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Dec 21, 2012: End of the world fever grips the internet. The petition to build a Death Star reaches its signature goal. Jan 21, 2013: The White House accidentally responds. President Obama announces plans to build the Death Star. Jan 22, 2013: Republican Leadership blasts Obama for a wasteful, ineff...

By the way, you do not seem to count so well. Is this really needed? Can't you just make an argument instead of an insult? Here is something from a random study I pulled from a DEA "article" (actually a Press Release) cite. Did you count it as an article or a study? Press Releases Are Not Studies. ...

The gaze sensor might be problematic, since human eyes move in saccades which the conscious mind is usually not aware of. Not saying a saccade filter could not be developed. Something similar might be needed with Leap for people with Parkinson's, etc. OpenCV does gaze tracking http://hackaday.com/2...

It would be difficult to picture drugs especially hard drugs ever being "legalized" without extensive regulations. So legalization does not equal "unfettered access". I probably could have scored pot (& probably other drugs with a little more effort) in HS much more easily than say hard liquor whic...

That said, you do understand that your comments address regulation and control. And in any form, regulation and control will bring pre-meditated attempts to beat the system. And the more regulation applied, the more impetus there is for illicit attempts to make a buck or gain "illegal" access to re...

I will simplify. No need to simplify. I understand, I simply think you're going about things in a way that discourages transparency and clarity. a trail to find source material and facts. That trail ends with primary literature. So why go through multiple layers of indirection when a simple pubmed ...

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/12/ ... announced/

Ars on the Golden Spike announcement. Now comes the hard part - doing it.

You really do not understand the purpose of a lit review. It is meant to help frame the research to be conducted. It is not a research project in itself. I am fully aware of the purpose of reviewing literature. If you prefer to refer to "review articles" I don't object. I've conducted literature re...

You are not looking in the right places. There have been a number of studies, some ongoing into the effects of micro-gravity on people. Did you try to google it? Yes, the question isn't about the effects of microgravity. It's about the level of gravity needed for long term health. If you know of an...

You could change the title of every opinion piece about every subject ever to "Why doing X is good for Cute Fluffy Bunnies" or "Why doing X will result in Candiru in our underpants." The truth is a bit more nuanced in general.

That's interesting. I notice Baby Daddy isn't Lord of Mars. Isn't he one of the other astronauts? Maybe he's still on Earth. One thing that bugs me is that while we know that microgravity is very harmful to life over any period of time, I've never seen an attempt to answer the question of how little...

It is not a study, it is a postion paper. But what it does provide are names/dates and pointers to others that have referenced studies or done them. It is some legwork, but that is fundamentally what a lit review is. No, it really isn't even close to being the same thing. It references dozens of ne...

I spent a little time earlier today re-reading the DEA 2011 position paper and specifically looking at the citations. I veritable goldmine if you will. http://www.justice.gov/dea/docs/marijuana_position_2011.pdf I'd refer to it as fool's gold. Out of 287 cites (not references, cites) I count 5 refe...

Finally back Stateside for a while. Thanks for the patience. Not a problem. Everyone has a schedule. Looks like you boys have been busy. There's been sound and fury to be sure. The funny thing about studies is that you can pretty much always find a counter-outcome study. Especially when one takes q...

Sorry to hear about your troubles. I hope they are short lived and happily resolved.