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A new dimension for mathematics – the Periodic Table of shapes Mathematicians are creating their own version of the periodic table that will provide a vast directory of all the possible shapes in the universe across three, four and five dimensions, linking shapes together in the same way as the periodic table links groups of chemical elements. The three-year project, announced today, should provide a resource that mathematicians, physicists and other scientists can use for calculations and research in a range of areas, including computer vision, number theory, and theoretical physics. For some mental exercise, check out these animations that have already been analyzed in the project. http://www.gizmag.com/periodic-table-of-shapes/17895/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=a1ab490a43-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email

Chernobyl Incident Had Fewer Long-Term Health Impacts Than Expected ScienceDaily (Apr. 9, 2007) — A new study has found that risks from radiation exposure to people involved in the Chernobyl incident may be much less significant than most of us think. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070407172204.htm

Animal Connection: New Hypothesis for Human Evolution and Human Nature These carvings are from ivory and have been dated to between 30,000 - 36,000 years old, making them the oldest artworks in Europe. (Credit: Photo by H. Jensen. Copyright University of Tubingen) ScienceDaily (July 20, 2010) — It's no secret to any dog-lover or cat-lover that humans have a special connection with animals. But in a new journal article and forthcoming book, paleoanthropologist Pat Shipman of Penn State University argues that this human-animal connection goes well beyond simple affection. Shipman proposes that the interdependency of ancestral humans with other animal species -- "the animal connection" -- played a crucial and beneficial role in human evolution over the last 2.6 million years. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100720123639.htm

Religion drives the need for homosexual marriage to be illegal, homosexuality has already been shown to be genetic but religious hatred of homosexuals is blocking attempts top make it legal in all states, it is already legal in a few states, my son is supposed to marry his partner next fall. Polygamy is illegal in this country due to religious dislike of multiple partner marriage, which is odd considering that in the bible most of these religions use clearly allowed men to have more than one wife. Another odd thing is that polygamy is practiced in the USA by religious people. They think a young girl should marry at about 13 or so and they become a junior wife of usually a much older man who may have as many 14 wifes or even more. Now multiple partner exclusive polyamory is uncommon but it happens I love the idea of it but where to find a woman who feels the same way? lol Unusual multiple marriages, relationships really because they all can't get married are rare but not as uncommon as you would think. I read some statistics once that claimed that multiple partner marriages were often more stable than the more accepted two people marriage. I see nothing wrong with multiple marriage if all the participants are well informed adults, forcing little girls who are brain washed by a religious cult and really cannot have an informed choice seems a little different from adults who want to do it.

What species of Snake do you have? I always liked red tail boas but raising two boys in what is reptile central here in SENC we have collected and kept many snakes, chain snakes, black racers, mud snakes, copperheads, cotton mouths, and one pygmy rattler but my all time favorite snake was a Scarlet King Snake my sons bought for me on fathers day around 1998, I had it for 10 years but somehow the cage was left open and it disappeared in the houses duct work never to be seen again. While snakes almost certainly evolved from a lizard much like a monitor lizard they are not closely related to lizards, it is thought snakes evolved first from legless underground digging lizards much like the glass snakes we catch here every summer, glass snakes are really legless lizards and if you put a snake up beside the lizard the vast differences become apparent immediately. a snake has no eye lids, a snake has no ears, a snake can open it's mouth much wider than the size of it's head, and Glass lizards can shed their tails if caught much like many other lizards. legless lizards have evolved from several genera of lizards my yard contains two species of legless lizards, one is completely legless but the other has tiny nubs where the legs should be, but none of them come close to being as highly specialized as a real snake... I did an informal survey of my yard this summer and I found Species of lizard Broad head skink Five lined skink Ground skink Anole Glass snake (lizard) Species of amphibian Southern dusky salamander Newts tree frogs toad bullfrogs Species of snake rat snake corn snake black racer King snake green snake garter snake pygmy rattler

