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Just wondering, why does the rabies virus go airborne when it infects humans and not animals like dogs?

Basic for an effective teacher (in whichever subject) I think is the ability to connect with his/her students. The teacher must be flexible and adept at determining what strategy works best for his/her students and work from there in order to relay knowledge or properly instruct and achieve the course objectives.

An effective teacher must have flexibility. Having a background on psychology or the behavioral sciences will probably help aside from being a "people person".

This thread is great. There are great tips here that I can use for when I do demo teaching a few years from now. Keep this up! :-)

Define thought first.

I'm being influenced by I, Robot because that's what I'm reading now. So I'd say, yes, computers (robots) may be capable of thought. I think far more logically than we hope to be.

I agree with you, however, I wonder how far the government can regulate the internet. Any thoughts?

I find the OP to be a brilliant idea!

The thing is, the one thing you need to be, when you love somebody, is being aware of that person's imperfections and shortcomings, but appreciate them despite their failings. That the flaws don't matter, because you're still happy just being with that person anyway.

Well, I think. But who can trust my judgement, I've never been in love. Haha:D

I'm having a good laugh out of this thread...haha.

I'm currently taking this subject and I need help looking for cases to write in my journal. I have to pass it by the end of this month. Can someone please help me look for cases online?

By cases I meant documented cases in counseling where the counselor has assessed the subject and put in details etc. as to his/her condition, the implications and carried out devices/means to help the subject cope with his/her condition.

Thanks in advance.

I prefer AVG more. It eliminates worms efficiently, though avast does well with trojans, too.

I agree. Although she never did tell me what she really thinks about me' date=' I think she trusted me a lot and considered me to be her friend. There were many things that she told me that I never heard her tell other guys. I'm sure the reason was because she really trusted me as a friend. However, the only time we really had good conversations was when it was just the two of us. When her other friends were around, she always talked to them instead and never said much to me. I'm not sure if it was because she thought they were better friends than I was, or because she didn't want everyone to know that she considered me to be her friend.

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Hmm...explanation based on experience. It may be because she actually feels shy to talk to you when other people are around, not because she thinks less of you than her other friends but because she's afraid that they may tease both of you (or something of the sort) and make things uncomfortable for both of you. And also, that you are her friend to whom she can speak earnestly and deeply and doesn't feel the need to make petty conversation with you. Well, that's one possibility...and it has happened to other friendships before...as I said, the above presupposition is based on experience.

Just as a last thought' date=' in addressing to the event of girls freaking out when being asked out by a guy, I plead guilty I have to admit, at those particular moments, I felt like booking out. It's a strange feeling, but it happens. I think i could describe it as fear. Of what? I still am not sure. Rejection? Not likely, since I'm being the one asked, not the one asking. Expectations? I think that is the most likely. I don't like having people set expectations for me, and I don't want to have to fulfill them. So i mean, afterwards, u end up avoiding the guy concerned, and have the sign "GO AWAY AND LEAVE ME ALONE" on your forehead. But I guess I'm gettinf over those defense mechanisms. Otherwise, I'm not too interested in having a boyfriend. I think that there is something great about a casual friendship that would be lost if involved in a relationship. But again, I wouldn't know, having never been in one But yeah, there's one explanation as to why girls freak out at being asked out, though it's just according to me.

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I can attest to that. It's not only the guys who have a hard time in this situation you know. So are girls.

 

We feel like we're supposed to act this way, or that and people are going to judge us either way.

 

We're also thinking of getting hurt too, so we defend ourselves as best we can. And sometimes I guess, we end up hurting others as well because of this. More likely it's our insecurities that drive us to do these things.

 

We (maybe I should start saying I) keep on thinking how to take the offer of a guy asking you out. What are his motives, what is this all about, what does he want? Are we just friends or are we something else? Stuff like that.

 

And on keeping friendships...my best guy friend is celebrating his birthday soon, but I'm studying away from home and so is he. We've been friends for 10 years or so. Imagine? And this is the first time we've been really away from each other. So of course I was a bit apprehensive about the situation because one of the foundation of strong friendships in high school was proximity. Now when we're islands away from each other, what do I do? He rarely checks his email, too. So I decided I'm going to send him a card or letter and if I can, a good book. Just so that he'll know I remember him.

