I haven't read up on exactly how this works, but I thought I saw something that said you just need earplugs to defeat this "speech jammer" -- so that you can't hear your own time-delayed speech to mess you up. :P
So it absolutely does matter what Munroe says -- because (under the US justice system), only Munroe can take legal actions for violations of his CC work.
(Munroe has not sold the ownership of his work to any other entities in this particular case, so there's no "label" or publisher that could take action for him.)
There's really no point to discussing this further... XKCD has a long history of not caring about piracy or copying.
Yah.. I was wondering about the choice of glass, too. If researchers wanted to create "cotton-like fibers" for better bandages, why not modify cotton fibers (instead of using glass or some other materials)?
you're very welcome... I think we're all wise to question the safety of autonomous vehicles on the roads when they could be easily turned into "road missiles" w/o suicide drivers.
I don't think they're counting the automation software/hardware against the cost of the lemon racer... but that said, drivable lemons exist for ~$200 so the automation hardware shouldn't push the cost of the car over the $500 limit..?
Hopefully, sites like arxiv.org and PLOS and others will become more commonly-cited, so that researchers aren't contributing to publishers that aren't fully committed to promoting the distribution of knowledge.
H. sadistica is the first spider species and the first member of the entire subphylum Chelicerata found to use traumatic insemination.[2] The males have specialized genital structures at the pedipalps that are adapted to grip the female and inject the sperm, using a structure resembling a hypodermic needle. After positioning himself, the male pierces the female on both sides and injects the sperm directly into the ovaries, resulting in about eight holes in two rows. Consistent with the modified mating behavior, the spermathecae of the female, which normally store received sperm, are weakly developed in this species.
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So it absolutely does matter what Munroe says -- because (under the US justice system), only Munroe can take legal actions for violations of his CC work.
(Munroe has not sold the ownership of his work to any other entities in this particular case, so there's no "label" or publisher that could take action for him.)
There's really no point to discussing this further... XKCD has a long history of not caring about piracy or copying.
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Munroe even says: "You can post xkcd in your blog (whether ad-supported or not) with no need to get my permission."
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It seems that many studies have not accounted for the Hawthorne Effect....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
I'm not against incorporating technology into the classroom, but just throwing gadgets at kids isn't really effective, either.
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hooray for open journals!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpactea_sadistica#Traumatic_insemination
H. sadistica is the first spider species and the first member of the entire subphylum Chelicerata found to use traumatic insemination.[2] The males have specialized genital structures at the pedipalps that are adapted to grip the female and inject the sperm, using a structure resembling a hypodermic needle. After positioning himself, the male pierces the female on both sides and injects the sperm directly into the ovaries, resulting in about eight holes in two rows. Consistent with the modified mating behavior, the spermathecae of the female, which normally store received sperm, are weakly developed in this species.
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