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  1. You ain't seen nuthin' yet. I think it involves focus on self versus focus on others. When focus shifts to the larger world around us, we focus on more things, perhaps make as many mistakes, but feel more responsible, it all keeps us very busy, and time flies. Wow, does it ever fly!
  2. This is a bit cryptic, but it works because I used it. You seek the molecular formula (~number of atoms for each element) in a compound/molecule. Think of — what the percent means ... and what atomic weight means ... and how they are related ... and how you can simplify the problem (in terms of what you seek). Once you obtain a representative idea of its chemical structure (ie, the relative number of atoms), simplify it to the least (whole) number of atoms for each element. Then you know it's some multiple of those numbers, and the freezing point should guide you to determine the molecule's size/overall composition.
  3. Years ago, a idiotic classmate foolishly hit me with a brief spray of Bianca mouth freshener from one of those tiny cans the size of your little finger. It was extremely painful, and it incapacitated me for well over 10 to 15 minutes. My eyes and nose turned into Niagara Falls, I couldn't see for 10 to 15 minutes, and I was helpless for 5 to 10 minutes. Now you're talking about a dangerous weapon several sizes larger and much more disabling in various ways. If/when you test it on yourself, don't do it alone or behind locked doors, because you may require immediate medical attention. And also consider this: Are you so sure the perp won't get to it before you do and turn around and use it on you?
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    Tips?

    Maybe a lot older, unless you want to ruin her teaching career and have her become a registered sex offender.
  5. Reminds me of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
  6. PROBLEM 1 Solving it as a word problem, it helps to add "definitely" to the answers. PROBLEM 2 So, how are the first three things in the series related to each other?
  7. I agree with DrP. Never play with burning fuel. This dangerous experiment also violates one of the prime rules of mixing two liquids: And ceribethlem describes what's basically tantamount to "dust explosions", which are also dangerous. These dangerous acts are a lousy way to get your name in the obituaries.
  8. Huh? How do paternal MHC cells end up in the placenta?
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    Math Jokes

    Statisticians are mathematicians who don't have enough personality to be accounts.
  10. The ambient temperature (above/below freezing) at the elevation of their development helps determine if the precipitation will be snow or rain. Snow is water molecules forming solid crystals, and rain is water molecules forming water droplets. You may also have seen snow hitting windows that is already beginning to melt because the temp near the ground above freezing, or rain that has frozen because the temp near the ground is below freezing. Liquid water will absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, which creates an acid inside the drop, making rain slightly acidic. So, rain tends to be naturally acidic. And, as makers of ice creams know, coldness affects our perception of taste.
  11. First of all, a buildup of resistance would make it less likely to heat up and explode, but that in itself is no guarantee. I also wouldn't want to be anywhere around this experiment because you're actually talking about a "short circuit". I quote Wikipedia: Basically, don't do it!
  12. Perivascular sheaths are the adventitial sheaths or the adventitia, which define/restrict the course that arteries, veins and nerves take through the body. I know it by the name tunica externa, and it's also known as the tunica adventitia. Adventitia do not exist for capillaries because they would interfere with the transfer of nutrients and wastes between the blood and tissues.
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    math puzzle

    You can google as I did to get the answer mostly likely required by the exam.
  14. The digestive tract has several sphincters, including the upper esophageal sphincter, which helps prevent air from being drawn into stomach (except for 6 to 8 year old boys —Brruuup!! ).
  15. I'd guess these animals are "built tough" including thicker skulls for a couple reasons, including living as they do in the wild, and their jaws are major implements requiring tougher jaws and more muscle. Also keep in mind that they have smaller brains than humans, so it's literally a tougher nut to crack. I would also guess that, depending on the temperament of the animal, a line drive to the head with an aluminum bat might make it think twice. Better yet, instead of aluminum, you might want to use something made out of "stihl"
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    math puzzle

    If you think hard enough, there's at least two answers to this puzzle. What kind of math course did this come from?
  17. Maybe women forgive other women, but they almost never forgive men for anything.
  18. This all being my opinion... China's one-child policy might wreck its society in more serious ways than to prevent their language from spreading globally. #1 - They're looking at a chronic shortage (many, many millions) of females/wives, and this will cause problems both at home and abroad. Older Chinese men will marry younger women out of their cohort, becoming like a national debt, and it will have a domino effect. #2 - Elderly Chinese had depended upon their children to support them in their old age, but now one child must do the work of multiple children to support both parents. I'm not so sure about Mandarin (ie, "putonghua"), or Japanese or German becoming globally dominant. The Chinese language is difficult for most people to adopt, especially it being both a tonal and a non-alphabetic language. For at least one generation, the Chinese have worked hard to learn English because it is already universal. Japanese is also very difficult for foreigners to learn, and it's hardly an "international" language -- of its 130+ million speakers, all but 1 million of them live in Japan. The German language and German technology have been around long enough, and even though Germany is physically the center of Europe, it seems not to have spread far and wide there. Arabic doesn't look like a global contender. Spanish is international mostly in the sense that it's the lingua franca of South America. South America has only recently begun to be taken seriously for its scientific research and scholastics.
  19. Solar Nebular Model?
  20. Well this is true why must we show everything.
  21. Your general idea is sound, it just needs to use the correct "average". Let's say that the two quantities, a and b, were along a *single* axis. On a straight road, a chauffeur drives a miles in the morning and b miles in the afternoon. The final distance is the same as saying the chauffeur drove (a+b)/2 miles in the morning and again in the afternoon. But, we're talking about distances along two perpendicular axes whose distances are multiplied together to find an area, not added together to find a distance. Thus, their average will not be the "arithmetic average" (shown above), but will be the "geometric average". This means that r = √(a∙b), and the area = π r².
  22. Yes. I see "sexual reproduction" as "sexual" (ie, new genetic combinations) together with "reproduction" (ie, new individuals). So, HGT is "sexual" without being "reproduction", cloning (natural or otherwise) is "reproduction" without being "sexual", and "sexual reproduction" is both.
  23. I think it's important to look at how populations of different species survive (or not). One insightful method involves normalizing lifespan and survival of various species by graphing percent of maximum lifespan versus percent of population survival, as shown below. Thus all curves begin at 100% survival at % 0% lifespan, and end at 100% lifespan and 0% survival I quote the text directly from the source: I have seen the A curve represent survival rates for animals such as amoebas, which die at a fairly steady rate throughout their lives. The main point I want to make is that dogs would have a lower average lifespan (and probably a lower maximum maximum lifespan) if they lived in the wild (I would guess somewhere around the B or C curves). However, having been domesticated, they enjoy better healthcare throughout their lives (lower infant mortality, fewer deaths by disease, protection from violence, and better healthcare for their "elderly"), and thus, their population enjoys an extended survival closer to the D curve (modern people).
  24. Glue??
  25. My flying experiences began in small planes (Pipers, Cessnas, etc), and it impressed me that I could tell the exact moment the plane disconnected with the ground. Years later, when I began flying on airliners, I thought they'd be too big to feel the "floating" sensation. Not! And to this day, every time I experience "lift off", this smirk appears on my face because it's the coolest part of the flight.
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