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It's more historical than technical, but it helped me put the whole thing into perspective. I think it's definitely worth the read. It's not too thick either, I think it was a little less than 150 pages. I pimp this book a lot on this forum, but it's my favorite chemistry textbook ever. It's most beneficial to have a general chemistry background before reading it though. Descriptive, Inorganic, Coordination, and Solid-State Chemistry by Glenn E. Rogers.

gcol, I see you working. But the thing is, you'd have to do the specific study in this case because the results were posted here from a second hand source (unless I'm missing something). The publishers may have just interpreted the results the way they wanted, or the agency who did it may have really saw this. We won't have a clue unless we see their data, so the original study is the only thing that will give us clarity here. Thanks for the effort, but I feel teased right now.

Unfortunately, America can't handle this right now because an incompetent regime which has a knack for ruining government agencies in in power. Hopefully, it doesn't get here until 2009 so we'll have a chance. I just ran into this and was getting ready to post it. I'm becomming concerned too.

Oh, for a book too, I recommend The Search for the Elements by Isaac Asimov. It's not too technical and helps put things into perspective. I'm sure you can find it in any halfway decent library.

I would never participate in it because it can kill you. In Africa, notorious for cannibal tribes, it's called Kuru and in bovines I think it's called mad cow disease. As must as I understand, and biology is not my thing, the nervous system attacks itself. You flinch and have no control over your movements and then you die, I think because it eventually effects involuntary function. I guess it's caused by digestion of human protein and can strike at any time after consumption, between a day and decades. With that said, I bet Beyonce is delicious.

Are you sure the first one is the right link? I was going to look at their numbers, but that is talking about computer science and not biology so it doesn't appear to be from the same study.

Holly, if you're looking for a home remedy try read clover tea. A biology professor told me it appears to clean blood by a mechanism that is not understood. I'd pick your own though, if you buy it you're likely to not get what you want. Also, I'd like to point out that the Natural Cures book written by that conman Kevin Trudeu is full of assanine advice aimed at an audience of idiots. Don't buy it, or look at it. Also, I'd go to see a real doctor.

Not that I'm aware of. But I've never feared Hell enough to learn the original languages of the texts and read the original texts, so, like everyone else who hasn't, what I'm aware of what is in the Bible is what I'm told is in there. I've never been told it's in there. It's an actual artifact though. Google Shroud of Turin, I'm sure you'll get tons of information on it. I'd say the majority of christians are aware of it.

I'd just like to clarify here that if global warming kills us all (which is unlikely because of the word "all") the Earth will be fine. If the human species disappears, that doesn't mean the Earth will be deleted. The Earth is unlikely to end until it is swallowed by the sun several billion years from now, barring any unseen very catastrophic events. The most expected effects of global warming are costal flooding/islands disappearing due to sea levels rising, radical climate shifts, and eventually a new ice age. These changes will no doubt cause mass migrations and probably many deaths, but I'm sure the human species will still survive because we adapt very well, although we thrived during a period when the Earth was relatively cool compared to it's history. To illustrate I've ripped off a graph from a site I highly recommend that you visit http://www.scotese.com/. It's a site about the history of Earth. I don't know how well you read graphs so allow me to explain. The extreme left is 22'C, which is a very comfortable room temperature for us, but it's warm for a global temperature. The extreme right of the graph is 12'C. The top of the graph is where we are today. As you can see our species has thrived while the temperature was at the extreme right of the graph, and now we're approaching the left, an extreme for us but by no means an extreme for the Earth. I do understand where your concern is coming from, and my advice to you is to learn as much about it as you can. Ignorance is the cause of many things, including fear. Sounds like you're curious about nature. I'd study science if I were you, it's amazing how powerful it makes you to do so. I too worry about reaching a point of no return that permanently changes atmospheric composition. Also, it's not the job of politicians to care about anything but getting elected. It's our job to care. And if they don't care about what we care about, we fire their asses so one of us can get in there. I know this is hard to do when the ignorant's hunger for comfort is what dominates a democracy, but it can be done. We can either do it, or the ignorant will become less ignorant when they become uncomfortable. What is also concerning me is this bizarre winter we seem to be having. It's not just in Kansas either.