An ancient snake shows some leg Snakes are classified by scientists as limbless squamates (an order that also includes lizards). But nearly 100 million years ago relatives of modern snakes undulated through Cretaceous period waters aided by a paddlelike tail and dragging a pair of short, footless hind legs. http://www.scientificamerican.com/gallery_directory.cfm?photo_id=11CD480D-E7A6-7DCF-73A60B9B04557531&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_TECH_20110215

Sail E-way: Spacecraft Riding the Solar Wind on Electric-Field Sails Could Cruise at 180,000 Kph VIRTUAL SAIL: The electric solar wind sail, or e-sail, concept offers the opportunity to field truly enormous virtual sails as much as 40 kilometers across, possibly enabling the development of the fastest man-made objects ever flownperhaps at speeds around 50 kilometers per second, Janhunen says. Image: COURTESY OF ALEXANDRE SZAMES, ANTIGRAVITE, PARIS A sail formed not of material, but by electric fields reaching a diameter of 40 kilometers could tap the solar wind and propel the fastest man-made object ever It takes large quantities of rocket fuel to power space probes through the cosmos. So much so that many long-range missions, including exploratory voyages to the outer planets and beyond, are typically impractical or too time-consuming to contemplate carrying out using conventional rocket motors. To address the problem, scientists have developed ingenious alternative propulsion systems such as ion-drive technologies that require much less propellant than standard chemical rockets but, nonetheless, travel much faster over time. But even ion thrusters have limitations. What if spacecraft could traverse our solar system or even interstellar space at yet greater velocities using no propellants at all? Such is the allure of solar sails—large, ultrathin mirrors that harness the faint pressure of the sun's reflected light to move through the vacuum of space. It is no wonder then that engineers at NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are now flight-testing prototypes of these photon-propelled solar sails—dubbed, respectively, NanoSail-D and IKAROS. Although these pioneering craft garnered headlines when they were deployed in 2010, a different solar sail concept is also currently in the works, one that replaces physical sails with mostly nonmaterial shrouds comprising electric fields emanating from long, lightweight wires that extend outward like umbrella stays. And because the electric solar wind sail, or e-sail, concept offers the opportunity to field truly enormous virtual sails as much as 40 kilometers across, it could enable the development of the fastest man-made objects ever flown—perhaps at speeds around 50 kilometers per second, says its chief inventor, Pekka Janhunen, a research manager at the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=spacecraft-solar-sail&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_TECH_20110215

Fuck it, there is no point... I will post this much of what i originally wrote now I look at life from a a rather unique perspective neither fish nor fowl, not Conservative. not Liberal, i go with the truth and the truth never resides in either extreme but one thing i know absolutely for sure is that children have to be protected from adults, there is simply no way to be a civilized nation unless we protect our children from exploitation.

Is exploiting a child who cannot say no a separate issue?

I use them as feed stock for unusual fishes I collect with or are given to me by the State Fisheries people from time to time. Wild caught fish will often starve before they will eat commercial fish food, I have a friend who writes books about North American Native Fishes, his scientific collecting permit allows him to collect almost anything, i go with him and I get to have specimens of some of the animals we catch, he has identified several new species (I am cited as source in one of his papers on a new species makes me feel special even if it isn't that big a deal) Daphnia magna are greedily eaten by any fish and or aquatic animal. Breeding fish and other unusual aquatic animals is a hobby... that ate my life Actually this question generated quite a bit of interest on another more appropriate science forum directed more toward fish biology, the predatory nature of the Cyclops drive the smaller size due to the large daphnia not being as able to get away from the Cyclops seems to the general consensus so far. Oh yeah IMHO the large size of the newly hatches females when the weather begins to warm is because they have live young and a bigger females can give birth to more babies faster than a smaller daphnia, that's why the cyclops usually win by late summer and the daphnia disapear...

