StringJunky

Yes, the Editor of the Online Oxford English Dictionary thinks so too.

Yes, the mathematical version is over my head at the moment.

Is it ok to think of dimensions as 'measurable parameters relating to space'?

Sensitivity to a particular range in the spectrum evolved because that range is what aided us in our reproductive success. If a trait improves reproductive potential it will most likely persist over traits that don't.

If you had it twice in a fairly short time that might suggest that the surface of other foodstuffs or the fridge/freezer itself is harboring the bacteria that's giving you problems. Maybe it's worth chucking all your food out of your fridge/freezer, defrosting it, then wiping it with a bleach solution. Use a thin bleach solution (not the thick stuff) and let it evaporate ...don't dry it down with a dry cloth because you might contaminate it again with other bugs. Bugs can still multiply in freezing conditions, just more slowly. You freezer needs to go below 0oF or -18C to really start arresting bacterial growth.

in a few countries, execution protocols are such that no one knows who actually killed the condemned.

It's a hosting domain funded by ads so that's why your software blocked it. I'm covered for the risks but there's no need for anyone to click on it: that snippet says it all.

A random sample.

Thanks, that's what I wanted to know. Funny.

Regardless of the temperature of the heat source, whilst the heating food contains water it will not rise much above 100oC because the extra heat energy is carried away by the steam produced from heating. It's not the micro-organisms that are necessarily heat-resistant but their toxins.

Yes, I appreciate that but even that's not science ultimately.

Thanks. Just focusing on the visible spectrum: Is each colour a a discrete frequency or is there a set of frequencies within each colour? I've just read the physiology of the eye brings about the apparent separation into the rainbow.

Citation please

I don't think there was any suggestion it is happening, just that is what the outcome would be if the inbalance was 'corrected'.

I think he was just illustrating the iniquity of positive discrimination, rather than making comparisons of intellectual ability specifically.

I could carry on but I'm not going to because this is in a standard science board so I'll leave it here..

I'm all for following the scientific consensus on definitions otherwise it just leads to misunderstandings. Until otherwise enlightened, or logically refuted, the fact is a human zygote is coded to make a human, so to me it is a human, but the stage it becomes a person is open to question.

From your WIKIPEDIA link in one of the references:

Dope is not harmless ...it messes with your synapses. It's an hallucinogen, so it's not surprising it causes cognitive anomalies like you are experiencing.

Great photos and I get the sense, through their creations, that they find the exercise very cathartic.

Good luck with that one ...reproduction is the raison d'etre of all organisms.

It's interesting how a statistic can be manipulated to look and be received how it's author - Oxfam - intends. You only need assets of $798 000 (£530 000) to be in the top 1% in the world. You only need $77 000 (£50 000) to be in the top 10%. To be in the top 50% you only need $3650 (£2400) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30949796

How are you defining 'human life'?

The Vexen of today doesn't, and shouldn't, have to be like the Vexen of yesterday ...you evolve. ...C'est la vie.