 

We've got to put in some effort really to make our friendships last.

 

Cheers,

 

Sabbath

Trust me herme3' date=' they are right.

 

Girls get very creeped out when you send them a letter.

 

I frankly have no clue how you'd go about telling a girl something without her getting very creeped out and wierded out.[/quote']

 

It's probably because I'm a creepy/weird/psycho girl that I'd appreciate a handwritten letter from somebody who wants to tell me something they can't blurt out in my face.

 

Why is this? My phone is ringing again!!! This happens everytime I'm posting/replying to your thread herme3!!!

 

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Another errand!!!!

It's instinct I think. Self-preservation. But the extreme is paranoia personality disorder.

Searched this link up, but haven't got the time to read. Some errands to do. Gotta jet.

http://bama.ua.edu/~sprentic/607%20Epley%20&%20Huff%201998.htm

Hope its got the right info.

It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story. They seem never to remember the title of the story or (for sure) the author, except for the vague thought it might be me. But, of course, they never forget the story itself especially the ending. The idea seems to drown out everything -- and I'm satisfied that it should.

Couldn't be truer.

Thanks for the link bascule.

Entropy I guess?

Isaac Asimov had a short story on this, forgot which. That the energy produced by stars (where we get our energy i.e. the sun) will eventually die out, even the stars that are man made (that's some future technology!) and that may be the "end of all" then. But if it is so, that would be billions and billions of years from now.

What if you use bioluminiscent bacteria? Would that be more difficult?

I don't think it is good practice in any practical sense other than curing debilitating diseases. It must be done for the research in hopes of raising the quality of life by many.

That is something that I can agree to. But I still see the need of ethics especially in these field of research, or for any field of science for that matter. Ethics is for the good of humanity anyway, though at certain instances you may say that it can stifle progress. Though the greater challenge there is to come up with treatments and new technologies that do not go against ethics and what it means to be human.

We cannot permit the ends to justify the means.

The guess is only as good as the person thinking it up. Whether that person is perceptive, etc. Natural psychologists I presume?

Even if in the said research process scientists will be able to create living mutants and other deformities i.e. through laboratory accidents or just simply because the scientist wanted to find out if it was possible. After all, as you say, we mustn't let ethics stifle progress. An experiment is just an experiment, whether ethical or not. It is science.

And by the way, that's what we need ethics for, that's why we've got to "whine" about it, and not just try everything.

And death penalty, by the way, is another ethical issue.

Oh wow. I just read the explanation. (image #2)

I committed the errors that they predicted. I find this really interesting.

I took the first test and these are the results:

On list A I got 12 out of 15 and wrote Needle which wasn't on the list. In writing the words down I also wrote them according to which column I could remember putting them in and I was correct in all entries save for one. I put Sewing in the second column instead of the first.

In List B I still got 12 out of 15, wrote one word that wasn't in the list (Sleep) and misplaced one word (Snooze) coz I put it in the second column.

I made the same errors in the two tests. Remarkable.

Many thanks!

That's what the death penalty is for. We have to stop this whining about ethics and try everything. If we stop doing things because we go mental we'll only stifle our own progress.

With this statement can I safely presume that you support stem cell research using embryos and fetuses?

It's not that the garlic idea is bad. But it would be difficult because you're actually competing with pharmaceutical companies. What would bag you an intel prize is if you discovered something the pharma companies have not discovered yet, or beat them to it.

But then somebody mentioned little fishes and big ponds a few posts back and well it can't be denied that you're the little fish. They've got the research backing and funds, you're still out there looking for labs and profs to help you out.

But when it comes down to it, it won't matter much whether you have funding or not when you have a very good research design. You just have to be creative, and not only that, you also have to be resourceful. That's what budding scientists without funding need!

And well you really can't use the whole garlic thing because there would be just too many factors involved. Unless you only eat garlic the whole day, and no other fluids. Plus there's the metabolism, every person varies in his rate of metabolism. Then you'll have to control the activities of the specimen, etc. So the whole garlic thing is actually quite complicated compared to what ecoli suggested on extracting pure allicin. (garlic? umm..allum sativum right?)

Is allicin a phenol, a sapponin, a flavonoid or something else?