Except for basically every journal in biology...LaTeX is very rare there, and most journals require submission in Word/RTF

Why would you need to worry about directional shifting? Pump water up in one pipe, release water down in another pipe that contains a turbine. No directional shifting necessary. There was a nice article on NPR the other day about a Spanish island doing exactly this: http://www.npr.org/blogs/paral...

Nope. Pollen = plant sperm. There would not be enough genetic material to successfully recreate the plant without the female gametes (notwithstanding the fact that after 47 million years the likelihood of enough surviving DNA is very small)

Perhaps there's a reason that a formula wasn't saved in a Comma Separated Value file?

And poecilids (i.e., mollies, swordtails, and mosquitofishes), embiotocids (i.e., surfperches), and a few other groups...

sudo apt-get install woosh

That, or they're from Vermont...but probably a little of both

Depends on which side you're on...

Name one administration in the last 50 years that hasn't.

Neither is smoking a joint....but how many people have been put in jail through the "War on Drugs"?

Except that the trend in most mobile phones is to remove MicroSD slots...

You say that like it's a bad thing....

Some people take up shuffleboard in their old age, others take up trolling at /.

Unless, you know, he's playing his own songs.....

What a great idea! How much do you plan on buying? You can probably scoop it up for pennies per gallon....