I was thinking about this and I remembered something about either some sort of frog or squirrel not needing sleep, but I couldn't find it. Instead I found this on an animal FAQ: Maybe something about the cell dealing with what you eat accounts for how much sleep you need.

I gave this link to somebody before and they liked it: http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/index.shtml There's also these: http://chemistry.about.com/ http://www.webelements.com/webelements/scholar/

Does this mean he's been reading bills or has someone else been reading for them for him?

Maybe I'm missing something here. Does this study assume that all biology students go on to become professors? This sounds like selective numbers crunching for the sake of marketing, like dipping a dog in barbecue sauce so a man will bite him.

Don't forget that women also drive our evolution. IDers don't find Evolution so offensive just because they think they're unique and beautiful snowflakes blessed with life by the glowing hand of God and not some damned dirty ape, but also because they don't believe in a woman's right to choose, anything.

Yeah. The "Theory of Everything" would, no doubt, set off a revolution because having one that works meaning we understand things a lot better than we do now. It would have the same effect as Evolution of Biology, Plate tectonics on Geology, Germ Theory on Medicine... ... Only it would have that effect on everything and not just physics, the most fundamental science, because it would make progress in changing the word "random" to "half-ass calculated."

Did you ever hear that we don't really need sleep, we just habitually do it because we had to lay still all night in the early days to keep from being eaten? I know it's bizarre, because everything sleeps, right?

Plants do the same thing. Problem solved (for CO2 anyway). We just have to plant anywhere we can and take over Brazil before they ruin the rainforrest with their bizarre farming practices.

What do you mean what's this about the Shroud of Turin? God miracled Jesus' rotting corpse to burn a heavenly image into the cloth it was wrapped in. It was the first of many miracles divine stains, burns, and potato chips. My point is, it's important to the Christians because it's a "Messiassol," or Messiah fossil, even though it's much less like a Lucy, and more like a Piltdown. That's probably too combative to feed that to your audience without asking for a lot of barf and tears.

Don't you need a medium for the wave to travel in. Like we hear on the surface because air functions as the fluid medium and sound travels faster in water because it's more dense than air. What I'm trying to get to, I don't think you can hear things in space.

Okay. Good luck. I was hoping to get a list of densities from webelements, but I'm not smart enough to figure out how to get a number and not a graph. If you don't have any lists just throw me the number and I'll give you what's in that area on my periodic table.

So you have 5 grams of a metal or 5 grams of metals? Is it pure or is it an oxide? I like to keep things simple until they can't be. If it's just a metal I'd just check it's density. You already know it's mass, just figure out its volume (if you have a graduated cylinder this is very simple) and check it against a list of densities. Be careful though, if it's a group 1 or 2 metal you may put yourself in danger by measuring its volume. Especially the heavier ones.

There's actually a story like this that I have seen in a few general (basic) psychology textbooks. I'm really fuzzy on the specifics, but there's a story of a man who was born without a chemical in your brain necessary for sleep, so he lived his life without ever sleeping. He suffered from severe emotional problems and ended up killing himself in his early 30s. I wonder about the nature of this man's fever, and how he rests. He must somehow, or wouldn't his muscles break down eventually?

Theorein, while I greatly encourage your curiosity I must say that you don't have a right to comment on the role or the attitude of a scientist because you told me yourself you don't know much about chemistry, which is the area of science you are talking about. Throwing out what is well established and actually pretty fundamental to what is known because someone who is asking a question has equivocated in their mind some result is VERY much not the attitude of a scientist. In short, you have to earn the right to have an opinion before you can expect your opinion to have weight, and that means you're going to have to experimentally establish that you are right for your brewing belligerence to have any meaning. Galileo replaced Aristotle for a reason. I've tried to help you and jdurg especially has tried to help you understand what is going on, along with the rest of the posters of this thread. It would probably be a more solid move to thank them and then go and do a little research on it yourself, instead of condemning them.

I hope they have the resources to accompish this. The Moon is going to be pretty cramped in 2020 with US, China, Japan, and Russia. I bet it won't get it's own reality show though.