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According to science: Is it better to speak to babies with baby talk? Or adult talk? Do babies learn language better and more effectively when we talk to them using high pitched vocalizations, and sounds such as "ga ga goo goo?" Or when we speak proper (or at least normal) adult sentences using...

Been using a gym, and trying to gain a few kilos of weight. I've changed my programme as advised (started doing slightly fewer reps of heavier weights, allowing plenty of time for rest, etc.) and having some success, but slowly. I eat a reasonably good diet (including a 3 or four portions of...

Intelligent Design is a trojan horse attempt to get Christian creationism into the classroom, but wouldn't there be a better case for Evil Design than Intelligent Design? Intelligent seems a bit comparative: perhaps the designer is relatively dumb but very powerful. But evil: that's seems hard...

I thought i'd stoke some feminist fires with this one......:) http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/health/HealthRepublish_1376865.htm But any discourse in the public arena is usually neutered by some PC-laden nonsense, like the explanation given below...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/07/18/haiti.voodoo.ap/index.html Well, it will work at least as well as Pat Robertson praying to protect Israel. ETA: Spelling voodoo is hard ok?

QUESTION: Would many of the third world countries who are former colonies of Great Britain, France, U.S.A., etc, be better off today if they were still colonies?

Poll: Clinton outperformed Bush Wow! People think the guy who was impeached for perjury is more honest than Bush. :D

I recently bought a new ipod video, so now I have two. But, I'm wondering if there is anything currently in the market that is better than an ipod?

Jimmy Carter smug alert: Next time you hear him complain about how the "religious right" has a political agenda, keep in mind that this is what Jimmy Carter teaches in Sunday school. See Matthew 23:27-28 * Poisoning the well. ** False dilemma. *** Poisoning the well. **** And so on...

Did any of you happen to hear the interview on FOX last night with some (Mexican?) guest guy that went on a rant how we (companies, and the citizenry as a whole) actually cause the illegal influx, by creating this need for the illegal worker, to do the jobs none of us want..and how the person...

I like to have these polls occasionally in order to take the pulse of our politics forum.

Let me make this case clear - the question this thread is based on is not from a sarcastic viewpoint. Personally, I think I'm a better person.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10631108/ But what can be done about it?

So one of the co-founders of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, has split to create a new online Encyclopedia project. While this one will also allow public contribution, it will not instant-publish them; and the whole thing is overseen by a panel of experts and adacemics. The panel looks pretty solid...

Meritocracy A system of government based on rule by ability (merit) rather than by wealth or social position. In this context, "merit" means roughly intelligence plus effort. However, the word "meritocracy" is now often used to describe a type of society where wealth, income, and social status...

Just encountered this one at work: DrNatura.com Inc. It claims that it can cure nearly all minor digestive system disorders, as well as assist weight loss, cure acne, improve skin/hair, and other miraculous things; simply by cleaning out the colon using their patented, and rather pricey, herbal...

Gecko-Man, Gecko-Man, this can do better than you can.

Amazing water machine from this site. All possible by treating ordinary tap water w/ this amazing machine!! Only $1500!!! Or get one 15x better for only $1700!!! Gobs and gobs of pure, unadulterated BS on that site, folks! :rolleyes:

Organic farming produces same corn and soybean yields as conventional farms, but consumes less energy and no pesticides, study finds. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July05/organic.farm.vs.other.ssl.html

Check it out, a new state of matter

Katie Holmes' Missing Days This Scientology thing doesn't sound so bad if I can get them to snap me up a starlet. Of course, the immediate alarm bell that goes off is - if nobody heard from her for 16 days, why didn't someone call the cops? It's always big big news when pretty white girls...

A huge body of data, I must say. Very interesting.

(Sorry I'm not posting very much, but I have issues of a personal nature that leave me very little time to post on JREF - I'm sure we'll come back to the things we talked about later) Does anyone know any valid reason why someone would change empirical data in order to improve a significance...

The film was made a few years ago...57 years ago, to be precise. "The Amazing Mr. X", starring Turhan Bey in the title role. My oh my oh my, if this one isn't in The Psychic's Home Video Library, it sure should be. Every trick in the book is detailed here, on how to snooker 'em out of their...

Given some horrible ways to die in hospitals (reminds me torture in the dark ages), and the possibility of having an honorable way out of this world, I would like to see that euthanasia was approved and widely spread. I want to die in my house, with my family and loved friends, with dignity...

Was surfing last night and caught the tail end of a report on the efforts of one politician (I think it was the Gov. of Arkansas) to publicize covenant marriage . In fact, he's arranging to have his wedding ceremony re-done with his wife of 31 years in the covenant format. Apparently, the...

Look here - unfortunately in Japanese (and some Czech): http://national.jp/product/conveni/battery/oxyride/lab/music/index.html Click on the two orchestras, and see the pie chart showing 83% of the members claim that the test portable CD players sounded better with the new batteries. This...

Interesting.

I really hate that line. I hear it alot on talk radio as a justification for the Iraq invasion. Whats the best way to espond to a line like this? My take is that Iraq doesnt curb domestic terror. If theres a US cell making plans, are they gonna drop those plans to fly to the mideast to duke...

"You can't buy any better heroin in the world than you can buy in New Jersey" Sez the DEA. http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-19/1102833339277730.xml That settles it. I'm moving to New Jersey.