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In this page ----> https://www.theknifemedia.com/world-news/pentagon-funded-program-investigated-ufos-2009-2012/ There is a link ----> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html Why is it always the same story, incomplete/shortened/truncated information ? Disclosing material in teaspoon dosages ? Is it on purpose to create curiosity and promote speculation ?

Hello forum, We engage in conversation with friends/co-workers/family every day and recently during a face-palm moment I was thinking about all the misinterpretation of accurate scientific papers by the media. I am not talking about pseudoscience or papers like the one that Maeder recently published regarding Dark Matter and Dark Energy. To give a few examples that I noticed/been a part of: "The God particle" - Just typing this makes me cringe because I remember all the moments people started talking about this with me. Heck even my mom had an opinion about it. Of course people who mention it don't even know what a particle is so I will just leave…

Is this something new or just more smoke and mirrors? http://abcnews.go.com/US/navy-pilot-recalls-encounter-ufo-unlike/story?id=51856514

Do people with solid background in science (physics and math) enjoy pop-sci books, tv shows etc. or do they have a "oh my head hurts so much from that BS/oversimplification" type of reaction?

How are these tallied? By wisdom? Complaints? By lack of cussing? For not being too obnoxious? Education? What else?

What explanations have been put forward for this observation we generally see in real life?

An advanced alien species visits Earth. Upon examination of our species and speaking with world leaders, they say they will offer Earth one of three choices to which they will help, and make our request a reality. The choices: 1.) -End Global Warming 2.) -Colonize Mars with 1 week transport, full living facilities, food, etc. 3.) -Cure all diseases on Earth choose one and explain why for your choice

I use to post on this forum under the forum handle In My Memory between 2005 and 2007. I know it's a long time ago and few people either know or care who I was, but I want to apologize for my behavior back then. In short, I was a compulsive liar and a relentless narcissist. Let me unpack this in detail: Any single statement I made regarding my education, occupation, life, family, hobbies, or experiences was false. At the time when I posted on this forum, I was not capable of telling truths whether big or small. I was fully and completely aware that I was a compulsive liar in the clinical sense of the term. The compulsive lying started when I was very young. With…

If married women live longer than single women but married women who marry younger men with significant age gaps in between live shorter lives relative to married women who marry slightly older men, how big does the gap between husband (being the younger one) and wife (being the older one) have to be in age for the benefits of being married for women to be equivalent as with single unmarried women?

What explanations have been put forward for this observation we generally see in real life? Women today are more obsessed about their looks than ever and with good reason. Employment opportunities are greater for people in general who are deemed to have a good body, seen to be attractive and generally possess a symmetric face. The plastic surgery industry is booming in South Korea, a nation where the average IQ is a whopping 108 points. In contrast, the average IQ in Australia is a mere 98. So, what does everyone here think, what evolutionary reason do we have for being the way we are today?

Why does the IQ bell curve in males have more outliers (i.e. extreme values) compared to the IQ bell curve for females where everything is more together?

What serious or humorous skill and/or trait do you think you most inherited from one of your ancestors and why?

How does it work? In some forums the number get raised by 1 anytime you visit a thread,even it is your own! Which I find rather strange. That is luckily not the case here. If I visit one of my threads the number of views remains unchanged, and I like it this way. But when happens when I visit somebody else's thread? Does the number get raised only the first time, or only if there has been a new post?

This was inspired by a recent incident in thread posting and takes the form of a competition to think of the worst case scenario. The scene a computer controlled situation where a user is offered an input box to input instruction, but the computer is programmed to substitute the requirements of the previous user. To start of here is a scenario. A guy goes into a robot surgery clinic for an ingrowing toenail. She wakes up to discover the previous user had a sex change.

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Hello, I have made a 2D/3D Dimensional 6*6*6 chessboard:

Hello forum, I am a big comedy fan and wanted to get your opinion on this case. I see Louie lumped up together with Weinstein and Spacey and I think that's not fair. What he did is highly inappropriate (I won't break down the news here) but he did not hurt or assault anyone. Thoughts?

Is it possible to love more than one person at a time? I experienced it when I was younger yet was not the reason that tore my relationship apart. It was something else. Have you ever been in a situation where you have found yourself loving two people? You might not even intend it, but I think it is always possible. But it's taboo. Not sure why the post has repeated three times.

Hello everyone The ones following my posts regularly will know that I'm writing my thesis on, among other things, nuclear imaging of primary brain tumours. Finding accepted, standardised nomenclature for radiotracers, however, is driving me crazy. I found the Molecular Imaging and Contrast Agent Database on the NCBI website, which offers some abbreviated and full chemical names of radiotracers I'm discussing. However ... I can't seem to agree with the chemical name they give to the substance which has the INN of fludeoxyglucose (18F). Here are some of the names given in the MICAD I need evaluated by some real chemical-linguistic purists here (I'm a bit of a perf…

This thread was inspired by jingori's recent thread about English writing, but is oof topic there so I have opened a new discussion thread. Hidden in this weekend's sensationalist trash, this article from the BBC presents a balanced survey of answers to the question round the world. Most interestingly it also offers measured evidence that teaching joined up writing improves joined up thinking and reading in later life. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41927258

What does it mean that some two people have a Hepburn and Tracy dynamic?

Hello Since English is not my native language, I'd like to ask you guys to find a word that describes the following: A threshold for a positron emission tomography isocontour (that is, all voxels [cf. three-dimensional pixels] with a same standardised uptake value, or SUV) could be e.g. 50 % of the SUVmax (that is, the maximal SUVmax within the region that is bordered by this "A50" isocontour). Several authors have described that the A50 isocontour may be a good cut-off to get a certain metabolic tumour volume (MTV50). However, delineation with this A50 isocontour is not fully objective or automatically done, since a cut-off value (threshold) of 50 % o…

Hi, I'm a 26 year old mom and I'm going back to school since my children are now at school age. I know that I would like to go into science and am enrolling in online courses. Biology and Physics are the two I'm most interested in.. It's a boon to be able to attend classes online, but obviously it has it's drawbacks. I'm uncertain what courses I should take and interested in any other insight you might want to offer. Thanks!

Just the other day my computer "decided that it wouldn't wake up from sleep mode anymore" this happened as a result of a bad intel graphics driver automatic update. So I had to search for an old driver that would work on my system. The problem is that no games will play on the driver that I found because it is over 2 years old. Is intel legally allowed to automatically update me to a driver that is obviously completely untested on my computer? Surely they could make the update software know that a driver will not work on my chipset.

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