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I’ve excerpted a few comments from this thread to introduce a new meta-topic. Take a look, and then meet me down the page. This raises a question we’ve dealt with here before, but never explicitly. That is, how can we determine, solely on the basis of their postings, how competent a...

This thread is intended to be a collection of experts opinions on the nature vs. nurture debate. Experts can be anyone in the sciences that's written articles/books on the subject of genetics, sociology, psychology. Please post an experts opinion with percentages of how much they believe...

I came across the image of Ann Coulter on Pat Robertson's CBN News during an idle moment this morning. She was being interviewed by Pat's son (I forget his name) regarding her new book. She was going on about evolution and how stupid scientists are and what a farce evolution theory is. If I was...

For a journalism unit in my course, I need to do a feature story on a topic of my choice. As the scramjet trials were managed by the University of Queensland, it felt close to home so I chose to take an angle on that (looking at the impact the future of hypersonic flight will have on...

Let's face it, a star was born. That or there is now proof that satelitte radio is so desperate they will put anyone on. Now I have to come up with MORE funny, yet "true" alien stories for the mass media. Well, ones I can blast to all heck. So what is the weirdest UFO case you remember...

You all know I'm thoroughly skeptical of any woo claim regarding ghosts, angels, goblins, psychics, gnomes, spirits, etc. I have, however, found myself unable to explain the account of my sister, who claims to have had a terrifying paranormal experience. It is my opinion that there is a...

Self taught missle defense expert, that is. Hell, there are at least a dozen regular posters here that fit that description. Still, I'm curious about what he does to earn money for defense consulting. Too many teats free for the suckling? Maybe the defense dept should hire the KISS Army to...

Background: * I bought my son an electric guitar and amp for Christmas * I also bought a computer-based tutorial for him because I've forgotten most of what I never really knew in the first place I wanted to connect the guitar to the computer sound card so that my son could more easily follow...

This one time, at band camp.... our director had us do an exercise, the entire band would play a single note and we would all stop at the exact same time, then listen to the sound bounce off the back wall of the auditorium. We were told to listen for the different "groups" of instruments as it...

See http://www.rense.com/ What I like about Jeff Rense is that he does not censor any information. He does though claim that the views are not necessarily his own but rather that of the authors of the many news-articles sent to him.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=422099