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This is just an awkward fascination of mine, but I almost always find people let the most strange things pile up in an around their desk. I know for a fact my dad keeps a framed picture of R2D2 next to baby photos, and someone I work with loves to drip candle wax in colorful patterns all over his desk for reasons only the divine goddess could know. Heres some things I have: - a pink stegosaurus beanie-baby on my monitor, his special power is proofreading spreadsheet formulas and being adorable - a really odd book on how Jesus will rapture the earth in the year 2012 that my mom gave to me as (I hope) a joke - a sketch of Hello Kitty that is obviously in my ha…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4461888.stm YAY!

man, ive been walkin around for the last few days feeling like hell. ive had static electricity all over me. i dont think its originating from my clothes either. i take a shower, put on my clothes in the morning and there it is all day. at night, i take another shower and hop in to bed and there it is again, in my sheets. i wake up in the middle of the night to use the restroom and i feel it on my arms and legs. i havent used any new laundry methods and the linen and clothing. same stuff i had from the previous weeks laundry. i dont live near power line or anything. it sucks! anyone have experience with this? anyone know how to get rid of it?

hi i was in a meeting where a man presented a system ( called Promotron ) for write data "on any surface" in an "invisible" , "in-adulterable", "impossible to copy" way and then read it......... he never showed, by the way, HOW HE WRITES THE DATA and he said that the way of writing is a secret is it possible ??? his intention is to replace clasics magnetic stripe cards by any object ( plastic card, cardboard, etc ) using this system he said that this is a revolutionary technology...... but i don't rely much in him i have looked for some system already invented, and i found "LSA - laser surface autenthication" by russell cowburn LSA method simply …

Damn this price of education!! What happened to American socialism?!?!

I'm 15 and interested in Science, I'm slowly learning one or two things within my fields of interest (Mainly Cosmology, and Physics in general); but when I come to this forum I look around and I'm overwhelmed with some of the knowledge you guys have. What I want to know is were you very smart all of your life or did you just persevere and learn? I want to know this because I'm interested in Science but I don't know if I could have a future in it.

Does anyone have a list of websites that have educational science videos? I've discovered Nova and learner.org, but I'm wondering about other websites people have come across in their educational journey.

In encarta 2005 reference library, i 've successfully extracted videos which are available as movie files but i didnt find animation files (like animation showing working of heart,relativity explanation). Plez someone help me how to get it

Keeping up with the need for a "super hero" type in the world now-a-days is tough. Our sports heroes are as close as we get, but is mother nature keeping up with public demands? Should we ban, or simply regulate steriod use as an enchancement drug?

On another forum, I was challenged that Wiki is not a good source for material which I think it is. Does anyone else feel this way or is there a better place. Bettina

A game I think you'll like: http://www.conquerorgame.com/ It's a turn based strategy a lot like risk but with a few new dimensions. In addition to placing troops, you also have farms, castles, taxes, culture and diplomats. It's more confusing at first, but if you play a few games and read the rules, you get the hang of it pretty fast.

Hi everyone, I am a new member. I ran across this website. I see a lot of invaluable scientific knowledge here, thus i decided to sign up right away. I'm an international student coming from Cambodia, a third country. Frankly speaking, I enjoy reading the posts from phi-for-all, mokele, martin, IMM, bascule, ecoli, servarian, and more...But i do need a guide. Anyone here mind you guide me through the forum?

Hi All, Thought I would let you know about a very interesting project that is going on at the moment on the Delmarva Peninsula in southeast Virginia. This is a joint venture between ICDP (International Continental Scientific Drilling Program) and USGS. The core well is being drilled very near the center of the crater in Eyreville, VA. Here is a site where you can keep up with current progress: http://www.icdp-online.de/sites/chesapeake/news/news1.html I have visited the site twice. The first time I was there, on Oct 7, the were around 2,900 feet. I spoke with Lucy Edwards, USGS palynologist, and David Powars, one of the discoverers of the crater ( the…

11 years of research well spent... http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0a03b5108e097010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html some good pics and a video can be found here... http://zubbles.com/gallery/zubblesPhotos.asp

Happy Birthday Firefox! As I write this, I know it's still early, but just a heads up: Firefox 1.0 was released on Nov. 9, 2004! Come on everyone join the Firefox party! 100,000,000 downloads since version 1.0.0 and that must be a record! Cheers, Ryan Jones

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051031/nasacuts_spa.html Apparently all science experiments scheduled for the International Space Station have been cancelled by NASA. Ostensibly this is only until "the space station is completed". But NASA has already stated that the 2010 Shuttle retirement deadline, which was originally chosen because that was the prediction for how long it would take to complete ISS, will now be enforced regardless of the status of ISS. Meanwhile NASA is underfunded and USGov is backing away from new deals for Russian space launches. IMO this is just more evidence that we've *already* seen the last shuttle launch we'll ever see.

As the title says, what is your idea of a perfect humanity? How do you envision the human race at it's best? Since I'll be copying/pasting most of my ideas from another board, first I'll say a few relevant things I mentioned in other topics at that board: First off, I believe in the importance of the large-scale over the importance of the small scale. In terms of humanity as it relates to this topic, the success and/or prosperity of humanity as a whole is far more important than the success and/or prosperity of an individual or community. It is because of this that I am against religion. While religion may provide support for the individual or believing community,…

does anyone know its hotter near the sun? A good explanation plz

Hi, ive been thinking about signs, road signs / warning signs etc and how intuitive they are. Most signs afford some kind of meaning in the graphic they represent, for example a flammable sign is a flame, and irritant is a cross (implying, dont mess about with it). The picture has at least a partial meaning to the message it is trying to represent, i am stuck on why the "radioactive" sign is what it is, what is it meant to be and why? does anyone know? cheers Smommer

Not sure if this has already been covered (couldn't find anything) but how come Bio Hazard was banned...I've only just noticed, was it recent ?

A good friend of mine had a great pryo site all about the chemistry of explosives and pyro with good tutorials on why this stuff works and the like. Some insane guy found his site and, despite the disclaimers on ever page made some explosives (Quite a lot of it too). Like that was not enough he then went on to phone the local police station and threatended to detonate the device! The guy got a arrested and his computer confisgated, the forensics team found a like to my friends website and now hes in the hell for it too... his dreams of setting up a pyrotechnics company are all but useless now becuase hes being tried for assisted terrorism charges! When I find …

Has anyone else found that over the past few days/weeks that Yahoo! Mail service has slowed down considerably??? Just like browsing/loading messages/sending replies, each page (I use the web based version) takes a while to load and often fails, retrying it will often work... something's certainly not right!

Well, we all know that death will come one day.. yet we dont like to talk abt it.. we also know that we will do sex one day and we talk alot abt it... then y not death? maybe because we dont want to think that we will not be here.. but its the truth just like havin sax one day.. wat u say?

I've searched but I couldn't find this link already posted (apologies if it has) the next time you listen to the unintelligble mumblings of a stoner, listen carefully they may know more than you give them credit for... http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8155 I didn't put this in the news forum as the article is over a month old now.

I said in a previous thread in response to some nonsense by Klatu: I'd be careful - the government is secretly working on technology that will render tinfoil hats ineffective. Elvis is helping them, and so is Nessie. Well, it appears I'm right about being able to exploit them.