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What's naked got to do with it ? If you're a man, and you sun bathe nude in your backyard, your female neighbor calls the cops and you go to jail. If your female neighbor sun bathes nude in her backyard and you see her, she calls the cops, and you still go to jail. You don't have the God given tight to ogle naked women, no matter if you're dressed or not 😄 .

I'll let her know you appreciated her performance.

Suicide is the ultimate act of giving up in the face of adversity; no 'big balls' required.

Not Hyperbole. My niece, Alex, is a magician at the Greg Frewin Theater in nearby Niagara Falls. Last year she made two appearances on Britain's Got Talent The theater used to keep tigers and when one tiger abandoned its newborn because of a broken leg , she nursed it back to health at home ( until it started looking at her like food ) and it is now in a zoo north of Toronto.

I realize Monsanto had lots of lawyers ( and so does Bayer ) but when an adjacent GMO field 'infects' a natural seed field, and Monsanto tells the natural farmer that he has to destroy his infected seeds because they are 'patented', why does no one sue Monsanto for 'infecting their natural crop ?

But have you learned that if you put strips of tape on the floor in a rectangular/square pattern, your feline companion will happily lie down within the perimeter of the tape, as if it was a 'box' ? Or even on a rectangular sheet of paper/magazine you might leave on the floor ? ( yes, I had two cats for about 17 years, and my niece had a baby tiger for almost a year when she lived at my other house )

Do I detect a bit of contempt for rigor? The fact that other speculative processes are patentable does not make your AI influenced WAGs patentable. And without rigor they may not even be worth consideration.

Today I learned that @TheVat is unnaturally interested in sex as he considers all sorts of physical traits to be associated with sexual selection 😁 😄 .

In Canada we have inconsistent bans. Some pesticides/herbicides ( like concentrated RoundUp ) are banned for sale in one province, but legal to buy in another. And while I regularly deal with Organophosphorus compounds which have acute effects, I am apprehensive of those with chronic effects ( Organophosphates in particular due to naturally low Cholinesterase levels ). Also, I don't particularly like Monsanto's business practices and ethics, so I tend to not trust them. Veritasium has an excellent feature on Monsanto's development of RoundUp resistant GMO seeds, and the legal 'traps' for farmers using them.

There are two kinds of measurements in Physics. One is termed 'absolute' and temperature would be an example; there is a zero point and all measurements are all related only to that. The other is 'gauge' which is a relational measurement depending on how you measure; a bird on a 15000V line does not get electrocuted, as the bird itself would measure 0V. And you do have an interest in relativity and are quite familiar with it, so you are aware that time, distance and speeds are all relative, and interlinked by Galilean and Special Relativity. Time is 'kept' by measurement of repeating changes, so, to measure the accuracy of the 'repeating changes' of your clock, you need another standard which measures repeating changes, and you can set T=0 whenever you want.

But liability for consequences still has to establish a causal relation. And while it may be simple to establish cause in the case of a tiger mauling, or a flooded yard and basement from your neighbor's reservoir, it is much harder to link a specific cancer to your neighbor's pesticide use. So, does that neighbor have the right to prevent your use of a known carcinogen ?

Too binary, and nebulous at the same time. Let's try something a little more nuanced. You buy RoundUp at your local Walmart to spray the weeds on your interlocking brick driveway. Your neighbor tells you to stop as it is a known carcinogen. Who is infringing on who's rights? ( although your vaccine example works for me )

I was thinking hydraulic force multiplication, where applying a small force to a small area causes the pressure to exert a large force on a large area. I believe this is Pascal's Principle applied to master/slave cylinders.

As we are the only 'thinking' animal, it serves the convenient purpose of giving us a body part to 'cup' with our hand as we sit and think. I believe there is a statue illustrating this ...

This sounds like homework. Can you show some of your thoughts on deriving this ? I will provide some guidance. The mid-point between two numbers, even when those numbers represent distances on an axis, is given by the average of the two.

This sounds like homework. Can you show some of your thoughts on deriving this ? I will give you some guidance. Given that x and y axis are at right angles, you might want to apply Pythagoras' Theorem to the problem.

@xenog123 Donald ?!? ... Is that you?

C9 is heavenly ? Not according to L Cohen "Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth The minor falls, the major lifts The baffled king composing Hallelujah"

Interesting. I always thought the baba' was an Italian dessert ( popular in the Naples region ) and one of my favorite.

Did I mention delusion ?

A pretty good explanation of the origins and predictions of IQ testing, including the 'corruption' and mis-use by Americans and NAZIs, Notice that all the 'predictors' that IQ tests provide are all correlations, not causes. I wonder how a stable and advantaged childhood and teen-age years, with good schooling, would correlate with the metrics of success ( education, income, wealth, etc. ) identified in the video. Maybe the most important correlation is how responsive caregiving and nutrition, nurturing interactions, and a stimulating educational environment affect IQ scores.

While I cannot discount a genetic racial or inherited component to intelligence, keep in mind that a newborn's brain doubles in size during the first year, and is 90% of adult size by age 5. "This rapid development is driven by the creation of billions of neural connections that are strengthened by positive experiences like responsive caregiving, nurturing interactions, and a stimulating environment. A healthy environment, good nutrition, and consistent routines are crucial for building a strong foundation for future learning, problem-solving, and emotional well-being" I would think this is the main cause of, or lack of, intelligence. This OP is not about race; stop trying to make it so.

Post your conversations on FB. This is a Science discussion forum.

This one also ...

That ship gas already sailed ...