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Can anyone tell me the difference to an American between a City, a Town and a Village please|?

Happy new year! ¡Feliz año nuevo! Feliz ano novo! Bonne année ! Frohes neues Jahr! Felice anno novo!

Hello. For a small quantity of about a dozen, does anyone know which would be a simple source of printable clear thin vinyl sheets (as from office products stores), with glue layer for seeing the image behind glass ? To be fed to a plain color printer or photograph printer. Problem... printing white being one of the colors... Workarounds ?

I've seen that Daedalus has been posting his own music on here occasionally. Although I don't share his technical composition capabilities, I'm reasonable with the production side of things. In any case, here's a track I finished recently. It has a very bitter sweet theme... https://clyp.it/hinjrfpw

Hello all, Just for fun, could the phenomenon "seduction by the dark side of the force" in Star Wars be scientifically explained by a simple X-linked recessive mutation? Here’s how: Shmi Skywalker (Anakin Skywalker’s mother) was a carrier (not clinically manifest). Presumably, Her husband did not have the mutation. Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader) received the mutant X chromosome from her, and got seduced by the dark side. Luke Skywalker, Anakin’s son, was normal because his X chromosome came from his normal mother, Padmé, who was normal. Leia: Anakin passed his mutant X chromosome to Leia Organa (Princess Leia), thus making her an asymptomatic carrier. Kylo Ren: Leia …

Ok, so I saw the new Star Wars the other day, and I'm so disappointed. The movie had SO MUCH potential to be great. I would think after episodes 1,2, and 3, they would carefully tailor this film to be not only better. Instead, it seems like they wrote the whole movie over a single weekend, and didn't take a step back to think about it. By far the biggest disappointment was the characters, their abilities and personality: Fin- A storm trooper deserter who, in summary, appeared as a cowardice, whiny, unskilled boy. We barely see Fin fight, and when he does, he's a scared nanny. He's been trained as a storm trooper his whole life, and he lacks fighting tactics. Not o…

At the risk of sounding religious... I want to wish everyone and their families a very merry Christmas. May the joy and good will of the season be with us all year round.

What is your opinion on using multi-letter variables in math formulas? Should they be used more often or avoided? If I use a quantity called 'Gross Domestic Product' in a formula, I might want to use 'GDP' as the variable name representing it. But this actually seems as a rare example - I cannot think of many such examples, can you? Should I better come up with a single letter representing some money quantity (like 'M') and then use the 'GDP' description in its index? That is what I usually do when I have several quantities of the same type in the same formula (for example, to represent a current through resistor R1 and a current through resistor R2 I might use in…

Hello everyone, a simple question ; what's your best place to get inspiration ?, where you can think and find new ideas or solutions to your problems. and do you have any tricks for a phd student to come up with an original idea for his research theme ? For me, it's the kitchen, when i'm eating, tons of ideas come to my mind.

Hello, I am anti-social, not because of people bullying me, but I think because of my mother downing me everytime. I hate doing smart stuff in front of other people, in fact i can't do anything in front of them at all. I also have trouble speaking words, I get tongue twisted. I get to socialize with anti-social people though [but we're few].

Has anyone watched the anime named Steins;Gate? Though I am playing the visual novel of Steins;Gate and haven't watched the anime, it is about time travel and computing. In chapter 1, a genius girl explains time travelling possibilities through the General Relativities and 11 other theories if I'm not mistaken. I highly recommend that you watch this anime or at least play the visual novel, you will learn a lot.

Read in my newspaper today that teenagers are setting themselves alight as some sort of dare. They apparently pour oil over themselves and set it alight! In fact the article continues and reports that emergency crews are warning parents to ensure that young people are made aware of the dangers!!! I'm sorry, but it's too much for me.

