Phi for All

Oh crap, there's a small remote controlled turntable (the same diameter as the clear tube) that turns the whole spindle assembly in either direction. When the tube is placed over it (and he's careful to keep it in place when the needle is inserted), it hides the fact that the veneer under the tube is turning also.

A remote controlled fan with vanes for directing the airflow embedded in the table with the faux veneer to conceal it.

We've missed you, welcome back! There'll be no leaving for you THIS TIME, squealy meat-sack! If you don't have 1000 posts before the year is up, Earth will be destroyed! But hey, no pressure....

I'm not showing any Staff edits at all in this thread. Bascule must have put him in to begin with.

Boulder hanging there, some detritus to greet us, waiting for a sneeze. Quaking breaking free! Nature's nostril accretion now lodged in mustache.

Morning mirror glance, pristine skinscape zit-marred now! Pressure applied, yuck.

Frigid arctic dawn! Mean energy white fire blaze; my toes have turned black.

Big Brother is watching you, but he's also watching two footy matches, last week's East Enders and some Asian porn.

Ooooh, some great ones here so far. Please, keep 'em coming.

I need some help. My daughter's school has a 5K Fun Run race as a fundraiser every year, and we wanted to put some interesting facts in the school newsletter about how much 5 kilometers really is. I'm looking for things along the line of, "5 kilometers is roughly 50 football fields", or "running 5 kilometers is like running more than half the height of the tallest mountain in the world". If you have anything you think may be intriguing or interesting to elementary school kids about 5 kilometers, please post it here.

Then I'd say no to the US, and choose Finland. Finland has a broader media ownership base, including state sponsored outlets. I feel media deregulation has hurt the US in terms of trust in what is published. Finland has a better educated population overall, and they have a neutral foreign policy that keeps the emphasis away from military concerns.

Too easily targeted, and if the lights have personnel operating them, it's too tempting a target.

What, you eccentric?!?!

It must be the smoke you create when you solder something.

Solder is lead-based, and the fumes can cause asthma and chronic bronchitis, iirc. Flux may have some bad fumes too. Can you use a mask or ventilate better when you solder?

It ain't over till the flat lady sings.

Unless you have a PayPal account, right? You should write a story about a starship captain who wants to become a patent attorney. Do you have a PayPal account? Oooh, she's way past the glazed look in her eyes. Call some of her GFs, arrange for them to go to a chick flick, and then log on and geek out, dude! You crazy. Most high school freshmen's main aspirations are bongs and senior cheerleader's tonsils. Everyone says that *before* we start pouring the water. Welcome to the forum, have fun, get dirty, make mistakes.

It was common because pictures of Bush were placed next to pictures of monkeys wearing similar facial expressions. If Obama was similarly facially exuberant, this argument would be appropriate, but he's not (or not yet).

I don't buy the president = monkey bit. Bush was linked that way due to several photos that were parodied with similar facial expressions. Reagan acted *with* a monkey but wasn't compared to one. The Lincoln to Bush bridge is a pretty long one. I also don't see the racist angle. I think it's just supposed to be a topical tie to the recent shooting and the fact that the stimulus bill may be incomprehensible to many. With all the other brilliant cartoonists and cartoons available, I don't know why the Post picked this one to run. That's the part I don't understand. I'll bet one of my favorite cartoonists, Tom Swanson, could do much better, and may even be persuaded to post his effort in this thread. Tom's work is on a par artistically, and has the added benefit of being actually funny.

I think foie gras has a consistency you get because it was grown inside the bird that way. Are you asking if a regular, cheaper liver can be purchased and then processed to become more like foie gras? Is this correct?

Check the car for something with a floral pattern and a roughly tube shape. Odds are you saw something briefly, your mind quickly wanted a pattern to define it before your lady walked away, and it chose "collapsible umbrella", then dismissed it from further thought. Later when you were looking for "collapsible umbrella", you saw the item more clearly but saw that it was the edge of a floral shopping bag sticking out from under the seat, and your mind knew that wasn't "collapsible umbrella" and kept searching to no avail. I don't see how this could be precognition, unless you now go out and buy her a collapsible umbrella and put it in the car for her future use. But then, that's cheating, isn't it?

I think we're having a translation problem. I don't know what "politics" has to do with this subject, and I believe "foie" is French for "liver", not leather.

These sound like absolutes but have question marks, so I'm confused (admittedly easy to do). I don't know if we're far enough along in the research to know anything absolutely. It's my understanding that if you had scar tissue covering an arm stump, removing the scar tissue and encouraging the embryonic cell growth would renew the whole arm. One of the most significant uses would be teeth, imo. Not everyone loses a limb but regrowing lost adult teeth would be incredibly handy and a prolific use of the discovery.

There was a SciAm article a while back talking about how we have everything a salamander has for regenerative growth of a whole limb, but that process is overridden by the formation of scar tissue, presumably due to evolutionary pressure. I guess it's more beneficial for humans to stop bleeding quickly as opposed to waiting for regenerative growth. Salamanders don't form scar tissue, they just move right into some kind of embryonic generation of the leg, tail, toe or whatever was lost. Supposedly, if we can find out how to affect the hierarchy of the scarring process, we may be able to inhibit it in favor of regeneration. Ah, I found it: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=regrowing-human-limbs

Please remember to give your opinion in your OP to set the tone for discussion, otherwise you're just reporting the news, which we don't need *you* for. It's your angle on the story we want. This is so cool, but the cynical side of me is thinking about the pharm that's out there right now trying to spin gold by spinning something more expensive so they can spin it as preferable to the medical industry. I hope they stick to the cotton candy.