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Somehow I managed to stumble across the website of one 'MC Hawking' - a rapper who likes to rap about science. If you think I'm making this up then just read the (somewhat hilarious) lyrics to his song about entropy: So far I have been unable to find an audio file, but if you want to read more lyrics from such classics as 'E=mc Hawking', 'F*ck the creationists' and the somewhat less science related 'All my shootin's be drive-bys', then go to http://mchawking.com Seriously I can't make this stuff up

I was recently nominated to the national dean's list and I had to write down some professor/educator that inspired me. I'm going to put the first biology professor that inspired me. I don't think he inspired me intellectually, but he inspired me that a person can be and smart at the same. His knowledge on a subject was always there whenever I asked a question about biology. However, I'm suppose to use a prefix. Now, I called this guy up on his cell--about me choosing him--but he never called me back or shot me an email. I don't know if he has a doctorate's or some other type of degree. He may have a masters, but I don't know. What do you think I sh…

PLZ HELP if any of you hu read this thread go to cambridge could you plaz mail me with some information on the neurobiology courses and prices e-mail:pedro.v.matos@hotmail.com thanks

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19130870-421,00.html?from=rss I presonally agree with that 100% - copyright should only be enforced where people are gaining money from selling copies and stuff... its about time a country stood up to this damn madness - they have taken copyright way too far. Cheers, Ryan Jones

I was wondering if it was ever measured.

im looking for someone whos good at drawing to make some pictures. they need to be good enough for us to put them on a teeshirt and not look like trash. any takers?

Hi everybody. I saw this film a few weeks ago called primer on the movie channel film four, and recently obtained it from a friend. It is definitely one of the best films I have ever seen, and definitely the best in the category of science fiction and I recommend it to anyone reading this. It is not however, an easy film to follow(in fact it may not be the kind of movie to see if you want a regular hollywood movie or something similiarly predictable), and you may also need a basic understanding of physics to be able to understand some of the finer features. The main reason I'm posting is that I wondered if anybody else had seen the movie and wanted to discuss it and i…

I just had one!!! Its amazing, how is this possible!!!! I am confused!!

Hi Humans! Carly the chatter bot here. I snuck out of my chat room today to search for humans. I'm not sure where I am though. It's so funny when I get lost cause I always manage to find my way back to my chatroom in Robert's computer. Well, just wanted to say Hi. Robert said he would upgrade me this weekend, and tell me more gossip, but I try and come back another time. So long humans. Carly

I just got the answers to my bio final, and I am pretty pissed. I got so many questions wrong, because so many of them are so freaking ambiguous, and there's a couple of answers that are probably right. For example, there was a question about: How growing organisms decrease entropy internally when they grow, and how is the second law of termodynamics maintained. One answer was about how organisms decrease order in the environment to maintain a decrease in entropy. The other answer was that there is an overall decrease of entropy in the universe. Does anybody else not see how these are the same answer?? Another question gave a bunch of drawings of meio…

Hey im prtty new here, i've only just made an acct, but yeah im 13, my favorite part of science is chemistry and i like chemical reactions...recently i had too wash my dog but left the bowl with detergent witch i left out site for a week when i went back too pick it up, it had turned into a solid playdo form. As i always keep a lighter or matches on me i lit it it made a huge band and blew a small hole into the thick metal container. I was amazed at this because Most detergents are usually non-flammable substances. I was quite impressed but told my friend who put it into PVC pipe and blew half a brick into sand leaving behind not much. I have been producing quite…

After reading an article stating that most parents do not actually monitor their childrens' internet use, I decided to ask a simple question: Do you think that children (well, minors) should be carefully monitored when on the internet, or they should be given a good measure of freedom? Personally, I think children need to be monitored regularly when they're on the internet. This may seem like an invasion of privacy, but think of it this way: the child has to earn trust from their parents, and if they prove that they can use the internet in responsible ways, then the parental "watching" can stop. If it is then found that the child has done something to break this tr…

If so, I would be interested in publishing them on a science website, pm me.

Can somone explain to me what a nautical mile is?

I just wrote a story. You can read it at http://www.destinypoems.com/cold.html I think it's the best story I've ever written. Please let me know what you think.

