The Lounge

I get Scientific American, and I really enjoy it, but it is sort of lacking in a couple of aspects, and I was thinking of getting another one. People have mentioned "New Scientist" a lot, and "Science" or "Nature" might be a good pick. Any suggestions? Perferably with lots of general topics, versus a specialized magazine.

http://www.spore.com/about.php This game looks really neat. Apparently you get to create a creature and guide it through evolution to be the top animal on the planet. You start out as simple organism's in a tide pool and have to battle it out with other organisms to evolve. Then you try to make your creature as good as possible and you can customize it in any way you would like. As time progresses you can make it evolve into better things. Anyway, just look at the site it looks like this will really be worth buying.

Because I'm obsessed with finding an alternative to gasoline...not because I'm an ecofreak, but you can guess why! Besides, a little thinking couldn't hurt Topic: Alternate power plants/engines for cars. Subcategories: Electric Ethanol/E85 Hydrogen Magnetic Other

looking through sayonaras blog just there looking for part 2 of that creationist thing i seen a suspicious google ad on the page. [ATTACH]1393[/ATTACH] sayonaras secret past time maybe? let the speculation begin. please don't kill me sayonara.

Sure there must be some people doing A-Levels around here somewhere! What did you all get? (And GCSEs, but I think they're out next week) I got: Physics: A Maths: A Chemistry: B ICT: A I'm doing Further Maths next year (already done lots of extra maths units this year). And my Chemistry teacher is going to kill me! I was 5/300 marks from an A. I'll retake a/some unit(s), so should end up with an A, but still...

I read on the WSJ.com - Harnessing Thought to Help the Injured, this is a known method - encephalograph in chips. But I've never read (in papers) about the device, which has been invented in the last months. http://www.lajtner.com . It is about computer driven by thought and about bio-energy you can see on the screen. Does somebody know anything like this? (No encephalograph please!) H.

I thought it would be interesting to see how many of you are willing to share fishing stories. Today my father and I went fishing I was the first to catch anything and go a twenty-two inch Pickerel on my fifth cast. My second catch was a twelve inch bass. We tossed the pickrel back, they tend to be boney, and kept the bass. After I caught my bass my father caught another twelve inch bass and soon after caught a fourteen inch one. We are thinking about frying them.

Was it love at first sight? Serendipity? Your high school sweetheart? Or some really smooth one-liners? I thought this would be a fun thread because almost everyone has an interesting story of how they met their husband or wife, for instance I work with a guy who met his wife on an H P Lovecraft messageboard, and I know another couple who met because the woman (a cop) had pulled over her soon-to-be husband for speeding I was never really "officially" married, so much as perpetually engaged for so long that we bought a house together and people thought we were married, so I think my story still counts ... ... the setting is a time long long ago, in a galaxy…

First of all im not sure where to post this so feel free to move it. My question is WHY doesn't the United States use the metric system?? I mean they teach us cetain way when the whole rest of the world is using the metric system. And when you get to high school they use the metric system in all of the science classes you take, so why not just teach us that to begin with? Why do we have to always be different? Its just idiotic and confusing.

Does anyone watch this show? It's friggin great! Sometimes it's hard to tell if it serious or not. Everytime I've watched the show it makes me laugh. O'REILLY: Now, you are a wealthy guy, now and you have a house in the Hamptons, and you go to Nobu and all these swell places. What's that about? I don't do that. STERN: What, sure you do. O'REILLY: No, I don't. STERN: What do you do? You don't have a nice house now? O'REILLY: I have an OK house, but it's nothing like yours. STERN: You don't talk about — I live in an apartment in Manhattan. O'REILLY: Oh, come on. An apartment. You live in a big high-rise. It's... (CROSSTALK) O'REILLY: I live in a nice house…

