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If so how do you cope? I was lucky and had a great consultant so my diognose did not take long.

i was thinking about 'spontaneous human combustion' today and i was just wondering, though i'm not trying to prove it or anything, if a human body was to reach a high enough starting temperature, would it burn unaided, even if the source of heat stopped?

I'm starting this topic so that we can all share music that we have created and discuss music theory and composition. I play guitar and piano. I use Ableton and Cakewalk to record MIDI and compose my music. I record the guitar audio with a Korg Pandoras Box. I mainly play classical on piano and metal on the guitar. But not the type of metal that most people relate with the genre. I'm not the best musician in the world, nor do I claim to be. I figured that since I know a lot of engineers that play music, that some of you may also and would like to have a thread to share and discuss the science of music. My influences are: On the metal side: Michael Angelo Batio, Yn…

Hi everyone, I'm new here, but have been browsing the forums and love the community that seems to exist here. With the current budget debate going on, I'm seeing a lot of fluff news pieces about 'ridiculous' things that have received government funding (Shrimp on Treadmills was the one that got me this morning). I know that a lot of these experiments that sound silly are for very good reasons, and often end up leading to huge advances in science and an increase in the average person's standard of living. The thing is, I don't have any great examples to offer people when I want to have this discussion with them (I have an easier time defending the space program…

This is my first post here, and as someone who has always had a pretty big interest in science (particularly physics), I thought this would be a good place to possibly get some answers from those who have some more formal schooling. My first question is; is there a general scientific consensus regarding the number of dimensions that exist? Obviously, there are the the 3 spacial dimensions we exist in, combined with time (the fourth) to create the concept of spacetime. I know that there are few other theories out there such as string theory that have up to 11 dimensions, but anytime I try to get more in depth with those theories, things quickly go over my head. I gu…

I'm just wondering are there any statistics or known guidelines how many percentages of the IQ of somebody will get lost when he lies in coma for one week? I always thought there are guidelines, but I recently found out that it's not so easy to predict how much somebody will lose. There are even people with high IQ's which wake up out of coma with their IQ still remaining the same, mostly children or teenagers. Of course, I'm purposely excluding those cases where people suffer from brain damage because of their accident, in this case I'm simply addressing normal coma if somebody simply does not wake up out of the anesthetic. I'd appreciate any information.

I didn't know where to ask this kinda stuff, its not just ignorant are mirrors are portals etc I just got curious about something and was hoping for some opinions on it. So basically I am working on 3D games and I wanted an illusion of a mirror, so what I did was recreate everything but "mirrored" on the axis in question, which worked. But then I thought how about 2 mirrors, Now the image in the 2nd mirror must contain the image in the 1st mirror. I am creating instances in space to create this illusion and obvously only one thing can exists in the same place at one time and it got me thinking. I know mirrors just reflect light, although they are still intriguin…

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I saw in TV a report about messengers, the seekers will travel the world to find those so called "diamonds" which often have a message or a prophecy. I found this topic very interesting and I'd like to learn more about it and thought I'll ask here if anybody knows any resources about this topic like books for example.

Ok I just received an AO Spencer model 1036 Microscope. I can see light through the lens which is very dusty (I am going to the store tomorrow to get some lens paper). But when I put a sample slide on it, nothing changes, I still only see light and dust. It does seem like the light gets a little dimmer because the slide is over it so i know i am seeing through the slide. I dont know if the focuser dosent work or the lens's are bad. Any help would be great. If you need more info please ask. Thanks

In the last few days, I discovered that there is something seriously wrong with my body. Everytime I wake up in the morning, I vomit a lot and every time after strenous physical exercise I have vomiting sensations. Is vomiting and emetophobia in the brain or is there a nonphysical explanation for this?

