spacemanspiff

actually that was at a fancy ass preppy private school. but i think it was pretty much what you were talking about. makes me wish i was home schooled.

well that's kinda hard to do. a friend of mine at grad school at Berkeley says that pretty much everyone there in his dept has loans. and Med school, forget about it. but especially for undergrad there are plenty of scholarships out there. you just have to look for them, be resourceful and whatnot.

I think i can kind of give an example of what he's talking about. In high school math when i took the test i woud get the answers right, showing little work and certainly not using the teachers "6 step method". and i get points take off. I go to her and ask why and she admits that she knows that i totally understand the material but for some reason it is imperative that i use her 6 step method. so in order to get grades i have to conform and do the problems exactly the same as how everyone else does. even though i can explain all the concepts perfectly well, it's not about learning, but producing the right answers in the correct format.

unless you drive drunk. that kills plenty of people. alcohol is probably more problematic to society in general than pot is. and yet one is illegal and the other is an institution of american life. go figure. it's hard for me to watch those "pot is evil" ads that have been running when alcohol is at least as bad and is plenty legal.

that's why i hate mensa too. the question is misleading. I totally would have gone with 697/7 with my interpretation of the question.

the women i know are just as interested in science. but i do tend to know science orriented people in general. (yay for me!) is any one at all suprised that an online science forum would be most guys?

he's got to have problems. I know a guy who started college and 15 and he had some. all that suff about him visiting waring nations and whatnot seems like such a publicity stunt. like those two nomiations for the nobel. sound more like "wouldn't it be amazing if a 13yr old won" votes. not that this kid had really done more towards peace at the time than any one else, just that people where all "wow he's only a kid!" stuff like this makes me wonder. I'm sure as soon as they decided he was "gifted" they pushed him really hard. I bet that any kid who is pushed enough could go through school much faster than they do now. maybe not done with college at 13. but definitly a bit faster than now.

Have you seen some of the bufoons with guns? i'd rather see that chimp with a car than a gun. well... depending on how much ammo he has maybe drivers liscense wasn't the best example. but my point is that if anything should be difficult to get, it's a gun. especially the big, you-have-no-reason-to -have-amor-piercing-bullets type guns.

do the aussies speak english?

guns should be alowed. however the fact that it is harder to get a drivers liscense than a large gun seems a wee bit off to me.

lets say i sit an a room with out clocks for a while and i feel like about 10minutes has gone by. in actuallity it may be 25mintues.in this case my perception of time and actually time are different. think about whenever you lose track of time. you feel like a certain amount has gone by but when you check a clock you find that you were way off.

and a bunch of left over coils

keep in mind that even humans use large amounts of brain for things like perception and movement. very important things both my bet is that whales use a large portion for whatever it is they use to get around down there under water

i thought that if you were in good cardio shape your resting heart rate would be lower.

here during the winter it was getting dark pretty soon. at like 4:30. it's horrible. it's depressing. (SADs) I welcome some more sunshine. now if only it'll stop snowing

so this is kind of a pragmaitc science vs 'pure' science issue. i'm a big proponent of pure research. even i will admit that AIDS and cancer research is proably more important than the social habits of roaches. the thing is all science should have some merrit whether it be helping people now, as in AIDS reseach, or furthering human understanding. of course in theory anything could fit into the latter category, but some topics do seem more important than others. i guess it depends on what you think is more valuable. more tangible imediate results, or the more long term benefits of pure research. in the case of AIDS/cancer don't we already through alot of money at that? i doubt that slightly more money will drasticly change the trajectory of the reseach.

cool. so why do they know so little about these things. are they that hard to find or has no one really tried?

newb i guess.... 22 yr old graduate student. i currently in the cognitive sciences area. i've got a background in psych and neural type stuff. I believe my offical undergrad major was 'Brain and Cognitive Sciences'. I'm only in my first year, only 4 more years to PhD..

LOL! sounds like my computer. if you can in fact call my piece of crap a computer.

i recall that there were artistic differences between him and his publishers. i think they wanted to put more restictions on the stip than he was willing to deal with. not in terms of content so much as things like layout and liscening. waterson did not like to sell calvin's image. edit: read the 10th anniersary book for a better explanation.

DO? MD? they're all just pill pushers PhD is where it's at. and to a lesser extent ScD.

scientific progress goes boink!

speaking of MIT... they have course notes on line. so they should have some notes from 18.01(that's calc in MIT talk:-p ). you may find that helpful. i sure did when i took it http://ocw.mit.edu/18/18.013a/f01/index.html

that's frickin awesome. while very interesting. is it possible that this is just another example of an animal engaging in a behavior but not really having any deep understanding. kind of like an instinct. wouldn't comiting suicide and avoiding death be pretty much the same thing in terms of understanding that certain actions lead to death. in one case you avoid them and in the other you seek them out. there are plenty of animals that avoid death. wouldn't the logic of suicide=self aware also dictate that avoiding death implies that you are self aware?

the parrot mimicks the situation that you can find in some schools. you get the right answer but no understanding. the parrot isn't really that smart. it has just been conditioned. granted it takes a bit of brain power to even be conditioned. it does not mean the parrot has any idea what the stimuli that it is conecting mean. example. pigeogns have been trained to tell the difference between piacaso and monet paintings. how much do you think the pigeon really understands? asides from (after much training) knowing the low level visual cues. of course you could ask the same thing about art buffs.