BobbyJoeCool

I think the oddest thing on my desk is a 24oz mt. dew bottle (empty, thank God) with 4 fake roses in it, two black, one yellow, and one orange (black and gold being the High-School Colors, and Black and Orange being a college's colors from around here that I was at for a year).... Hanging from the flowers (where they come out from the bottle) is a silver christmas ornimant (the plain balls) with my name painted on it, which my ex-girlfriend gave to me...

Otherwise:

-various connectors to my laptop

-a "pop circle" (used at work on the pop machine to identify which button dispences which flavor pop) being used as a coaster

-A picture of me and my 4 closest friends

-a small American Flag

-A desklamp

-my Nintendo DS (pluged into the wall)

-Various CDs

-My 20 Questions game ball (those little electric ones...)

-My TI-89 Calculator

-various pencils, pens, and even crayons

-My Return of the King Extened DVD set

-And lastly, my Burger King hat, with DT expert, speed team, blue ribbon, Three Year, Original Whopper, and 110% pins, and buttons from years of being there... Which, now that I think about it is kinda weird too, but not as weird as a mt. Dew bottle with fake flowers in it...

I don't get it... I mean, I see nothing even close to a patern... is it too complex or too simple? Or can someone give me a hint (maybe in PM?)

I searched through his posts and i didn't find anything anti semitic. If you don't mind me being nosey what did he say?

And, when someone is banned, usually, the banning posts are deleted or hidden so you can't see them... Which is why a lot of times it looks like the Mods/Admins are unfair/too strict, when they really are just doing a good job.

the concept of ego and id (and superego), is mainly used in pop psychology. If you pick up a book on psychology that isn't a textbook, Freud and Jung are going to be the classical thing that they will deal with.

Why? Because Freud is fun! The battle of the id and the superego, with the ego moderating! The oral, anal, genital... stages of development. People find this interesting, and that's why it's in pop psychology. It's more interesting to learn about than Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs or Erikson's stages of development... And you don't have to have ANY background in psychology to understand Freud. Freud is lehman's terms.

However, they are still used in psychoanalysis... some... but it's mainly in pop psychology...

Hey thanks! It hadn't occured to me to look at .edu. Because some of those aren't internet sources (because they have articles on them, and for some reason, a written article she doesn't count as an internet source, even if it's wrtitten for the internet....)

I need to find a few non-internet sources (good ones) on what evolution is. Shorter articles (10 pages or less) are prefered, but I was just wondering if any of you can point me in the right direction (or if you know one off the top of your head). I have many that are defending it, but not many that explain it. I don't exactly have access to a Biology Text, but I need sources and I though maybe I could find one or two that explain the evolution process and possible abiogenisis. I need this for a position paper in my comp class...

Thanks in advance!

v=dt, so t=v/d.

If you let x be what you take along the road, then you can figure what you don't take along the road... (as you have a right triangle, 18 miles, 40-x miles and the distance you shave left to travel)...

so your distance is [imath]x+\sqrt{(40-x)^2+18^2}[/imath].

And your velocity is [imath]70x+35\sqrt{(40-x)^2+18^2}[/imath].

so [math]t=\frac{70x+35\sqrt{(40-x)^2+18^2}}{x+\sqrt{(40-x)^2+18^2}}[/math]

Now... optimize!

EDIT: YOu get the distance by adding the distance traveled on the road, and the hypotenuse of the triangle created by taking the distance traveled on the road from 40 (which should be the distance to point A) and 18 (the distance from Point A to the fallen plane), and the velocity is just the speed multiplied by the distance traveled at each speed...

Also, Doctors like to overprotect their patients. Because if you're recouping from back surgery, and you crash into something... they're gonna be afraid of a lawsuit (even if they didn't have anything to do with it.)

Also, if they gave you pain killers or something to take because of pain you may experience for a while, you shouldn't drive while on those kinds of prescriptions, as the side effects are usually bizzare. Like, a pill for sneezing now-a-days has side effects: Dry-mouth, constipation, etc...

And, HI! Welcome back!

i'm the only one in my school that has a 89 titanium. they found out that it can do derivatives and integral and such and now they all want one.

