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Generally results are only used to show possible risk factors. They make these drugs for the lowest common denominator anyways, I doubt it'd be a major difference. Even then the drug's literature should reference anything that could impact efficiency. You may want to look for better prices elsewhere if that will put your friend's mind at ease. This link: http://mashable.com/2013/05/15/personal-genetics-resources/ has several cheaper options. Not sure how on how much analysis they provide or for how much. Note: 23andMe is unavailable at present.

Pretty good topic about this already: http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/67272-when-water-can-form-an-h30-ion-why-cant-it-form-an-h4o2-ion/

I was just using the term as a catchall to reference man-made materials with properties not found in nature. OP was asking about a way to generate power from a magnet without any motion occurring in the system.

Indeterminate or not defined. X * 0 = 0 => 0/0 = X X can be anything under the sun and 0/0 has to equal all of those possibilities.

I wrote to Santa for a free energy generator years ago and it never arrived :'( I did get a lump of coal, not sure if he was making a point or not.

There are obvious genetic and epigenetic components of intelligence, but barring that it comes down to environment. It makes rational sense to find someone who shares your ethos but genetics shouldn't(and likely won't) be a factor. Just to put it out there, I feel IQ and similar test results can cause problems. Either superiority or inferiority complexes. Personally speaking I try and downplay all my own results and praise others for whatever they are good at. If nothing else this is the most intelligent thing you can do. You have to shine sometimes, but you don't need to be the only star in the sky.

Best guess would be to go with the conduction taking place in the heat sinks themselves. Found a number of potential papers just with a search for "conduction heat sinks". Discussion of the material differences(thermal conductivity), would easily give you a good amount of material. Especially with the more exotic types(diamond, composites). Corrosion resistance, pricing, should also make for good points. Might also be able to talk about the conduction taking place in heat exchangers for liquid refrigerant based cooling, not sure if that would be applicable or not though. I'm sure there are more scholarly papers you can also find depending on what resources your school gives you access to.

Fuller's Synergistics again :\ You can't make the claim "via mathematics" because that is not what mathematics as understood by most everyone else dictates. I'm so over it at this point. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller

You are insulting people and proselytizing. Both of which are against the rules. It also casts your beliefs in a negative light. If you care about nothing else, I would hope you would at least care about that.

Are you talking about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_packaging or something else? My guess would be that searching for the individual elements will yield you better results.

Yeah, Forbes reads much better.

Would need to be some sort of new metamaterial. Provided the energy to switch came from the magnet's energy or physical composition it would still be within the laws of conservation of energy. Considering some of the latest metamaterials out there(cloaking, memory metals, etc) not a huge stretch to think it'll become a reality.

I think you are confusing an attack on an idea with an attack on your person. The first is allowed and expected here, the second is against the rules. As far as terminology goes, most of the time you can head over to Wikipedia and research it there.

Only things I've ever heard of undergoing magnetic field self reversal are stars and some planets. Probably some moons as well. Even then there is a large degree of internal motion. Real world you would need something which undergoes cyclic changes within its own structure which affect the state of the magnetic field produced.

It goes against that whole trustworthy part of the scout law. Namely people should be able to trust you won't turn your home into a Superfund site.

There's repulsion and attraction. I'm sure some contraption could be made to remove energy from magnets using those effects, but it'd be somewhat pointless. You can steal the same energy with just a moving conductor in a magnetic field or alternatively rotating the magnetic field and keeping the conductor stationary.

Yeah, I was thinking religion would be the most viable reason. Possibly for economic motives(novelty items/genes/tech). Realistically any invading force would probably do some version of an asteroid attack. Not that hard to sling a rock at us while bleeding off some speed. Wait for the inevitable social collapse and only then launch aerial and land based mop up teams. If biosphere recovery is an issue for them, they have the outer planetary resources to occupy their attention in the meantime.

That sounds like it makes sense. Thanks

Well, we're going to require -cide rotation either way to prevent resistance from occurring. That much is common sense. Could just rotate modified organisms in the same fashion. I'd really rather we focus on the rest of field and bring that on board. Guardian insects, precision pollinators, improved soil microbes, far more lasting options I think.

Trying to get some thoughts how a sleeping brain might sense a numb limb. Most of the muscles are paralyzed but maybe the attempt to move still registers somehow. Hopefully people more knowledgeable can offer their insight.

I just see it as being far riskier to keep dousing our fields in assorted -cides. More damaging to the environment and likely to impact human health in my mind. Ultimately I think it'll become a non-issue. Countries, groups or even individuals are going to release deliberately modified organisms into the wild. Considering our lackluster record in dealing with natural invasive species and the amount of economic damage possible it is a near certainty. What is going to matter more is how these different traits fair in evolutionary terms.

Only thing I can think of would revolve around some of the unknowns of abiogenesis. Even then it is more a question of how, than evidence that a creator was involved.

I can't help but think that making a spud rocket would be totally awesome.

US residents at least can reach it, showed up in my RSS feed earlier. My thought is that while some discipline can be helpful, even very minor pain is enough for that. Certainly doesn't need to be anything beyond a spanking. Any normal human being learns quick that to act badly results in negative consequences with that alone.

As I understand it, dark energy is thought to exist due to the observed expansion rate. I don't think much if anything is known about specific properties. I do wonder if there is a connection between gravity we observe as a result of mass and the expansion that we observe related to a lack of mass. They seem strangely complimentary pseudo-forces. I may just be seeing a connection where there is none though.