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I am sick of mine, so I want a new one. Any suggestions/links are welcome.

I need to write a novel for school, so I think I'll write a SFN based novel. It will be about the world after a massively enourmous hurricane wipes out most of the worlds population. Although the plot is slightly negotiable. I need charactors. To participate, email me at shaviland1@comcast.net I will need your email. You may choose weather your charactor is good or evil, and any other specifications you care to make.

Scientists have restored hearing in the lab.By inserting a corrective gene with a virus inducing the growth of cochlear hair cells.Testing the gene ATOH1 been successfull in guinea pigs.Should it work in humans it will be fantastic,giving millions of deaf people a quality of life we take for granted.

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Cap%27n_Refsmmat/ScienceNews After a bit of debate, I made a column on Wikinews (a news source that anybody can edit. It's a wiki, like wikipedia) that is all about science and technology news. It's only two days old, so don't expect too much right now. Much of the material is also from my little-used blog which was for the same purpose. However, on Wikinews, I hope to get more attention so I can continue and make this a great souce for science news.

I just joined and I must admit am very excited about these forums. I love science and look forward to reading all the interesting things you guys come up with! I have a question in the Astronomy/Cosmology section in a new topic guys check out, thanks!

Just like suprnova before, Lokitorrent has sold out and closed down. Heres a link to some info: http://www.mpaa.org/CurrentReleases/ http://www.lokitorrent.com/

I am almost through my junior year of college. When i was a freshman i had the desire to enter medical school. I knew of the road ahead back then, and it was what i expected. But as i went on and filled more med school requirements, i was exposed to other areas of science and saw they intrigued me more than the prospect of becoming the surgeon i wanted to be. There was a point last year when i focused no longer on the necessary pre-req's like a&p and instead invested more time into chemistry classes. The idea of doing drug discovery is fascinating. I had several discussions with my chemistry professors who, obviously, advocated graduate school in chemistry. Both medic…

Thankyou for your e-mail wishing me a happy birthday. It was nice of you to send. So i thought it only fair to show my appreciation by saying thankyou.

How much knowledge do all members of the forum have? Enough to solve any questions given by a professor in an university, college? Or just for some common problems.

Really, who's the bigger slut, the luscious and lascivious lindsey lohan or the hot and hedonistic hillary duff? Why? What are their failings? Their Attributes? Talents? I'm bored, an we were talking about during government today, so I thought I'd get a better idea of the public's opinion before reporting to my class

I just bought a book on gravity by john wheeler and kip thorne, and charles misner. it was published in the seventies. it is called "Gravitation." it's kinda old, is it current?

Is there a way to write equations here? I tried using html codes such as: γ but I don't get the greek letter.

I have been thinking for a while now about what will happen in a few decades when we can effectively automate many of the tasks that make up the bulk of workforces in the world. Things like: stacking shelves, driving buses, checkout clerks, call centres, security, cleaning, waiters, fast food industry, factory work etc could all become jobs of the past, only creative positions would remain and people could have exceptionally short working weeks while still keeping the economy booming. Here are some of the question to think about: How would this impact on peoples perception of money? What would people do? Would goods become so cheap to make that we could have…

Only the second person in the world to complete the attempt without a stop, and she broke the record. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/sailing/4229079.stm http://www.teamellen.com/ellen-article-1225.html# Well done to her.

You ever notice how most people are a walking bag of contradictions? We have a knack for holding dichotomous beliefs, and then touting our beliefs like they are the only logical beliefs one could hold. This is, perhaps, most obvious in those who are involved with politics and religion. I'm including myself in that group, but I try to acknowledge the fact when I find myself having two beliefs that can't coincide (and usually one gives in). This forum has helped me to realize many contradictions in my own belief systems. Nevertheless, it's quite amusing pointing out people's contradictions, and then watching them tip-toe around the crumbling mountain of logic they'v…

I happen to be a fan of the Tycoon games (Rollercoaster, Lemonade, Plant...ect). It might just be the same mentality of the SIMs, being able to play god. Anyway, what sort of Tycoons do you like? What kind of tycoon game would you like to see? ( ______Tycoon).

Ive recently heard that people are cremated in batches.I had believed that people were burnt individually,it now seems that when the furnace is cooled.The remaing ashes are gathered and urns filled with what could be up to six peoples remains.Seems chances of taking your grandad home now is not so good.

Someone at school told me about something her brother does: He takes three cups/glasses of different colors and sets them on the table. Then he leaves the room, telling them to point at one once he's gone. Then he comes back and tells them what they pointed at. Apparently they've even locked him in the bathroom and he did it. He can do it with any set of cups, anywhere. Any clues as to how?

If anyone has received offensive or threatening PMs from Plankman (AKA Artorius), please forward them to myself or Blike. We have almost enough material to take his behaviour up with his ISP, and with his place of work/study (from which he connected to this site, so their [acr=Use of Internet Services]UIS[/acr] Policy will apply.)

I return to the forum after several months away .... good to be back ! I needed some help and didn't know exctly where to post it so decided to do it right here ! Anyone got any nice idea for research topics in the field of digital systems or computer science or electronics ? Any help would be appreciated.....going through a sort of mental block currently

Tell me something about yours - alive or dead. I want to tell you about my mother. She was born in 1907, she was 42 when I was born. She was an exceptionally cool and smart lady. Her father was an organist in the UK, she was born in Lancashire moved to Bridge of Allen, Scotland when she was 5, and to Ballymena, Northern Ireland, when she was 10. (If anyone knows about those areas I would like to hear from you.) When she turned 21, she inherited some money from an aunt. Her parents had arranged a marriage for her with a man she didn't like, so she took her money and immigrated to America, where she became a nurse/governess for a child with rhumatoid arthriti…

This guy must have been in the sludge at the bottom of the gene pool. http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=2897646&nav=23ihVwkE Any more examples out there?

Hi all, does anyone know where to find information on the effects that EU legislation has had on ground-level (tropospheric) ozone emissions from 1970 - present?

Thought this was interesting.. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050201/D87VU1582.html http://cnn.worldnews.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=CNN.com+-+U.S.+military%3A+No+soldier+missing+in+Iraq+-+Feb+1%2C+2005&expire=03%2F3%2F2005&urlID=13075944&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2005%2FWORLD%2Fmeast%2F02%2F01%2Firaq.hostage.ap%2Findex.html&partnerID=2006

I noticed after 50 posts it now says "meson" next to my name. Before that it said "lepton". What do these terms mean? Keep in mind that if they are physics terms, it makes sense that I wouldn't know what they are. I suck at math.