 

it kinda screwed me over though. i had a test and one section was about the kepler's laws. i couldn't find the third root key. two seconds after i turned in the test i almost hit myself because i was too stupid to just raise it to the 1/3 power....

Yea, I too was the only one with a TI-89... and I loved that it did Limits and Derivatives and Intrigals... but it didn't have a nth root key... and it actually took me a couple days to figure out to raise to the 1/n power for then nth root...

is that to say the black hole has an infinate amout of dimensions?

No. It's saying that a black hole is really a point in space and time, and a point has no dimentions. 0 dimentions, not infinite.

if there is a singularity at the center of a black hole, then it has no dimentions. Because a black hole IS the singularity...

However, if you mean, what dimentions does it affect? This is purly conjecture, but I'd say 4 (if you look at the "graph" of spacetime for a black hole... it's basically a giant hole in a plane, that goes down to a single point (the singularlity).

Now a black hole doesn't really affect time since time is realative, but as you fall into it, your time would move slower than that of on outside observer (not under the influence of the black hole). To claim that it affects other dimentions would be pointless, because there is no proof that they even exist, and there is no way to observe them.

To clarify, not ALL old people are bad drivers... it's a stereotype that is mostly justified, because the ones who have deminished sight, reaction time, etc. can't keep control of the car as well. So, a lot of them compensate by going slower. It's the ones that don't that you have to watch out for...

No such correlation has been shown as far as I'm aware. Both hemispheres contain motor cortices and lateralisation just determines which is dominant. As I said' date=' there are degrees of lateralisation, so right handed people can be left footed or left eye dominant, so it's not an 'all or nothing' state. Left handed people are not necessarily left hemisphere dominant and all people use both hemispheres anyway. It's a question of degree.

 

BobbyJoeCool: These 'split-brain' patients have had the hemispheres of their brain separated by cutting through the corpus callosum (in most cases other transhemispheric tracts are left alone). This is usually done in cases of severe (life threatening) epilepsy, to prevent the cascade from passing from one hemisphere to the other.

 

These people can read well enough because the optic chiasm allows information from each eye to pass into both hemispheres. Where it gets strange is when, for example, they are choosing a dress or a suit from a wardrobe. One hand will reach for one and the other will reach for another, each hemisphere having made a separate choice.[/quote']

 

Thanks for clearing somethings up... I couldn't think of the illness that is the reason for separating the hemispheres. I know we talked about it, but it was never on a test (and that's the stuff I remember).

ln(-1)=i?

Actualy funny story' date=' my dad went to catholic school and was left handed so they forced him to right with his right hand so now hes ambidextrous. So much for 'dark ages' huh?

 

`Scott[/quote']

 

This is different... they forced him to be right handed, they didn't kill him because he was left handed...

I saw a girl on T.V. that could write with both hands and both feet simultaneously. The show was 'Real People' or something like that.

There's actually a condition where they have to disconnect the two sides of the brian... and it's really interesting because people who have had this operation have weird perceptions and abilities...

such as

heart

you probably see that as the word "heart." But someone with this "disablility" would see the words he and art, because you see he with the left eye, and right brain, and art with the right eye and left brain...

Another interesting thing about these people is that if you give them two sheets of paper, they can draw a triangle with one hand and a circle with the other... at the same time...

For the love of All that`s holy (and even that which isn`t)' date=' THERE IS NO F**KIN` [b']BOX[/b]!!!!

 

Damn I hate that cliche` !

Yes, I know... but it's the best way to illustrate what I was trying to show (that I can think of...)

I would dissagree' date=' I think by having a balance between both halves you would get the best of both worlds. But what would I know I'm not 'equimanual';)

 

`Scott[/quote']

 

but what if it works this way... (And I'm not sure about this). The more of the right side of your brain you use, the less of the left (ie, more creative=less logical). So, an equimanual person (such as muself) might not be as logical as a right handed person. Creativity is good and all, but the best balance might not be 50-50... as creativity helps you to see "outside the box," but most of the time, you need to think "inside the box," and that's logic. And, there are other factors that might come into play... since in the dark ages if you were left handed, you were burned at the steak because you were a demon (because you weren't "right" handed...). That would make it less common via natural selection. And various other factors that we aren't taking into account.

