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whatever next! http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/igrill.shtml ROFLMFAO If I knew how to post a POLL I would... do you think we should have a jokes section in the forums?

I thought for any new members that we have, it might be nice to introduce yourself. feel free to do so here

What interesting fact or trivia did you learn today? For example, today I learned that a shamrock and four-leaf clover are not the same. It seems that shamrock describes a three-leaf clover and, as folklore has it, was used by St.Patrick as a religious totem. The four-leaf clover, which is not associated with St.Patrick, owes it's reputation for luck to its rarity. So, do you have something interesting to share?

You may have seen various acronyms used on the forums and wondered what they stood for. This non-exhaustive list is to clarify their meanings: IOW - in other words IMO - in my opinion IMHO - in my humble/honest opinion IIRC - if I remember correctly AFAIK - as far as I know ATM - at the moment (also "atinymonkey" on this site in particular) POV - point of view Please feel free to add relevant acronyms or query the meaning of any I have missed off.

Welcome to SFN! In order to help people who are unfamiliar with internet forums, I have put together a small tutorial to expedite the development of the posting abilities of the forum as a whole especially the new members. SFN is a great place to talk about various subjects with an amazing community. We have a forum for just about anything related to science and we even have a forum to talk about non-science related things. Most of the forums are open to all users. However, some forums do have restrictions in order to minimize issues inherent in boards with such forums. Politics, Philosophy, Ethics, and Religion are all restricted to posters with a minimum of 30 pos…

I want to invite anyone in the Baltimore, MD area to come visit us for one of our weekly meetups. We get together to work on all things related to science and technology. We mostly focus on the technology portion right now but I would like to get more people who are interested in science to start hanging out with us as well. Visit http://baltimorehackerspace.com for more information. FYI, this is not some lame group of guys. We have mathematicians, robotic engineers, bio engineers, and more all hanging out together sharing ideas and working on projects. Together we can accomplish anything.

As usual I'm trying to "figure out" obscure subjects. I stumbled upon a Qanon believer when I was listening to music on Youtube. It is a nice version of Bob Marley's song "Babylon System." If you want to listen to it, I posted the song at the end of this post. In the song Bob Marley sings: Babylon system is the vampire, yea! Suckin' the children day by day, yeah! Me say de Babylon system is the vampire, falling empire, Suckin' the blood of the sufferers, yeah! Building church and university, wooh, yeah! Deceiving the people continually, yeah! Me say them graduatin' thieves and murderers Look out now they suckin' the blood of the sufferers A couple of …

I would like to create a little room here for the wonderfully unexpected, beautiful,... (add your adjective) in Nature. Unexpected and/or beautiful could be interpreted as curious/spectacular, or similar. I mean to use these examples in order to keep the kids interested in Nature. The youngest ones get bored very easily. Examples could be: a rare animal, plant or protist, an almost unbelievably beautiful geological phenomenon, an amazingly complicated molecule that looks like a tinker-toy assembly, spectacular phenomena in water eddies and such. You get the idea. My getting-started examples: Glasswinged butterfly A family of butterflies that eat …

A couple of recent threads have been discussing Bob Lazar and element 115, I happen to have tape of his original interviews and unless you guys are ignoring the really juicy stuff his story seems to have been toned down more than a bit. Lazar either broke the biggest story in human history, is the grandest part of the supposed disinformation campaign, or has an imagination Heinlein would be proud of. His details leave no doubt about the choices... Among the claims he made, human were created by the aliens whose space craft he saw, element 115 allowed access to the strong nuclear force which he claimed was just gravity, 115 gave off antimatter as it decay…

Post your useless but amusing/interesting facts here. For instance Palindromic temperatures : 28o C = 82o F

Trevor Noah produced this wonderful campaign ad for Trump.

Ok guys here it is, I know this is probably the wrong forum, I am so bad at choosing that, be that as it may, What I want to discuss here is not if the following sighting was real or not. This happened in 1952 and the subsequent years have resulted in at least some disagreement on the details. However, was the eyewitness and other evidence correctly handled or was it as i assert mishandled for whatever reason. If you comment one way or another please let us know why you think so. The Air force simply not knowing what the hell was happening is probably enough for them to have dropped the ball on this but here we go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Washington…

I have not wanted to enroll any master or/doctorate program but I deal with and would continue dealing with scientific contexts and research. simply,I would like to do the research on whatever I want and it seems I am a bit pragmatist (because I do not want to deal with anything that would not provide any efficacy anymore). Thus can we accept me as a scientist?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18810658/ So I've ruffled some feathers here saying such things as, "natural discovery is of an order higher than science," notwithstanding that I've also said, "science is one very useful way of looking at nature." I've been working at home with my own ferments, as a way to preserve and enhance foods. My methods are based on Biblical clues, and clues from Katrina Blair's, Wild Wisdom of Weeds. I've accidentally developed skills manufacturing kombucha and kefir, carbonated kefir. So in the abstract above, the paper isolates a bacteria from kombucha rather than studying the kombucha, and the kefir directly. This is why …

