Wikipedia was pretty unhelpful but there don't seem to be many western references until the 1950s and it probably wasn't popular until the 80s when Japanese culture started getting big.
>Searching for alien light pollution from planets found by Kepler would be pretty neat.
IIRC that's one of the things that James Webb is going to be used for. It'll try to take transit images of planets so we can get the spectrum of the atmosphere and look for excess oxygen and stuff.
This reads like a slam piece written by someone who has something against Google Glass or somebody fishing for pageviews, not someone who has noticed something weird going on and is genuinely concerned about it.
Personally I don't find people not wearing $1500 piece of equipment all the time that odd, especially when most of the excuses given make sense.
Try selling a diamond ring. They're practically worthless from a resale point of view. DeBeers literally has caves full of diamonds that they hoard to keep the illusion of scarcity.
Employees of studios are people too, people are known to download stuff at work. This doesn't signal an official position of a company, just some people torrenting at work.
> Controlling calorie intake is hardly a magic bullet. That's like saying exercise is the magic bullet for gaining muscle or studying is a magic bullet for passing exams.
Caffine, Ephedrine (it's in congestion medicine like Brokaid in the US) and Yohmbine all have complementary effects on your metabolic rate and the last two have been shown to help speed fat loss while minimizing muscle loss.