Canadian bills are printed in Australia, that's where the plastic bills were invented. https://www.thoughtco.com/cana...

Totally agree, google scholar, also Researchgate. From the article: "This is the first time we have something at this scale open to the public with no copyright restrictions". Hm.. Sceptical.

Indeed, the two largest countries are rather under-represented. As many have already commented: what's wrong with a globe or google earth?

I didn't read too far, but how was the impact of aging in space disambiguated from the impact of the transportation process? Shaking and high accelerations come to mind as potentially significantly impacting the whisky. We certainly know these to affect beer...

Trouble is, the moment you step out of your role as a scientist to actually fight for something (stop gathering data, start inciting action), you're no longer considered a scientist, and are instead labelled an activist or politician.

Still, looks interesting. Has anyone read this an/or the (shorter) 2013 essay by the same authors, and of the same title? http://www.mitpressjournals.or...

Breaking news: gamers better at playing games.

I'd missed Edelman until now... he doesn't seem to come up as much in conversation as the others. Looks like good reading. What/who else can you recommend?

Time to revive Elon Musk's Life to Mars project? http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3698