Recent content by qedprigmosyno

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    Photomanipulation and other digital arts thread

    Just wondering can we start one up for those who are interested in photography and like to mess around with their photos?
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    Managing Time and Work: Strategies for Success

    great, so now we have books on how to manage your time? I thought it was simple as make a plan and stick with it.
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    Graduate What Sets Scientific Geniuses Apart?

    they can be whoever they want to be, but the number one criteria of ever single "genius" is a hard worker, no exceptions. Like einstein, I am going to say I dislike the word genius. Usually it's other people who judge who the genius is; thus it is variable, the criteria for setting genius' apart.
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    Is Chi an Actual Force in Our Bodies and Surroundings?

    Well I have no experience further beyond the concept of chi besides oral knowledge. However, accupunturists believe that not all points are equal. Certain locations for the needle will stimulate the body in another area. How this is conceived is beyond western logic; possibly a result of...
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    Greatest scientists who never won a nobel prize

    psh, can we consider really old scientists? Gauss, Newton, Euclid :)
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    Courses Elementary physics courses - 95% about knowing formulae?

    Surprisingly enough, most of elementary science is plug or chug, but one will realize in the end that the mathematical base that makes the elementary science so science is in fact everything but elementary. A more complex task consists of explaining to yourself why a certain formula works and...
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    Physics EXACT reasoning for loving physics so much

    I seem to be doing the same thing you are, a premed with physics; however I am only a freshman. Here is my schedule, which I know will not be appealing Undergraduate Physics Degree=>PhD Physics (uncertain about the field) =>Med School Leaving out residency that is ~18 years. If you really...
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    Entropy and evolution controversy

    Hi, The second paper looks interesting and I am going to go read it now. To answer your concern, it looks like what is being described is the energy cycle, that is if you intertwine the two articles. One addresses obtaining energy and it the other one seems to address the dispersion of energy...
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    What's Your Spring 2010 Class Lineup?

    Freshman at University: Math 54-Linear Algebra Math 55-Discrete Mathematics Physics 7A- Mechanics and Waves Philosophy 140A- Intermediate Logic still deciding between Math 160- History of Mathematics Chemistry 3a- Organic Chemistry or a fun class for a psychology journal
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    Are human beings done evolving?

    Here is my contribution which will be short and simple; evolution will stop when dynamic environments become static environments
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    Are Culture or Genes Driving High Family Sizes in Certain Groups?

    Well see i would have said farming, but I am referring to the technologies that have made farming efficient; hence agri-technology
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    Effects of drawing on the brain

    wait...how would you even draw on the brain
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    Are Culture or Genes Driving High Family Sizes in Certain Groups?

    It's both. There is a sustainability factor within nature for a large or small family. The idea is that parents that do not nurture infants, like ants will produce more than parents who spend the energy to nurture their infants, like humans. This is usually controlled through evolution depending...
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    Why Do We Breathe More Fiercely During Vigorous Exercise?

    It's the first. Dissolved CO_2 turns into carbonic acid and a decrease in pH alerts your medulla, which fundamentally alters breathing I'm not sure about the second one, but it would have to do with obtaining oxygen to produce the energy. I would still go with the first.
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    Graduate Consciousness and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

    Can there really be a philosophical explanation for quantum mechanics?