Jackson are you seriously suggesting that states rights trump the federal government protecting individuals? Do you really think that states can allow children to be denied basic rights because they cannot vote? Surely slave labor is outside the realm of states rights? Does capitalism really trump common decency? If a state decides to kill all the green eyed people is that ok? Where do you draw the limits? So you're not sure keeping children out of the dangerous factories and mines was a good idea? You might be correct, when I worked in a factory i was faced with many scenarios where a small child could have crawled back inside one of the machine to effect repairs much easier than taking it completely apart to fix, of course the high voltage capacitors and hot surfaces might have been a problem for the little ones.. oh and yeah they can work in smaller tunnels in the mines than adults can not to mention all you have to pay them is pennies i mean after all they are just children, how much can they be worth? http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html http://www.eiu.edu/eiutps/childhood.php According to wiki children as young as 4 were employed in factories and mines, i thought this was ridiculous at first, no way a 4 year old as I know them could do factory work but then I thought if I had no morals or feelings i could take a cattle prod and sugar cubes and train a 4yo to do almost anything.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour

If time went backward then somewhere, i have no idea where, there is a plot of soil that 6 feet under all the elements of my body (and casket) leached out of the ground came together to form a corpse, then someone dug up the corpse took it to a morgue where they took out the embalming fluid, put back blood then took the body back to the hospital where it reanimated and left to go home to slowly get younger and healthier and smaller, eventually becoming a child and being inserted back into my momma's womb to slowly be taken back up by her body and disapear.... the whole always moving backward part would be rather freaky, going to the bathroom is kind of freaky too... my motorcycle going backward on the rear wheel at 120 mph would be a site to see, lol We would in effect be remembering our future (now our past) and not remembering the past (our now future)

It's more like the guy who welds has more kids than the guy who cannot (for what ever reason) if his ability to weld is somehow genetic then those traits will be passed down to all his little welders who will do well and have children too so you end up with the guy who cannot weld not having children who are as successful at supporting and having more kids as the welder guy.

Capitalists need those child laborers?

I thought the Human, Gorilla crab lice connection was interesting... on Valentines Day

Maybe he has made a Farnsworth Fusor?

So you approve of using disingenuous debate tactics to the point of allowing someone to use them with out calling them on it? I thought ydoaPs remarks were the height of restraint... Hell I remember American History classes, any decent Conservative should, how would they know how to be Conservative if they don't how things were done in the beginning where they all say they want to take us???

I'd like to see a less condescending debate too, sadly that is jackson33's style of debate, he misleads, misrepresents, misdirects and it is very difficult to debate someone who uses such disingenuous tactics... jackson33 is so sure everyone else is stupid he thinks he can say anything and that makes it true just because he said it, much like most extremists his arguments are all hot air with very little basis in reality. His reality is in a galaxy far far away, It's impossible to debate him in any way except his own, smear the extremist BS on thick and hope no one else will have the nerve to question him... personally i think extremist politics is doomed, the Internet is the source of the nails for the lid of the coffin of extremism. people are tiring of extremism, people are tired of hearing how one side is going to fix everything and all they really do is pander to special interests, each side has them but one thing is sure people are beginning to wake up.... Right now it is much like the free for all of any community as it starts out, lots of snake oil salesmen, BS artists, sycophants of power and cults of personality, but the same way the developing young nation of the USA evolved to become a more enlightened society so shall the Internet, the truth will win, if it does not which ever group of extremists that do win will change history to make them look good no matter how big a lie it is. The truth is just a search engine away, a diet of lies leaves you starving for the truth, eventually extremists like Glen Beck will either whither on the vine of lies or lead us all to our doom.

If it's possible to electromagnetically couple to the vacuum of space can this effect be exploited to propel an object?

Of lice and men: An itchy history By Emily Willingham Ponder the louse. Consider its plural, lice. Try now not to scratch the multiple itches that have just populated your head at the very thought of these near-microscopic insects crawling around in that forest of hair follicles, laying eggs, sucking blood, and generally creeping you out. The thing is, your head may not be the likeliest place to feel the itch. After all, we’re home not only to the louse, but to lice, plural. As in two genera of lice, and three different kinds. One of those, the pubic louse, appears to trace back to contact between the Homo lineage and the gorilla, but more on that in a bit. http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=of-lice-and-men-an-itchy-history-2011-02-14&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_EVO_20110214

I knew I was an asshole baby....

I'm not worried about cancer from mobile phone use but all that blood that rushes out of the opposite ear when I talk on the phone is annoying....

Rigney, are you sure you ain't my daddy? Better at what exactly?