I have been doing this for years. To add to the heresy I also only use enough water to have 2" over the pasta, and turn off the heat when the water starts to boil and just let the pasta cook in the hot water with the lid on for about 9 minutes. It uses about ¼ the amount of energy and is faster since you don't have to wait for the water to boil before cooking.There seems to be no detectable difference in the pasta that I can tell.

Perhaps all understanding is just gaming the system. Scientific understanding never stands still, the ultimate truth is always out of reach, but each level of understanding is useful for something, until it isn't.

I remember reading several years ago that a pair of eyes on a xerox copy over the honor cup over the coffee machine increased the percentage of people who paid.

The movie might be embedded, but is unwatchable, as it is zoomed in so people's heads are cut off, probably in an attempt to circumvent youtube's copyright violation detector.

It's interesting that this is the first recorded case of a woman not being able to hear men, while men not hearing women has been an untreated epidemic for centuries if not longer.

It is a much better premise for a tv show than most of the crap on cable.

I think putting it into space is too risky and expensive. How about dropping it in a volcano? The waste is very heavy and would swiftly sink in the lava where it would melt and diffuse in the magma layer. You might be able to put it in a streamlined ceramic shell so it does not melt until it is very deep.

Somehow even changing it to SyFy is not going to explain wrestling on the channel. Or ghost hunters for that matter. Who watches that stuff??????

If this is true, it is quite a pity that the minimum age for being president is almost a decade past the person's mental prime.

I would buy that album in a minute.

Interesting detail about the bear ripping off the elves head and drinking the blood. That sounds just like an Itchy and Scratchy skit, perhaps Groening thought the Bear/Elf was funny but too out there in the beginning, but after a few years he felt that they could risk that outre humor.

I think it is a hook for hanging game fish up for measuring weight and length.