-diversity population, or isolated population with no exposure to the pathogen?

Ahh, thank you. I thought it actually stood for something, but it was just a goofy product name with caps lock stuck in the awesome position.

They detected water.... in the ice? OMG!

Would it kill you to spell out the damn acronym at least once in the article summary?

Maybe they should.

It would only be treason if the spy had been a US citizen. You can't commit treason against a foreign country.

TFA doesn't specify the guy's current citizenship status, only that he was says the guy was originally born in China. He's also 74 years old and in poor health. A 15 year sentence is pretty close to a death sentence at that rate.

Me too. I figured Microsoft simply grafted .NET junk on top of FORTRAN. It's actually a pleasant surprise to find out this F# is actually some kind of functional programming.

I would shoot myself in the foot, but it's dark and the tritium seems to have leaked out of my gun sights....

Cool. If it works with Moonlight and has decent performance, I'll be more impressed.

Makes you wonder how observant the parents really are. A good parent would notice that precious Suzie and Billy can't read, spell or do math, yet they're pulling down straight A's.

Maybe. Although more likely I suspect the failed students don't understand *any* type of grammar, traditional or otherwise. Inability to use proper English indicates the students are poorly read and have little experience writing English. University educations require reading modern literature which, last time I checked, was written in English rather than omgwtfbbq.

Name just 1 scholarly journal thats writaen n txt spk then maybe u got a point.

If you can't pass a basic English test, you shouldn't be admitted to university. TFA says professors are reduced to teaching basic grammar, which undermines the value of a university education. Degrees are earned, not sprinkled out like parmesan cheese (or commas.)

Every $EVIL_GOVERNMENT has laws, too. Doesn't make them right.