I won't do it until I get all security equipment, so don't worry. If I take some uranium rich rocks and cover them with aluminium foil, would it make a significant amount of neutrons? I'd like to transmute some elements. Thanks and blesses =D

I am deeply interested in musical hallucinations and I would be very grateful if anyone could shed some more light on this hearing defect. I’m very interested how the scientific interpretation of hallucinatory voices, ambient sounds and music compare to schizophrenia, psychosis, psychics ect

To what extent can the labor-intensivity of cold-climate economies be attributed to the need to keep warm in winter? Is it possible that modern indoor temperature expectations have evolved with industrialization, i.e. that as factory work became more popular and gradually replaced more and more human labor with machines that generate waste-heat, the workers became gradually accustomed to being able to relax indoors in the winter? Could you say that this ushered in a post-industrial culture of comfortable indoor leisure during winter? Now that industrialism has evolved into more or less consistent series of energy-crises, will culture further evolve in the direction of …

On a preserve, rhinos were being killed. It was unclear what was killing. A possibility was a rhino had gone mad, and was killing other rhinos, or lions were killing the rhinos. After some time of studying the endangered rhinos, the researchers witnessed elephants killing the rhinos. This is unusual behavior for the elephants. Normally rhinos and elephants get along. The adolescent elephants were also demonstrating unusual sexual behavior. These elephants had been orphaned and moved to the reserve. When their delinquent behavior was noticed, the authorities brought in older, naturally socialized elephants. In time, the adolescent elephants became correctly so…

I have been asked to give a short (20 mins) talk on some aspect of my reserach as part of a post-doc interview process. I have found it difficult to condense what I want to say into 20 mins. My basic rules I have tried to live by here are: Try to explain why the problem is interesting. Overview not details; avoiding too much background and give lots of "gut-feeling". Point towards impact and possible applications. Try to link it with the work already carried out at the institution; even if this is more "ethos" than concrete links. The audience are not going to be experts in my field, yet I do not have the time to explain much in details including s…

In science it generally seems that an accepted measure of ones work is the number of citations to your papers. Couple this with the impact factor of the journals the papers appears in and you get an idea of the scientific worth of the researcher. Or do you? In mathematics it can take a while for a paper to get picked up on and get a good number of citations. This affects the journals impact factor. Also, one can write papers that are subtlety incorrect so that people will find the holes and plug them, citing your work every time. Review papers also get cited quite a lot. Then, papers by Einstein, Dirac and Feynman that have been very influential in the long term no …

I was reading the technical definitions of "degrees" and "removals" as they apply to cousins and was trying to figure out exactly what the relationship is between me and some family members. I assume they are some type of cousin, because they are first cousins of my parents. But based on the definitions I was reading, I couldn't quite figure it out. So if I have a relative whose mother was my grandfather's sister, what is that relative to me? Thanks.

Hi I am not sure if this is the right forum. But I have a question that I need answering to satisfy my mothers curiosity. She has a fence round her garden and then an electric fence to keep the cows out. This works satisfactory except for the fact that she says that at night their seems to be a haze of flashing lights around the energiser, not there constantly, but happening periodicaly. The energiser is powered by battery. Can anyone please help me understand what is happening?? Thank you for any input.

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whenever our solar system is shown from afar, whether in a drawing or a computer animation, it is shown as though all the planets are on the same plane. never one orbiting like you think of an atom with its electrons traveling in numerous directions. is this the way it is? all the planets on one relative plane? or is it more like the atom? anyone?

Hi everyone, I noticed that all the original tart frozen yogurt sold in the States has the same flavor. Can anyone please tell me where the flavor originates from (ie. flavoring/yogurt powder) and a supplier I can contact to find those ingredients? I hope to use the flavor in R&Ding some other yogurt products. Thanks in advance!

I find clouds really fascinating and spectacular. Today I was sitting on a bench and I looked up and saw this interesting pattern in they sky. There were long straight moderately thin clouds (low down and definately natural). And they were lined up across the center of the sky like this | | | | |. To me it looked like there was some sort of ripple in the atmosphere and these clouds were forming at the top of each wave. I was wondering if anyone had any speculation as to how they formed from a clear sky..?

Ok, open discussion time: What should be considered "Science" and receive funding as such? Should the definition be restricted to 'pure' hypothesis-driven science? Or should it include 'exploratory' or 'discovery science', such as species surveys and the Human Genome Project? Even if such exploratory studies are valuable to science, that doesn't necessarily mean the studies themselves *are* science, or does it? Have at it!