John Cuthber

If you can get a syphon that runs uphill then we have solved the problem (And most of the world's other problems too)

Sure looks that way.

That's not a very informative link.

I'm not sure that IQ "is a good measure of intelligence (though I'm sure there's some correlation)." One side is noted for its opposition to critical thinking. https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2012/06/29/texas-gop-vs-critical-thinking

If you take having a university degree as a proxy for "intelligence" and you consider the two sides of the debate on the UK leaving the EU as "political factions". (both of which are very much debatable) then yes. http://www.theweek.co.uk/89378/fact-check-did-uk-s-better-educated-vote-remain But it's not clear to what extent "having a degree" is actually just a proxy for "being young".

You can start by learning about it.

Interesting irony. https://mercyforanimals.org/straws-arent-the-real-problem-fishing-nets

The bits highlighted by Stringjunky, Dimreaper and others about food standards which are subject to regulation.

The relevant regulatory authority was FERA. The Tories sold it to Capita. https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/the-food-and-environment-research-agency

Well, you are sort of half-right. The government which doesn't want regulation did away with many of the regulators. They sold off FERA. They cut numbers in other , similar departments like safety (and, indeed, the police). So the "ever expanding army of 'Regulators'" just isn't real. But they have succeeded in getting you to blame the people who are trying to make it better.

In both the US and UK the party in power did not get the majority of the vote.

I am being robbed of the opportunity to choose. The proposed action includes the removal of labeling which would let me know if my food is made to a "rat hair free" standard.

The Brexiteers call it "taking back control".

I doubt anyone cares but a contest between a 450Kg cat and a 600Kg bear might be less one-sided than you would expect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger

The "purpose" of show dogs is to win prizes, and they are bred for that purpose. Their environment is the show-ring. It doesn't matter what your intention is, inbreeding - which is sadly the norm for "pedigree" dogs- ia a bad thing.

I thought it wasn't so much "sort of Democrat" but Anti American, Anti freedom and presumably Anti motherhood and apple pie.

Use less, or dilute them.

I think castor oil mixes much better with alcohol than the other vegetable oils do. What do you mean by "unique"?

Oxidation by air is sufficient to get it to go brown. You get formation of aldehydes and then reactions like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillard_reaction It's likely that the material is still fairly pure; the brown colour may be due to far less than 1% of impurity. And redistillation (under vacuum if you have that option) will probably clean it up

Not quite, for a start you won't be able to get the electrode potential to (e.g.) 2.5 volts because all the energy will go into making hydrogen. Also the voltage depends on the concentration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nernst_equation so there's isn't a specific voltage for a given element, there's a specific voltage/ concentration curve (and that's temperature dependent too). You can sometimes get it to work in simple mixtures- you could separate copper from iron. It's also important to recognise that there are two voltages in a cell- one at each electrode. The solution isn't at the same potential as either of them.

No. As has been pointed out, people's hands are dextrous, but fragile. Also, a typical male gorilla weighs about 150 Kg, and Tyson weighs about 110Kg. I declare a non contest.

well... sort of. The voltage needed to get something out of solution also depends on the concentration- the more of it there is, the easier it is to extract. There's another factor, there are hydrogen ions in sea water (not many but...) and so, if you get the voltage high enough (well, low enough- they plate out on the negative electrode) you start to "plate" hydrogen gas onto the electrode. Similarly, for elements that need to be oxidised to convert them to the element (chlorine is an obvious one in this context) you have a competition with production of oxygen. And hydrogen production happens before most metals come out of solution. About the only useful things you could get would be chlorine, bromine and (maybe) iodine. If you have metal salts at reasonably high concentrations in water it is possible to extract them in the way you suggest. The voltage needed is related to the electrode potential. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrode_potential And there are tables of them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_electrode_potential_(data_page)

Amended means changed.

A bus goes past my house at exactly 8 am every morning. If I take a picture at 08:00:00 today and 08:00:01 tomorrow then 08:00:03 the day after tomorrow, and so on, would you say I was taking a picture every second?

My current job as a scientist (essentially outside the field of biology) would be pretty safe regardless of evolution. However, If I stopped paying attention to evidence- in the way the OP has-I'd be in trouble rather soon. Good question. Did you mean entropy? If so, what you have done is illustrate that you haven't done enough research to form a sensible opinion on the matter. What I don't understand is why the OP has come here and posted stuff that was addressed ages ago- at length. Surely they can't be dumb enough to think they are going to convince anyone of anything, so I guess it's just graffitti. It's the equivalent of writing the name of your favourite sports team on a wall with spray paint. Dumb, and antisocial.