Jared Jacobs

Strangely, the above spelling correction does not happen now. And, surprisingly there are very few research papers, etc. published related to Google's spelling corrector - except of course that small tutorial by Peter Norvig. - Space Cowboy

Among them a suicidal palm, a 22" insect, mini-sea horses, and a probably now-extinct fish that gave live births, umbilical cord and all. - Jared Jacobs

Certain acupressure points, walking, and sex. I won't cite my sources, but the last one is especially effective. - Ocean

The past few days have been fantastic and exhausting, but no baby yet. She's 75% effaced, though. Not long now... - Jared Jacobs

"She recommends starting your work day concentrating on your most important task for 90 minutes. At that point your prefrontal cortex probably needs a rest, and you can answer e-mail, return phone calls and sip caffeine (which does help attention) before focusing again. But until that first break, don’t get distracted by anything else, because it can take the brain 20 minutes to do the equivalent of rebooting after an interruption." - Jared Jacobs

I wonder what it does with the 20 minutes. - j1m

Fascinating. This means it's even more important for women to have healthy pregnancies: "Diet and epigenetics appear to be closely linked. The most well known example is that of the Agouti mice: they are yellow, fat and are prone to diabetes and cancer. If Agouti females are fed with a cocktail of vitamin B12, folic acid and cholin, directly prior to and during pregnancy, they give birth to mainly brown, slim and healthy offspring, which in turn have mainly offspring similar to themselves." And it gives me hope that the obesity epidemic in America can be repaired as quickly as it spread. - Jared Jacobs

Cool. I'd love to strike dark energy from the books. - Jared Jacobs

I'm tired of our government using hard economic times as an excuse to grow. You? - Jared Jacobs

In the words of Homer Simpson, "It's funny because it's true." - Jared Jacobs

I'd vote for it. - Jared Jacobs

Species with high dexterity become intelligent. The octopus is a fantastic example: "In one instance, an octopus given a slightly spoiled shrimp stuffed it down the drain while maintaining eye contact with its keeper, Linden said." I've read a dozen other examples like this one. Ask me, and I'll look them up. - Jared Jacobs

Full of good insights, like: 1. If renegotiation is mutually beneficial, then it is likely to occur without government intervention. 2. Loan modification just pushes defaults down the road. 3. It has a chilling effect on future lending. ... - Jared Jacobs

As much as I'd like to believe, the climatologists have destroyed nearly all of my faith in model simulations of complex natural phenomena. - Jared Jacobs

Check out the stop-motion video in the book. - Jared Jacobs

Okay, theoretical physicists, hear that? Time to pack up and head home. - Jared Jacobs