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  1. Just a quick browse of of the Wiki page for Mercola shows he is a big-time medical crackpot. Just a few tidbits for your amusement: Mercola advises elimination of most prescription drugs and immunizations, and favors what he calls natural food choices, lifestyle modifications and energy psychology tools to address emotional challenges. Foods he recommends avoiding include pasteurized milk, homogenized milk, most fish (due to mercury content), trans fats, certain processed vegetable fats (such as corn and canola oil), unfermented soy products, artificial sweeteners, sugar, starches, and for those with elevated insulin levels (such as anyone who is overweight, diabetic, or has high blood pressure or high cholesterol) he also advises avoiding all grain products (including "even whole unprocessed grains, and alternative grains like quinoa, amaranth, millet and teff"), fruit juices (including fresh-squeezed fruit juices), and canned, packaged or artificial foods. Mercola makes an extensive argument that disease alerts such as swine flu and their resulting immunizations were actually false alarms put forth to terrify the public. There is MUCH more on Wiki, QuackWatch, and even a BusinessWeek article about his marketing of "questionable" products.
  2. What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
  3. One very important fact about the basic home oven: They do not maintain a constant temperature. The burners/elements (gas/electric) cycle on and off to acheive an average temperature. My oven (natural gas) runs about +/- 30°F around the selected temperature.
  4. John Phoenix, Please, spend some time at http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm
  5. I recommend spending some time at "The Museum of Unworkable Devices".
  6. Where do you plan to output the signal?
  7. I use a bottle brush and dish soap for initial cleaning. If the bottle is actually smelly, then I fill it with diluted bleach (about 1 ounce per quart of water) and let it soak for at an hour. The bottle cap soaks in a bowl of the same disinfectant (especially if it's a "sipper" style cap.)
  8. Pantaz

    "Wireless" Energy?

    I believe you meant "crystal radio".
  9. Check with the motherboard manufacturer. Some boards are really picky about RAM type.
  10. Here ya' go... spherical magnets... http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/MAG-103/NEODYMIUM-SPHERE-1/2-DIAMETER/-/1.html
  11. In September 2008, McCarthy made this statement about Amanda Peet's position: "She has a lot of [nerve] to come forward and be on that side, because there is an angry mob on my side, and I like the fact that I can say she's completely wrong" (Don't ya' just love the "angry mob" reference?) Original interview with Amanda Peet: http://www.cookiemag.com/entertainment/2008/07/amandapeet Follow-up statement (apologizing for a poorly worded phrase.):http://www.cookiemag.com/entertainment/2008/07/peet_apology The same magazine published a "Vaccine Expert Q&A". (One doctor cites studies disproving any link between vaccines and austism. The other doctor cites his "29 years" of practice, and finishes with, "I think that the public health benefits to vaccinating are grossly overstated."
  12. What does that have to do with anything? You asked for information, it was provided, you ignored it. However, I did visit the two links you offered. Both sites, "Debunking Evolution" and "Darwin's Theory of Evolution Debunked" simply parrot many of the common misconceptions of evolutionary biology. All of their arguments are addressed by the data available from numerous researchers. If you ever decide to try learning what science has to offer, the TalkOrigins website makes their results accessible to the masses in more readable forms. In other words, the scientific facts do not fit your world-view? I'd say that is an accurate statement.
  13. Oh, really? At best, I believe you quickly skimmed the TalkOrigins FAQ. Did you bother click through even one of the more than 60 links to more detailed information?
  14. I've got about 150 electronics websites in my bookmark file. I'll be happy to send it to you -- just PM me with your e-mail address. (Offer is open to anybody.) Here are a few "getting started" sites: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/g_knott/index1.htm http://www.opencircuits.com/Main_Page http://www.ecircuitcenter.com/ http://www.falstad.com/circuit/e-index.html http://www.101science.com/Radio.htm
  15. I imagine any type of human powered magnetically coupled drive would be horribly inefficient.
  16. Spend some time at the website, Museum of Unworkable Devices. Just about every principal of "perpetual motion" is covered. As CaptainPanic pointed out, you can use the failure of your generator as an example in your project.
  17. Guiness Stout Ice Cream It's surprisingly good -- not bitter at all. 1 cup Guinness stout(or any stout beer) 1 cup whole milk 2 cups cream 2 ounces glucose syrup 1 cup sugar 1 cup egg yolks Bring beer, milk, cream, glucose, and sugar to a boil, drizzle into the egg yolks while whisking vigorously. Heat to 185 degrees F stirring constantly and pour through a fine seive and chill over an ice bath. When ice cream base is cold, freeze in an ice cream machine.
  18. NASA has a few JAVA applets (online and downloadable) for aerodynamics. http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/freesoftware_page.htm
  19. If you feel a claim demands proof or citation, just ask. When you encounter such things, report them.
  20. Pinhole camera info, exposure tables, image gallery: http://www.pinhole.org/
  21. Kevin Trudeau is a fraud. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Trudeau http://skepdic.com/trudeau.html http://www.infomercialwatch.org/tran/trudeau.shtml
  22. I Googled "Windows Movie Maker" and found this: Windows Movie Maker: How to use
  23. From what I have read, "open rotor" is just a new name for "turboprop". I found this: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/aw051208p2.xml
  24. A few years back, Epson settled a lawsuit concerning prematurely "empty" cartridges. More recently, a suit was filed against HP and Staples for "colluding to inflate the price of printer ink cartridges" The OEM cartridges in my Epson CX4800 are non-resettable, but I found a refill kit with new automatic resetting chips. For the price of less than two sets of OEM cartridges I have refilled the replacements three times, and I still have enough ink for at least four more refills.
  25. NASA has some fantastic resources online. Their free "FoilSim" software graphically simulates different airfoils (wings) and the resulting air flow & pressures. Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics (NASA)
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