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For a fascinating and detailed Powerpoint Presentation of one research group's reconstruction of the changes in continental configuation around Antarctica over the last 200MA, go to http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/ant_cd/ant_cd.htm?PHPSESSID=def1b9 and click "Antarctica: Keystone of...

It seems I can finish my dual degree in EE/physics in 3 more semesters and be out after a total of 4.5 years with a dual degree in EE and physics with a minor in chemistry. However, these last three semesters will be a rather heavy course load of 18 credits per semester. The other option is to...

I just woke up from a terrible nightmare: GWB had just been reelected for another four years, and thus I'd had to cancel my plans of a transatlantic postdoc. Somehow he had found a loophole in the law and managed to win again...scary stuff...

When I was looking at the websites for Ivy League universities, I noticed that you need 4 years of a foreign language for all of them. I have already finished my freahman year without taking a foreign language. Will I get into an Ivy League university. with only three years of taking French...

Is it possible to get a B.S in math in 3 years? I am doing a 3-2 program, where I get a B.A from one university and a B.S from another university. But I want to try and get 2 B.S. degrees (one in math and the other in applied math). Thanks a lot for your opinions

The Solar System is traveling around 155 miles a Second around the Milky way Galaxy. There are 31,556,926 seconds in a year. We will round off the Age of our sun from 4.76 Billion to 5 Billion Years for easier figuring. If we Multiply 31,556,926 seconds by 5 Billion Years we get...

This is my first posting so please feel free to move the topic to the appropriate section in case I posted it in the wrong section. With yet another problem announced with the space shuttle this morning I wonder if someone could explain why we almost 40 years after the supposed moon landing...

Do the rates of galactic evolution (first 3 billion years) agree in all parts of the observed sky? Or does certain part of evolution vary within the universe by ~1 billion years? Could one part of the sky at redshift z=4 be ~500 million years ahead in evolution than another part of the sky at...

These days the people of Palestine remember An-nakbah “the catastrophe”. After 58 years, 5.1 millions Palestinian refugees are waiting to return back to the homeland of their ancestors. ****************************************************************** (("Jewish villages were built in the...

About bloody time! http://sport.guardian.co.uk/boxing/story/0,,1773594,00.html

I really can't decide which one to choose. I studied college physics and analytical mechanics.-very deeply. So I'm pretty sure that I can earn some medals in IPhO. At least it will be very nice experience. But one thing-I can't participate this year and next year's IPhO-due to some...

Hello, I'm just wondering, is it fine to predict the age of fossils older than 10,000 years with Carbon Datin? After all, I think nobody knows how much carbon-14 there was back then, and whether the animals consumed less or more carbon-14 than now. How exact are such long-term predictions?

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10mar_stormwarning.htm?list862664 Is there anyway to observe this without becoming blind?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1713604,00.html Here's another article http://science.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1131203.php/Stars_searched_for_extraterrestrials I'am not sure if there would be aliens there but it better then nothing.I wonder if seti has looked at...

Oh my god. My 4 years of mechanical engineering starts in one week. Its going to be hard.:eek: Any tips on how to not make it bloody impossible?

...which is nothing compared to the lifetime of stupidity this guy must endure. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/6790966/detail.html

Does anyone know about Witten's early years such when he was in High School and University? He didn't even do physics as an undergrad and instead majored in history and minored in Linguistics. Apparently he tried other things after his BA like politics, economics and mathematics before finally...

My midterm is basically going to simulate a real AP exam. So I was wondering if anyone knew where I can get previous year's AP physics C Mechanics exams so I can practice. Thanks a lot.

So we've had 20 years of high temperature superconductors and I cannot help but ask myself why isn't my power cord made out it? In all this time you would expect some kind of applications to be coming through (excepting the odd industrial application). I assume the main prolem is with the...

I once read a story on the internet, written by a supposed alien abductee, who said that intelligent insectoids will walk on Earth in 1.5 billion years and find no evidence that humans ever existed. :biggrin: My question is: If all humans were to go extinct right now, what would be left of...

Wow, two years and still going strong. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/09/eveningnews/main1193231.shtml I have been very critical of NASA for quite some time, but how can anyone not be blown away by this amazing success story? I damn near cried when they landed and the data started...

I'm in my second year of college and am majoring in math-philosophy and physics. I could probably finish in 4 years if I take ~18 credits (~6 courses) a semester but I could do it in 5 years with a normal load. I really want to go to a top notch graduate school after I earn my BS but was...

In case anyone is interested, there is a show on the Discovery Health Channel (right now) about a woman who has been pregnant for 46 years.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/1216_051216_humans_britain.html James Owen for National Geographic News, December 16, 2005 Thanks to Orstio (everything-science) for discovering this article.

