LeeHunter | 11 years ago | on: Scientists 'make telepathy breakthrough'
Another masterpiece of science journalism from the BBC!
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LeeHunter | 11 years ago | on: Organic Lawn Care For the Cheap and Lazy
Plant something other than grass. Seriously. I'm experimenting with yarrow in some problem areas on our property: a hot dry and sandy septic bed and some embankments with crappy soil. Yarrow can be mowed much less frequently, looks amazing (better than grass), grows on any soil, chokes out weeds, and doesn't need watering. For shady areas I'm having good results with periwinkle.
LeeHunter | 11 years ago | on: The Reason Pot Is Still Illegal
But when other countries have tried to loosen their drug enforcement policies it is the US that has historically leaned against them very hard with the big sticks of trade sanctions and development aid.
LeeHunter | 11 years ago | on: BBC staff ordered to stop giving equal airtime to climate deniers
Wow. Just a raft of unfounded assumptions there. For example, warming won't necessarily create farmland in Canada (much of the topsoil in Canada is very poor anyway) but will certainly destroy vast amounts of farmlands in warmer countries ... along with devastating the oceans as a food supply (via acidification). Everyone loses with a warming climate.
LeeHunter | 11 years ago | on: BBC staff ordered to stop giving equal airtime to climate deniers
Eh, seriously?
"By 2030, the benefits of these three sets of sector policies would include 94,000 premature deaths avoided annually and GDP growth of $1.8 trillion-$2.6 trillion per year," according to the report. "The policies would avoid 8.5 gigatons of CO2-equivalent and almost 16 billion kilowatt-hours of energy saved, roughly equivalent to taking 2 billion cars off the road. Together, these implementing these policies could represent about 30 percent of the total reduction needed in 2030 to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius."
http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/10643/world-bank-climate...
LeeHunter | 11 years ago | on: Kia rejects Li-ion for Pb-carbon in hybrid car
If the OP works for the company or is a stock promoter it might break some rules. Talking about your own investments (even hyping them) is not against any rules. The Internet is awash in stock forums.
LeeHunter | 12 years ago | on: How the Godzilla Team Designed the Monster’s Iconic Scream
If you're interested in motion picture sound design, you'll want to read about the groundbreaking work done for The Exorcist way back in 1973 http://theexorcist.warnerbros.com/cmp/silencebottom.html
LeeHunter | 12 years ago | on: Wikipedia: where truth dies online
Exactly. Editing WP for money is a conflict of interest unless you're being paid by Wikipedia. Hellbanning is the most appropriate action.
LeeHunter | 12 years ago | on: Wikipedia: where truth dies online
From what you describe, WP was totally correct to ban your organization. Your business model was to inject commercial links into articles. The fact that you think you provided some value in exchange is pretty much irrelevant.
LeeHunter | 12 years ago | on: The Flying Phantom: $40k sailboat levitates two feet above the waves
Back in the early 1970s the Canadian navy tested a small hydrofoil ship for antisubmarine work and coastal patrol. It could travel at 60 knots. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Bras_d'Or_(FHE_400) At the time it was the fastest unarmed naval vessel in the world.
LeeHunter | 12 years ago | on: The LAPD Spies on Millions of Innocent Folks
Some of this is disturbing and some is not. I don't know why the article makes a big deal out of predictive policing and it's roots in counter-insurgency. Putting police officers where crime is likely to happen is just good management. More power to them. I could care less whether the software was developed for Fallujah. Why would you want to put police resources where they're not needed?
LeeHunter | 12 years ago | on: Hyperlocal Neighborhood Maps Reveal the Chaos in Aleppo – Wired
I wonder if the information they are collecting can be just as useful to the bad actors (particularly the government). As in "Oh look there's still an open bakery in this sector! Let's start shelling."
LeeHunter | 12 years ago | on: How Dark Money Flows Through the Koch Network
Not to mention that the Koch bros really only have two items on their agenda. No taxes for rich people and no environmental regulation.
LeeHunter | 12 years ago | on: After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursued him
Why are you talking about "lethal dose" when the issue with atrazine is specifically a proven link to birth defects at very low doses?
LeeHunter | 12 years ago | on: How we found a million style and grammar errors in the English Wikipedia
It would be more interesting to know how that compares, perhaps per hundred words, with other bodies of text, professionaly edited and not.
And, for an article on finding grammatical errors, there were a surprising number of grammatical errors.
LeeHunter | 12 years ago | on: 3 Enemas Later, Still No Drugs
And you are repeating this 'rather bigoted saying' here why?
LeeHunter | 12 years ago | on: Tortured by the Japanese in WW2, a former POW met his tormentor 50 years later
One of the most astonishing books I've ever read is Unbroken, which is the true story of an American pilot (and Olympic athlete) who went through a similar experience as a POW of the Japanese. Well worth checking out.
LeeHunter | 12 years ago | on: Facebook is basically dead and buried with UK teenagers
"Is there some benefit to knowing the fate of Facebook?"
If you care about social media in general then yes, the fate of the world's largest social media platform is tremendously important. If your life or business doesn't intersect much with social media then, no.
LeeHunter | 12 years ago | on: Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know (42 hours of video)
Looking through the lens of 2013 it might sound stupid. In the cultural context of the mid-20th century it was perfectly appropriate. Fifty years from now the word "iPhone" will probably sound like the dumbest name ever.
LeeHunter | 12 years ago | on: It’s a Man’s World, and It Always Will Be
The actual argument was not critiqued, so yes.
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