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  • Reality…First Thoughts

    from TheGroundworks@xanga - 1/22/2007
    Philip K. Dick "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Reality is a hard subject, yet we live in it each and every waking second. Have you ever considered what reality is? I have bee...
  • Separating Facts from Theory

    from Ortegarizona@xanga - 1/22/2007
    In my college Psychology class, we were shown pictures of (straight) male and female brains. Photoimaging shows that they look different. How? Electrical signals emitted show that females use their whole brain while...
  • Something new?

    from feverANDclocks@xanga - 1/22/2007
       A 3D picture constructed by the Hubble space telescope is giving us new glimpses into a world which once only existed in theory. The world of dark-matter. So what does this mean for us who live on eart...
  • Another Kind of Climate Change

    from sublibrarian@xanga - 1/22/2007
    For some reason, this popped up as one of the top news links on Yahoo!.  I'm really worried about it.
  • Angst 101: Dabbling

    from Ereptation@xanga - 1/21/2007
    It was official. The trial was coming up in two weeks. Jake however, decided that he was going to completely forget about it until the day before.There were more important things to think of anyway.Like his homework. It ...
  • elaborate!

    from knifebookmarkers@xanga - 1/20/2007
    so yesterday was a regular school day, and I forgot what happened. I went to the movies with lauren (bauer) and we asked for tickets to Primeval, which is rated R, and they let us in! I was so happy. it was cool. anyway,...
  • Tetanus shots ≠ it's OK to jump on rusty nails

    from x_b_e_k_x@xanga - 1/20/2007
    So a bunch of states want to require that girls get the new HPV vaccine. The argument that doing this is bad because girls will then think it's OK to have sex is fucking ridiculous. Mangin said they may talk to their...
  • Childlike Faith

    from jonfromcanada@xanga - 1/19/2007
    It occurred to me today that for most people, science requires a lot of faith too. Unless one is a research scientist, how can he know that concepts repeated to him are true?  For example, they tell me that quarks,...
  • [No Title]

    from whiffet@xanga - 1/19/2007
    I~ Science is always right. Really. II~ By now, the news of Rep. Franklin' bill to outlaw abortion has probably reached your ears. If not, check this out. Anyway, a liberal was in attendance (why?) at the Christian vi...
  • what you can accomplish by throwing frozen hot dogs

    from bryant_yang@xanga - 1/19/2007
    Not that any of you are bored, especially with all the entertainment Jimmy's been providing recently, but if you've got some time on your hand and you don't mind being called a geek, did you know you can come up with a value of pi by throwing frozen hot dogs?...