This is my first post in several years. I stopped doing MA around 5 years ago and haven't had a reason to come to the site. Then, last night, I...
CERN has just made an announcement that they've found a particle consistent with the properties of the Higgs boson. Unlike earlier this year...
CERN has been saying for a while that they would be releasing the results of some recent experiments today, which would be able to either confirm...
I almost wonder if popular science TV shows deliberately try to get things wrong. Maybe they do, to an extent, to make things seem more...
All this talk about consciousness in another thread made me think about posting something that's a little less technical, and for which there's...
I've spent all night on google trying to figure this out, but I can't, so I was wondering if anyone had heard of these stories. I read all of...
I hadn't read any books for fun in a few years until recently, and I've read about six in the last two months. Lately, I've been reading a lot of...
A while back I made a Youtube video of a song I wrote as a joke for the opera singer Samuel Ramey to sing. A few hours later, his internet...
Has anyone read Jim Crace's book, "Quarantine", where Jesus goes to the desert to fast for 40 days and then dies, through a combination of...
Which of these two commercials do you think is more poorly thought out? The shake weight for men: YouTube- Shake Weight For Menâ„¢ - OFFICIAL...
They play a lot of news from NPR on the classical music radio station that I listen to and I heard a story as I was driving to White Castle...
This chart pictorally describes world happiness over the past 30 years, broken down by country. The US comes in at 3.27 (out of?), which makes us...
A few weeks ago there was a pamphlet that was allegedly distributed by the girl scouts at a UN conference, although I believe they may denied...
There was an interesting analysis that a friend of mine posted a link to. I don't really know much about the site, but apparently it has...
About a year ago, I started making a sprite comic, then got bored and busy, and stopped working on it after a couple days. I uploaded 16 of them,...
I have quantum field theory homework due tomorrow (or rather, later today, since it's after 3 AM) but I'm not sure where I put the assignment and...
No, this is not some kind of nutjob theory about a global climate-change fraud conspiracy. This has to do with major scientific fraud discovered...
Back in the 90s there was a series of book, "The Vampire Diaries," which has now been made into a TV series, and then there was Buffy the Vampire...
Frank Zappa rated them the #3 band of all time. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, The Shaggs. YouTube - Philosophy of the world - The...
Microsoft came out with a neat little tool a little while ago called Songsmith. You either play or sing a melody to a rhythm track, and it...
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