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Hi , i'm new to this site and i need a favor please ! I'm a Teaching Assistant in a primary school and we've been given a task to design and create something that flies unaided, i suggested a chinese lantern but thought it was a bit of a rubbish idea, if you could please could you pass on any idea's, thanks Natalie. P.S we can use small motors and various other things. Thanks again

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DaP3gzee1cps%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded&feature=player_embedded&v=aP3gzee1cps&gl=US That crazy or what?*lol!, too weird!*

Due to the high price of copper and increasingly punishing economic climate, the railway and electricity companies are experiencing extensive levels of copper theft according to the British Transport Police to the tune of £770m per annum or £2 million pounds a day! I hear news quite frequently in my locality that the railway line has had a load of its signal cable nicked that runs alongside the track and my friend who lays cables himself quite often comes back to work in the morning to find the cable he has laid the day before has been pulled out necessitating replacement. This all-to-frequent phenomenon had me mulling on ideas that could be implemented to make t…

Professor Julius Sumner Miller was a physicist, a student of the great Albert Einstein and an inspiration to more than a generation of Australian children. His program "Why is it so?" ran from 1963 to 1986 on the ABC explaining in easy to understand terms the way physics effects things in our daily lives. I'm very pleased to say that the ABC are dredging up some of the old clips and making them available for download and watching at their website. These are snippets and some more can be found on youtube. Hopefully the ABC will eventually place all of the programs online. I hope that these, like Mooeypoos "Smarter than that" videos will encourage more younger p…

Fuel price advertised as $ 3.199 as telling the public is stupid, they won't notice it is $3.20 Airline fares; meant to wring wallets instead of honestly charging for a service. Laziness in writing and talking; where the correct wording fades by lack of use, as in Gasoline, Identification, Laboratory, becoming clipped as Zoo, Hippo, Math, and no institution cares nor does anything about. Referring to night as anything after ~2 in the afternoon. Night starts at sunset. The abuse of acronyms. Seeing a $14.99 item at the fancy store when you bought it yesterday at the 99cent store. I suppose the reverse would be worse; but you could return the merchand…

I once flew a duck to Australia. Ducks are best because they'll never fail ya. Fly you quick as a fox to a post office box, and from there, just get someone to mail ya. Creationist posts are all junky. Their arguments get kind of funky. "Science sucks! You're all pimps! WE are better than chimps!" Which is really a slight to a monkey.

Is it true that washing/bathing regularly can reduce the amoung of pimples you have? What's the best way of reducing pimple growth?

Azumanga Daioh is the best. *points to avatar*

I am really struggling to save time in examinations where we have to fill an OMR sheet by darkening the bubble corresponding to the chosen option. Well, I sometimes do all questions and then fill the bubbles and sometimes after 10 questions or a page. How you tackle this situation?

From time to time I receive a message that says ******* has successfully added me to their friends list. The word "successful" has me puzzled because it implies failure was possible. A reasonable assumption is that failure would be because I had declined their offer of friendship. However, since I have never been asked, I have never been able to influence this and so my assumption must be false. So, what is the procedure that should be followed as a matter of courtesy when you receive such a message? Do you have a choice when such a message arrives? I am not implying that I wish to lose any of my "friends" - in fact I feel flattered that anyone would want to list me amon…

I love cards. I just enjoy everything about them... the significance of a small piece of paper... the value it can hold (such as rare cards, with high collector's value)... I find that it could be the perfect metaphor of me... A small physical form that could possibly change the world... that could be me! Of course, a card that could change the world is a slight exaggeration... but either way, I enjoy creating cards... I know my way around cards better than... the Minotaur knew his Labyrinth, or you know your back hand... Along with that, I need a way to advertise myself... for all of you to brace yourselves for my impending world takeover... SO, I have deduce…

I love the fact that, although the economy is hurting, it means that manufacturers need to get rid of inventory and there's a lot of 50-70% off sales, even at the grocery store. I love that people are too busy judging celebrity dancing to judge me. I love people who can't help the funny laugh they have.