 

And, if I'm wrong about the whole thing, and it's just the motor cortex, the ability to use both hands is not a significant advantage. It would have been in the sword and shield days, but leftys were "demonic" back then, so they hid it and used their right hand anyway...

An amibidextrous person would have that same advantage as the right handed person and then some. Also I think being well coordinated with both hands would be an advantage.

 

`Scott

Ok, yes... but that's only the using of the hands... You're right handed because you use the left side of your brain... the "logic" side of your brain... now "equimanual" people use less of their left side (the logic side) and more of the other side (commonly associated with creativity). The problem is that creativity can get in the way of logic when used too much... And, the ability of using both hands is not a significant advantage (unless you're a sports player... you get paid more... grr.)

EDIT: LOL YT... equimanual... nice

If I may I would like to tack on another question. Why are there more people right handed then left handed and even less ambidextrous people? Wouldn't evolution favoured the ambidextrous?

How so? What advantage does an ambidextorous person have over a right handed person? Because a right-handed person uses the left side of their brain, and the left side of the brain is more logical... it might make sence that that person would have an advantage over one who uses less logic...

so... wouldn't that mean there is a correlation in being left handed and being "more creative" (as the right side of the brain has more creative potential and the left logic...)? Or is it just the motor part of your brain that shows "dominance" in one hemisphere?

I'd guess A)

you can do it with all .50, all 1, or all 2... and then any combination of those... so you're probably not going to end up with a number that ends in 0...

It is part of it yes.

 

There are more than a few types of [acr=Intelligence quotient]IQ[/acr] some are visual based and some are word and number based but the good ones have a bit of each.

 

There are also a lot of high intelligence type: some are good at art and some are good with words and some are amazing at numbers

 

So your [acr=Intelligence quotient]IQ[/acr] does relate to your skills in a major way - you can have a high [acr=Intelligence quotient]IQ[/acr] and you can be good at one thing or another or even both. Its hard to explain but some people are brilliant at just about everythign!

 

Make any sence too you?

 

Cheers' date='

 

Ryan Jones[/quote']

 

IQ can be broken down into many sub-sections... logic, ability to think "differnent," association, etc... You can be good at one and not another, but in general, the scores correlate. Like, if you have a 115 in logic, if you have 85 in association, it signals that something is wrong...

"Association" meaning what, like word association or memorizing?

Association... putting one thing with another... such as puting actual blocks with ones pictured in a book.

Although it's not the best word because association is putting two different thigns together (such as a word and object.. table, and an actual table...).

[math]\cos{\tfrac{\pi}{12}}=\cos{(\tfrac{\pi}{3}-\tfrac{\pi}{4})}[/math]

[math]\cos{\tfrac{-\pi}{12}}=\cos{(\tfrac{\pi}{4}-\tfrac{\pi}{3})}[/math]

Take the double angle form on either of them.

[math]\cos{\tfrac{\pi}{3}-\tfrac{\pi}{4}}=\cos{\tfrac{\pi}{3}} \cdot \cos{\tfrac{\pi}{4}}+\sin{\tfrac{\pi}{3}} \cdot \sin{\tfrac{\pi}{3}}[/math]

[math]\cos{\tfrac{\pi}{4}-\tfrac{\pi}{3}}=\cos{\tfrac{\pi}{4}} \cdot \cos{\tfrac{\pi}{3}}+\sin{\tfrac{\pi}{3}} \cdot \sin{\tfrac{\pi}{4}}[/math]

You'll note that either way, you end up with the same (because it doesn't matter the order in which you multiply, a*b=b*a)

general case...

(where a-b=c)

[math]\cos{c}=\cos(a-b)[/math]

[math]\cos{-c}=\cos(b-a)[/math]

[math]\cos(a-b)=\cos{a} \cdot \cos{b} + \sin{a} \cdot \sin{b}[/math]

[math]\cos(b-a)=\cos{b} \cdot \cos{a} + \sin{b} \cdot \sin{a}[/math]