Should grown men face-time with each other?
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Posted to SciTech on Sun Apr 01, 2012 at 10:34:21 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
Can a 7 year old be gay? Do they even think about sex?
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"Green" Energy Speed Bump
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Posted to SciTech on Tue Mar 06, 2012 at 02:01:23 PM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
Despite the hype, a Presidential endorsement, a creepy socialist-realist TV ad, and even $4.50 per gallon gasoline, GM announces they are shutting down production of the Chevy Volt for five weeks.
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Outbreak!
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Posted to SciTech on Mon Feb 13, 2012 at 08:43:57 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
Reuters reports: "State health officials have added three more names to a growing list of students in this working-class town who are experiencing mysterious tics and twitching...Although the symptoms are typically associated with Tourette Syndrome, that has been ruled out in all but one case, causing fear and confusion among many residents of Le Roy, N.Y., about 50 miles east of Buffalo."
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Burmese Pythons Take Over Everglades
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Posted to SciTech on Thu Feb 02, 2012 at 10:57:00 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
"Daddy, daddy, my friend want to give us this cute baby python! Can we keep it? Can we?"Not that long ago, Florida's Everglades were full of marsh rabbits, foxes, raccoons, opossums, and white-tailed deer. Today, 94% to 99% of all mammals have disappeared as Burmese pythons have taken over this ecosystem."Pythons grow up to be 5 metres long and weigh 70 kg. Adult pythons can eat deer or leopards whole."
"Well, if it gets too big, we can just set it loose."
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Special K For Severe Depression?
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Posted to SciTech on Thu Feb 02, 2012 at 10:55:56 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
Ketamine hydrochloride, long used for its anaesthetic qualities especially in veterinary medicine, has become known to drug-seekers as Special K:
"Like other drugs of this class such as tiletamine and phencyclidine (PCP), it induces a state referred to as 'dissociative anesthesia' and is used as a recreational drug."Most right-thinking people agree that people shouldn't use recreational drugs, as they might feel good. But recent studies suggest that ketamine can stop severe depression in its tracks, taking effect very quickly while most other depression drugs take weeks to kick in, and thereby perhaps preventing suicides.
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He Ain't Heavy, He's My Robot
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Posted to SciTech on Mon Jan 30, 2012 at 08:43:24 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
More than one hundred years ago, Charles Babbage began thinking about how to make machines that could do math. Ever since, people have been thinking (and arguing) about whether man will ever mechanically replicate himself. Here's a brief rundown of the major avenues of that research, and their possible roadblocks.
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Too Big to Fail
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Posted to SciTech on Sun Dec 18, 2011 at 11:42:34 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Scientists said that stargrazer Comet Lovejoy was plunging Sun-ward and would come within 140,000 km (87,000 miles) of Sun's surface (36% of distance from Earth to Moon). Since Lovejoy was plunging directly into our star's corona (2-million-degree atmosphere), knowledgeable people expected it to vapourise at some point. It didn't, emerging from behind our Sun looking no worse for wear and tear, and can now be expected to survive for at least another few centuries.
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Android Tablets (Not Spam)
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Posted to SciTech on Thu Dec 15, 2011 at 09:24:12 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
Anyone getting/giving one for Christmas? There's a million brands out there. Anyone have a favorite or at least favorite among their experience?
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Another Earth?
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Posted to SciTech on Fri Dec 09, 2011 at 09:11:56 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Another week, another Kepler telescope discovery, this time Kepler 22b.
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Liquid Water, And Life, On Europa?
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Posted to SciTech on Tue Nov 22, 2011 at 09:20:11 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
"New research suggests that lakes of liquid water could be buried in the icy crust of Europa, a moon of Jupiter. The processes that create the lakes could also provide nutrients crucial for life on Europa, the scientists say."
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Spanking & Race!
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Posted to SciTech on Thu Nov 17, 2011 at 10:45:30 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
In a survey of 20,000 kindergartners and their parents, researchers found that while a majority of parents in all races used corporal punishment on their children, blacks did it the most. And then a bunch of sociologists talk about why this could be.
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Featured Diary: Paradigm Squat
Gaius Petronius.
Posted to SciTech on Wed Nov 16, 2011 at 01:51:41 PM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
Is Psychology a science, like Physics, or something else. Inquiring minds want to know.
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Personhood Doesn't Begin At Conception, Even in Mississippi
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Posted to SciTech on Wed Nov 09, 2011 at 02:23:07 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Christian Fundamentalists agree that human life begins at conception. That view has important implications: not only must abortion be outlawed, but any form of birth control that might kill fertilised eggs must be outlawed as well. They wanted some state, any state, to pass "personhood" laws protecting fertilised human eggs. What better choice than Mississippi, right? Even though he had serious qualms about it, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour couldn't bring himself to outright oppose Initiative 26 [love that Jehovah joke], since he must have figured it would sail through. But it didn't. 55 to 57% of voters in Mississippi said no to Initiative 26.
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Featured Diary: The Nature of the Gift
Gaius Petronius.
Posted to SciTech on Wed Oct 12, 2011 at 03:38:57 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
It is illegal to sell body organs in the US. Is there a way around the ban?
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Rick Santorum wants less anal froth on internet
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Posted to SciTech on Mon Sep 26, 2011 at 12:41:46 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Rick Santorum (R) recently complained to Politico about his "Google Problem." He complained that when you google his name, the definition for Santorum pops up, instead of his website. Santorum said that Google is actually "Spreading filth" by the way it operates and demanded that something be done immediately.
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Featured Diary: The bartender says "Hey, we don't serve tachyons here!"
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Posted to SciTech on Sat Sep 24, 2011 at 04:04:23 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
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