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In case you hadn't noticed by the number of internet rules and self proclaimed "trolls" there are, the internet brings out the absolute worst most perverse and downright awful side of humanity. Please note that this discussion is not to simply "diss" humanity, it is a legitimate intellectual discussion started by me to discuss thoughts on why this is using rational thought; in other words this is no place for politics or any hotheaded spewings about how you, like everyone else are treated quite poorly online. I personally think that it comes down to this: Anonymity basically turns off inhibitors that keep all that nasty irrational anger and perverse thoughts a…

Hello forum, I hope this doesn't offend anyone but I just wanted to look back at the fun aspect of this forum and many times that is caused by specific members either on purpose or not. One recently fun occurrence on the forum is how Sherado has threatened to put more people on his ignore list than I had bad days. Other members like Handy Andy and Roger Dynamic Motion have very original Ideas which sometimes cause amusement especially when a serious member who is ready to talk about facts and science comes back after their post with sentences like: "And now back in the world of science:" Another gold nugget is from a member that refused to listen to r…

Is there gender prejudice inScience and Technology? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-41502661/100-women-i-transitioned-and-lost-my-male-privilege

Today is the s***iest day of the semester. I got the assignment of writing an interpretative essay on War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. So raising the question: Why is this "necessary" for a chemistry degree? What do I learn from it? Better writing skills? No. I have no need to "perfect" my writing skills because I can write perfectly well already. The degree of "Writing perfection" that schools demand is preposterous and frankly whoever thought "Let's make students who don't give a flaming flying pigs**t about perfecting their writing write long essays that have been written millions of different ways for no intensive purpose whatsoever" should be drawn and quartered if they…

Are there any sites like Canva that give you CV templates to design your CV around, but are free?

http://www.rebelcircus.com/blog/new-research-men-who-marry-chubby-women-are-happier-and-live-longer/ How accurate is the above article?

Post an experience with a pet that was important to you. We had a good, long experience with a family of 2 cat sisters, and a little dog (the same size as the cats) for 14 years. The cats lived to 20 and almost 22, the dog lived to almost 15. This is what happened to me with one of our cats. She liked to explore the back yard. She, and her sister, would beg to go into the backyard. I tried to supervise as much as I could but she and her sister would get left alone, and even though they could escape the block wall around the back yard, they didn't. We restricted their time outdoors more over time, because of the dangers of wondering off. Our cat was waiting…

If/when fusion energy is actually developed, what would most likely be the economic model? My understand is that if we were to create a fusion process that it would be a plentiful amount, and would be a huge supply. So would energy be cheaper or would it be priced as more expensive? Reasons? ~ee

hi; I understand almost all reading passages ,I can write articles and read,but I can't understand videos ,how to leave this problem ?

What is the logic and psychological explanation for this global phenomena among the homo sapien population?

Where does one place an introduction post?

Hello everyone I've read that it's not uncommon to put the font of front matter (that is, before the main contents) of a document, thesis ... in a smaller size than the main corpus. Now my front matter would be the following stuff, title and cover pages excluded, and in order: Copyright information Signature page Quote Acknowledgements ToC List of symbols and abbreviations List of tables List of figures Preface Abstract Dutch abstract After which Chapter 1 commences. Now, without any doubt, I'll put 1-3, 5-8 in a smaller font (just 1 pt smaller, makes quite a difference). My question is, …

Hello everyone Writing my thesis, I'm talking a lot (and I mean, a damn lot) about values: b-values for diffusion-weighted imaging in MRI, p-values in statistics, T1-values and T2-values in MRI, ... The question here is simple: to hyphen or not to hyphen? (British English) This seems like one of questions for which there exists the least consensus. So I'd love to hear your opinions on this. Should I put a hyphen between the statistic and "value", or not? Thanks! Function

Is it a waste of time trying to get your divers licence if self-driving cars will be available soon?

I'm not talking about radiologists (which I definitely know is not safe from automation) but radiographers. Radiographers are the people who help position the patient onto the scanner and make them feel comfortable and take the images of the patients' inside body using ct/MRI machines etc. What does everyone here think?

I don't normally post sensitive stuff like this but, one of my friends brought this up, and it would be MIND-BLOWING on either side of the aisle. If Trump were to become transgender, would he technically be the first female president?

Did someone 'pulled my leg' a looong time ago telling me these were to detect 'illegal/undisclosed' transportation of radioactive materials ? Or are those only mass detectors, speed detectors, vehicle counters, toll transponders... ?

Other then meeting my Mrs 41 years ago and the birth of our Son, my most unforgetable moment was in 1974, two years before my marriage. I had achieved 15 years service at the company I worked for, being with them from the day I left school and gaining a trade certificate in Fitting/Welding and Machining. I was due for 3 months long service leave and was looking for somewhere different and exciting to do. By chance I came across a small advertisment in a Sydney paper asking for guest crew for a British registered three masted square rigged Barquentine, which was leaving Portsmouth England in December '73 and arriving in Panama in January '74, then sailing across the Pacifi…

Anyone collect or interested in fossils? I find them and also buy them. If you have any then lets see them. I have more stuff, but here are some of the fossils from my collection. I might put more up if anyone wants to see them. A few teeth, Some Trilobites.Some random fossils. Ichthyosaur. And some Megalodon teeth, 4 to 5.5 inches or so.

My son has a house with a garden which has a resident squirrel (garden, not house). He has challenged me to work out why the family has named it Igor. Does anyone have an idea why? There must be some connection which I'm unaware of. All suggestions welcome in helping me to cheat.

Hello It's commonly known that quantities are put in italics, whereas their units aren't. I'm in doubt whether to put "[1H]", being the concentration of hydrogen protons, in italics or not. Would I then put the whole thing in italics? Just the square brackets? Or just the (1)H? [1H] [1H] vs. [1H] [1H] To be honest, whichever one is correct, the last one looks the least frustrating. Thanks; Function

With few working satellites in orbit yet, is the Galileo working today, even with delayed capture, or poor precision, or both ?

Hello everyone A special request for the Brits here: how would you write the words in the title of this thread? I'm writing my thesis in British English: Magnetise vs. magnetize Magnetisation vs. magnetization Remagnetisation vs. remagnetization vs. re-magnetisation vs. re-magnetization Remagnetise vs. remagnetize vs. re-magnetise vs. re-magnetize (and conjugations, e.g. remagnetised etc.) Thanks! Michael

If money and research dollars weren't a limitation, if you could conduct a (serious, or humorous) daring science experiment in any field of science, what would it be on and why?

That gold mined centuries ago since ancient times, the gold from spaniard conquerors, the gold from mines production in all continents. Physically, where is it ? Cannot believe that a substantial amount is in jewelry or museums. The amount of gold produced in say 3000 years, has to be a huge amount. Where is it now ?