Recent content by Rayne

My guess is Physics is more esoteric academically and harder to grasp but the daily grind and stress and workhours of being a Doctor exceeds that of being a Physicist, on average. As far as salary goes though isn't it based on supply-demand? Is there some kind of federal price floor on wages...

re USA=Free Market=Voluntary Exchange of goods?

few things I have been told regarding this: Freud had the idea of unconscious mind and believed it had great influence on our conscious thought. None of this can be scientifically tested because if you cannot access anyone's unconscious mind then you cannot accomplish anything. There is...

Do most people view 'self-discipline', work ethic, and ability to focus as a talent in and of itself or do people tend to view it as some mystical product of conscious 'will'? It makes sense to me that work ethic is more strongly correllated with success than IQ because it seems to me at...

re The Biorad stuff makes it so much easier. If you do go that route play around with reagent amounts sometimes you can get away with less than what they tell you.

In the states there is a positive stereotype about the high performance of Asian students academically, particularly in the maths and sciences. I have heard there is a study of american students that showed asians scoring an average of 10 points higher IQ than other groups, but this is...

http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/uspresidentasmasons.htm That site says it is giving just facts about our Presidents and their involvement in masonry...if the information is accurate then it is hard to believe that it is just a coincidence. I've read in other places though the...

very helpful, thanks

I know a lot of undergrads that are enamored with Theoretical Physics and things like String Theory. I suppose it is only natural for thinking individuals to be curious about the fundamental lack of understanding we have about the universe and existence, and Theoretical Physics would be the...

well its more of a hijack but I am not sure the question needs its own thread...it does involve glass though

tangent Has anyone ever heard rumors of Eastern Monks throwing needles through inch thick glass? I always wondered if that was true, seemed impossible...

They are doing some amazing stuff at DSO, it is both exciting and scary given the intent to use such technology militarily. This particular one is really interesting in that they are aiming to do all of this non - invasively. By "noninvasively access codes in the brain in real time and...

EDIT: poster is kind of a weirdo though i just scrolled down to his religious talk Seems absurd but I guess some people think the technology already exists, found this on usenet : ... "The Pentagon has admitted that the U.S. intelligence agencies called the N.S.A. [ National...

Well I am basing this off of hundreds of posts of whining on career boards, sort of high volume hearsay. You can always make the argument though that it could be only the unsucessful people on the career boards and the sucessful ones are out researching maybe? I do mean ALOT of...

Well for Physics that may not be that case, if so, then that's great. For people trying to enter Biotech without prior experience it seems like getting hired is a long shot.