You'd need to replace 25-50% of the water in the body with heavy water in order to kill yourself. (That's a lot)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water#Toxicity_in_humans
Also, you would also be poisoned if you drank enough light water. (Somewhere around a couple of gallons in a few...
How do you tell an extroverted statistician from an introverted statistician?
The extroverted statistician is the one looking at the other person's shoes... *groan*
Apologies if I seemed blunt, my point was simply that sometimes in situations like this you need to ignore any shyness and just jump in guns ablazin'. Stewing on the issue just makes it worse and you're only going to live for 900 months, why waste one of them thinking about talking to someone...
I wrote a little program. I might have made an error so if someone disagrees then please say so! :)
Assuming that the 33% and 50% bots will always try to shoot the 100% bot first, and the 100% bot will shoot the 50% bot first.
In 10,000,000 fights,
33% bot wins about 23.11% of the time
50%...
There was a TV show by hypnotist Paul McKenna here in the UK, one stunt that stuck in my mind was him hypnotising a woman to think that he was invisible, and then getting her to play a game of pool against someone, and he would move the balls with his hands so she thought that her opponent was...
He's pretty big here in the UK. To quote him "I am often dishonest, but I am always honest about my dishonesty".
At the start of every show he states that he uses a mixture of magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship.
He's a smart guy, I don't think he does anything that's...
Tony, you're right, while he does a good job in the program, I'm fearful that people who saw it and believe in these things will just dismiss what he's saying and carry on as usual.
There was a program on recently about an irish woman who was making money from books about her childhood being...
My views on it are very similar to that of the first one. The interviews are interesting, but the rest of it is probably nothing new to those of us actively interested in science.
Again, I feel that the general public may be given something to chew on from it, and that is almost certainly...