Comment Re:English-ish? (Score 1) 578
I've learned the the most common second language isn't English
Submission + - Gamers get athletic scholarships (chicagotribune.com)
MdotCpDeltaT writes: Robert Morris this fall evidently will be the first school in the country to offer athletic scholarships to students who play the video game "League of Legends." It's a move that seems to stretch the definition of sports and athletes.
Submission + - George Lucas selects Chicago for the Lucas Star Wars museum (chicagotribune.com)
netringer writes: George Lucas has will select Chicago over Los Angeles and San Francisco as the future home of The Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts housing his collection of “Star Wars” art and movie memorabilia along with exhibits of the technology of Industrial Light and Magic (ILM). Where else but on the Chicago Lakefront will be it easy to recreate the ice planet of Hoth?
Submission + - The Higgs Boson Should Have Crushed the Universe (discovery.com)
astroengine writes: This may seem a little far fetched, but if our understanding of the physics behind the recently-discovered Higgs boson (or, more specifically, the Higgs field — the ubiquitous field that endows all stuff with mass) is correct, our Universe shouldn’t exist. That is, however, if another cosmological hypothesis is real, a hypothesis that is currently undergoing intense scrutiny in light of the BICEP2 results.
Submission + - Does GE Think We're Stupid? 1
theodp writes: Stephen Few never did suffer data visualization fools gladly. After seeing an oil exec (mis)use data viz to put a positive spin on Gulf Oil Spill cleanup efforts, Few felt compelled to call BS on BP. And now it's General Electric that's got Few's dander up: 'The series of interactive data visualizations that have appeared on GE's website over the last two years,' writes Few, 'has provided a growing pool of silly examples. They attempt to give the superficial impression that GE cares about data while in fact providing almost useless content. They look fun, but communicate little. As such, they suggest that GE does not in fact care about the information and has little respect for the intelligence and interests of its audience. This is a shame, because the stories contained in these data sets are important.' Concerned about his strong reactions to poorly designed data visualizations, Few asked his neuropsychologist wife whether he might be overreacting. She, too, agrees that GE's natural gas visualizations are maddening, which one might be tempted to dismiss as predictable, although Eyeo Festival presenter Michal Migurski also declares GE's effort 'one terrible, terrible bit of nonsense'.
Comment Re:Toxicity? (Score 5, Funny) 218
I think the liquid metal is their server.
