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I read this yesterday and felt really happy, but now it's tomorrow and it's stopped working.

Actually no. We don't know what causes these diseases. All we have are genes that have been identified as giving an increased risk, and environmental factors that have been linked to the disease. No one is destined to have either, it is a question of risk. Smoking apparently does something to...

I've been told it's just to dilute it so it's not as strong. Incidentally this is how the person who was telling me this got addicted to smoking in the first place.

One of the things I value most is conciseness. I believe in saying things with as few words as possible. This often means generalising. It may not be ideal, but generalising often saves an entire paragraph of writing to clarify a point, but which wouldn't convey any additional information...

I thought Jonah Hex could have been a good film, but it was lacking narrative. It felt like someone had cut out all the story and just left the action scenes with little to connect them.

I try not to let stupidity bother me, what I really hate though is to see people being stupid when I feel it would take only the tiniest little bit of effort to understand something. When I worked as a lab technician my boss was one of those people. Me and my colleagues often avoided violence...

There are two types of addiction, chemical and habitual. Cigarettes have both. The chemical addiction to nicotine is because nicotine sets off chemicals in the brain, when you stop taking nicotine the brain notices and gets all uppity and causes withdrawal symptoms. Habitual addiction is just...

When is a sea creature not a friend?

I approve of your signature :D

Did you hear about the baker who robbed a bank? When the police got there, all the money was scone. I'll get my coat.

The quality of the translation is compromised to make a dub that fits. The language used for dubs is generally simplified and westernised and even deviate from the intended meaning a little, you lose most of what makes anime special.

Proponents of the diet also claim that you must not take any medication. i.e. chemotherapy. It has killed people directly by nutrition related problems and it has killed indirectly due to people refusing proper treatments. There is 0 evidence, even the base claims of how it is meant to work are...

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This diet has apparently killed many people who could have lived.

As much as I hate to admit it, a lot of this stuff isn't bad. Disregarding my taste in music, my preconceptions were that hip-hip in generally is poor musically, but this stuff here is made by fairly skilled people. On another note, I've always liked a lot of Gorillaz stuff

5 INTP forum tabs that I opened a few weeks ago and haven't read yet A few google books. tv-links.eu on which I am currently watching the stargate series. several things on amazon tifosi optics some news websites and other general mish mash. I only had a clear out of a lot of stuff a couple of...

Actually a new game in the x series has just been announced http://www.egosoft.com/games/x_rebirth/info_en.php Your point still stands though because at the moment it's just one developer out of all of those out there making such a game.

I got a few pages into it before I realised there were 22 pages, and the second one is quite long too. They're currently sitting in my ever growing "to read" pile. My mom tried a calorie counting diet for a while. There are two main problems with it, firstly the recommended calorie intake is a...

this seems awfully familiar

A recent trend is to plan diets according to restricting calorie intake, rather than individual sources of calories, which is probably a much better method. Regarding the fat/carbs debate, the debate seems to be focuses on whether one or the other is worse. The problem is the manner in which...

Also on the subject of chemicals: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/04/20/3184037.htm

-1.5 is nothing, I'm -4. I started wearing contacts about 3 years ago, I actually prefer my appearance in glasses, but I wear contacts for convenience and comfort. I love having peripheral vision and not having to clean glasses all the time. My vision is much better with lenses too. There is no...

For a while I've had in my head an idea of going slightly vegetarian, partly for health reasons, mainly for economic/sustainability reasons. My idea is to eat at the very most one portion of meat a day, and to eat mainly chicken and fish. But for as long as I'm still a student I'm just eating...

Read a book, play a computer game. Pretty much anything to distract myself.

Slow cooked meat is brilliant. I agree with what you say about salt. There has been a lot of scaremongering recently, and so manufacturers responded by cutting salt out of everything. Now everything that is ready to eat or semi-prepared is bland and tasteless. That's basically what it is. But...

