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Just a question really. It is my understanding that sound is a form of energy. Why can this energy not be harnessed and converted into electricity as a form of natural energy?? Please help, this is really bugging me and i'm sure there must be a really obvious reason. Cheers.

Informed sources report that our beloved Tokyo-stomping monster is alive and well, despite reports to the contrary. In an email interview, Mokele broke his 2-month-long silence:

I just saw a notice up in our notice board, saying theres a science competition where if u win u get to go to Antartica:-) !! I have to investigate or expirement something and make a 5 minute video.. I've been thinking for the whole day but all my ideas seemed kinda boring so far.. so i was wondering if any SFNer had an idea i have a forensic lab for tools and im in a area close to many streams, rivers and seas and i havd about 6 weeks to complete wateva it is im doing.. cheers

In the parlance of the "Favorite movie genre" thread, what is your favorite type of book?

1. you watching starwars and when yoda pops onto the screen the name that comes to mind first isn't yoda but AzurePhoenix. (just happened to me and inspired this thread) Continue.

I am in Biology and made a poster on DNA Engineering for Genetic Treatment. What do you guys think? I print it out and is giving a presentation on it tomorrow. It took me a couple hours to draw the background and edit/fit all the picture in.

I've been thinking about how much each little thing we do can change how things happen for someone else. As you may know, Alex Ostrovsky has just purchased the 1,000,000,000th song from Apple's iTunes service. The guy has just won a new computer, 10 iPods, and a $10,000 music card. Also, his name has been mentioned on CNN, and will probably be written in many magazines and web sites. He must feel very famous at the moment. There have been so many times when I couldn't decide if I really wanted to buy a certain song from iTunes. I will listen to the preview of a song several times, and then I decide whether to purchase it or not. It is often a difficult decision …

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I had a dream somewhile ago. In this dream, I was in a city, a big city. I was driving my car around this city. Finally I come upon a goverment/state building to my right side of my car. The building was like the Congress Building in Austin, TX. Then I saw a message in the clouds saying: "Jesus is Coming. For Jesus is never wrong." Dream ended. My guess is Jesus is coming soon. When? I don't know. Only Father knows. lººk

After some indepth thought i have concluded that a Squid crossed with a Polar Bear would be good...... Simply because it would look cool. I would call it the Polar Square.

I agree, let's make a game of it. How about, each post is what you think of the person who posted before you. Negative comments okay, but no flaming.

Has anyone heard of this book by Mark McCutcheon? What are your views/opinions on it?

I am starting university next year and I am having trouble on deciding what to major in; I would like to work on "discovering" new forms of energy or something that involves the discoveries or inventions that will better the environment, the lives of people in third world countries or society in general. As you can see I am very confused and would greatly appreciate the breakdown of the different majors and any advice you may have. thank you!

Male - female sibling incestuous interactions seem subject to very powerful in- built prohibitions -- no doubt for genomic reasons re- mating strategies . It seems to come about by early age male / female living in close proximity for long periods . It even happens among Israeli kibbutz children , genetically unrelated to each other but whose commonality is being raised together . Does anybody know IF it is an age related phenomenom ( sort of like imprinting ) & if not why it does not arise in older people married & living together for long periods of time . Does this suggest a genetic component rather than a cultural-sociological one ?

Does anyone believe that the world is going to end in 2012?

Go ahead and post the quote that you like the most... One who takes position first at the battleground and awaits the enemy is at ease. One who takes position later at the battleground and hastens to do battle is at labor. Thus one skilled at battle summons others and is not summoned by them. - Sun Tzu

We just got Half-Life 2, and it's really cool. We've been playing a while, and decided to see what some cheats could do. Where I look I can only find that I should either push the "~" key, or edit the short cut on the desktop and then use the "~" key in the game to bring up a console and enter in the cheats. Neither have worked, the "~" doesn't bring up a console of any type. I am running the game through "STEAM," and I was wondering if anyone could help me with the cheats .

Okay, here's what you do. Slap the keyboard and try to make an acronym out of the letters you hit. Here's mine. jiu-Jimmy's Institution of Underwear

Got any scientific knowledge at all? Then you can help with WiSci, SFN's official science wiki! It's a scientific encyclopedia that any registered user can contribute to, and we need many more users to help. If you have some spare time and English skills, just drop by, register, read the introduction, and start editing! With WiSci, we hope to start a truly scientific encyclopedia that is of high enough quality to publish, with a peer-review process being designed. Please help SFN create this resource for the community! mods: it IS a SFN project... it's just blike hasn't put up the links in the sidebar yet, so I couldn't help but ruthlessly advertise. do …

I particularly like this bit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4748292.stm

This time w/ an ironic twist.

Sudoku. it's the new japanese puzzle game taking over the world. You should check it out, here's the sites i use to play sudoku online (don’t worry, it's free) free online sudoku

Does anyone know a website that I can put my web cam on live for free? My requirements: It cannot be a download to put my camera on my website, it has to go to a different website. It must be free. It has to allow live video streaming. Thanks.

....... *think... what was your first interpretation of the thread title* .......... what did you first initally think that phrase meant? That a killing was about to occur... or That a husband was treating a wife to dinner senario? I was bored... so a simple interpretation study on how messed up or not you guys are.

This article was approved, then rejected for publication. The ideas expressed are not popular, but I didn't find them far-fetched or offensive, but apparently it is already the subject of controversy. I'd like to hear what others in the science community think of it. Men, Women, and Ghosts in Science Peter A. Lawrence Peter A. Lawrence is at Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom. E-mail: pal@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Published: January 17, 2006 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040019 Copyright: © 2006 Peter A. Lawrence. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution…