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Nowhere in this thread has marriedtothesea.com or toothpastefordinner.com been mentioned? Those are brilliant, and I thought pretty well-known. The author wrote a book, too, which is pretty good. I think I'm gonna go post a thread about it in the literature forum.

If you ever need to torture some information out of me, you could force me to watch this.

Inception was pretty meh. One of those movies that I think is pretty decent, but it gets way too much credit.

Anyone got a good server or interested in starting one?

7/10 Not the best Gorillaz song I've ever heard, but catchy and funky like all their stuff. Cool sounds. Damn, downsowf got me wanting to listen to some Talking Heads. Probably my all-time favorite band. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsksSWOxq2Y Just let yourself get lost in the dance...

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I think you hit it on the head. I thought about this same thing right after he died and everybody was hailing him as one of the greatest innovators of all time. What exactly did he do? He didn't really make anything new. Yet, the reason he is so well known is the overwhelming success of his...

Anyway, now that the troll is back under his bridge, is anybody still interested in the topic? Nobody answered my previous question: do you think people would be more concerned with living a healthy and safe lifestyle if poor health and accidents were the only things that could kill them? Would...

This is exactly what you did. We both made essentially the same point: in your words, that "the clock is set and calibrated in utero." It sounds like you meant something more spiritual than I did, while I was simply talking about genetics, but I was not saying anything significantly different...

Like I said, I feel this pretty far removed from the specific topic of the thread. I didn't want to address your questions in detail, not because they are invalid, but because I think it will derail the thread. It might be more appropriate to start a new thread about the wider issue of ethics...

I did not come to this thread to debate about "science" as a concept or the validity of the scientific method. If you have something to say about the topic of the thread, go for it. Honestly, I joined this forum expecting to be able to have rational discussions without being called out for...

All I said was that scientists are reasonably certain that aging is genetic, but they don't know what gene causes it. And you don't have a very clear understanding of what "science" is if you describe it as a "god-paradigm" (whatever that is, I assume you mean something like a religion?)...

There is some good scientific literature out there about this. I don't know how much you know about the actual scientific background, but it's been all but settled that aging is coded into our DNA somewhere. If so, it's only a matter of time before we isolate the "aging gene." It's interesting...

1/10. Sounds like she recorded the original song while going up a roller coaster hill. 1 point because I like roller coasters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlYlBDbb0VQ&feature=related

Yeah, I noticed the exponent too. That part is correct if you make the exponent negative; it's obviously a typo because that term is just the derivative, which is given above. I guess the missing 1/2 is a typo, too. Dammit, now every time I get a problem wrong in this course, I'm going to be...

Really? I've been coming back to this problem for days, trying to figure out how to get that answer. I'm going to be reasonably pissed off if it is just a typo in the solutions. It is from MIT Open Courseware, by the way. The provided solution is here.

Does nobody like Patton Oswalt or Brian Posehn? I'm not sure which one I like better, but they are my two favorites.

I've got a basic differentiation problem I need help with. I have to find the equation of the tangent line of at x = a. The calculus part is no problem, I can get the derivative and using the slope formula I get: but the provided solution is: What I can't figure out is what happened to...

Shogun - James Clavell It's a lot longer than I realized when I started--about 1100 pages in print, I think, but I'm reading it on the Kindle--but it's an enjoyable read. I was interested in learning a little about feudal Japan, but I didn't feel like poring over a dense nonfiction work...

I can't do five, but I can narrow it down to this: Raiders of the Lost Ark: Star Wars original trilogy The Godfather Remember the Titans Full Metal Jacket The Big Lebowski Office Space Life of Brian Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Anyone ever brewed your own beer? I haven't done it in about a year, but it's a hell of a lot of fun if you're into cooking and, of course, if you like beer. I think it's an ideal INTP hobby because it's an inexact science, which caters to our love of improvisation. When you brew, if you follow...

I teach elementary school ESL, so my classes read some authors like Judy Blume, Sid Fleischman, and Roald Dahl. All favorite childhood writers of mine, especially Dahl. I really enjoy re-reading the books I read as a child. Lately I've read Matilda, The Whipping Boy, and Fudge-a-mania, which I...

This is why I am reluctant to do the undergraduate engineering program. As long as I am loitering around in an undergraduate major, I will be paying out the ass for it. I'd prefer to get a quicker undergrad major--like Physics--and move on to graduate school, where I wouldn't have to pay for...

What about getting a Physics BS, and then going into an Electrical Engineering graduate program? Would that possible? Unlikely? Difficult? Like I said, graduate school would be better than undergraduate college because I could potentially get funding.

Sorry, I don't think I was very clear. There is just one minor, and it is called "Microelectronics and Photonics." The program website is here. I'm not quite sure what photonics has to do with it from the information on the site, but that is actually the field I am more interested in. I'd like...

Are you guys still playing on a server? I used to play MC a lot, and I recently got back into it. I'd like to find some others to play with online. Single-player gets boring; there's nobody but the NPC villagers around to appreciate my magnificent architecture.

I started growing a beard in high school, but my mom hated it and made me shave, so I did, but I kept a little soul patch. When I went to college, I started wearing a short, thin beard and mustache (the "line," if you will). By the time I was a few years into college, I was letting my full beard...

Thanks again for the help. I'm considering Electrical Engineering a little more seriously now. Now, there is a minor I could get with either degree: Microelectronics and Photonics. I'm not sure what exactly it entails; it is mainly a graduate research program, and the minor involves some kind...

Thanks for the advice, Otherside, but my previous coursework doesn't give me much that would count toward an engineering degree. Bottom line: BS in Physics would run me 50 credit hours, while engineering would be around 90 hours (I guess I could do it in 3 years, not 4). My main issue with that...

Well, the difference is that if I did pretty well in the undergraduate part, I could get some kind of funding when I moved on to a graduate degree. I don't think there would be any hope of any kind of funding while I am still an undergrad getting my second bachelor's degree, so four years of...

Hey, I am new to this forum, but I don't really want to post an intro in the intro forum. I will just start off with a question here. I graduated college in 2010. I majored in Anthropology. The main reason for this selection was that I dicked around a lot in college and didn't take it very...