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spacemanspiff

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  • Birthday 07/18/1980

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    madison, WI
  • College Major/Degree
    brain and cognitive sciences
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    cognitive science
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    absent minded scientist
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  1. actually that was at a fancy ass preppy private school. but i think it was pretty much what you were talking about. makes me wish i was home schooled.
  2. well that's kinda hard to do. a friend of mine at grad school at Berkeley says that pretty much everyone there in his dept has loans. and Med school, forget about it. but especially for undergrad there are plenty of scholarships out there. you just have to look for them, be resourceful and whatnot.
  3. I think i can kind of give an example of what he's talking about. In high school math when i took the test i woud get the answers right, showing little work and certainly not using the teachers "6 step method". and i get points take off. I go to her and ask why and she admits that she knows that i totally understand the material but for some reason it is imperative that i use her 6 step method. so in order to get grades i have to conform and do the problems exactly the same as how everyone else does. even though i can explain all the concepts perfectly well, it's not about learning, but producing the right answers in the correct format.
  4. unless you drive drunk. that kills plenty of people. alcohol is probably more problematic to society in general than pot is. and yet one is illegal and the other is an institution of american life. go figure. it's hard for me to watch those "pot is evil" ads that have been running when alcohol is at least as bad and is plenty legal.
  5. that's why i hate mensa too. the question is misleading. I totally would have gone with 697/7 with my interpretation of the question.
  6. the women i know are just as interested in science. but i do tend to know science orriented people in general. (yay for me!) is any one at all suprised that an online science forum would be most guys?
  7. he's got to have problems. I know a guy who started college and 15 and he had some. all that suff about him visiting waring nations and whatnot seems like such a publicity stunt. like those two nomiations for the nobel. sound more like "wouldn't it be amazing if a 13yr old won" votes. not that this kid had really done more towards peace at the time than any one else, just that people where all "wow he's only a kid!" stuff like this makes me wonder. I'm sure as soon as they decided he was "gifted" they pushed him really hard. I bet that any kid who is pushed enough could go through school much faster than they do now. maybe not done with college at 13. but definitly a bit faster than now.
  8. spacemanspiff

    Guns

    Have you seen some of the bufoons with guns? i'd rather see that chimp with a car than a gun. well... depending on how much ammo he has maybe drivers liscense wasn't the best example. but my point is that if anything should be difficult to get, it's a gun. especially the big, you-have-no-reason-to -have-amor-piercing-bullets type guns.
  9. do the aussies speak english?
  10. spacemanspiff

    Guns

    guns should be alowed. however the fact that it is harder to get a drivers liscense than a large gun seems a wee bit off to me.
  11. lets say i sit an a room with out clocks for a while and i feel like about 10minutes has gone by. in actuallity it may be 25mintues.in this case my perception of time and actually time are different. think about whenever you lose track of time. you feel like a certain amount has gone by but when you check a clock you find that you were way off.
  12. keep in mind that even humans use large amounts of brain for things like perception and movement. very important things both my bet is that whales use a large portion for whatever it is they use to get around down there under water
  13. i thought that if you were in good cardio shape your resting heart rate would be lower.
  14. here during the winter it was getting dark pretty soon. at like 4:30. it's horrible. it's depressing. (SADs) I welcome some more sunshine. now if only it'll stop snowing
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