I guess there are some people on here who enjoy science fiction as much as science fact, so I was wondering what item or person from science fiction would you most like to have/be? I'd like a tardis please, with the Doctor.....maybe I could be his assistant? Yes that sounds good. How about you?

What if the order of time we go to work/school and free time were reserved? Work/School would be at the end of the day, rather than at the beginning. Over-sleeping would cut into your own spare time rather than work/school time, so there would be little excuse for being late. Also, you'd go to sleep soon after you returned home from work/school, and sleep provides good stress relief. I'm pretty sure there is scientific evidence for sleeping after learning helping those learnt things being remembered. Seems like reversing our daily schedules would benefit the economy and intelligence/work capability...or maybe not, let see.

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i am in my last school year and i am in a real bind i have 4 interests cause everyone says "choose what you like the most". number 1:computer and technology thats what i am best at i have been working with computers for almost everyday in my life. number 2:occult i have a HUGE fascination on the occult and i know alot about it. number 3:i dont really know where this fits but alchemy or better said chemestry i find it easy to understand and i like it since my idol is Paracelsus. number 4:philosofy i have also an interest in it. i just want some advice cause,i mean its my life this is the end of the road no more just going to school i need a career o…

I'm unable to find any information on the blogs, how to start one etc.. Is there a note somewhere? If not can some please explain the system?

I grew up in strong Catholic family and am studying science for my undergraduate degree. I was wondering if anyone was also having a hard time staying in the middle of both, without directly picking one.

Very Off topic (apologize in advance) You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world. And if most languages have "red" in the bird's name, you know the bird probably has something red in its appearance Dekan - love your sig. Brave to counter St Dick Not sure that he isn't still correct though. You might know something about the bird or you might know something that is completely erroneous http://translate.definitions.net/hippopotamus now the majority of these words from around the world have derivations from "river horse" and contain the word "horse" in one language or another - so clearly the hippopotmus is a form of horse! I…

Hey. I was wondering how to black out text when you're in a forum so that when you try to read the page, you just see it blacked out but when you highlight the words, then you can see what it says. Actually, I was more interested in applying this technique to Wordpress so that I can make tutorials for myself, by blacking out the words so I have to fill in the blank while I'm reading, but still have backup for myself in case I forget.

Hello, My name is Liviu, almost 30 years old, and in the last 25 years I did some experiments and I lived some life experiences that will blow your mind. I experienced different family environments, social environments, working environments, geographical, educational environments and so on. But my craziest chalenge was to generate all human patterns, which I did in the end helped by my telepathic ability. Among other things I also experienced three clinical deaths and two lightning strokes, I attached my personal journal for more information. liviu_journal-files.pdf So my question is this: Is it science what I did? Thank you for your time, Liviu

I realised today that I spend about 6 hours a week on a train doing nothing, so I was just wondering if anyone listened to any good podcasts that I could download and listen to on my travels. I think it would be best if everyone could categorise them into what subject they are normally on (biology, physics, pop science etc.) as well as how detailed or advanced you would rate them and of course how good they are and why they like them.

How do I have a question about physics and want to know if there are any elements thatdo not go thru gas solid liquid. And this is just a question because I am going to talk about light and protonsin the sense of water. so 1 water at rest is liquid light at rest is a gas-ish 2 if at speed of light and observing light, due to speed of both equal- doeslight faze to liquid as speed increases does it solidify<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;">

A somewhat well-to-do, well-educated and supposedly very ethical person offered an unemployed friend of mine some work, but my friend receives unemployment benefits, so this person — without my friend saying he didn't want to lose his benefits — offered my friend "to arrange a financial gift" ($10K+) in lieu of wages, so he wouldn't need to report it (but, obviously, the personal/social/ethical obligation to do the work would still exist). My friend didn't know if it was legal or not and felt unable to question this person about, so he asked me, but I don't know either. I thought the whole thing stank, especially the word "arrange". Any thoughts or facts?

Do you have any opinion on this? I think impact factor is a something unfair because article is judge on the number of citation but not on it's quality.