Amit Patel

Kilauea is headed towards a town :( - Amit Patel

Oh, shoot :( - Jennifer Dittrich

Scrolling back in time to the 9th, you can really see the advance against certain landmarks. I've looked into the crater of an active volcano and seen the lava bubbling inside, but I've never seen lava flow. It must be amazing to see it move (but not when it's coming towards people, of course). - bentley

Neat version of the periodic table that shows relative frequency: mentions in books, occurrence in the earth's crust, volume, and a few other measures - Amit Patel

Hearing about all the CIA crap made me grumpy. That nobody will go to jail seems to be a reoccurring pattern. But it looks like blue skies, at least for today. - Todd Hoff

Yeah, the CIA crap might've been a trigger that made me look at everything else in a sour way :( - Amit Patel

They claim they can make it rain, and nobody wants to fund them, so … crowdfunding! - Amit Patel

"McMaster researchers find way to restore metabolism to youth levels, important for obesity, diabetes" - Amit Patel

Of course, the lack of serotonin means you won't want to live long enough to enjoy it, but... - Spidra Webster

Comments I read somewhere suggested the serotonin in the gut and serotonin in the brain function differently enough that you would still be able to enjoy it. Still, seems too good to be true ;) - Amit Patel

Until this technology is refined, the 5:2 diet plus kettlebells plus walking works just fine for some folks. - Sean McBride

"One additional thought: near-shore ocean temperatures off the coast of California remain exceptionally warm, which has been contributing to California’s record warmth this year. As witnessed during last week’s storm, these warm ocean waters have also led to a local increase in near-shore atmospheric instability during convective regimes and may also be acting as a source of additional lower-atmospheric moisture during storm events this winter. Thus, it’s possible that these exceptionally warm ocean temperatures could modestly boost precipitation rates associated with the upcoming heavy precipitation event, especially near the coast." - Amit Patel

It was definitely warm on the coast today. Some big waves too. - Todd Hoff

Oh good - Louis Gray

Some of these ducks are not like the other ducks... - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

Lots of shovelers. - John (bird whisperer)

64 bit unsigned for all counters. It's a life lesson - Todd Hoff

Awesome! They just show the location of player deaths in 3d space, and … you can see buildings, mountains, etc. emerge - Amit Patel

"The security robots are autonomous, meaning they operate on their own." - Amit Patel

ROBOCOP - Amit Patel

I will not mention that they look like rolling vibrators. - Todd Hoff

o_O That is....wow - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

There are too many questions. - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

Absolutely. No one's coming up smelling of roses from this. - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

Why just peaches? - Miki

"Scientists have just reported the first major mechanical reason our brains need to sleep — certain cleaning mechanisms in the brain work better when we shut the brain down. Just like how dump trucks take to the city streets during the pre-dawn hours because there's less traffic, our brain's cleaners also work best when there's less going on." - Amit Patel

Sleep is unproductive and a waste of time. - Louis Gray

But can you really trust a man with a brain filled with garbage :-) - Todd Hoff

"C4" plants use a different carbon chemistry than "C3" plants. They are more drought tolerant and remove significantly more CO2 from the atmosphere than C3 plants. Researchers are developing a C4 variant of rice, which would use a lot less water and farmland than the conventional C3 form of rice. - Amit Patel

What's causing the cold winters in the eastern US? Is it the pacific or the arctic? - Amit Patel

What really bugs me is the filing here: http://www.sec.gov/Archive... that says "You have not made any disparaging comments about the Company, nor will you do so in the future" – that's quite a long time, and rather a restrictive policy towards people who used to work for a company :-/ - Amit Patel

Mark's a nice guy. He would never say anything bad about any company. :) - Stephen Mack

Woah, that must've taken a lot of work to produce - Amit Patel

Babylon 5, Doctor Who, and the History Channel. - Amit Patel

And how the History Channel is terrible. - Amit Patel

Lots of awful user interfaces from Apple - Amit Patel

Did the new Star Wars movie used a font from the Star Trek movies? Actually, Star Wars used it first! - Amit Patel

Any true Star Wars fan would have known that SW had it first! That was its calling card. - Nils Sandin

Back in my day we had multicolor pens that came with four different colors. Now they have pens that can pick any color using an app. (!!) Or you can point the pen at a surface and set the color to whatever you're pointing to. (!!) - Amit Patel

About "Mitochrondrial Eve" and "Y-chromosomal Adam" - Amit Patel

A new Modbook! - Amit Patel

"The recently delivered bulk carrier, MV Harvest Frost, is the first vessel of its size to use MHI’s proprietary Mitsubishi Air Lubrication System (MALS), which reduces the drag between the vessel hull and seawater by blowing air bubbles produced at the vessel bottom. MHI says that use of the system has been proven to help Harvest Frost achieve a 27% reduction in CO2 emissions compared to conventional bulk carriers, exceeding the target figure of 25%." - Amit Patel