Add an egg to 50g plain flour. Mix together well Put 50ml water and 100ml of milk in a jug. Then slowly add to the flour & egg whilst stirring. Get a small rectangular dish, perhaps about 20cm wide. Put a few tablespoons of cooking oil into the dish and make sure the sides are coated. Put this...

Re: Global Warming That looks familiar ...Run out of fallacious arguments, revert to stereotyping... How ironic that you're comparing us to religionists. And besides, the flying spaghetti monster of the liberal is the flying spaghetti monster.

I just thought I'd share this. :) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1377008/Britains-feckless-father-Keith-MacDonald-fakes-death-escape-paying-ninth-child.html

A circuit has a series of inputs, where 0/1 correlates to different voltages. The inputs connect to transistors which are effectively switches, these could be compared to a mechanical relay. Depending on the inputs, the transistor either sends out another 0 or 1 to the next transistor in the...

The most interesting thing is that S/N correlates more with IQ than anything else, whereas the belief I've seen more commonly discussed is that F/T is related to IQ. Of course, performing MBTI tests on people with low IQs could be problematic given the subjective nature of the questions.

Nipples Urethra Mammaries and... Hyperglycaemia I feel like I'm back at school again :D

Buttocks.

Don't tempt me.

Re: Global Warming I didn't say it doesn't happen, it's just a stupid argument. They are two independent problems linked by circumstances. Nice fallacy. All problems that can be solved without necessarily needing to reduce use of oil Compared to the conservative approach of outright denial of...

Smell is associated with very tiny quantities of molecules. Something like chewing gum has relatively large quantities of chemicals added to give it a strong taste that lasts for a while. The small amount of molecules that slowly evaporate {may not be the right word} and land on the pen will be...

Re: Global Warming is pointless Fossil fuels will run out sooner or later. Therefore we should be using fuels more efficiently and developing alternatives regardless of whether global warming is real and preventable. Cutting our use of fossil fuels kills two birds with one stone. Even if we...

links would be useful.

Re: Global Warming Nobody denies this. The question is whether the climate is heating up too fast or too far to fit into the normal sequence. Jackooboy used Strawman. It's not very effective. Health issues are easily negatable and affect too few people to make an effective argument against...

Re: Global Warming The other issue is that the apparent historical temperature variations depend on how you use the data, you can easily change the value by discounting certain sets of data, or by changing how the average value is extrapolated. i.e. at times different ice cores may show a...

They need somewhere to put their money. Loincloths are probably also a good idea for people who carry sharp spears around with them all day. But in such tribes everyone knows everyone else, so if rape or any unwanted advancements should occur, it would be hard to avoid punishment. And from...

Re: Global Warming The chart is oversimplified and perhaps exaggerated, for the sake of its' intended audience. There is little in the way of sources because I doubt it's audience is interested in reading them. But in a very generalised and somewhat misleading way, it does represent...

Being naked always used to seem special and fun, but when I moved into my own flat and could be naked whenever I wanted, it lost most of its' appeal.

Re: Global Warming I must admit I am somewhat of a sceptic, however I do believe that mankind induced climate change is plausible. My scepticism stems from my belief that evidence of current warming trends is flawed and/or irrelevant, and I believe the models used to predict future trends are...

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2011/04April/Pages/stem-cells-grow-eye-retina.aspx This article is much more detailed than the other one, and includes a link to the journal article as well.

Class is wearing cubic zirconia jewellery, but not too much.

Re: Global Warming I read something else about this a day or two ago, I'll look for the link later if I remember. Basically one of the climate-sceptics arguments is that the use of data from weather stations is flawed, for reasons such as use of data from stations in urban environments, where...

http://intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=9395 :cool:

Can't live with it, can't live without it.

Is it strange of me that I want to be able to grow some boots? Stem cells are complicated and still quite poorly understood, but the trick is telling the stem cells what to turn into. The usual methods being used by researches are to mix the stem cells with a certain cocktail of chemicals or...

I just mean that for older samples, the levels of C14 are low enough to be affected by interference.