StringJunky

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2009/jan/15/how-massive-stars-form

I like this bit. It is especially pertinent when one considers science is about probabilities and not certainties, or else, it would be akin to a religion. Our personal approach to discussion should mirror this lack of absolute certainty that prevails in properly applied science.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Sorry, I was pointing at the author not you.

I think someone's overdone it with the drugs.

One explanation I came across is the friction causes rubber bits to come off the harder erasers which forms small spindles and these spindles reach between the fibres and pick up the graphite fragments on the outside of them. The kneadable erasers reach between the fibres and wrap its material around the fragments...they get blacker with time,

http://www.oilgae.com/algae/oil/yield/yield.html

Awesome mate...I never knew water drops behaved like that.

Rational needs to be defined suitably and accord reached about what it means, otherwise, readers will be talking about different interpretations of the word and no meaningful conclusions are likely to be reached. What does rational mean and does it vary between the genders?

I suspect, from the perspective of either gender, the other is less rational than they are.

https://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=trans+sexuals+brain+studies&oq=trans+sexuals+brain+studies&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=hp.12...2930l20337l0l22522l27l25l0l2l2l0l622l5635l0j11j10j2j0j1l27l0.frgbld.&pbx=1&fp=1&biw=1366&bih=643&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&cad=b

Genecks What's the possibility of a transgendered person having the neural circuitry (brain) for the opposite sex that their body has? http://sindromebenjamin.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/brainsex1.pdf This idea correlates with Xitten's sense of being a woman trapped in a man's body. I think authentic transsexualism is a neurobiological phenomenon and not a psychological one. I'm no expert on this stuff and therefore can't gauge the veracity of the study I linked to but it seems to have been done with some rigour. I don't buy the concept of "design". Mutations just happen and they consequently fit the environment or they don't. Gender orientation, spanning masculinity to femininity, falls on a continuum across the human race because evolution is just a game of dice and all possibilities, for any given parameter, will be expressed, at any given time, to varying degrees of occurrence between them. Consistent with this, to my mind, any given person has a certain ratio of 'maleness' and 'femaleness'; very rarely is a person 100% one or the other. Xitten happens to lie on that point where neurobiologically her brain and and body are polarised with respect to gender, hence, the psychological conflict she experiences Gender identity is a function of the brain, not the body, since the sense of 'self' originates within the brain, therefore, the body needs to be re-aligned not the other way round. This view assumes the transgendered individual was this way genetically and not a consequence of some environmentally-caused trauma...in the second case it would be a malfunction obviously.

Evil breeds evil.

The only thing that matters here is the meaning behind your words and not the visual style of the words. All I want to see is plain text. An avatar and a plain text sig. is sufficient means of individual expression without distracting from the core purpose of the forum which is to communicate information...it should not be a contest in who can shout the loudest visually which is how it will end up.

I third that opinion with CR and CP.

Green Xenon I cannot but help see a parallel with your views on some sections of society and that which Adolf Hitler held...I'm not kidding. You should judge individuals on their personal attributes and not because of some group or category they happen to belong to...there are arseholes and angels, in comparable measure, in all groups of any society. Read up on life for girls in an Islamic country like Saudi Arabia or Iran and tell me they are treated better than their male counterparts. Well-treated and respected females are very much in the minority at the global scale of things. Your views are not in alignment with reality; just like Hitler's wasn't.

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Although i hold no religious beliefs, I can conceive of a time, early in our history, when rituals revering and fearing supernatural beings acted as a tempering force for our most primal urges leading to larger and more harmonious social groups. It is easy in the light of our modernity to think moralistically without the aid of supernatural beings because we now have much more knowledge at our disposal but in those days of scientific ignorance fear of divine retribution was possibly the key to our large-scale cohesion. All in my opinion of course.

Logan's Run This will help to up production.

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Do you mean the word "gay"?

I can remember when my 90 year old landlord once said: "You're in a gay mood Antony".

My answer is about as complex as you are capable of understanding as demonstrated by your negative earlier responses to more scientific and referenced replies. Quite honestly, I don't think any answer will suffice for you unless I said: "God did it".

Given the same dimensions and both being made from the same timber; which is stiffer? The laminated samples' layers are not so thin that the glue contributes to overall stiffness by soaking it up throughout the layers. Differing grain direction is allowed if it makes a difference. This is with respect to guitar necks and their relative ability to resist bending under tension by the strings.

I'm coming to the same conclusion. Calling us "Evolutionists" smacks of Creationist-type thinking.