It seems like people vote based on what they "like" similar to a five year old's worldview, rather than factual, objective history. Is this because it is peopled by non-academics?

I've had a kumquat tree on two different balconies for about three years. It's put out a few kumquats over the years, and lately started to again. Recently I noticed this white substance growing on some leaves, something I've never seen before. What is it? Is it dangerous - the tree has been look...

Hey just an update about the aforementioned cisimple.com! We didn't shut down, we actually were purchased and rebranded as Ship.io - come check us out, we're in free beta at the moment and are continuing to grow and add team members and features.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. ~~Aristotle

I'm well aware that a certain amount of research effort is expected of Stack Overflow users before they post any new questions, but I'm not sure just how much research effort is considered adequate. Recently, I've noticed that there's been some controversy about the issue of how much research ef...