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I am not a Christian. I am non-religious. But my wife is a Christian. I write this thread so I can ask other Christians here for advice on a family issue. My daughter Lily lately has experimented with jewellery, just a plain gold necklace. She's only a little girl so I don't think jewellery is a good idea as she might lose it. But she loves wearing it. It makes her very happy, so I let her wear it because it's only $50. My wife found out that Lily was wearing jeweller and she got very angry. She told me that the bible forbids women from wearing jewellery. I said, "Prove it," and she took out the Holy Bible and pointed to Peter 3:3, which says "Your beauty should n…

Hi, Why Jaundice make sskin color to yellow? Thanks...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6230945.stm Wondering what peoples opinions are on this? Are the people complaining simply religious nuts or is there actually a valid ethical argument (I don't see how "it is against nature !!" is really any argument at all)? If you agree with this (ie with the research), any thoughts ? If you are an expert in the area, could you explain a little of the likely benefits and perhaps some of the potential downsides ? If you don't, can you please explain why... (I honestly can't see it, although I will admit my understanding of the subject area is horribly inadequate).

We are all familiar with the dating methods and everything, but what if they are way out? Has anyone heard of George Dodwell an Autralian astrologer? He looked at all the different facts that show the earth has been at different tilts in the past. Plotted these on a graph and showed the correlation with a spinning top when being she struck by an object. There was a correlation and appeared to him that the earth has been wobbling for the last few thousand years, as though it had been struck around 4500 years ago. Cheers Paul http://uk.geocities.com/paulbryhanson/

Bunny wins! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ez5QPW-ku4

Just wondering, why does the rabies virus go airborne when it infects humans and not animals like dogs?

its down to these two beasts. RWD. Sexy. '95 RX-7 OR '96 S15 they will not be driven everyday, so i am not too concerned with the maintenance of the mazda. im caught directly in the middle. I know a lot about both cars, so im not looking for people to list their attributes. Which would u go for

Sorry if this has already been posted. This is just a neat thing i ran across. Its a live feed from a watering hole in Africa. Most of the time nothing is there, but every now and then an animal will wander by. http://bsalert.com/artsearch.php?fn=2&as=1398&dt=1

Hello, Can anybody tell me of a good company that provides information about ampoules manufacturers? Someone recommended this http://www.technoglassampoules.com. Any recommendations on this? werstyle teen

Hmm it suddenly occured to me that I haven't whored The Perry Bible Fellowship on SFN... at least I don't recall doing so. Anyhow, it's a great webcomic and quite possible the most ingenious one around. Ever. Updated around once a week. With very diverse and sometimes rather dark humor. Check it out at http://www.pbfcomics.com/ Also, if you've been seeing strange dreams about ancient gods awakening in underwater cities recently you might want to check out Goomi's Unspeakable Vault (Of Doom) at http://www.macguff.fr/goomi/unspeakable/home.html . Considering this is a science forum I'll have to mention it has occasional geometry and physics related jokes. An…

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this thread is for all the people who have at one point almost lived off of this tasty snack. How nutritious is it really? It appears to have a fair number of carbohydrates but I'm not sure if it contains anything else

You can date old timers by the fact if they have used or still use Pegasus Mail by David Harris. I'm one of those old timers and have been using Pmail as it is called for short for around a dozen years now. I went to the official website today and much to my dismay, I discovered financial difficulties have finally killed off Pegasus Mail. This is such a sad day. I now have a dozen years of email built up that needs to be migrated to something else and never have I seen an email client that handled spam any better than Pmail. Deep down I knew this day would eventually come, but this is like the death of an old friend. I wonder if there are any migration too…

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade comes out on the 16th. Thats a Tuesday so I can't do it right away, I'll have to wait till Friday. So I'll be playing from around 3 or 4 PM Friday until the same time Saturday. What do you think, can I do it? It's going to require a lot of energy drinks and hot pockets if I do.

I am unsure where to place this. But here I go anyway with a question. How does the radioisotope thermoelectric generator use temperature difference to produce electricity? I read up on wikipedia but became more confused, things like phonons?? I can't visualize how the electrons would move. I was thinking about thermodynamic equalibrium ad the hot electrons flowing to the colder ones or even an electron density difference but I know I am missing something. Any help appreciated.

For the bast two or three days I have been unable to connect to SFN (not getting DNS entry) and today I'm only able to connect intermittently. Is anyone else having this problem and what is the cause?

So I decided that being overwhelmed by both geckos and beer bottles was a little too chaotic for my house. Since the bottles couldn't scurry away, they were the unlucky ones to be pitched into the night. I took them out to my bin and as I walked back I noticed something writhing about on the ground in the dark. I thought, oh maybe it is an injured lizard. But no it was a death adder, and nothing with 'death' in its name can be good for you. Adding can be tiresome, but that's not really important. I must have stepped over it twice as I was walking out, so I was pretty damned lucky. I thought about catching and moving it away from my house, but it looked like it was goi…

I just realized I have OCD and how it plays a rold of me running around in circles without accomplishing anything. You see, sometimes I feel like I should be just reading and skimming fast, getting what I can, and that way I won't get bored. Then sometimes I feel like I wanna go at it slowly to get as much as I can, but I do intend to get bored. What happens is that I keep thinking about these and end up accomplishing nothing! Yelp and post your regimens. Peace

As you can see, I just got to the rank of Meson. What is a meson in the scientific world? I knew what a quark was, but not a meson.

Hey all of you guys all around the World I just wanna to wish you a very Happy and Successful new year ahead..... These warm wishes are all the way through India.... Take very Good Care and Enjoy..... God Bless..... Post your wishes here:-)

hello. i'm paul. how do i get into the sfn chatroom? i have been in there before but when i click on sfn chatroom now i just get a grey box (whereas before i got the grey box with a few options inside it). any help would be appreciated. cheers.

I want to buy ones........the thing is I'm not sure is which should I buy, the one that's totally solid/concrete or the other one that's with hard rubber........ I think I should go for a rubber, what ya think?

I went to see Dinosaur Jr last week, and had a great time...incredible guitar playing and very, very loud. I was just wondering what really memorable gigs anyone had been to, and if you can, why that particular gig was so exceptional. Was the atmosphere electric, was there nakedness et.c et.c A few I will never forget are Bjork at the Phoenix festival, David Bowie at Glastonbury, Orbital at the Alexandra Palace and Hyper at the Glade Festival. They all just blew me away, the sound quality, stage presence, and atmosphere at the time was unforgettable...there's so many more I could mention, but these stick out the most for the moment.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bzt3HTPOCrs have fun. i sure did. some random quotes: "This is science, this is scientific, we know that" "A car requires 9 liquids to run: gas, brake fluid, motor oil, water, air" "And so i realized people were dying around me, and surgeries and cutting out 8 inches of the cole-on" "And the transpa...transplants" (He's right, i know when i needed a heart transplant i said no way, Coral calcium please!) "When you look at the pesticides, the herbacides, the genocides" "Understand, that nutritional books, mostly are selling a particular product. I sell no product..... You need to buy my book" "Your body needs 9 things to function e…

I am here to announce his death recently...i wonder if he has done any achievements to benefit the scientific community? Any input anyone?