Kyle

The hair and nails aren't growing, they are becoming apparently elongated because the body is drying out.

I have a certain co-worker whose job is to distribute photos to many different people. She uses Kodak EasyShare Galleries to get these photos to everyone and I was wondering if anyone knows of an easy way to use this horrible service. The photos are displayed in a javascript slideshow: var curPhotoIdx = 0; var handledCommentId = 0; var albumIndex = 0; var albSeqNo; if (curPhotoIdx > 0 && connectionSpeed == CONNECTION_SPEED_DIALUP) albSeqNo = curPhotoIdx - 1; else albSeqNo = 0; photos[albSeqNo] = new Photo('922289682305', 'http://images.kodakgallery.com/servlet/Images/photos1414/3/82/96/.../9/922289682305_0_BG.jpg?a=5', '', 640, 480, 944808301105, false, '', 0, 0, false); var c = photos[albSeqNo].comments; ++albSeqNo; photos[albSeqNo] = new Photo('636999682305', 'http://images.kodakgallery.com/servlet/Images/photos1414/3/82/96/.../6/636999682305_0_BG.jpg?a=5', '', 640, 480, 944808301105, false, '', 0, 0, false); etc. I doubt that helps anyone, but it might. It seems to be impossible to right-click and save each individual image. Not because right click is blocked, but the "save image as" button doesn't even show up in the right click menu. It's as if it's not treated as an image. Does anyone have any experience with this EasyShare Gallery? I can't really imagine a way to explain it to anyone who doesn't already know how it works. If anyone has found a method to extract every photo at once I would eternally grateful. I've tried Save Page As... option but there is only the one, currently displayed photo saved. So far I've had to go through the source and copy and paste each address into a new window. I can't help but feel stupid doing that.

Both my teacher and I were confused in class today about ionization energies. Which is more difficult to ionize? Her notes say that a single electron in an anti-bonding orbital is the easiest to remove and a paired electron in a bonding orbital is the hardest. Is this correct? It seems logically that a paired electron would be easier to remove because it is being repelled already by the other electron in the pair. So it seems that a paired anti-bond should be easiest and a single lone bonded should be hardest. So which is it? She was unsure of the accuracy of her notes and we could not find this in the book so I wanted to get a second opinion. Thanks.

Any of the others. Don't some theories support the existence of more complicated dimensions that are unobservable to us?

As I understand it, molecules form into shapes which space electron pairs so that they are as far apart from each other as possible. So, two elements bonded to a central atom form with a 180 degree difference between them, three form with 120 degrees. The part that confuses me is when there are four atoms around a central one. In that case, a pyramid is formed. I visualize this like it is popping up off a 2D plane and into three dimensions. My question is, if it can so easily "pop" into three dimensions in order to space the electrons further, why can't it pop into higher dimensions? Is my visualization all wrong?

If the acceleration is different for "heavier" objects, than the definition of heavy comes into question. weight = mass x acceleration due to gravity If acceleration due to gravity were variable you could argue that all objects on Earth had the same mass but only weighed more because their acceleration was different. That of course wouldn't make sense. Acceleration due to gravity is the constant.

This isn't a math or science brain teaser but it's been bugging me just the same. I was at a friend's house last night and they were playing this game. You set it up by taking 2 people and 2 long ropes. Each end of Rope 1 is tied to a wrist of the first guy. Rope 2 is tied to the wrist of the second guy then fed through the loop formed from the first rope and tied to his other wrist. Without being as specific, the players are connected - the ropes are looped together. The point is to somehow separate. According to my friend, the connection at the wrists could be permanent and the rope could be impossible to cut - and it would still work. I'm not one to call something impossible but I see no way to do this. Am I wrong? I figured you geniuses could help me out.

haha. My Chemistry teacher plays that every year for her new students.

I was just e-mailed a link to this site. The band's name is "Science Groove." I don't know if anyone's heard of them but I hadn't before today. With songs like "Hooray for NMR Spectroscopy!," and lyrics like: "Acetyl CoA, citric acid, iso-, Alpha-ketoglutaric, succinyl CoA, Succeeded by succinic, fumaric and malic, Then oxaloacetic starts the cycle again." how can you resist? They don't feel like those horrible educational songs from Middle School but more like inside jokes. All the downloads are free and some are really funny. Check it out. http://www.science-groove.org/Now/

Ah I'm messed up. Energy is released when bonds are formed. I guess that answers my question.

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I disagree. Like any futuristic storyline that attempts social commentary, it was exaggerated. The point is not that our society will ever become the one portrayed in the movie. You can still see where some elements of it could manifest themselves in our future. I'm not saying that Gattaca was some prophetic masterpiece, but it was a little more than propaganda.

I've always had a plan to get a pane of glass and lay it horizontally then set a heavy ball bearing right in the center. I thought that if I left it for years and years and years, even passing it from generation to generation, I'd eventually have a deep funnel that looks like those illustrations for space-time curvature. Maybe I'm way off but I always thought it would be interesting to try -- a long-term project.

I write for my high school's newspaper and would like to run a story on the nutrition of our school lunches. From what I've looked up, the food would have to be dried and burned in a bomb calorimeter. At school we use calorimeters with water in them. It seems that bomb calorimeters are far too complicated. Is there any simple way to find the Calorie content of the school food without very expensive equipment or is this experiment not feasible?

Audacity is a good freeware program. You do have to download something to be able to encode for mp3 because of licensing problems but after that it is very easy to use. The information on where to find this mp3 addition is in the help files.

I live in a small town in NY and we have the same divisions between Elementary, Middle and High School (public) as Firedragon listed. Our grading varies greatly between teachers. Some base it primarily on exams, others homework, some stress class participation. We work off of a percent scale, not 4.0 or letter system; a 65% is failing. Also, as one more deviation from what blike described, in High School we are required to take 4 years of Social Studies and 3 of the same foreign language.