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Well you are apparently some kind of mutant (kidding). But there are actually advances being made in various tasteless bitter blockers. They are kind of a holy grail in food manufacturing. Most of them aren't for sale by themselves unfortunately, but now I am actually curious and might look into...

No idea who that is. You can go Google it, salt blocking the taste receptor for bitterness is a well documented scientific fact. It also increases the taste of other receptors, so it'll make sweet things taste sweeter, etc.

No, salt blocks the receptor that detects bitterness. That is why supertasters eat so much more salt than normal people. Unless you pour it in like sugar, you won't taste salt at all. You'll taste coffee, without bitterness. Science! You could also be brewing coffee incorrectly, exacerbating...

Trying adding a little salt to coffee, you should be able to drink it black then.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Gaming 'is good for you' Studies on that go back much further. It doesn't improve your writing though, even though it improves your social skills. And actually I think an "educational MMO" would be a great idea. Not sure what the implementation would be like for it...

There is a Rare ring with more Dex up for 12mil right now, but it lacks the LoH and Regen (plus no potential set bonus). On the flipside there is a similar set ring up for 500mil. I don't know anything about Monk gearing, so I don't know if the set bonus makes up the difference, but yeah, as...

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/1...-read-chekhov/ Reading literature increases social skills. That is in addition to the fact that having a grasp of language and the ability to communicate is essential for any profession. I am incredibly tired of nigh unreadable technical manuals or...

We live in a world where Google FedExes HDDs to move data around because it is faster than uploading/downloading it. Ignoring the latency issue, we are a long ways off from having even modern currently possible infrastructure in place, much less some kind of next-gen infrastructure that would...

Yeah, I didn't address that. The question of "Is all this extra power actually used for anything?" And the answer is 4k displays, draw distances, graphical detail, more complex AI, some new technology that we haven't even heard of yet or is in its infancy (Occulus Rift anyone?). I think we're...

I was rounding, but strictly yeah, 18 months. Consoles are built around cost but do roughly correspond to Moore's Law, you just need to take into account when they started development. For instance given 7 years between the 360 and the PS4 that is four cycles of Moore's Law, it ought to be...

I don't think you realize the power difference involved here. Everything doubles in computing every two years. So, sure, yes, some mobile tech today can run games at the same level as the 360 because the 360 is 7 years old and phones have slightly more than octupled in power since it came out...

Butter Keepers. They are small crocks that you turn upside down into water, making a seal against the fat going rancid. Allows you to keep butter at room temp (i.e., spreadable) without it going bad or growing bacteria. But yeah, a fair number of people just leave it out in a covered butter...

Bear in mind some people have a genetic trait that allows them to taste a truly awful compound in Brussel Sprouts. If you have this gene, you're never going to like Brussel Sprouts. Just like the people that taste soap when they eat Cilantro.

Doing it at all is a big step. Apparently there are inefficiencies in the lasers which are causing a large loss overall in the process, but laser technology got some big boosts recently ("perfect" mirrors, for one) that will no doubt cause a big difference. The process needs refinement. MIT...

Peristalsis. Quirky Questions: Why does coffee make me poop? | One Medical Group

That isn't true. That is the point. People thought that was true. Then they went and actually tested it for the first time ever. Turns out? Not true. The only real factor is burner size. I'm not talking about the flame, I am talking about the size of the circle of the burner relative to the pan...

'Nother vote for Victorinox knives. If you aren't going to spend $150-200+ for a knife, buy a Victorinox. There is nothing that competes in that price range of the $20 they cost. Also get a honing steel. All Whole Foods have Creme Fraiche. Most larger normal grocery stores do, as well. Re...

TheGentleman#1373. Mostly doing the occasional run for key parts or leveling something to 60 just to check it out. CM Wizard.

Status orgasmus. Which is a silly name.

I've lived in several mid-sized towns, large cities are never like this in my experience, where a mortgage was cheaper than renting. You just needed to be able to afford the down payment. Most people can't do that, so better option or not, it doesn't actually work. Whether it remains cheaper...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-..._United_States 9 states and D.C.

