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Since I joined Ive spent alot of time on this form reading threads and it seem like there are quite a few very bright individuals here. I was just wondering what level of education some of you have completed and are looking to complete? I have an AS in biology and mathematics. Im starting my junior year this fall to persue a BA in electrical engineering and looking to attend medical school afterwards.

I'm going to enter the The Greater St. Louis Science Fair and I need to do good enough to qualify for the big nationwide one. Looking through last years winners everyone did a bio project with the exception of one involving a hydrogen fuel cell. I'm going to do a purely computer science project. It might have relationships to biology or robotics but the heart of it is going to consist of good old code. There are several types of projects you can do, I'm doing an "Invention" type. Here's the info on that: When creating an invention study, first look for a problem to solve. So basically I'm looking for some type of problem I can solve or proce…

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I couldn`t knock off laughing last night at one of our cats, it was That funny that I thought I`de share it, and hope you`ll share some of yours also! we`ve not long lived in this house (moved in Feb this year 06) naturaly as a BBQ fanatic I wasted no time getting one set up in my back yard, to which a few days later next door bought one also (identical as it happens). yesterday was VERY hot outside and has been all week, appart from today, yesterday was the hottest day we`ve had in ages! we had all doors and windows open and the cat`s like to play in the back yard and all was well. next door ( a couple with teenage kids) were having a right old argument he`de even…

Anyone else taking them this year? Or I spose have just finished them? I'm doing AS and did: Edexcel Physics (with Nuclear/Particle as my choice) which was good Edexcel Chemistry: C1+2 were easy, C3 a bit harder, but nothing I can't handle! OCR ICT: Well apart from being the most boring course ever invented (and I can quote a professor of Computing at Imperial College who also called it "the most boring course" after seeing his sons do it) the test itself wasn't bad, although as always with OCR ICT it's about what's on the mark scheme, not how good your answer is. Edexcel Maths: C1+2+3, M1+2, S1.... C3 I was having a bad day and didn't like at all. M2 …

I am paying 10 buck a month extra for a package that gives me the discovery channel. It's the only channel I really would pay extra for. I started watching the first day I got my express Vu (Canadian Sat. for those who have not heard of it). I realise now how horrible it is. It plays "Dirty Jobs" and "How it's made" for like 14 hours of the day. Then you got American chopper, Hot Rod, Boating, Flying, Horses, Cows. Once in a blue moon I've seen something interesting like the construction of LHC. Where is all the physics/biology/psychology/chemistry? I am praying half the time that PBS has something on... Is this just the Canadian verision? I admit we are kinda slo…

How did we know what to eat and what not to eat in the beginnings??? Someone must have taken the risk of eating something to find out if it was eatable or not!! A lot of people must have died eating something they should not have!! BUT, how do animals know what to eat and what not to eat?

Forget physics or trying to end world hunger. The real debate is about this subject. I definitly say Spiderman. oh and yes, i have abolutlely NO life.

How many spaces do you think should go after the period in a paragraph? I always thought you were supposed to use two spaces. However, I am writing a novel and my publisher says that there should only be one space. I looked on their web site, and they always use only one space between sentences. How many do you think should be used? It really doesn't matter for my novel, because I will format it according to my publisher's guidelines. However, I'm just curious to know how many spaces most people use.

My dad and I sometimes chat about the wierdest things and he began to talk about things that are mechanical and electronic and when I told him that I like every single thing to be electronic, he gave me the following question and I am interested in your input. This is not a puzzle or game.... You are the only person in a plane along with a pilot. You are flying at 7000 feet when the plane loses both engines. With mountains all around and no place to land, the pilot orders you to go in back, take one of the two parachutes and bail out. He will hold the plane steady until you go then he will take the other and follow. You crawl to the rear and as you look at the parachu…

If you drop a small ant from the top of the Eiffel tower, would it die on impact considering “0” air resistance?

I've got a problem here. When I first boot my computer, my internet runs fine. However, after browsing a bit (I usually notice it after I've tried to open 3 or 4 webpages simultaneously), it slows WAAYYY down and hangs on "Connecting to page.com". Basically it just sits there trying to connect. AFter about 30 seconds, it finally connects and proceeds to load the page extremely slow. I think it's a problem with resolving IPs or connecting to them or something. It even occurs in IRC, so it's not just a browser problems. Any suggestions?

I cant fully explain the Episodes I experience, so I'll try my best...and I should see a Doctor about it, but wanted to try here anyways. The Episodes im speaking of started when I was a young boy around the age of 10-11 then they stopped for a number of years and started again when I was 17..I tried to learn to control them and keep them from happening and had been successful until now..I had a very intense one last night. I can best describe them as an Intense emotional cognition...My mind can only think in an absolute emotional state..I cant think of simple things or normal cognitive thinking patterns i.e. I am walking, I am getting a glass of water. I can perform the…

Wat is so special about Mona Lisa? why did this painting gain so much fame? wat are the ideas n or messages behind this painting?

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Support My School's Orchestra and Get Your Sites or Company or Name Advertised! Hi, everyone, my school, Council Rock High School South, have an amazing Orchestra. We were rated the best High School Orchestra in the US state of Pennsylvannia by the PMEA (Pennsylvania Music Educators Association). We also performed the pieces, 5 selected movement of the original version of "Pictures of an Expedition" and "Rusian Sailor Dance" and "The Inferno", at the PMEA convention at March 31st, 2006 for many music teachers. It was decided that we will be traveling to Italy on a concert tour next year to Perform the selected pieces including the famous "Romeo and Juliet Fantasy…

What if God uses 12 dimensional string theory to create multiple donut like branes of space time which collide causing multiple big bangs and multiple multiverses in which man continues to evolve and speciate eventually learning how to travel intergalactically and eventually through the multiverses forever and ever and ever and ..... Actually this is giving me a migraine and may be too horrific to contemplate. webgecko NY Better to burn out than it is to rust.

I think many would agree that the next revolution in medicine will be held on the nano scale. One day in the not too distant future you'll go to you doctor with a cold to have him administer a dose of nanocyctes which will seek out and eliminate the virus quickly and efficiently. Cold, cancer, even death could be a thing of the past once we learn how to treat disease at its most basic level. I want to be one of the prioneers of this technology but none of the career counselors at my college can give me any quality info about how I can pursue it. Does anyone have any advice regarding how I can make it happen? I figure Ill go to medical school since it is nanomedicine…

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1346411.ece Has anyone else read that? Quite interesting Cheers, Ryan Jones

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I had a discussion with my boss today regarding my gym tee-shirt. He claimed that it was unhygenic to hang it up on a rail under my desk, but I thought it was not. My view is that it is actually less unhygenic to hang a gym shirt up than it is to wear a shirt for a whole day, for the following reasons. I'd be interested in any comments (apart from "get a fresh shirt you lazy so and so") When you wear a shirt in the office, although you don't sweat much, the small amount of sweat you build up is sufficient to allow anaerobic bacteria to build up under your armpits and create smell-producing chemicals. And it does this for 16 hours during the whole day. When you go …

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Will we still evolve years from now?

I'm putting this here in General discussion because I don't know where else it would go. It's a question about the "binding problem", the problem in psychology and neuroscience that questions how it is that the brain "binds" all the input it gets into one unified perception of reality. No one has discovered a central node - or "CPU" if you will - in the brain where all incoming signals converge, and so it's puzzling how the brain knows that all the disparate information it receives is coming from the same thing: reality. Here's my question: why couldn't the binding problem be resolved by assuming that where ever these separate signals get processed in the brain - …