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Hi there I wanted to quote in my reply a section of mooey's posts that she had made into a quote (and of course whe I hit reply it stripped out the internal/previous quotes) http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/61063-found-the-tree-of-knowledge-of-good-and-evil/page__view__findpost__p__635805 it was this bit "Rewritten version of previous quote said: Atheists and seculars can thus be seen as immature thinkers and true sheep. While Christians who recognize the evil in the God of the O T can be seen as better thinkers and able to discern good from evil. Atheists can be seen as poor thinkers who cannot discern evil. They end up with a philosophy that e…

I don't know where this topic would go since I can't post in the forum announcement sections and there doesn't seem to be a "suggestions" section, so I just put it right below the forum announcements. Although music itself is largely unknown in "how" and "why" something sounds "beautiful" or "scary" or etc, the processes involved with making music are very scientific, and just as you cannot add just any two numbers together to equal "3", you cannot just slap any amount of notes together in any order and make something that sounds modern or sad or happy, which is why there should be a music theory section on this website. There's also another website that would wor…

I had--really stupidly--changed my display name back in May. The Change Display Name tab was allowing us to change our nicks every 180 days. On Saturday I was going to be able to change my nick, but the tab suddenly disappeared on Friday. I understand if Administration decided to change the policy on this, but now I'm stuck with my shame. I was really hoping to just go back to using Xittenn as it is the nick I go by everywhere else. If this might be corrected for me, it would be much appreciated?? I promise to stop being a git ( I blame hormones ). . . It had occurred to me that the tab might be glitched where I used it and broke it and everyone else still has the t…

For some reason I'm not receiving email notifications for subscribed threads. My settings seem to okay. Any ideas? Thanks.

We all enjoy being at SFN. Most of you might have seen extraordinary people or really intelligent people here. Let us award them this year by recognizing their contribution to their respective fields and how well they have helped beginners excel. Let's have nominations for PHYSICS CHEMISTRY BIOLOGY MEDICAL SCIENCES Since I am no administrator or moderator this thread may be terminated.

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Thanks for the earlier info. I'm getting better at this blogging stuff. Two more questions, please: How do I insert a picture from my computer to one of my existing blog articles? How do I add keywords, so my blog gets more hits?

Hey there. I used to be a total lover of this place and such, but things have happened and such, and ive kind of drifted elsewhere in interest. But im trying to kind of wipe off my history on different sites, how do you delete your profile here? I cant quite find a delete button or anything. XD Sorry, im not abondoning you guys or anything, I just dont have time or anything anymore, and I dont want my name to be under science forums from back when I was younger to be my first thing that pops up on google. Not that thats a bad thing or anything, I just want to be known differently and such, no offense to anyone, please. =]

Does this place use latex? [tex]A_j[/tex] [math]B_{ij}[/tex]

Actually three questions: How do I accept (or reject) comments for my latest blog article? How do I add links to my articles? What are TAGS and how do I add them to my articles? (Sorry to be so thick.)

I messed upo my blog. A Rose is A Rose appears twice in recent blog list, but clicks on both do not work. I tried to delete them but it didn't work. How do I get them off the site, and reload a correct version? Please help.

I think its generally acknowledged that the quality of the politics forum has gone to hell (a prominent user recently called it, "a waste of bandwidth."), but for those of you who don't know, recent highlights include an allegation that the women's movement was invented by communists and is therefore very bad, a rather unnuanced examination of poverty in the Muslim world, and "Why do men commit so many rape crimes?" (Apparently, women are engaged in a massive conspiracy to increase their power by withholding sex and rapists are retaliating in the only way they can. Someone on the politics forum seriously suggested this) I would suggest that the title of the politics …

I want to change my user name from I ME to IMEgdall. How do I do that?

I notice some members (esp. newbies) using fonts and colors to pimp their posts. Why is this allowed? Some people apparently think that their post is so good that it deserves a new color, and a new font. Some others just like to push all the buttons that they can find because they are 10 years old, and that's what a 10-year-old does. Personally, I find it ugly and distracting. Because that's what grumpy old guys do. Someone has made an effort to choose the style of this forum, and it's quite pleasing. It's just ugly to have a single post in a thread which breaks with the style. In addition, the way I read / scan a thread is simple: I read everything in the default fon…

Did you get my message? It says "not yet read" under your name in the conversation.

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I have an idea that I wanted to share. I often use circus props in lessons to engage pupils but also to demonstrate certain phenomena. A juggling ball can be a photon, an electron, an alpha particle etc. A spinning poi is a great analogy for satellites or circular motion. And a diabolo neatly demonstrates how a gyroscope works. If pupils are able to have a go with these various props their homework could be to describe the prop in a scientific way, for instance A company that I have worked with in the past provides excellent circus skills activities for schools. Including... Get Your Act Together - a package that focuses on performance in…

While it is indeed possible to post from kindle on the normal version of the site (I am doing it now), I find that the mobile version looks much cleaner on the kindle. That being said, I have some issues with the mobile version which force me to use the stndard version. 1. I cannot figure out how to log in or reply to posts. 2. I cannot figure out how to view new content. Using mobile now: if I log in using the normal version, I can post. I still, however, cannot figure out how to find all new content via SFN mobile.

Is there a way to view your posts from highest thumbs up to highest thumbs down and vice versa? Also, can you see who gave you those thumbs up/thumbs down?

I am having trouble making these functions work in the posting/reply editor here. Can we do these things here ( if so what I am doing wrong or what procedure should I be following ) ? I seem able to select/all but then I can't copy, cut (although paste seems OK) ? I have to use backspace or delete to get rid of unwanted content. any help much appreciated

Recently, someone has informed me that my posts cause them distress. I searched for an ignore setting for this user and recommended they use it as well but I couldn't find one. Am I missing it or is it unavailable in this forum?

I think that for those who use the mobile version, the ability to search and the ability to post long threads is very much lacking. If these are improved that portion of the population would be much happier with SFN.

Hey, guys I'm curious why when one goes to another's (or their own's) profile page to see their past threads/posts on SFN only the last few are listed? I'm not angry or anything but I think it would be better if somebody could incorporate a feature which allows users to view all their past posts/threads? Would this be possible in any way? It's just sometimes it's a bit hard to find out who has responded to you threads until you go through all the pages of each individual subforum which can get a bit tedious. The search feature also doesn't seem to be working as well (at least on my computer and several others).

I have just looked through Dave's great tutorial on Latex and wonder if the original post could be altered in one small way to avoid confusion. I noticed this from Michel's point on the Stonehenge Mathematics. Michel had, quite reasonably, looked at the Tutorial and I guess this line specifically He had wanted to get the symbol for pi. If you find an equation on the tutorial with pi - click and look at the code is appears as follows [ math]int_{-infty}^{infty} e^{-x^2} = sqrt{pi}[ /math] It has stripped out the backslashes if you then try to put what the code shows you get [ math] =sqrt{pi} [ /math] gives [math] =sqrt{pi} [/math] rather …

So I have an SFN blog, and when I go through SFN it shows that I have a certain username attached to a certain email address, but when I go to login at Wordpress directly it does not think that this email address is registered. Are the SFN blogs separate from Wordpress and if so is it possible to combine them so that you can access them from Wordpress?