Hi, If you could only pick to either work on your strengths or your weaknesses but not work on both, which would you work on? Is there a yes or no answer to this question? Thanks, Clara Tanone

Today I put some 'Pea and Ham soup' on the gas cooker , to warm for lunch. I went to sit down and go on the science forum for a few moments while the soup heated. When I returned to gather my ' Pea and Ham ' soup , it was burned , stuck , on the bottom of my shiny stainless steel pan. I poured the unburned soup. I tried to scape the stuck soup with a metal spoon. It would not budge . I scraped back and forward with a good deal of pressure. No! It was very well and truly immovable. I poured some cold water on top. I Tried to scrape , but to no avail. I enjoyed what was left of my soup , watched a few posts on science forum and returned to the pan . The burned …

So it appeared in my facebook notifications today that Justin Bieber robbed a friend of a friend's video footage for his video. https://08-lvl3-pdl.vimeocdn.com/01/110/3/75551424/263439959.mp4?token=0febcc6f90109c3d834c4&expires=1448297144&filename=Captiva%20Life%20Test%3A%2024hrs%20in%20Iceland-Mobile.mp4&download=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfGaX8G0f2E Can he actually do that??

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Xmen is a show about humans who have mutated and developed special powers. How this happens it considered unclear and seems to happen randomly. Magneto said that Xmen were the future. Now biological engineering could theoretically create something like this but there might be some ethical concerns with it. If you were offered to join a project to make superhumans would you do so? Further would you ever want to be a test subject of the project and would you see such a project as beneficial to mankind?

Okay so quick brief, each year our family does a secret santa, usually we'll buy something gimmicky and something useful however after sorting my collection of spare change into relative piles i thought it'd be cool to give my secret santa a set of coins with the date of their birthday. (There's a few who obviously fall into shilling and threepenny bit, so they're excluded). Anyway i started sorting the coins into relative piles for people i might get, so the coins are 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1. Anyway as i was going through each coin in succession i soon found that some dates were particularly common and some particularly rare which got me thinking, why would a c…

I finished another song today. The melody is a little melancholy, and it's one of my slower pieces but still beautiful nonetheless. Enjoy!!!

It seems like my interests are divided between physics and philosophy. Really, I just want to study whatever brings me closer to the truth, whatever that is. In a perfect world I would study both physics and philosophy, but I'm not sure how viable that is. I'm not sure how to pose this question without sounding like a dunce. Physics is involved right understanding the observable world around us, but it also seems to be trying to find some sort of answer of what reality and all this is. But on the same token, isn't science based on philosophical assumptions? What if those assumptions are wrong and this is just some dream-reality? I want to come closer to the Truth of what …

Hey everyone, As I understand it war has been known to advance scientific progress immensely. My question is, in WWII, what scientific discoveries did Germany, Japan, USA and other nations acquire? Despite some experiments being unethical in nature, were there any scientific findings and discoveries that have been used immensely by today's scientists or built upon in any meaningful way? Has a lot of good come from War which we have failed to give proper acknowledgement for due to any feelings of guilt or immorality in the process of doing so? Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks, Clara Tanone

Hey guys, I have heard that men are more vain than women in that generally speaking women are judged more harshly by their looks by men than by how women generally judge men from their physical appearance. One country in which both men and women are judged harshly by their physical appearance is South Korea (http://chanthalalay030.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/korean-suicide-highest-in-world-cause_18.html). This has the effect of making more young women become preoccupied by their looks while men care less about their own relative to women. Does the biological/psychological/physiological etc. differences between these two genders mean that men are inherently more vain t…

Wanted to showcase some of the more interesting things that I've been doing and seeing lately. Day 0 Georgia Guides Sky Below Photographing an X As close as I could come. Honestly. Any monuments I make, pay for, take part in planning, etc. will all have a well defined FRONT. Stone Guide Interesting and mysterious monument. Featured on the show, "Monumental Mysteries" here. Family happened to be vacationing in the area and I thought it worth a look. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones

I've got a couple of workers building an atrium over the west side deck. I believe it will heat 4k gallons water and keep the house warm in winter. Evaporative cooling will help in warm weather, but probably need geothermal. Been watching YouTube people playing with 3d pens. The results I saw were disappointing; although, some of the work was intricate and artistic. My interest is less artistic and more model oriented, which leaves them lacking. I need strait edges, triangles, curves, and more than one extrusion size and shape. A thermoacoustic cooler can be driven by concentrated solar, with tracking, heat. With heat pipes to move the heat, cost of indoor refrig…

Hey guys, I like to take lots of selfies and then upload these onto facebook but does this necessarily make me selfish? A lot of people say if you take lots of selfies that it may mean that you are selfish. What is the correlation exactly between taking selfies and being selfish? Furthermore, does correlation always imply causation? Thanks, Clara Tanone