Nuclear reactor's steam cooling systems need a large pool of hot water (heated by cooling tubes from the steam turbine exhaust steam) in the base of those huge venturi towers to create a rise of water vapor to cool the system's main cooling tubes inside the towers. This water, taken in huge amounts, can potentially deplete the streams in summer when flow is at it's lowest.

This design, as efficient as power engineers can make it, argues all the more strongly for an infrastructure less reliant on nuclear power. A future with more power demand and less snow-melt run-off forces the politicians to think green.

I'm not going to try to drag out the references, but bone density is not directly hormonally related. It is, however, related. Bone density differences start in childhood. Boys tend to be more competitive and participate in physically demanding activities. They are also more apt to have ADHD issues. Girls tend to be more cooperative and sedentary. How many girls normally ride skateboards, bicycles, and are seen running around in their everyday goings-on? Bone density is directly related to skeletal stress.

IMHO, these are issues that no amount of social engineering is going to change. Accept it. Girls and women have skeletons that are more lightweight as a result.

There were times before household conveniences such as washing machines, vacuum cleaners, etc. where women had to hand wash the family clothes, drag out the rugs and beat them with a stick. Those were the days when it was likely that most women involved in such drudgery didn't face a future of osteoporosis. They died early because they were physically worn out and had lower resistance to diseases and infections, and were slower in healing.

Regarding the cell phone distraction issue, women tend to be more socially involved (husband, kids, parents, friends) and feel the need to stay in communication at times when men don't tend to do so as strongly.

Those designing safer vehicles would do well to try to design in features such as air bags that don't kill at distances closer than 12 inches, telescoping adjustable steering wheels, foot pedals that aren't mounted at a fixed point, seat belt harnesses that are more considerate of feminine anatomy (maybe a system that senses the weight of the driver and passengers, and sets the mount points of the harnesses accordingly). Large-breasted women will always be at a disadvantage in the auto safety situation if they choose not to wear the chest-crossing belt (but if the chest belt top mount point can be adjusted, that may help).

But progress will move forward and things will be safer, if the past compared to the present is any predictor.

Possibly a vapor-point issue. These people wear synthetic or partly synthetic fabrics that may possibly contain solvents which pose no problem at ground level, but in a pressurized-fuselage environment where the pressure is lower than what it is at, say, 10,000 feet, may be below the vapor point of residual solvents and plasticizers. Something for the lawyers to have a look at.

The reason this exists is that the financial complex owns nearly everything, including the legislators and judges. This country as we know it would not exist without a healthy financial complex. This also means that they can get away with predatory practices not tolerated elsewhere in the industrialized world.

"You can't mine coal without machine guns." -- Richard B. Mellon

It seems like an opportunity for Job Interview coaches. I see a new industry growing up.

When parents stop raising monster brats who are taught to believe they're the best, and then run up against ACTs, SATs, College Entrance tests, their lousy high school academic records (it's hard to be a shameless hedonist and an outstanding academic at the same time), this will cease to be a problem. When overrich parents stop needing to constantly bail out their precious dearies of problems with the law that would put other kids in prison for long stretches of time, this will cease to be a problem. BwaaaHaaaHaaah . . .

To those who read energy-related news (no offense intended to those that don't), this is an exciting time for the prospects of electrical energy generation and storage. Wind turbines, photovoltaics (residential and large-scale industrial), solar steam plants, molten salt heat storage, ever-less-expensive chemical battery technologies, decentralization . . . It's a time in which it only makes economic sense to dispense with old and adopt the new.

Anyone who has driven across New Mexico in an East-West direction would notice that there are persistent strong winds that blow through the state's prairies and passes. New Mexico is the home of a lot of Department of Energy talent who I am sure have also noticed this. With the ever-decreasing costs of building giant wind turbines, the only major challenge is to develop a smart electrical grid to efficiently deliver and store the fluctuating surplus energy to provide a 24/7 smooth supply. Photovoltaic electricity, which is also getting cheaper than carbon, is also a major positive consideration for a state that has an abundance of sunshine.

With Win 10 already being so bloated, why don't they put OS images from their earlier history (MS-DOS, Win 3X and up->), Linux, and run these in VMs when an incompatibility crops up? No more problems with those incompatible programs a user/administrator might need. Of course, these VMs would crash from time to time just like in the good old days, when MS was running the BitBlt code 'borrowed' from Apple for their early Windows OSs and not the later Windows with legally gotten OpenBSD code.

The presence of Firefox on the scene moves the overall state of web browsers just by being there, occasionally introducing new features which others might adopt, and giving the web user more options rather than just the Lucrative Interests. Not at all a bad thing.

As the scientist said, it is conceivable to see around corners, in a sense.

Soon we may see as part of a soldier's kit: a headcam connected to his Android Digital Buddy app.

Actually, the carriage making trade never went away, it just morphed into custom auto manufacture, which was huge in the early 20th century before the Great Depression.

After WWII again with small-production (Tucker, Muntz-Jet, Kaiser-Darren, et al.) auto makers and the still-continuing hot-rod fad.

There are hundreds, if not thousands of small auto repair and body shops across the country that sideline in custom auto building/rebuilding. It's a multi-billion dollar industry. The auto-racing industry is part of this.

The point being that there will always be opportunities out there for those with initiative to make a profitable and satisfying life for themselves, rather than dumbly waiting for someone to give them a job.

Hmm . . . What about the Pacific Northwest & California's long-term house values? Maybe the wealth management funds should take a look at the future of major west coast home builders. With fickle leadership, what's in it for the rich Chinese expats/second home owners?

What else would one expect from a company that from its beginnings has bought up all the media companies it can afford and dragged the nation's public debate over to the lunatic right, back to where it was in the early 20th century?

Blame it on my popularity.