Hi, again. I'm kind of obsessive-compulsive linguistically. Plus I have a (small) problem. My question has to do with the grammatical splitting of English nouns into countable/uncountable, that has little to do with meaning. I understand most people take a stance much more utilitarian than mine. That really resonates with me. But, I've met problems with words like "input" or "advice" before. When you are under the obligation of teaching your students proper English, and you know they're going to be judged by the level of it, this trivial matter kind of crosses some line. "Input" and "advice" are uncountable. So, if you want to refer to one, let's say, instantiat…

Are we spending too much (relatively) on glory projects that may/will not bring benefits for centuries, if ever ? Some examples 1) Gravitational lensing was mooted in the 1920s and confirmed in 1979 and has yet to find a use. 2) Quantum tunnelling was mooted in the 1930s and first realised in the 1960s and is important to most people today. 3) The existence of other forms of life than our own developing on Earth was has been mooted several times and confirmed in the 1990 at the subsea hydrovents. 4) Fullerenes were first mooted in the 1980s and realised in that decade and are of developing importance and use. How much did each discove…

OK. this thread is for haiku. if ur an ignorant person, who doesnt know anything about other cultures. then haiku is a form of japanese poem. of 17 syllables . partitioned into 5 - 7 - 5 syllables. ok ill will start. River flows dirty; Fish jumping, sun sets in west- Queen Fades away git.

Although I would guess that fewer than 1% of North Americans speak with a lisp, after living for 13 years in England I would have to say that about 10% of the people there speak with a lisp, often in such an extreme form that they are nearly incompwehensiboo. I wonder why a lisp is so common there but so rare elsewhere? One possible answer is that the English are psychologically fixated on the security and comfort they experienced as young children, and for this reason they subconsciously seek to reassure themselves by speaking baby talk all the time, the chief characteristic of which is a lisp. This is consistent with a documentary I once saw in England on differen…

If you had the power to create or change one law, what would it be? I've posted in the lounge (for a bit of fun) so feel free to be creative. Here's a starter for 10: Any money spent lobbying the government, for whatever reason, must be matched and given to their opponents.

I have a fairly high stress, high pressure, cortisol and adrenaline stimulating job with big clients and big money and big expectations. Working out and exercise help, as does awesome craft beer, but I’ve recently begun to get into woodworking. There’s a certain zen about it. I’ve got zero experience and even fewer coaches / mentors available to me. Like me, my pops was a corp software guy who grew up in NYC, so I’ve been watching YouTube for a couple of weeks and doing a bunch of trial and error this past month or so. One of my goals is to avoid using screws and power tools when possible (except the table saw, but no routers, pocket hole jigs, etc.), so I’m s…

I find myself studying the goldfish in my pool , and seeing how I stack up in the hirarcy of living things . In my immediate hirarcy , I am clearly ' Up Here ' and they are quite content to be ' down there' I feed them , battle off the foes like frogs . Feed them , count them , clean their water, plant water plants, reeds . We have a good relation. What I wonder is what if I think about the other way ? What is next above me , looking down ? Mike

I am so tired of seeing dating web sites that claim you will find "happiness". They should be taken off the Internet because dating is completely pointless. There is absolutely no sense in deciding that you want a boyfriend or girlfriend and then go "looking" for one. You will never find true happiness by dating. You must wait until you find the perfect person. You should find somebody with a great personality, and somebody who will really care about you forever. You must find someone who cares about you for who you really are, not who you can pretend to be. I am a guy, but I must say that the way most guys treat their girlfriends is just awful. They often c…

Since Greta made her speech to the world leaders, my facebook feed has been littered with angry adults, including friends I'd previously considered intelligent and conscerned with climate change, trying to discredit her with various memes (below is particularly stupid). https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/28/jeremy-clarkson-brands-greta-thunberg-spoilt-brat-shut-get-back-school-10823793/ https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/greta-thunberg-trump-latest-threat-climate-change-un-summit-speech-a9121111.html Frankly, i'm embarrassed to be an adult.

Why do people confuse Race vs. Ethnicity when they talk or post on the internet? Where the dictionary is really clear that ethnicity is shared cultural characteristics, like language, religion, fashion, way you dress, music, custom, food so on. Where race referring to physical characteristics on what the person looks like . where base on this article there is 30 human races in the world. https://blog.world-mysteries.com/science/how-many-major-races-are-there-in-the-world/ But way more ethnicity in the world.