What is the outlook for backwards compatability 10-20 years into the future? Right now I have a huge amount of articles, presentations, assignments, and excel spreadsheets stored on my computer. The information is frequently backed up to a portable hard drive. The primary file extensions are...

Is it possible to identify such an isotope? What are my choices if I wanted such a long half-life product. (Ultimately, I need it to activate a timing switch...!) :smile: Thanks, anyone for any pointers. AA

Please Evo will you scrub out the silly ones so i do not feel so ancient. i want to be teen age again.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501857_pf.html

I have no doubts that the eye colors of infants can change during the first several months of life. I've got my own proof in my sibling's (and my own) baby pictures. But what about years later, like adolescence or even adulthood? I know people who say their eye colors change depending on...

I've just returned from a University Cosmology lecture that introduced a phenomenon called 'First Light'. It appears to be coming from Hubble observations over the last 5-10 years (so, very recent). I have never heard of such a theory. The theory says that the Big Bang created all the H and...

A bit of light relief... http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/berwick/berwickupontweed/ "When Queen Victoria signed the declaration of war on Russia in 1853, she did so in the name of "Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, Ireland, Berwick-upon-Tweed and the British Dominions beyond the sea."...

A retired hockey star wants to set up a scholarship fund to assist an underprivileged child who would like to go to a post-secondary institution. He wants to ensure that the student will have $6000 per year for five years. How much should he give to the institution, now, to ensure that this can...

Is there any war which's happened during the last 150 years that you think it was worth to happen? What are your reasons? On the other hand, which war do you think was a horrible mistake and there was no reason for starting that?

!Things It Takes Most Of Us 50 years to learn! Originally created by Dave Barry Add your own experiences...starting with Number.17 , let's see till what number we can go. I'm unable to find a Dave Barry owned website to link, so in the interrim I've added quote tags. Please do not...

Well today is the 60th anniversary of the first atomic bomb test. It was the bomb that ended arguably, the worst war in human history.

Someone posted in another forum that "Evolution is the result of hundreds of thousands of years of natural selection." Is that true?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/britainmexico;_ylt=Aon0rXpox4dKJnDRC2lKF7Os0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ Somehow I'm not surprised at all. And then the rigidness and arrogance of the defence of the Clovis people and Beringia landbridge crossing 13,000 years ago, a.k.a. the Clovis mafia.

:smile: :-p :-p :biggrin: WOOOOOOO I just opened my post and got my exam results! I passed them all with a grade ave of 83%, probably not the best but I`m very happy with it since i`ve beeen out of education for nearly 10 years and really got stressed over the thought of having to sit...

Can you get a thing like that within the sol's closest space? I mean, if there was one somewhere between us and say alpha centauri or barnard's star, is it possible that you cannot feel it's gravity force?

Ron and Lynda are purchasing a new home. They will need to borrow $90 000 for the home. The amortization period which best fits their financial situation is 25 years, Discuss why this might be so? I have no idea why? They don't give enough information only what Ron and Lyda are borrowing...

Scientists complete the human genome code project, and figure out how to make artificially germinated fetuses. Congress passes laws intended to "safeguard" the sexual categories, and prevent "excessive manipulation" of genetic stereotypes, but a thriving black market underground develops to...

I don't know very much about cytology or molecular biology (high-school level, and a few supplementary bits of literature), so maybe this is a stupid question, but: How did any useful DNA manage to survive 65 million years? Apparently, we have some dino-DNA, and I'm just wondering how it...

What do you think the most important technological advancment will be in the next century or so?

hey, Dr. Hovind, an Evangelical minister is offering $250,000 for anyone who can disprove his claim that the Earth is 6,000 years old. I don't have the offer site but if you google something like "Hovnid offer 6000 years old earth" you should get a lot of results. His offer also goes for...

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I've been intrigued by regular polyhedra for years, and have oft tinkered with them. Can someone provide the "textbook definition" of a regular polyhedron?

Come on guys, be serious. Tel me where do you want to see yourself after ten years. In ten years, I want to complete my PhD in engineering, establish an institute to teach master level courses in Physics and engineering plus to establish or atleast be a great contributer to establish power...

In honour of the 41st anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy, I'm posting this simple poll: Who do you think killed JFK? Lee Harvey Oswald alone? Lee Harvey Oswald + conspiracy of others? Conspiracy of others not including Oswald? Another single individual? (my apologies...

Hey I'm really confused about these things above (well except for light years). How would you get a distance in parsecs and in light years if there was an annual parallax of say 0.2 arc seconds. I'm just revising for exams but am really confused now! Thanks.