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What most people don't understand about cheating is it affects other people than the cheater. In most cases, not just the cheater, but the one being cheated off of with or without knowledge is also consider a cheater for supplying answers (in which case, if they're knowingly, they should by all means be labeled a cheater). On top of that, throughout highschool I can probably list a 6th of my class of names of people I've seen cheating on homework, quizes, tests, and finals. (There were over 600 kids in my senior class). In my senior year at highschool 3 years back going on 4, I was weak minded about cheating, in a general sense. Whenever I saw someone cheating it hurt me to an enormous extent because there were subjects that I struggled extremely hard in and still got A's because I put a great effort into it. It was always before a teacher came in someone would ask for answers to homework, and bam they'd have it done even sometimes while the teacher was looking over someone else's work. Ontop of being able to name a bunch of people that cheated, I could name about 10 that got a 4.0 GPA. The worst thing was the teachers would talk about them proudly saying something along the lines of, "Oh in class he/she is smart, but I guess he/she isn't that street smart, or maybe he/she doesn't have common sense, but he/she knows his/her subjects real well and studies hard every night!" Now I know there are kids out there that do have exceptional skills at school, but otherwise they're complete simpletons, but I hate when teachers have so much pride and the teacher says something like they're going to be great or successful. I thought at the time (and still do to some extent) that teachers could gauge facial features when talking, because everyone that knew they cheated that didn't also cheat themselves were extremely mad, especially when the teacher talked so highly about the cheater... I never got any sort of comfort from not cheating, certainly I still view cheating as completely wrong (unless you're in a what-if situation in which you may be killed for not knowing the right answer), but these kids never had the nervousness I did, the worry, or the stress. And it gave them some short term happiness (3-4 years) I wish I could've had my entire high school time...

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Haha it's alright, the evidence of this seems very solid in all points. The only thing is, any word dealing with THC in an open discussion seems to keep people away from the actual topic at hand. You know with all the stoners and such that will break all the rules to say this and that about THC and miracles. I might be proven wrong, but we might be the only 2 people to discuss this on this forum.

He is correct, there was never a "3 bar" or "2 bar" joint. Source Within the first paragraph of that source it explains quite nicely: "The irreducible mechanism of the knee joint is shown to contain at least 16 critical characteristics, each requiring thousands of precise units of information to exist simultaneously in the genetic code. This demonstrates that the knee could not have evolved but must have been created as a fully functioning limb joint from the beginning of its existence." I understand, that here, it doesn't talk specifically about the 4 bar knee joint, but that's besides this point.

Yea I apologize for that, I was just pointing out: The title of this topic is misleading, it says "Cannabis kill [sic] Cancer" & that according to Harvard studies, THC only inhibits growth in lung cancer cells, not all types of cancer cells.

Source According to Harvard studies, they did not find it kills cancer cells, but it inhibits the growth of lung cancer cells.

No, the major function of the Pinna is to collect sound, so if an animal has no pinna, for the most part it will not be able to hear as well. Conch shells almost all have a spiral shape to the middle of the shell, if this spiral shape is what you're talking about, then the hearing of that animal would be extremely poor, because not only would it's pinna not direct a large amount of sound towards its eardrum, the sound vibrations would also weaken as they bounced off the spiral towards the center..

The universe has been expanding since it was created by the Big Bang billions of years ago, and it's going to keep expanding. In this way, the universe can be thought to be infinite. Even though this is the correct way to estimate the probability, there are variables left out that must be there to give an absolute accurate estimate. With an infinite universe, the OP is saying that there would be infinite life forms, which makes sense. The 50% he mentions, is the probability that our universe is infinite. Because duh, it's either infinite or finite. We shouldn't be looking at just the probability of a life form formed, but also the probability that that life form is found by us in any given way. If it hasn't been found by us, we cannot say that it ever existed in the first place.

