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I guess the first questions I have are to those who are actively working in the sciences, such as post-docs, government research scientists, industry research scientists, general Industry, and Law. What are your degrees in? What are your interests? What are your job responsibilities? Your location? Your career plans? What is the typical pay scale for what you do? If you'd rather PM private information, I'd accept that. I know on the internet people love to "fluffen their numbers" However, this post is not about comparing two individuals. It is about knowing what to expect in a certain field. The reason behind this post is I've seen numerous…

Okay, so there's a lot of pornography online now. Impossible to protect all our children, family and others from exposure. You WILL be affected by it somehow, either directly or indirectly. Husbands are cheating on their wives and wives are cheating on their husbands and now it's becoming more socially acceptable and the norm in some places particularly the US/Europe. Also, many teachers/lawyers/pastors/doctors/atheists/scientists are watching pornography right now. My question, what are some of the negative consequences of living in a society where pornography is so readily available with the click of a button? What would happen to society if pornograph…

What does everyone here think is the ideal age to get married? How young is too young and how old is too old? There are also people who decide early in life that they never ever want to get married. What are some reasons that make people not want to marry? What is the rough proportions of people who do end up getting married in the US/Europe/your country? Overall, is it a bad thing to get married? Do you prefer to get married one day or not get married at all?

Is it truly beneficial for society to have humble citizens? What are the negative effects of the humble way of thinking on people and society? Do you want to be infinitely humble? Would society improve for the better if people became more humble? How would this mindset affect scientific progress?

Hi. Would you please let me know what dyes that you know are commonly used in households and industry ? (Not pigment particles in suspension) I can think of clothes dyes, hair dyes, fountain pen inks, food dyes. Others please ?

I've had quite a bit of spare time recently, plus the weather has been pretty awful the last couple of weeks, so I've been watching a few TV series, back to back (i.e not waiting a week for the next episode). At the moment, I'm glued to Breaking Bad. I think Bryan Cranston is brilliant in this series, (he plays Nobel laureate Walter White). There's been some very original consequences, that he has directly and indirectly caused, due to his change in ummm lifestyle. I've just started season 4, where the first few episodes have been a little dissapointing, but I've been told it gets a lot more interesting. I've also been watching Game of Thrones, which is ludicrousl…

If there were an Anthem for science and science lovers,What would it be?

Hi folks! We're doing an official scientific experiment about writing style and media use and we're looking for participants. I don't know exactly where to advertise for my research, but since we all love science here, I decided to give my link here! Among all the participants, two 25$ gift tokens for amazon.com will be raffled. http://dosurvey.eu/index.php?sid=62272〈=en PLEASE do not discuss any details of the study, since this may distort the answers of other participants.. If you have any questions, complaints, troubles or anything, please send me a private message or send us an email: writing_media@hotmail.com Thank you very very much for your par…

It has been suggested to me that my technical knowledge is no longer at a standard where I can sustain a debate or argument. It was suggested that I retrain. However, I retired almost 20 years ago so that really isn't an option. It got me wondering what I might do with very little training and fading knowledge. I am looking for suggestions. The best that I can come up with myself would be "pole dancer costume adjuster". However the remuneration would have to be very small otherwise I could not afford to take the job! So any ideas? All offers and suggestions considered!

What does everyone here think? What are the pros and cons of allowing your kids to watch hours upon hours of television? Does it help with their listening/writing/social skills in any way? Has there been any research on this? If so, what are they suggesting?

Does anyone know any documentary that deals with jews in america?

What does everyone here think? Share us your experiences.

I know i am not the most net savvy person but for some reason you tube has begun to demand I join google plus before i can rate a video and has eliminated the negative rep button. Is this true for everyone or am i missing something?

