Readit Newshttp://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-deportations-20140...
Which I'm sure you'll find credible since it's a left-leaning source.
I suspect it couldn't be a physics result, because the question is something like "Why does the universe follow natural laws at all" and/or "what IS a natural law, in metaphysical terms" ?
I'm not sure what a program like that could look like in practice, though. You could put money directly into peoples' pockets through a sort of grant-like application process, ("I want to buy $250 worth of resistors, capacitors, chips, wire, and breadboards to make a new kind of fitbit prototype") but that would be an easy system to game, and a lot of the costs associated with experimenting with theoretical ideas comes from equipment anyways.
Because not everyone can afford or find room for a scanning electron microscope or a CNC lathe, right? Many cities have hackerspaces, but their capabilities often stop at hand tools and working with thermoplastics unless you're very lucky. So what about universities? They're present throughout the entire nation, often already publicly funded, and have access to functional research and manufacturing equipment.
Sadly, my experience trying to get even a few hours' use of any sort of university equipment, whether supervised, paid, through night classes, or otherwise, has been met with absolute stonewalls. If you don't pay full tuition, you can fuck right off.
So I'm not sure what the solution here is. What's an average person who wants to get into science supposed to do, besides be independently wealthy?
Federal budget has been ~ 30-35% of GDP since the '80s, although there was a spike during the Great Recession for obvious reasons.
Same thing is likely to hold vis-a-vis neuroscience and philosophy of mind.
The actual poem left me completely cold (and it's the only version I've ever read). The footnotes and everything else are fascinating. Everything in Nabokov's own voice is always, and everywhere, a joy to read. He was, as he tried to explain, creating a reference work, an aid to scholars and students, not a translation to "enjoy". You turn to it to find out what Pushkin wrote in his poem, rendered into English, as accurately as possible. Wilson just failed to understand the purpose of this work and his criticisms were irrelevant.
I'm interested in people's opinions of the Lombardo translations. Looking for a version of the Illiad to read.
Why can't parents work (earn) and take care of their kids at the same time? Why assign a (permanent) role of stay-at-home-parent to essentially half of the adults (with children) risking unnecessarily trapping them in roles and financial state that's unfair.
In Canada (a prison in Ottawa, specifically) if you 'go in' an opioid addict, the actually give you 3 doses of methodone a day. A friend of mine in there for a few days (small thing) described them as insane zombies, banging on the door to the clinic when it was almost time for their next dose.
The 'short term' harm reduction ideal of 'giving them drugs' might be nice, but in the 'long term' - keeping people jacked on opioids for months at a time has to be one of the most cruel things imaginable.
2) I think that most 'high schoolers' grasp that heroin, meth and coke are far worse than weed.
3) This is a separate issue. In other countries, such as Canada, we still have 'the war on drugs' - and 'free healthcare'.
But for me, time spent by myself isn't an empty expanse that I'm too scared to fill with socializing. It's absolutely vital to me, it's when I can really think, write, read, be creative, experience my emotions, etc.
I'm fine with socializing (preferably in a small group, with close friends -- I don't get much out of parties or big get-togethers) but I need to make room in my schedule for solitude.
Oh! And then you could have people rate the relationships, just like they can rate comments!
Oh! And you can put it into the API, making everything into a linked list of stories!
Yes, let's make the schema even more complicated 8-)
Edit: To be clear, I do like the idea.