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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

Hey guys, Is it true that when you press "SKIP" on youtube commercial videos, the people who make those advertisements don't get paid as they normally would had you not pressed skip? I have heard that they don't actually get paid when this happens but is there anyway to find out? Anyone know for sure? Thanks, Clara Tanone

The perception that society has is that females are more suited to the occupation of being a nurse but what are the a latest scientific evidence suggesting? What's the general concensus? Why is it that males are paid more as nurses despite the field being female dominated? Are males typically pulling more hours at work or is it gender discrimination? If you were male, would you ever consider becoming a nurse? If you were a patient, would you feel uncomfortable if a nurse who is male treated you instead of a female? What has been making it harder for males to enter into the profession?

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Hey, guys, I need your opinion on something. There is this National level conference in my country and I had sent a review paper for the presentation. I received the news that it has been rejected far too late (I had already made my travel plans), but in retrospect, I had done a really shoddy work. It was a fiasco. Anyway, I have the opportunity here to attend the conference. My friends tell me it's not worth it. But on the other hand, the exposure there can help me a lot, since I want to pursue a career in the field of research. What would you do if you were in my place? Thank you.

I received a BS for mechanical engineering. As a self-aware person, I know that my brain is wired for systemizing things and problem solving. I like to thing about things abstractly and talk about ideas, but that is more of a hobby rather than the main show. I know from personal experience and from the people I have met in college and work, I know what the engineering mindset is like. What is the scientific mindset like? In what ways do scientists think differently from engineers?

I'm a millenial. I have very mixed feelings about my generation. Positives: - More aware of the "self" and human equality (i.e. transgender, gay marriage, increased privacy, voting, etc.) - More educated (generation with the highest college attendance) - Tech savy - More accepting of others - More politically involved Negatives: - Everyone wants to go viral - Obsessed with fame and becoming famous - Heavily dependent on technology - Narcissistic - Unfamiliar with conventional workforce - Entitled your thoughts and experiences! ~EE

Never had coffee in my life. Do not know how they work. Suspect are very simple, but never played with one nor its guts. Any coffee maker tinkerers here that can suggest which type/model could be used to distill some alcohol, as a kitchen countertop appliance ? A dimmer to bring temperature down ? A mash holding section that can be cleaned ? Eliminating/adding few parts ? A quart per month will suffice. There is tricked water distillers/purifiers on the market that can distill ethanol, but the point is if a coffee maker can. Am not interested in legalese. All in the name of science !

Do we have any chess fans here? I have loved it and studied it a lot since a boy - at my best I beat a strong master - the rest of the time mostly just study for myself, because I love the game. Currently my strength is not above A-player, by my estimate. . . Mine has always been pretty variable - depending on how much I study, I've found that if you really love the game, studying it can be a lot of fun - over the years. If anyone wants to discuss games, or talk about their favorite world champion, or whatever. . And I bet, there's already a chess thread or two floating about, so please forgive me for adding to the ' clutter '

When I see videos (mostly movies) about space shuttle take off, the part I think I would find quite fascinating is skipped: The transition between when the Earth looks flat from above and when you are in a sufficient distance to see it is round and the transition between a blue sky and depths of space. Is there any simulation, where you could see the Earth from above while getting further away from it?

the rewards can be educational, inspirational, or financial. Nice to see that at least one academic educational writer did fantastically out of his work. http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2015/oct/05/maths-palace-built-by-calculus-rock-star-on-sale-for-14m

Hot Dark Matter is ultrarelativistic, so is near the speed of light. It would have a time dilation which would cause it to 'age' much slower than stationary objects. Could it be an extremely unstable set of sub-atomic particles then, but would just appear to be very stable to us because of the time dilation. Just a thought for you guys.

Just to mke this simpler, im using a CASIO fx83GT PLUS on its standard settings. Now, I got bored in my maths lesson (Honestly, triganomatory, its so boring and so quick to do when you've written out the sohcahtoa). Anyway, I decided I felt like doing the square root of 10! Ooooh, the deadly root of 10. Now I expected either math error, or a long recurring decimal. I then end up with: 3.16227766 Ok, then I decide to do 3.162277662 (squared that is). And I get, 9.999999999 (It didn't show a recurring dot, but its enough decimals for me to know its recurring). So whats going on here? SQUARE ROOT of 10 = 3.16227766 but 3.16227766 SQUARED is not 10? I then de…

Hi! Are you watching Air Crash Investigation on Discovery/National Geographic Channel.. ? I am always watching it, when have chance. Today was episode with airplane which lost front window, and captain pilot was sucked out on 5 km. Luckily stewards caught him in the right moment, when half of pilot was outside. 2rd pilot decrease altitude and landed so they could drag him back ASAP. He survived, although with several seriously broken and frozen parts of body. What was cause? Day prior accident, the front window was replaced. Engineer unscrew window, and decided to replace screws to brand new, instead of reusing old one. He went to storage, f…

How do you do it? What are the things you think reduce your productivity? For me basically two things: Social Networks where I have to check them every 10 minutes thus losing focus on what I was doing. Bad breakfast that includes a lot of calories and then after two hours I become really lazy and can't do anything.