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• Commented on Tumors Can Grow Faster Than You Think
  "And I was saying that vaccinations are a primitive form of medicine (even if vaccinations save lives) and that we should be upgrading our minds to come up with more sophisticated understanding of the immune response so that we could...
• Commented on They Might Be Giants' awesome new kids' CD: HERE COMES SCIENCE!
  Fantastic "possibly the best kids' song ever written about falsifiablity in hypothesis formation" This is a small niche, though. What is the 2nd best kid's song ever written about falsifiability in hypthesis formation?? ;)...
• Commented on Spacemen are transmitting silent little floaty vlogs at planet Earth (also: laptops in orbit!)
  several reactions: The lighting for photography is so excellent Do they have to go through and shut off/turn on lights every 45 minutes for sundown/sunrise? They are all so HAPPY. Must be some kind of good (endogenous) drug floating around...
• Commented on Former French President says Bush invaded Iraq to thwart Gog and Magog's apocalyptic mission
  i REALLY get pissed off at people who have a selective memory for important things. So you don't like Bush.. that is registered, fine. But saying that he started the war, by himself, for religious reasons ignores the fact that...
• Commented on Man who walked into Burning Man fire loses lawsuit
  Yeah it's weird, but..... Keep in mind that burning man had to spend money to defend themselves against this gold digger. Some attorney had to take the case with the idea that he would make money from burning man. This...
• Commented on DIY breast lump examination gadget
  I am a breast radiologist, and I think it is important for me to post some scientific information regarding this device for everyone here. You might ask: “this is so simple, why hasn’t someone tried it before?” The answer is...
• Commented on Practical joke cocktails: freeze Mentos into the ice-cubes, add to Diet Coke drink
  More about the why: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14114-science-of-mentosdiet-coke-explosions-explained.html...
• Commented on Golfer's periscope, 1933
  Ok - I am an avid avid avid golfer. The periscope is well within the rules, and as someone has noted above is used to let you know when the green is clear so you don't hit them. Not a...
• Commented on Parent of gamer asks his son to honor the Geneva Conventions
  I'm a doctor, and as such, my reaction to this may be a bit different than some. I would say, looking at the picture, that I would hope this parent would trade off 1 hour of gaming for one hour...
• Commented on Free book on Free Range kids
  I grew up in the 50's and for those of you who grew up later, you can't really appreciate exactly how spot on this is. Most days in the summer when I was 8 on, I never saw my parents....
• Commented on Water ice found on Mars
  Why couldn't it be solid CO2?? It's white It sublimates just asking...
• Commented on Cleveland death ray of 1934
  Note: I'm a radiologist. The device the guy is holding looks exactly like an x-ray tube from that era (in fact one of the organizations I belong to uses a representation of that on their logo.) Now can that be...