CharonY, I understand what you mean, and nothing on this dead dogs experiment has ever detailed how they killed the dogs (but several animal rights groups are mad about the experiments, haha). I understand how we can consider them alive, especially since they do not stay dead. Genecks, thanks for looking into it for me, I hope that you can find something to spark my interest! Cyrogenics and biochemistry are still things I (and many others, I assume) do not understand fully and I must study up on it.

This was actually reported in 2005, my how time flies. Upto 3 hours after death. Source: (Underneath Boffins create zombie dogs, second paragraph, halfway down the entire page) Source The technique is removing all blood from the veins and filling the veins with a cold salt solution. (From same source)

I'm sure most of you have heard (I think it was last year, or maybe even older) that some scientists had brought dead dogs back to life. I was wondering if any research is being done on the technique they used for bringing back other living things?

This may be extremely similar to what Cap'n Refsmmat said... If you look at it from an evolutionary point of view, it generated sympathy from others and this gave the crier a greater chance of survival. It is a behavioral thing, the way we view crying as a visual for an emotion, and it has helped humans survive, learn, and understand eachother, even if we have been a bit savage at times in history.

Haha, good one. I hope it didn't seem like I was implying that the fridge was dangerous...just good to know possible risks of the element we're talking about here. Anyways from this article (whenever it was produced...seriously why do so many article sites not have dates on their articles?!) says that they use a mixture of elements instead of gadolinium: Towards the Magnetic Fridge

I feel like keeping this short and simple...so I will: Your idea of patterns is well, just that, your idea. Not everything is a pattern. For a quick example, the numerical value of pi.

I am not an expert, but this is the only site dated after 2002 that has something to say about the gadolinium refrigerator (under "Other Uses of Gadolinium: Magnetic Refrigerators"): Gadolinium It is also important that underneath that it addresses a very important controversy that Gadolinium can cause extreme health risks in rare incidences. I hope this helps, as at one point in time, I too thought that the Gadolinium refrigerator was something promising.

Yeah, sorry about that, my misunderstanding of what he meant by snacking, thanks for clearing it up.

To begin with I must say I will not be able to get through all you have asked to be answered. Doctors recommend how many times a day one should test their blood sugar based on eating habits and the medicine they're taking. While I think it seems your friend is testing too much, do not take that as advice or anything, I just don't know and hope another member can help on that. Heat intolerance is most likely due to hypothyroidism. Polyphagia is a major symptom of diabetes in which one has a big appetite and I suspect that is what you're talking about with the snacking. Polydipsia is a another major symptom, in which one drinks more fluids than normally. Polyuria, is yet another major symptom of diabetes, that one urinates frequently. The only two causes of lost of taste that are diabetes-related (as far as I know) are Bell's Palsy and oral candidiasis. However, I wouldn't think your friend has either. Some people just lose their joy of food and flavor when they get diabetes, it's a sort of mental or emotional effect. I cannot say on the last question. Hope this helps!

michel123456 (I apologize if that is incorrect), my favorite analogy of what I think you're getting at is the rare white tiger, specifically that a recessive gene gives them their white fur instead of the normal orange colour. White tigers are rare because (as most of you know) they cannot blend in with their surroundings in their natural habitats, but they also have an advantage over normal tigers, the majority of white tigers are bigger in size than normal tigers both at birth and at adulthood. Certain white tigers also don't ever have stripes in their fur because of this gene which is a big setback in their predatorial behavior. Sorry for getting off-topic kinda. So to get completely back on topic, tigers originally evolved/adapted/whatever you want to say, and this white fur gene was a result. But whatever use it had is now gone and now it would seem to most, that the course of evolution and survivalism is taking a turn for the worst for these poor tigers. I hope this helps, is relevant to this topic, and all I have said is at least partially correct, please correct me if not, and if you want sources, sources will be given. As far as degeneration, for now (I think) it is science fiction, even though it is possible.

Well I'm new, in every sense of the word. And hey to all reading this... Of the things I have read this seems like a great science-based community. I hope to have great discussions and all.