Diocletian

Remember that most edible nutrition contains a certain amount of water too. Perhaps this takes into account a few of the recommended 8 glasses and so that is why you crave significantly less quantities of water. This is all an unfounded hypothesis though; I'm no doctor (yet).

My friends and I were having an interesting discussion today. When light is radiated through a tank of water, it "bends" because it has a natural affinity to finding the path of least resistance to the end of the tank and since the travel through water would take more time than travel through land, the bending cuts down a little on the time spent. We were wondering: how does light "know" the path of least resistance? The only explanation I can think of is that light takes the derivative of each path and thus selects the shortest one. But that's ridiculous; light can't do calculus, so how does it instinctively go down the correct line? Another guess was that light tries each path until it finds the right one; but that's equally unrealistic, because light would spend an astronomical amount of time doing that and would thus counteract its own purpose of finding the quickest route. Perhaps there's a scientific explanation somewhere there that I missed.

This isn't really a linguistics nor biological question as much as a philosophical one. Man is genetically programmed to wonder, and the first thing that early man must have wondered about was his own existence. Therefore, we came to think of ourselves as "beings", ones who are clearly defined and clearly exist. After all, our bodies are the only things that we can truly be sure of (the rest of the world is an illusion anyway, as scientifically proven) and so its existence is tantamount to our thoughts.

Don't forget that the human carrying capacity is well over its limit; thus, realistically, death can never be prevented because eventually we'll undergo a J-crash because of resource depletion and people will start dying anyway. Good nutrition is a large part of the growing and rehabilitating-of-body process and there's not enough to go around as it is.

I find it ridiculous that his brain was preserved just so that we could somehow "extract" his genius. Nurture vs. nature, my friends. His abilities had just as much to do with his upbringing and education (after all, he was instructed at a young age by experts in the physics, which had much to do with his fascination in science) as it does his innate intelligence.

Physics was the hardest. It wasn't so much that the mathematics part was difficult as it was the piecing together of several parts to make a whole... Biology is much easier, I dunno. I suppose that I have a natural affinity for "wet" subjects and Biology falls neatly into this. Physics does not.