You're ignoring or missed another point from the study. The study observed eye movement. Single-spacers and double-spacers BOTH showed a decrease in eye movement when reading double-spaced text. The conclusion shouldn't be that it's "faster" to read but that it's "easier" to read. The (limited) evidence supports that conclusion.

I can't tell if this is supposed to be in support of or against the two spaces rule. Are you suggesting that newspapers conserved "space and ink" by putting more space after a sentence?

No. It's not what the majority of America wanted. Nor is it what the majority of Americans voted for.

Everybody seems to have their own theory about why Puerto Rico is "poor" but where are the "rich" Caribbean islands? Puerto Rico is poor because they're an island in the Caribbean with a population over 250,000. Too many people and not enough resources. Just like every other island in the Caribbean. Why does anybody think it's more complicated than that?

I thought the debate was regarding temperatures and you're using "desert" to argue/justify your point, but desert has nothing to do with temperature. It's based on precipitation.

I'd say it's a safe bet that the contract has some number of provisions that stop the 100-day counter for bureaucratic delays. Otherwise there'd be nothing stopping the government from dragging their feet and forcing the project past the deadline just for the free battery.

It is an indivitual bias that equates "educated" to "smart." But one that occurs all too often, for certain.

If I'm not mistaken, then you are only exempt from sales tax for an online purchase if the retailer does not have a local presence. So, is it any surprise that the guy is from the state where the world's largest retailer is headquartered?

I'll leave the debate about lost revenue for another day. But this is nothing more than WalMart taking a shot at Amazon.

Point taken. And in the case of my brother's school system they are making a point to address this. They have computer labs available before and after school, and it is my understanding that they are going beyond that for special cases.

My brother is a math teacher who convinced the board of his school system to let him try it in two of his classes. Now the entire school system is moving to Khan for the math program.

The major change in his teaching format is that learning a new concept is now homework (through Khan Academy), rather than him droning on about it in class. Then every morning he gets a report for each student and can see who did well and who didn't. That allows him to concentrate on the students that didn't get the concept in class. Overall he has seen a major improvement in the class as a whole since fewer kids get left without a good understanding of the fundamental concepts.

My brother is a math teacher at a junior high and does this, sort of. He assigns the new concept and practice questions as homework (via Khan Academy), rather than spending the entire class teaching it. Each day he gets a progress report for each of his students and can then work one-on-one with students that had the most trouble with the lesson, or break the classroom up for group work and spread out students that did well and students that didn't.

Overall he says he has seen a tremendous difference. More students are grasping concepts and those that would have done well anyway are actually doing better.

It certainly doesn't replace a good teacher, but it could probably do just as well as a bad one.

I have an Android phone. At some point I installed a game from the Amazon app store that was also available in the Google app store. At a later date I noticed that the Google app store indicated that there was an update available for that game. I got an error when I tried to update the app, and then I realized that I had actually installed it from the Amazon store and that's what caused the error.

Based on that evidence, can I assume that Google is doing the same thing? Either they are collecting data about what applications I have installed, or the phone checks individually for updates and doesn't care about the source from which I installed it (in which case Google could easily build an inventory of what is installed based on those queries). Or perhaps that was a one time event due to a bug or glitch.

So, serious question here. Was the old Macbook Pro too thick? It seems like it's not really going to make an appreciable difference unless you really need space for one more magazine in your bag.

This is where Palm missed their opportunity. Had they built a central command and control feature into WebOS I firmly believe they could have unseated RIM as the goto choice in the enterprise (given that they would have also had to release enterprise acceptable hardware). WebOS is still the best multitasking environment on a mobile platform. Add to that the ease with which enterprise web based apps can ported to and developed for the platform, and they'd have had a pretty strong argument.

I would add a Zune Pass to the list of killer features. I know that anything with "Zune" attached to the name is mostly assumed to be a joke with its own punchline, but for the price I don't think you can beat the deal. I hear that Spotify has a pretty good argument against that but I wouldn't know because I don't have a Facebook account, which is required to sign up.