Recent content by Dr Lots-o'watts

Do you believe genetics can cause one to have a particular accent in a given language? Or are accents only related to post-birth personal development? Are there ethnicities having anatomically distinct voice boxes, that have more difficulty in emulating specific accents? I tend to...

Scientists tend to dig out information, whether it responds to an immediate problem or not. They'll mostly be working on long-term, higher risk activity, with applications that are not necessarily obvious. It's more exploratory. Engineers work at solving an immediate problem. Less risky, and...

Case: two chemists from 3M discovered a low tack adhesive, and made it into a product we now know as post-its. Now imagine how many post-its are sold daily around the world. Those two scientists never got any special treatment besides their scientist salary. Does this bother you at all...

Or 9 extra schools if you prefer. Then we can see which graduated the slowest students.

Because 900 extra tuitions can buy the needed extra space.

So then they are an oligopoly!

It seems to me like every citizen should be able to understand and interpret law, so I don't get why they limit the number of students in law schools. Surely the school administrators would be able to manage an increase in admissions. In other fields, the numbers are set naturally i.e. people...

Using a screwdriver is a rather good way to feel what torque is.

It's not an opinion! Colour is determined by whichever wavelengths were in the vitreous humor! It's an extra medium after air and glass and what not. No ambiguity!

The only wavelengths that matter are those within the vitreous humor of the eye.

I like this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_and_Eddington Not Hollywood, but it did go through some smaller theaters.

In the case of nanosecond (or less) pulses of laser, one can find crystals that create harmonics of the incident beam. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_optics And some pulsed laser systems have a wavelength that can be tuned within a certain range (again using nonlinear phenomena), but...

It's not necessarily a free choice to introduce machines. At some point, it's all that make sense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan_chair

Something like that happened with people lately, but it's the first husband that made the act. He was somehow found not criminally responsible because he wasn't in a normal state of mind (also a cardiologist with surely good lawyers). My next research project: finding someone with some power...

You think it would affect the weather any more than irreversibly bringing up innumerable tons of fossil fuel gases? You might find a cheap KFC-style joint nearby the receiving end though.