I`ve decided to Bite-The-Bullet and go a Little further with my Chem studies, in particular the parts that involve Physics (Thermodynamics specificaly). I`ve got more questions than answers, I keep having to read the same stuff over and over again to try make sense of all the symbols and formula I`m totaly sick of Delta this that and the other:-( In effect I`m totaly brain fried at the moment. I`m sure I`m not the only one to have experienced this, how did YOU manage this and cope with it? my only real drive is that I want to know more, was this enough for YOU also? I must admit, unlike much on my knowledge, THIS is NOT comming easily to me, I can`t e…

May have asked this before.... Anyway, do any current theories predict "hyperspace" or "subspace" like phenomenons/dimensions? I was wondering if energy could be extracted from them, but that would probably violate conservation of energy; because bringing in new energy would enable you to create new mass (E=mc2). I thought it wouldn't violate it because you were using it, but acually it would just be changing into mechanical motin and conservation of energy would still be violated, unless you could send it back to "hyperspace" or "subspace". Your thoughts? (How do we know conservation…

I was watching Simpsons last night, and Homer orders the smiley face breakfast, with a bacon smile, he then asks for an additional bacon moustache and a bacon hat and bacon sideburns... This sparked a memory, when I ordered bacon with my breakfast in Mexico, and in fact most of the countries in Central and South America (and in the supermarkets), all we got was streaky bacon. In Australia you can get rashes that are nearly a foot long, as well as middle back, streaky, a whole myriad of different bacon. The same in the UK, except for the foot long rashes I found at Coles in Oz. In the States, I ordered bagels, Philadelphia and bacon, lo and behold we got streaky bacon,…

Watch this video done completely in reverse. Stay with it cause it gets really good. This person is an artist. http://www.break.com/movies/balancing_point_in_reverse.html Bee

Hi all, just to say I know I haven't been online a lot recently. But then again it seems to have been quieter recently anyway. But don't worry, I still remember you! Not much time, going away on holiday, training/playing for my clan in Halo League matches, work, web design/production, graphics design/production and I've started driving lessons! See you all around, in the virtual sense!

Would gas and oil companies be able to get rid of the patents somehow? What exactly would be their motive? Can something like that be covered up so well?

Mel Gibson Tirade I gave the benefit of the doubt to Gibson for the Passion of the Christ, but I think the latest tirade puts in serious doubt his purpose for showing the Jews in such a bad light in the film.

I've never seen such an awesome visual representation of memes in action than Digg Swarm: http://labs.digg.com/swarm/ The presentation probably helps the fact, but to me it looks so incredibly biological and alive. And it's just a graphical representation of information...

is it just me or has there been a decline in the number of new posts recently

How is it even physically possible to misplace (read: lose) a copy of the CRC Handbook?! It's only... like... the LARGEST book known to MANKIND! Seriously! Ah! !!! Grrr... I think this is almost as funny as it is annoying!

i heard of a series of exhibitions lately, they display real, preserved, partially dissected human bodies using "plastination", they basically replace the water in the cells with perspex. http://www.bodyworlds.com/index.html what do you think?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/07/24/spacewalk.for.sale.ap/index.html Assuming money wasn't an issue, would you be interested in going for a day-trip to space or would you prefer to stay on firmly planted on Earth? This is a public poll.

I didn't know what section to throw this in, but are any of you guys worried about the security of our satellites? I guess I noticed just how much of our everyday life has to do with satellites. Cell phones, television, etc.. The way I've seen computer viruses becoming much more sophisticated lately, and it doesn't seem like the government is on the ball when it comes to keeping updated. Maybe I'm just being paranoid.

What will happen to the body if someone wants their body to be set in motion in space towards another galaxy? Will the body decompose during transit? The temperatures are low, so the body will be kept frozen right? Who knows in several million years the body might end up in an alien planet!

Ninemsn and Toyota are running a competition in Oz with the first prize being a sub-orbital flight. The only link I can find is the one to enter and entry is only available to citizens of Australia and New Zealand.( So to the rest of you. ) The prize includes air travel to launch point, accomodation and meals. Plus one sub orbital flight to at least 100 kilometres above the Earth. Honestly, I could just about wet myself at the mere thought of winning. And yes, I'm entering as many times as the rules allow.