I haven't tried it, but OKC in addition to the A-list sub also has an option for paying to make your profile appear more frequently. I assume that means in quiver matches, nearer to the top for searches, etc. Considering how much selling anything, including yourself, is exposure that seems like...

Cross-posting a McCheese story here from the Jimmies Rustled thread in SS. You'll see why.

Well the articles aren't definitive at all, but the studies are definitive in the sense that with only seven years of data there is already a marked difference in marriage duration and overall self-reported happiness. Not just in the U.S., but in the U.K. as well. Now if you want to argue that...

That isn't really exceptional. There are at least half a dozen women who should have won Nobel prizes who had their work stolen by male scientists who took all the credit. I say "at least" because you just never know how many times it happened where the story never came to light. Lisa Meitner...

Ayaan Hirsi Ali She really shouldn't be on there and, originally, wasn't. She got added to the meme at some point, presumably to balance out the "white and male" thing, while ignoring the fact that those guys were all famous scientists and she is a politician and has never done any science...

The chances of getting anything useful are incredibly slim. I know for Wizards amulet and shoulders are potentially BiS, but you hear horror stories of people having crafted literally tens of thousands of items and never gotten anything they can actually use. I've now crafted like ~250 amulets...

Not true. http://blog.newscred.com/article/0fa...ts-coming-back There is going to be a whole book and he plans to bring it back eventually.

Well, I dunno about communicating before meeting, but meeting online in general leads to longer, happier relationships. Obviously one of the popular explanations is that you're really getting to know the person. http://news.uchicago.edu/article/201...ring-marriages...

I think the "typical" route is to buy a run to get a Hellfire Ring for the experience boost and then farm key parts so you can get eventually get a better ring on MP1-3, as that is the fastest XP wise. Farm Act 1 key parts while doing key runs, farm act 2 via Vault of the Assassin, and act 3...

This'd be a good time to link that 2005/2006 study that indicated presenting people with facts caused them double-down on their ignorance, not change their minds. There is a wonderful book called "The Structure of a Scientific Revolution" whose basic conclusion is that any new discoveries in...

The use of statistics in science was discovered a couple of hundred years before computers and was therefore a "useless curiosity." We knew it would work but doing the computations by hand was untenable. Come the Manhattan Project, John von Neuman and Stanislaw Ulam realized computers had...

Well, lots of people do, actually. That is kind of the point of the article. We're slowly getting the funding and the production necessary. Hopefully it works out and our deep space program doesn't go the way of the dodo. But P238 can be produced by itself and in and of itself is not useful for...

No, the odds of getting heads 10x in a row is .5^10. The odds of any given flip are 50/50. Not quite the same thing. You can work this out with the simpler scenario of 2 flips, which gives you three potential combinations. Heads/Heads, Tails/Tails, and Heads/Tailsx2. So the odds of each of...

Originally, except we can make just P238 now. So, not useful for weapons.

P238 is actually not useful for weapons. It is a real issue. It took three years of work to get funding to restart it and that funding is currently not even sufficient. A number of projects have been scrapped because it'd put to great a strain on the current stockpile.

Something that has been going on for a while, but this is a really good article about "The Problem." Even with all the new technologies we're developing for deep space exploration, we have an issue. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...m-238-problem/

Most statisticians, at a basic level, will tell you that a sample size of roughly 30+ will give you an accurate result to within a certain margin of error (though there are formulas for calculating acceptable sample sizes, given various criteria for specific situations that will be higher). But...

OK so break out your handy graphing calculator and go stat > edit Make a list in L1 with an entry for each value. You're set up to play the game. Delete the values from the list as you pick them in the game (yeah, I know this is tedious if you're playing multiple times). Every time you get...

At the very end? Switch, if you are approaching it as a larger Monty Hall problem. The correct answer to a multi-stage Monty Hall problem is to stay until the last choice, then switch. But that assumes several things, up to and including that you didn't open the million dollar case already...