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You can always get a kitten, in the kitten season. If you go to a quality rescue, the kittens and cats have had all shots, desexing, etc, and it is FAR LESS LIKELY you will take a kitten home and find it is ill and possibly dies, as happens regularly, if you get a suburban kitten, from a cat and kittens not protected from vaccinations. Often kittens in pet shops are from puppy/kitten mills. They aren't bred knowledgeably, for the most part, and haven't had good nutrition or vaccinations. I've lost count of the number of people with tales of distraught children getting a kitten from pet shop, that soon falls ill and dies. Remember, ALL kittens are cute, but within a…

A person recommended to send my CV to a investigation center about giftedness. What can i do if i studied business administration and my CV is from 2009? He said me to try the univertsity of Stamford, but i do not see where to send the CV. The recomendation arrived after reading my post about speciation in humans.

I’ve ridden almost everything from a 50cc peddle moped that could barely attain 30mph to a 1000cc sports bike with 145bhp that could reach well into 190’s mph and I’ve enjoyed every single mile. I thought I’d start this thread for my fellow enthusiasts; Let me know your likes, dislikes and any anecdotes you’d care to share. My best bike was my Triumph 675 Daytona, very light and quick with excellent handling, awesome through the twisty lanes in my native Gloucestershire; it never failed to put a smile on my face. My worst was a Chinese built 125cc 4 stroke gutless wonder (the wonder was it made it the 6 miles to work each day), almost every bolt needed tightening …

Lately i have been trying to engage people who make those political and some religious posts where they give one side or the other down the road for "believing" this or that to see if they can back up what they assert... Guess what... so far all I get are talking points, no real discussion or explanation for why they think this or that is true. It's so bad that when i question gun control they run out of talking points and begin to talk about abortion. Or if i question religion i usually get blocked or told i am going to burn in hell fire and that if i was honest i would see the truth of the one true savior or something like that. I know that face book is not a real…

It's about my project G-Biking, an animated series about futuristic hovercraft racing. I was thinking of changing the motif of the Canadian team (Most recently their bikes have been based on a fox, a goose and a bear), because two members (including the leader) are human, but one is an alien reptile girl. Her bike was originally going to be bear-based, but then I started to feel it wouldn't be appropriate to give a reptillian character a mammalian bike. So I was searching for whatever reptiles were exclusive to Canada, or at least more common in Canada than any other country, and I came up really short in that effort. Then I learned that North America has the …

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22079232 But in the case of Blake's Seven I love the idea. I loved it when it was new and watched it avidly; the fact that I could easily name the characters above without hesitation after 30something years bear testament (to what I am not sure)

http://www.care2.com/causes/nc-ignores-science-tries-to-make-sea-level-rise-illegal.html

I was in my childhood days amazed by the working of the telephone! Voice signals/accoustic signals converted to electrical signals and sent through wire and on the other side the receiver hears it! I went to college after completing my 12th science studies to do diploma in electrical engineering. There i found a whole section of telephone chapters, all that goes into the connections wiring board stuff! So i think what if telephone was discovered in say 14th century a.d.! Then could have been the possibility that in 1960 first man was sent into orbital space to land on moon, there was 'internet email messaging through line to line computers' in adolf hitler times 1941 a…

*Note: This math tool is for *educational/academic purposes ONLY* to solve larger scale math/science problems. My friends and I are working on a public mobile computing platform that could be of interest to this community. The URL is at: http://www.rapidcalculator.com Instructions to use is at: http://rapidcalculat...com/syntax.html RapidCalculator.com is a free mobile large-scale computing platform (this is like a heavily souped up TI-83 or TI-89). We create the capability for users to perform heavy scientific/math calculations on the web or on their mobile devices. Perform intensive math/science/engineering calculations, matrix operations like mult…

Are the Avatar pictures wonky? I guess if the answer is yes then it could be date sensitive - anything else weird?

Tell me what you think. "Nassim Haramein describing the limitations of the 2D solar system image, and how our evolution imprints space time. Excerpt from the film 'Earth Pilgrims' "

http://mentalfloss.com/article/30380/why-some-civil-war-soldiers-glowed-dark

Are elephants more sentient than hungry-hungry-hippos? Ethically, which are the best to hunt?

Video @ vimeo

“Ya gotta luv this”: http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=51019 Even Buck made a few dollars with this version:

I just received a letter from MIT admissions to the BCS department. They denied me. I'm sad. I'm stuck now with no back up plan. I was going to share my code for the talking machine too (i was going to share it today for the sake of science and the benefit it may have to humanity) but now my heart is aching and I need to determine my own path for survival. It may be the only thing I have. While I was waiting for the letter, alot of people (professors included) suggested that I probably got accepted, so it was a bit of a surprise to me. Anyway, I need to live and pay off my debt somehow. Does anyone have any suggestions? About the program though, it's al…

I kinda called DNA a poi finder Poi- point of interest I want to be a moderator. I'm in.

This is the wildest reef aquarium I have ever seen, it must take many tens of thousands of dollars to operate it a year.

I was debating with my uncle a little while ago, and it eventually culminated in him claiming that science is in many way like a religion (I blatantly disagree with that comparison, by the way), because when a scientific theory becomes widely accepted among the scientific community, it almost becomes scientific dogma, and anyone who proposes a radical new idea is rarely taken seriously because so many scientists will have staked their entire careers on the existing theory. I confess I found this claim to be quite disturbing, because it goes completely counter to everything I believe in about what scientists should do. What does everyone think about this claim? Does it hav…

It's a typical Friday afternoon. I just cannot get my focus. I allow myself to get distracted all the time. The most urgent tasks are really boring, and the cool stuff isn't urgent at all... I don't want to do what is urgent, and I shouldn't be doing what I want to do... and I end up doing very little at all. I am working in a research environment, where individual researchers are allowed a lot of freedom. There is nobody who will check what I am doing - especially not on a Friday... As long as the projects are finished within their allocated time and budget, nobody complains. Still, I cannot escape the feeling that my productivity could be higher, if only I could…

Just ran across this little blurp of photos. But I love the fact such a man actually knew humility in his greatness. http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/49222/11-unserious-photos-albert-einstein

I've watched it 20 times and it still makes me rumble. http://fox8.com/2013/03/12/undercover-jeff-gordon-takes-car-salesman-on-test-drive/

Oh yeah! This is cool...

Is it possible to construct a complete pizza using paint-ball guns?

If intelligent extra-terrestrials needed a single human representative, what kind of person do you believe will be most appropriate for representing the human species as a whole?