It seems that when shares of Nokia go down, Microsoft goes up. (Actually it seems like MS often goes up when everyone goes down, as if they directly benefit from the misery of others.) I've heard that most of Nokia's shares are owned by groups who have a greater stake in MS. If MS "needs" Nokia, and if MS can buy Nokia when their shares are low enough, then those who own both may find it helpful to sacrifice Nokia as long as MS benefits. This of course isn't fair to those who only own Nokia shares. Does that matter? Do the laws say that a company must make the most profit for its shareholders, or can it do whatever a majority of the shareholders want? Do the non-M…

I came across a phenomenon that seemed strangely familiar today. I was attempting to schedule a meeting amongst a few people from work today who are from a few different rungs on the corporate ladder. Aside from the obvious difficulties of finding a time when everybody's free that isn't a few years away, I had to contend with other meetings getting shuffled into my timeslot so I had to shuffle my meeting about (and since my meeting was somewhat important I got priority over some other meetings meaning they got shuffled). This seemed oddly familiar, then it hit me. A nuclear chain reaction! So, I have begun developing a theory of MSCR's (Meeting Shuffle Chain React…

here is a great video about the above topics and how they relate to each other..

In the old classic movie of charlie chaplin- the last dictator, the feurher mentions about sending the army of bactrians in world war 1. The bactrians infact is a race in iran country. In a rare book of nazis i read that adolph hitler germans linked their bactrian origins to sparta warrior race. The movie called sparta 300 of leonidas. The book has some photographs of german building structures which were perhaps made of white limestone with many sea gull structures on top. These were never shown on tv nazi documentaries. These structures seem as if placed in the air. Then i recall in the sparta movie that the iranians live on the mountains which are somehow connected…

I yesterday saw a weird dream very similar to the science fiction movie called 'dark city' in which the movie theme of planet run by dark cult people who thrive below the earth and move/manipulate by their super powers. In my dream too i reach a far corner of the city where many similar dark city men start to appear. They have a lab where they study the principles of buoyancy. Like the archimedes principles which he discovered saying 'an object mass when submerged in liquid, then it is acted upon with an upward force which is equivalent to the density of water displaced by the mass.' The dark people of the dream were dressed just like archimedes greek dress but just b…

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I'm happy to give credit due for virtue and valor to Newark Mayor Cory Booker who rushed into a burning house and led a woman inside to safety. Plus, the tweets about him are funny. Anyone seen any others? Superman Wears "Cory Booker" Pajamas. Booker claims he was nowhere near the N. Korean long-range missile that broke apart after launch. I don't believe him. Ghosts sit around the campfire and tell Cory Booker Stories. When Chuck Norris has nightmares, Cory Booker turns on the light & sits with him until he falls back. Cory Booker takes his martini shaken, not stirred. After the incident, Smoke was treated for Cory Booker exposure.

Are you one of those who laugh at the "Doonsday Preppers (see the National Geographic channel prepper series) and dismiss them because "we have always had 'End Times' fanatics?" If so, you might consider that a real one could be coming that has nothing to do with religion.

Hi to all, I'm an italian biologist and I had to translate the abtract of my two thesis. Before sending them, I want to be sure that they are correct. Please take a look and kindly tell me if there is any error. Please report grammar, sintexical or phrase construction errors. If you want, you can also give me suggestions about how to write them. Thank you very much. Here they are: Abstract 1: Connexin43 gap junctions are necessary for skeletal muscle repair, which requires the proliferation and differentiation of satellite stem cells. The sphingolipid sphingosine-1-phosphate can bind to specific receptors. Its synthesis depends on the hydrolysis of sphingomyeli…

I was viewing a wonderful dream in which i had boarded a futuristic aeroplane whose upper intersection was made with transparent glass! The shape of the aircraft might be compared to a nasa colombia space shuttle and it made an angled inclination towards the sky while lift off flight. The space craft was on a flight of a designated program that while entering the space it would escape earths' time and pass through various phases where it would dock with other sub-human species travellers. I was seeing outside through the passing by stages and there were so many humanoids some as small height as midgets and some tall as high as giants! When the aeroplane landed the destina…

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Have you seen the sci-fi movie called 'inception'??? htttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception In it the theme is of entering a virtual level creation of a sub-conscious mind so powerful that it creates projections of identities. The person then dies to wake in another dream world level.