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talk2glenn, the "correct" answer was defined as what was consistent with the analysis of (apparently among other organizations) the Congressional Budget Office, the Department of Commerce, and the National Academy of Sciences, as well as "the regular survey of economists conducted by the Wall...

EDIT: Sorry about breaking forum guidelines. I know that the title of this thread is a little misleading, but it seems like a good attention grabber. Some Notable Findings What do you guys think about all of this? It seems to kind of reinforce the stereotypes that we all have already. It's...

I was brought up with the standard, "white clothes together with hot water, colored clothes together with warm/cold water." When I go to college, I realized that I could throw all my clothes in together, save time, and have nothing lose color or mess up anything else. My white undershirts...

As a somewhat "lazy genius," let me give you my perspective: I absolutely despised high school. It was indeed highly demotivating. Often times, the oversimplification of a topic (the Muslims kill the Jews, and the Jews kill the Muslims, for example) would provoke me to attempt some discourse...

Back when I wanted to do law, everything was so easy; everything would make sense immediately (even the abstractions). All the Philosophy, English, history, chemistry, biology, and so on that I've done is much easier than physics (although all of the sciences tend to be noticeably harder than...

From what I understand, there have always (at least in the last 85+ years) been adults saying that the moral world is going to hell. Why is this specific generation of adults actually correct? On the other hand, maybe we really have been slowly going to hell all these years. What could possibly...

There's a certain level of plausibility for most people that falls completely short of "even though there is a very clear and simple explanation, I will choose to believe that aliens did it." My friend does not believe that aliens assisted with these things because he's a complete crackpot...

I was having a conversation with a friend last night, and he mentioned that he believes that aliens have come to Earth to ancient societies, helping them take actions beyond the the technological capabilities of those societies. Examples that my friend gave me were Stonehenge and pyramids...

Cognitively, I know you've helped a lot. Speaking from experience, probably more than I realize as I'm writing this. I can't understate how much I appreciate a good response, especially when you could look the other way.

I suppose the best place to start would be with some background information. From pre-school through eighth grade, I went to a private Montessori school. After that, I went to a public high school. I absolutely did not like it. I did well in 9th grade (A's), but was quickly fed up with how I...

In order to try and understand his theory, I read two items: https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=349980" http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/02088/hawking.htm" I didn't notice any implication that a year per the explanation you gave and I agree with is incorrect when following...

I agree with this. The person that I was talking to, from what I gathered, was trying to say that the Hawking version of time disproves the existence of a year. I don't see how, but I don't understand Hawking's theory on time as well as I should (I think I get the jist of it, but I honestly...

Year: " The period of time during which Earth completes a single revolution around the sun, consisting of 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 12 seconds of mean solar time." http://www.thefreedictionary.com/year" It seems very clear to me that a year does indeed exist, but I recently had a...