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So what email provider do you use? I use AIM.

Is it true that one's capacity to study things is independent of the knowledge acquired through education?

does anyone know how to make itunes at least useable?

At 5:30 in the morning a few days ago a woman and her seven year old son where walking through another person’s yard. While walking through the yard they spotted the naked owner of the property they where trespassing on naked in his own house, making his morning coffee. At this point they did the perfectly logical thing and decided to call the police and report the man for indecent exposure. The Springfield Police department proceeded to come and arrest the man for being naked in his own home claiming that he “wanted to be seen naked.” Does this seem reasonable to anyone? http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/local/101909_man_caught_making_coffee_naked_faces_charges I…

Is there any one to claim and prove that different things cannot be studied with the same knowledge?

http://www.listia.com/howitworks Ive been a member on there for a couple days now and I have realized it is legit! lol I thought it was gonna rip me off hard but my buddy bought two sirius radios off the site for like 200 points each which is less than you start with... give it a shot, I wouldnt mind seeing more sciency type stuff on auction just give it a shot, I know seems like it isnt real but it is... oddly enough

Hello everyone! I thought this would be a good place to talk about this. A year ago on the way to work I thought of a revolutionary idea, a new type of camera that does not use pixels to take a picture. I have spent the past year designing this camera and seeking funding to build it. So far I have constructed a rough prototype, written the code for it, acquired patent pending, had it approved of by a JPL engineer and found zero investors. My idea will without a doubt work, however, it is expensive to build and I need funding in order to build a practical prototype to demonstrate its main feature, infinite resolution, and resolutions exceeding 1 terapixel given modera…

...what would you have done differently while designing the human body? I'd install quick-access panels and shutoff valves for blood vessels, so surgery would be a matter of having the right size of wrench.

A Facebook meme making the rounds today:

hi i have a ipod touch 2g 8gigs NON MC MODEL running 3.0 jailbroken (redsn0w) and everytime i go into cydia, and download something, i get a error usually saying "size mismatch". if this is happening to anyone else, then could you please help me out? thanx -cbs i also wanted to know of some cool tweaks, themes, widgets, and apps i should get so i can pimp my pod. thanx -cbs

Hello all, For any physicians that are interested, there are 2 free webinars available for free CME hours. The first one describes how the updated ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of STEMI and NSTEMI differ from previous guidelines. This opportunity is aimed towards those that work in emergency medicine and cardiology. You can register at http://www.stemicme.com The second goes over new techniques being developed to treat ITP and ways doctors are currently providing better care for their patients. This one is aimed towards hematologists and oncologists. You can register at http://www.itp-cme.com I'm a physician myself and attended both of these semina…

I am an 18-year-old female first-year law student in Australia. I am a fairly lonely student with only one friend. This friend tells me that I am very pretty and so she wants to set me up on a blind date so I can get a boyfriend and lose my virginity. I don't want to go on a blind date nor do I want to have sex because I don't feel ready and because I don't feel comfortable. My friend argued that having sex when I am young is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and if I don't take this opportunity it will never come again, so I should do it and I should not dismiss this opportunity because I have never tried it and therefore I cannot judge that it is inappropriate fo…

Hi, Fun to learn, but it's true for all dudes. \ Talk Dirty

....and knowing in the end that most of your conclusions are faulty. Oh, and gotta love a FOUR PAGE LIMIT on our research project that we have been working on for the past month. I just resigned myself to losing points for that. If only my head didn't hurt so badly right now, I would be able to summon to strength to go jump in front of a moving train. /punts kitten

What knowledge is applicable to more than one thing? Any property which can be found in more than one thing is a common property. Any property which cannot be found in more than one thing is a special property. The knowledge of the common properties is applicable to more than one thing because a common property can be found in more than one thing. The knowledge of a special property is not applicable to more than one thing because a special property cannot be found in more than one thing. No knowledge is applicable to more than one thing if things have no common property. Is no knowledge applicable to more than one thing? No knowledge can be applied by more …

I'm not just referring to SFN here. I mean a community website in general, one that's not just "friends" from real life like Facebook or Twitter. So, what would your ideal Internet community have? Would members be anonymous, or would they use real names, like on The WELL, a 25-year-old discussion forum? How would moderation work? Would bad members be banned immediately or be given a chance? Just throw some ideas out. I'm curious to see what people think.

What are your thoughts on citation trees? Are they a way of mapping out evolution and progress in research?

name your pick

Has anyone ever noticed that the politics and actions of the worlds super powers don't coencide with how a power would act if it was in the same position. IE military testing, for military testing many of the worlds super powers tell the other countries that it is going to be testing and such on such 'n such day at such n'such time and they are going to be shooting such n such rocket/missle that doest make any sense to me, why would someone want to do such a thing when military stuff is supposed to be kept secret from other countries?

For anybody who hasn't already signed, or is even aware of the BCA libel case against Simon Singh, please click on the link below... http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/index.php/site/project/333/ Thankfully the debate has reached the House of Commons, but any extra support, in giving freedom of speech within the scientific community and beyond, is a petition worth signing for. The full story is available through the link above.

YouTube is doing a thing where all (?) videos can be watched in a new "green" resolution mode: Text! Google seems to have changed its name to "Topeka". What else? Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedThe Astronomy Picture of the Day is a good one: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100401.html

Storyline: Suspicious Cat was hired by Professor LOLrus to recover the stolen B.U.K.K.E.T., the device which creates cheezeburgers, critical to the existence of society. Upon inspecting the crime scene suspicious cat discovers clued leading to Dr. Tinycat, so he takes the next Bunway to Lawlzania to meet with him. Halfway the Bunway is attacked by a hovercat drone leading to an intense dogfight with the Bunway using it's emergency Projectiles Landing On People System (P.L.O.P.S.) to blind the drone and make it crash into the sea. He meets Dr.Tinycat at his favorite bar, which is starring Nancy and the Itti bitti Choir Committi. Dr. Tinycat reveals that yes he did ste…

A lot of the motivation to post on these discussion forums is to try to change someone's mind. The formal study of how and why people change their minds is called belief revision, and it is only a few decades old. Argumentation skills, of course, were practiced for longer than written history. Generally, to change someone's mind you either give them new information (that they believe) or show that they have a contradiction in their existing belief set. Given new information, they might simply add it to their belief set. To resolve a contradiction, they generally discard the "least useful" belief. For example, if someone has based their morality off of their religion, …

I'm not typically one to ask for life advice, but it seems like I've been put in quite a serious situation. I come from Rockford, Illinois, which has 19.7% unemployment as of February 2010. It's probably 20% right now. My city has the highest unemployment in Illinois. As of the moment, I'm residing in Chicago. For what I understand, however, the availability of jobs in Chicago is narrowing and closing up, too. I believe the areas in Illinois with the least unemployment are in the southerns area of Illinois and areas near the state capital, which is Springfield. In general, however, I'm in debt as the typical college student is. I recently undergone the belief that…