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The circulation of technology
How do you think technology "moves" from place to place? Can we predict this?
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:21 28.06.04
Super-strong Toddler
The news coverage reads like something out of the X-men. A mutant four-year-old is showing signs of superhuman strength, and can already perform feats beyond the abilities of normal adults.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:22 26.06.04
Sea Monsters!
A globster washed up in Chile.
File under: kraken, cryptozoology, sea monsters, unexplained things, Cthulhu.
:: STARTED BY Panic
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:33 25.06.04
John Titor, Time Traveler?
Was "he" really from the future? A hoax, or something more intruiging...? Or just an intruiging hoax?
:: STARTED BY FinderWolf
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:06 23.06.04
Lies, Damn Lies...
A risk assessor, Dr. Stephen Unwin has calculated that there is a 67% chance that God exists, using standard statistical tools. Do we have any converts?
:: STARTED BY Lurid Archive
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:17 23.06.04
Wolfram: A New Kind of Science
A place to discuss Stephen Wolfram's book, "A New Kind of Science".
:: STARTED BY Lurid Archive
:: 41 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:29 21.06.04
Sasquatch/Bigfoot Makes Another Appearance
He's back, that furry enigma we all know and love.
:: STARTED BY FinderWolf
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:57 18.06.04
Gene-splicing Proposed to Enforce Monogamy
Genetic tampering with vasopressin receptors may regulate patterns of promiscuity and monogamy. Keywords: fidelity, polyamory, gene-splicing, scientists playing god, free will.
:: STARTED BY *
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:02 17.06.04
The Royal Rife and Gaston Neassen Microscopes
Seeking information on inventions capable of magnifying images of living tissue at a scale many times greater than the most powerful electron microscope.
:: STARTED BY Henningjohnathan
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:51 17.06.04
You are living in a computer simulation.
If artificial intelligence and the substrate independence of human consciousness are plausible, does that mean it is likely that we are living in a computer simulation? Discuss without excessively referencing The Matrix, Mr Anderson.
:: STARTED BY Lurid Archive
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:02 14.06.04
Fly bottles
What are the meanings of the term 'fly bottle'?
:: STARTED BY CyberChimp
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:55 11.06.04
The sound of the universe beginning
Looking at background radiation scientists have reconstructed the beginning of the universe as a sound file. It starts as a low moan, building to a dull roar and then falling to a hiss - and you can listen to it.
:: STARTED BY ephemerat
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:37 10.06.04
Global Dimming
Tell me... is the sky falling or freezing?
:: STARTED BY Henningjohnathan
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:16 09.06.04
Is there any hope for people obsessed with their health?
namely, people who read way more medical encylopedias then they should?
:: STARTED BY --
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:47 06.06.04
Useful Drugs
Thread for discussion of using drugs as tools to achieve specific effect(s).
:: STARTED BY Lionheart
:: 24 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:15 03.06.04
Astrological signs... new ones?
do we now, as a planet, travel through more than 12 astrological constellations? what consequence?
:: STARTED BY astrojax69
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:39 28.05.04
Anti-body question
Why are anti-bodies (antibodies) called anti-bodies?
:: STARTED BY Triplets
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:29 19.05.04
Superflu?
World Health Organisation issues global alert over Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
:: STARTED BY invisible_al
:: 46 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:42 10.05.04
Mass Extinction - coming soon to a planet near you!
It appears that earth is en route to mass extinction. I could use some guidance on the appropriate response to this.
:: STARTED BY misterpc
:: 24 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:41 10.05.04
Sicilian Town Bursts Into Flames
No one can figure out why everything in this bit of Sicily is spontaneously combusting. The Devil? Electricity?
:: STARTED BY Baz Auckland
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:52 08.05.04
Why Necrophilia?
Researching the "motives" of necrophiliacs. Don't worry, kids, not thinking of becoming one myself.
:: STARTED BY John Octave
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:43 07.05.04
Quantum hip-hoppity
A exploration on what quantum theories are, for the layperson, and what those theories might mean by extrapolation. Possible worlds, synchronicity, Super-positions, that kind of thing.
:: STARTED BY Digital Hermes
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:49 05.05.04
Blind no more?
The Bionical Man is here - it seems there are at least a few people working in the development stages of a 'cure' for blindness.
:: STARTED BY wicker woman
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:51 03.05.04
Infrasound the True Cause of Ghost-Like Sensations?
A recent study shows that eerie feelings, chills and certain ghostly manifestations may be caused by infrasound, incredibly low frequence sound waves. Boo!
:: STARTED BY FinderWolf
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:26 29.04.04
Cyborgs .. Identity in the 21st Century?
Im interested in how people defines the nature and idea of the cyborg in the twenty first century in relation to their own lives and sense of personal identity. Is it just a theoretical construct, Hollywood - sci-fi mythology, or do you feel that you are already cyborg?
:: STARTED BY RokFX
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:10 28.04.04
Chemo Lives! Inorganic "Cell" Constructed
From Nature's Science Update: "A mixture of simple chemicals produces fungus-like structure. "
:: STARTED BY SiliconDream
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:35 28.04.04
The Winds of Jupiter
Jupiter's storms are changing some of the planet's legendary spots. Other keywords: anticyclones, Great Red Spot, hurricanes
:: STARTED BY Hieronymus
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:22 28.04.04
US army developing liquid body armour
Next: Miss Dwyer's 4D armour.
:: STARTED BY Irony of Ironies
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:06 27.04.04
Entropy
I'm sure this question has been knocked around to the point of being taboo, but I have to ask: what is entropy?
:: STARTED BY Private Frost
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:26 27.04.04
RFID chips give me the willies...
key words: RFID, privacy, tracking, tin-foil hats...
:: STARTED BY gravitybitch
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:10 27.04.04
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