The article got it right:

It's not as if you would ever need to denature methanol. Denatured alcohol is typically ethanol with 10% methanol (a toxin) added. Such a formulation is also called methylated spirits.

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I find it amusing that one of the antidotes used to treat methanol poisoning is ethanol.

or "I HAVE HERPES"?

Does anybody remember seeing a movie called Cube 2: Hypercube?

Wow. (That's "wow" spelled backwards.)

Lead ISS Flight Director Bob Dempsey was asked that during the most recent mission update briefing. (He discusses the problem in his initial remarks at 5:00, and answers the fit test question at 12:50.) He replied, "The main reason is the Center Disk Cover that we are installing was on orbit for many years before it could be fit checked on the module. Similar Disk Covers were fit into the module, but not the actual flight hardware, and not exactly in the configuration with the Cupola mated to the Node 3 as well." He later said that "every Center Disc Cover is a little bit different" (while discussing the Cupola relocation at 17:15) but didn't elaborate on it any further.

ISS commander Jeffrey Williams removed two bolts from a Cupola handrail mount which gave just enough clearance to install the center disc cover, but at the time of the briefing the ground engineers were still determining if the clearance was sufficient to proceeded with the relocation of the Cupola to the Node 3 nadir port, or if they should remove additional pieces and delay the relocation by a day. They eventually decide to go ahead with the relocation as is, and shuttle pilot Col. Terry Virts and lead robotics mission specialist Capt. Kathryn Hire will be relocating it in a couple of hours.

Watch it all live on NASA TV.

Fixed that. (Or did SpaceX recently make a more specific announcement?)

Focus-follows-mouse without raise-on-focus makes tons of sense to me. Something along the lines of FVWM's sloppyFocus makes it even better.

For a good video of the philosophy behind RPN, see Rocket Girls Ep.2:

What are the values of delta v1 and delta v2?

But some of those numbers have seven digits...

You have a calculator, don't you?

Right, right! ... the heck is this? There's no equals key!

Of course not! Don't you know reverse Polish calculation?

Of course not!

Oh, really? In that case ... I'll take five minutes to cram its operation into your head. When I'm done with you, you'll never be able to use a regular calculator again. Prepare yourself.

Toward the end of Administrator Bolden's presentation at the National Press Club (0:48:40) he mentioned that "game changing technology enables us to go to Mars in days, not months". Is this grounded in any reasonable expectation of propulsion development over even the next several decades?

To gain a sense of the openness of Skylab, check out some of the old video of astronauts "jogging" inside around its circumference, such as this. Then compare it to a tour of the ISS.

I've always assumed that to be one of the biggest sources of resistance to RPN. Those who are uncomfortable with math can use algebraic entry without thinking about the meaning of the problem.

Has the entire Space Station Biological Research Program gone down the drain? Their planned experiments seemed the most important science that could be done on the ISS, but I believe that they depended on the rack space, glove boxes, and centrifuges of the CAM.

Agreed.

In the mean time, in order to determine the feasibility of such permanent outposts, we need to pursue two biological research programs -- medical mediation of radiation exposure and understanding long term low-g exposure.

While one can be done on earth, the other can't. We have a lot of information on long term micro-g exposure but we know nothing about the biological effects of long term low-g exposure. Since we have a LEO presence, why in the world did we abandon the Centrifuge Accommodations Module which would have permitted such experiments on test animals?

How much of a blow to low-g biological research was the cancellation of the Centrifuge Accommodations Module? It seems that a good amount micro-g biological research has been done (and hopefully will continue to be done during the next ten years), but very little is known about low-g effects. I would think that multiple generation vertebrate (lab rat) study of the effects of prolonged 1/3 and 1/6 g exposure would be critical to understanding the issues of a mars mission or a lunar base.

We have one spare shuttle external tank beyond the current manifest, so even if the shuttle is retired, the program could be extended for one more flight. (Early Augustine Commission discussions suggested this as a good idea for a number of reasons.) Could CAM construction be restarted and rushed to completion in time for a launch 18 months of so from now?

Imagine an ambitious mars program that spent the next decade with humans not traveling beyond LEO, but doing the serious research needed. After five years or so of low-g biological research on the ISS, long term human exposure tests could be done in a spinning "habitat on a cable attached to a counterweight". That way, after ten years of accelerated rover exploration and materials and technology development, we would have the knowledge to plan a serious mars mission, quite possible involving one-way trips and permanent stays.