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    Finding Solace in Favourite Quotes: Escaping Despair with Words of Wisdom

    "Does it bother you when I torture you?" -- Evo (20:15 EDT, 23 March 07)
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    What is the Best Way to Approach Personal Questions in a Scientific Setting?

    Boy, did we ever fool him! (Assuming it's a him.) We must be pretty clever to have pulled that off! Hey...waitaminute... Race condition, anyone? [For those in a coma: The stupider we are the more clever we must have been to pull it off.]
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    PF PHOTO CONTEST - Sunrise, Sunset (3/10-3/16)

    I don't know that this is my best shot of a sunrise/set, but neither is it my worst:
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    Is it true you lose depth perception when looking out of one eye?

    You only lose your depth perception if you hold your head still. If you move your head around it comes right back without having to open your other eye. The reason should be obvious from the descriptions already given.
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    Electric Shock Causes Ticking Tooth - What Could it Be?

    Provided the two events are related (not proven), I'd guess you clenched your teeth and knocked a filling loose. Do you mean "ticks all the time even when I'm not moving" or "ticks all the time when I'm talking/eating/swearing at the kbd/etc."?
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    Are You Nerdier Than Half the Population?

    I hit 94%. And no, I wasn't trying.
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    Investing in the Market: What to Do After a Bad Day

    You mistake me. I hadn't forgotten that at all. But, in parallel, have you noticed the market was up a great deal this past year, a great deal more than the 5% it lost so far? My point is the original poster in that case was exercising a clearly partisan and rather dumb point. P.S.: As it...
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    Investing in the Market: What to Do After a Bad Day

    In a much better place than it was in the year 2000. Who was president then? I forget.
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    Why Did Daylight Saving Time Start Date Change This Year?

    That is the actual counter-argument: people start opening businesses later. More particularly, those with children really don't like their children walking to school in the dark. So the first thing (this happened when Carter tried it) is the schools start opening later. Then those parents that...
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    Global Warming Fever: Free Speech vs Oppression

    Interesting point: 20-30 years ago, you were strung up in the U.S. for saying nuclear power was a viable alternative. The US is now several decades behind just about every other developed country in that technology. Sure, we have great science, but the technological base to actually build and...
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    Believing Scripture & Pursuing Science: The Bifurcation of the Mind

    He just doesn't mind a little inconsistency. There can be more than one type of "belief", you know.
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    Cultural influences and faux pas.

    A lot of Americans (myself included) are just flat out tired of constantly having their country ragged on in various on-line forums. I, for one, can get extremely short with the perpetual lies, misperceptions, and outright bigotry that is constantly on display. Ever wonder why I almost never...
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    VOTE Photo Contest Group 1 - Turning Over A New Leaf

    You know, this is could be a very interesting contest. The current leaders are larkspur's and mine. Both are macro (close in magnified) shots, but larkspur's is wet, mine is beyond dry. One is very green and light, the other very dark and red. They are about as opposite as you can get within...
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