 Overhead costs of society
captainpanic writes: Business has an interesting word: Overhead
As wikipedia says: The term overhead is usually used to group expenses that are necessary to the continued functioning of the business, but do not directly generate profits.
Society has overhead costs too. All the paperwork and financial issues - can we really not reduce that? Without going into any sp… more» |
Rethinking Edison
swansont writes: Built on Facts: Light Bulbs, Improved.… more» |
Waiting for the Revolution
swansont writes: Uncertain Principles: Science Ahead of Its Time?
[T]his does not beg but rather demands the question: are there any examples of truly revolutionary ideas in science? That is, are there scientific theories that jump well ahead of what was "in the air" at the time of their creation, in such a way that they would not have been discovered for dec… more» |
Climate debates and using the media
captainpanic writes: Only a few days ago, climate skeptics were gloating because supposedly the climate wasn't changing anymore. "Climategate" proved they had been right all along. Fair enough, I thought, that's a score for the skeptics, but our politicians won't change the policies over one scandal... not with the scientific evidence showing clearly that our weather i… more» |
Hello world!
captainpanic writes: This was a nice default post from Wordpress in combination with the Scienceforums.
Welcome to blogs.scienceforums.net. This was not my first post. Instead, it was an automatic post. I edited it, and then I started blogging!… more» |
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 A truck driver and chickens
Why wouldn't there be pressure on the bottom of the vehicle?
Posted by swansont, Today at 5:43 PM
Alternative views on gravity?
Are you talking about tachyon energy particles that are faster than the speed of light?
Posted by walkntune, Today at 3:31 PM
What's the symbol for an integer, but not the set of integers?
thanks
Posted by mzatanoskas, Today at 3:31 PM
Evolution - Has Increased Complexity Been Observed?
Yeah, I realized that once I found this page on talkorgins.org about "adding information". They question the premise similarly. I think, ultimately, the "Eye" is being questioned. I wish I understood enough about biology to translate that into what kind of "complexity", or added information,...
Posted by ParanoiA, Today at 2:47 PM
GR vacuum polarizability
Hopefully my brother will change the file name to "Gravitation and Vacuum Polarizability". The change in the last word is important. Neutral field phenomena have no net polarization like electric and magnetic effects do. Yet they depend upon the polarizability of the vacuum.
Posted by Norman Albers, Today at 2:45 PM
Freezing Drinking Water ...
I noted that inconsistency as well, From what you've experienced compared to what I've read all I can conclude is that not all plastics of any given composition are made to the same standard..the process or formulae are probably slightly different.
MY hunch is to favour No.2 types and use the...
Posted by StringJunky, Today at 1:33 PM
creating H+ ions.
What's the purpose of the H+ ions?
Posted by Mr Skeptic, Today at 12:42 PM
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