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Just a bit of fun really, but a valid and perplexing question! why is belly button fluff always Blue? it doesn`t seem to matter what you wear red black white whatever, it`s always a grey blue color? almost the same color as the lint filter in a tumble dryer. secondly, how come women don`t seem to have this problem with getting BB fluff in the 1`st place?

does anyone here play go? Just curious. I play online sometimes and it would be cool to play with some of you all, if you play.

I have been selected to Govorners honors, and i have to have an experiment to bring. Does anyone have any useful ideas to blow them away?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3432735.stm It looks like Europe is going to fine Microsoft alot of money (no doubt because the European economy needs it, and all that money would be much appreciated by them freeloading french farmers, but hey.. I'm a cynic) The thing I wonder though, is that they comment on competition from people like apple and Real Networks... but hld on, who the hell actually wants RealPlayer? I am no big fan of mocrosoft at the best of times, but RealPlayer is EVIL.

I was thinking of my favorite sci films....Planet of the Apes, Fantastic Voyage, The Andromeda Strain, Silent Running and of course that all time knock out Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. I remember seeing it for the first time, and what a mind blower. The symbolism is rampant and as Kubrick himself said open to many interperations. Among some of the symbolic interpertations. 1. Homer's Odyssey parallel. The Computer HAL is the one eyed cyclops. 2. The Monolith is touched first by the naked hand of the ape, then the gloved hand of Heywood and finally by the mind of Bowman at the end of the film. 3. Hal only has one red eye (sees things in only …

What are the average IQ's of Physics, Chemistry and Biology B.S-M.S-Ph.D's? Can IQ measure intelligence? What is the meaning of an IQ score? How can it be explained that the IQ of Richard Feynman (Greatest scientific mind since WW2) is 'only' around 125, below Madonna (142)?

How many of you know what a refsmmat is (before seeing it here or in my sig)? Post your ideas on what it is here! I'll tell you what it is after seeing you moan over it for a while. Prizes for getting it right is $500!* *$500 not included

My parents have made the choice to home school me, since I am having a horrid time in Somerville High School, and feel that I could work a lot more decisively in the constraints of a home enviorment. However, I also need social activities, apart from my friends, so qoutes my dear mother. So is thier any way I could actually get into a lab of some sort to observe? I dont know a terrific sum of information, which mainly pertains to Biology, but I feel it would be incredibly helpful to be in that enviorment. Does anyone know of any institutes or such facilities with labs which may be willing to allow observation on my part? I reside in Central New Jeresy, if that aids in rep…

Manned space flight is..

Who is the wisest of them all? Where are the older fellers with the life experience? Is anyone here a certified prof/researcher/engineer?

I just heard this being plugged on the radio. I think there are some people here who'll like it a lot... http://www.htby.org

Quiet island getaway. Super low price, no reserve. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2979756619&category=1467

How do you spell? Do you use the British or American spelling? I use the British!

I have 4 in my inbox and 76 among all my folders. So why do I keep getting "inbox full" warnings? Someone PM me to test pls

I just burned myself with a soldering iron. It felt absolutely horrendous, and now it is blistering and burning like fire under my skin :/

In Canada, Vancouver in particular, there is a plight in which available hospital beds are becoming spread thinner and thinner. My idea was, eliminate all of the useless government jobs, such as the middle floor beurocrats, and put that money into the ailing health care system. Good call eh? Hard solution to come by. This situation is avoidable and there is plenty of money still being sucked into the proverbial black void. Why doesn't the government actually work to improve the country and streamline the system?

What will happen if 100,000 US chemists will declare a war on the 10.000 US Physicists? *Literally*?

Though this is not technically my first post, I thought I'd introduce myself to you all. I'm currently a sophomore biochemistry & molecular biology major at a small liberal arts college in Virginia. I love science, and hope to someday teach chemistry at the undergraduate/graduate level and research. I work and research in the environmental science department of my college, and fence sabre. See you all around!

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http://www.geocities.com/ptypes/temperament_test.html I came out as a rationalist. "Rationalists want to understand and gain power over nature, to understand, control, predict, and explain realities, to be seen as competent, to have, most of all, competencies, capabilities, abilities, capacities, skills, and ingenuity, to be able to do things well under varying circumstances, to constantly improve, to be free from errors, to increase their store of knowledge, to learn as much as they can, to rearrange the environment, either through constructing physical edifices or building institutional systems, to speculate about the possible motivations and thoughts of those …

I think Radical Edward's avatar ties with MrL's in terms of the FREAKING SCARY factor. WHAT THE HECK! it looks like Cyclopia (could be disturbing for some)

does anyone in the UK (maybe other countries I don`t know?) Know what the clear plastic raised triangle sticker is about that you get on some products? Lighter Fuel is one such product, I wondered if it was a warning for blind people or something? any ideas?

FIX YOUR ICON!!!!

Just the thought of it gives me the chills. Can you imagine waking up and seeing that THING squatting menacingly over you in bed, giving you a cold, unemotive stare.

what happened to the quote button?