Good idea, taxes should be calculated based on mass and distance travelled. I don't see why these both can't just be reported on the tax form, or audited during renewal of the registration.

You really should watch the presentation all the way through. He deliberately states that there are good (neutral) and bad forms of sugar. It is the manner in which the different sugars are metabolised that determines its health risk. Glucose can be used by any cell in the body, but fructose needs to be metabolised by the liver. Fructose doesn't have the short term effects of alcohol, but it is metabolised by the liver in essentially the same way and causes the same health problems.

The problem here is when people say "sugar" is toxic, they specifically mean the ingredient used to sweeten many of our foods (table sugar, high fructose corn syrup). You don't say, I'd like two lumps of sucrose for my coffee, you just say "sugar".

I understand that there is a lot of crap diets and unverified "science" out there, but this doesn't seem to be the case if you actually listen to what he says.

I'm a little confused about placing tabs at the top of window above the address bar. They say it gives the tabs top visual priority, but it seems the opposite to me. If you are browsing webpages amongst different tabs, then surely placing the tabs at the bottom is better since that reduces the distance between the tabs and the content on the page. Plus, tabs at the bottom reduces visual interference from a largely irrelevant address bar. I'm hoping this will be customisable, but putting it at the top of the page as a major feature seems daft.

It's unlikely all paper editions of books will cease to exist. The record industry is probably a good model for what will happen. The vast majority of content is digital, but there is still a strong niche market for vinyl. Vinyl is adored for the experience it provides, much in the same way paper books are.

Lesley Hazelton in her TED talk about the koran stated that there isn't any mention about getting virgins in the text. She compares this to the imagery of angels in heaven which similarly has no mention in the bible.

It would make more sense to get 10 results based on facial recognition and then use other data to narrow the list based on other evidence, rather than continuing to rely on one aspect that is already known to be prone to error.

They already put their Japanese citizens in concentration camps for "national security", so I'm not convinced your plan will work.

You'd still think they'd offer both formats, with one of those "What is this?" links, like you often see with ogg downloads.

It's been done, although the output isn't labelled as "music" but as a "sonification". In this way you can quickly get an idea of the flow of your code, rather than solely relying on your eyes to interpret the overall structure.

This seems like the type of devices they use for speech analysis in relation to tongue position. I wonder if this can be adapted for language coaching, or perhaps for field measurements of languages used in remote areas.

Is it really any different anywhere else? If you polled any community in any country I'm guessing a majority would know more about their sports teams compared to the history of rockets and space exploration. It really is a case of "our stupidity knows no borders."

This all happened way back in the early GW Bush administration. It's unclear how many of these guys are still around. The article is definitely worth a read. There was talk of shooting down passenger aircraft over some of the "intelligence" gathered by his software (ok, so it wasn't really considered, but the fact it was suggested at all is alarming). In regards to firing the people responsible, FTA:

Isn't that the penalty for truancy to begin with? They're already going to be fined and detained, so this is offering them a less severe punishment if they can accept the terms responsibility.

Obligatory Perry Bible Fellowship reference: Photo Album