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You ain't going to believe this. I finally brought my turntable home after not being able to use it in over 15 years, and am listening to my old LPs. While 'Jody' was playing, I thought to google Joel Gregorash to check his bio. Guess what the first hit was...

[SIZE="5"]Eh Oh! The "lovable" (or despicable, or scary) Teletubbies http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070329/ennew_afp/entertainmenttelevision_070329182256" on TV! Long live Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po. I love them, especially Tinky Winky, just because they annoy Jerry Falwell so much...

Is it possible to get a Maths degree in, say, 2 years? Or less? Or a joint Maths degree with another subject (eg language)? Are there any institutions in the UK or US which allow you to do this? When do they enrol? I will explain why I'm asking later but thanks in advance to anyone who replies.

If my arms were as long as 10 light years and I waved, wouldn't they be going faster than the speed of light?

Does the core of the Earth belong to the Earth or did it come from outer space and collide with the Earth.In this scenario the volume of the moon added to the volume of the continental rocks should equal the volume of the core ( the collision would have displaced material from inside the...

What an incredible story: An unpopular and short lived series refuses to die, and now, along with its offspring, Trek spans forty years that have inspired countless young minds. http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/ [The History Channel is currently running a two-hour documentary...

I read on http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/11/the-sky-is-falling/The long term trend in stratospheric temperatures is clearly downward. For the last decade, however,stratospheric tempratures haven't changed much.How can the stratosphere temperature be independent of the...

300 years after the Scot's hand was forced into signing the act of Union with the English, there is some REAL debate on whether the Union is mutually beneficial. Whether being *British* is still something that Scots are proud of, and want to keep. Whether Being independent from Westminster's...

Hello, I am a fourth year student at a decent public school. My GPA is 3.986, I haven't taken the GRE yet but I got 99th percentile on my SATs, and I have done very well on practice tests, so I am hoping to have very high scores. I also did an REU last summer and have been doing research with a...

Woot! I was at a party on new years eve and at around 11:30 pm a lot of us climbed up onto the roof of the house (the house was HUGE :bugeye: ) and when I looked up, there was a clear halo around the moon. It was cool O_O. Anyway, a few hours later it was barely visible. It's just awesome...

I thought this was priceless. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OamivXyQXw&mode=related&search=

Homework Statement Occasionally, huge icebergs are found floating on the ocean's currents. Suppose one such iceberg is 149 km long, 27.7 km wide, and 152 m thick. (a) How much heat in joules would be required to melt this iceberg (assumed to be at 0 °C) into liquid water at 0 °C? The density...

I've recently read a few articles on the subject of quantum computers, and I'm curious to when they are going to be developed to the point that they are a recognisable way to process information. Do you think they will be in use within the next 50 years? and why?

Greetings! I have read/heard from various sources that none of the cells in my (or any other human's) body now are the same as they were seven (At least one source said nine years) years ago. I remember reading from one source that some cells don't "die" but all of the separate parts are...

to the earth. I will arrive at Earth a little over 5 years from the time I depart, correct? How many years will I have aged as a passenger on the spaceship and how long will someone on Earth have aged during my journey?

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?

I hope to still be journaling here! I'll probably have a lot of health problems because I don't take care of myself like I should. I hope to be seeing my son playing major league baseball, and my daughter driving. I want to be in a house that is finished (my husband is a trim carpenter and...

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...

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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?