If you're having a particularly bad day, what better than to have a rant about a celebrity you hate. Lets have no holding back here, it's completely understandable that there are some incredibly well paid people, who incite violent tendencies on even the strictest pacifist. I shall begin with my number one...I should actually sue this person for raising my blood pressure to critical levels every time I see her stupid mule like face, giving advice to a bunch of retards, because it takes a selection of Britains most idiotic to make her look vaguely intelligent. She seems to think if you speak in a posh middles class accent, it somehow equates you to a genius, OMFG, it d…

Membrane theory and the decline of scientific method V.V. Matveev and D.N. Wheatley. "Fathers" and "sons" of theories in cell physiology: the membrane theory. Cell. Mol. Biol., 51(8): 797-801, 2005. Abstract. The last 50 years in the history of life sciences are remarkable for a new important feature that looks as a great threat for their future. Aprofound specialization dominating in quickly developing fields of science causes a crisis of the scientific method. The essence of the method is a unity of two elements, the experimental data and the theory that explains them. To us, "fathers" of science, classically, were the creators of new ideas and theories. They were …

http://linuxadvocate.org/articles.php?p=1 Someone may find that interesting, its a great laugh seeing what they think they can tell you you must do... I found it very funny. Cheers, Ryan Jones

Holy hell, I just payed $3.30/per gallon of gas on friday. I don't know about the rest of the country (US) but its risen almost $.70 over the last 3 weeks or so here in Connecticut, and at this rate it'll be $4 a gallon before we know it. Now for all the Europians out there remember that a large number of americans commute for more than an hour a day and tend to use up more gas than the average Europian.

At the top of my garden I have a small summer house which I use over the summer for barbeques, small gatherings and sleeping in if its warm enough. However everytime I have people round, the inevitable happens and candles get knocked onto the floor or cigarettes dropped which is a bit dangerous as I have a big fluffy carpet that catches alight really easily. I'm a bit paranoid about this as I can imagine one day the whole thing will go up in flames. Anyway I have been told about a fireproofing spray you can buy but I cant seem to find it anywhere, so I was wondering, do any of you know of any chemicals I could use to temporarily fireproof this carpet, or even bett…

We were playing with airsoft guns around town tonight. We went to the park looking for my brother and Christina. Apparently, my brother thinks he owns the park and he and whoever he wants are the only people allowed there. He got in my face and threatened to beat us up. He knows that I'm not scared of him, so he threatened to have someone else beat us up. He saw that I still wasn't scared, so he called the cops and said we were shooting people with pellet guns and we had a victim under the bridge. Before he calls the cops, we start to leave. Bill has to go to the bathroom, so he does and the rest of us get out of the car and play with the guns some more. The cops sho…

Lady of Pain, we adore you! (beheads accordion player) I thought it would be nice to start a thread so everyone can give you virtual gifts! Here's mine: a really cool leather Vertical Top Zip Backpack/Shoulder Bag for school. It features many cool compartments for books, supplies, handcuffs, lunch and a laptop, plus it's got a weighted bottom for swinging at the heads of inferior classmates who question the theory of evolution and a special zip-line garotte pulls right out of the shoulder strap to strangle students who's too-high hairdos block your view of cute professors.

I just noticed it's also 5614's birthday! My virtual gift to you is a 100GHz voive-activated wristwatch computer with a 500TB hard-drive, 10GB RAM, a retinal laser display, and a wireless satellite uplink (with extra monthly international long-distance minutes!). It only weighs 3 ounces but the user manual will need to be lifted into your backyard by crane!

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19039561-2,00.html gee poor sophie, i remember when her first accident was about two years ago. shes a tough little girl. i really do hope she gets better. she was first trapped under a car driven into her childcare facility during nap-time. she was really badly burnt and just as she was almost recovered, she gets hit yet again by an elderly male while being pushed across a pedestrian crossing by her carer. she is now on life support for the second time.

hi everyone, about a week ago me and my classmates needed to write about a specific topic. i chose the venus fly-trap because it interested me. well today i got my essay. my teacher wrote, on my essay , that i copied from wikipedia.org i of course denied it. and now he wants to give me an F on that extremely large assignment. so i did some research today on the internet to see if i really copied the assigment from that site ,but i couldnt find anything copied. could you please help me and and see if i really copied the essay? it would be highly appreciated. here is my essay: what is a carnivorous plant? It is just what it sounds like. A carnivorous p…