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Hello, I dug out an old book the other day "Every Boy's Handbook" It had a list of important historical events. It mentioned 4 BC as "actual year of Jesus Christ's birth", and I was thinking how this seems to be commonly accepted. But why? From what I have read elsewhere there seem to be...

I'm writing a story which features various characters of different religions and belief systems. One of them is a Bright, but since not many people know what that is, I need to put in a clarification. Here's what I was thinking of. "...The next person on the list was Kreptic Vonam. He was a...

Saliva brown is on montel!! Oh wait, she is always on montel.

Just say I had an 820nm 200mW laser. What colour would it be and would it do to my skin? And my eyes if I shined it there? Thanks muchly.

Split from: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54300 No, why don't you go read about it somewhere. It's not our job to make you learn something. Everyone smart on this board, when they wanted to learn something, went and figured it out for themself. If we explain...

This just came up in a forum, but it seems that many of the Christians on here (me included) do not FULLY understand the basis of Evolution. I can see how this stresses a lot of people out and many frustrated comments are flying about. THIS TO ME IS A BLOCKADE TO HAVING ANY DECENT...

According my very poor 1st year physics, a dropped object will accelerate at 9.8ms^2 (approx). Does this mean that if I drop a brick, one second later, it would have fallen 9.8 metres?

I used to believe the whole Roswell thing until I learned that many of the "facts" were distortions, confused memories and flat-out made up. Yay science. So... since crop circles can clearly be made by people, and much of the other "proof" (i.e. high radiation, etc) turns out to be bunk, I am...

We're going to morph the JREFwiki into the SkepticWiki in the near future, but I have a little problem... When I created the wiki, I gave the tables a jref_ prefix. I now want to change the prefix on all tables to skep_ Does anyone know if there's a wildcard-type command in SQL that allows...

Why is it more dangerous to contract chicken pox as an adult than as a child? Isn't an adult's immune system better developed? I'm not including the elderly in this.

before I run home to stuff myself on something fattening. Is it possible to calculate the properties of molecules/compound materials given the composition and the properties of the parts? I.e. Can the properties of water be deduced from the properties of Oxygen and Hydrogen? If yes, does...

How do I automatically forward a browser from the index page to another directory eg when someone clicks http://www.example.org it goes to http://www.example.org/subdir ? Thanks

I was wondering, since when listing the elements a molecule is made up of the one on the left comes first, (H2O, for example), how is it written if two elements of a same family (Famille...does it translate directly?) form a molecule? Or does it happen?

Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculate, for example, is on the table; whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered...

I'm just reading up on Benveniste in detail and I'm interested if anyone has any information from interviews that have taken part with Sir John Maddox where he mentioned why he chose Randi. I mean, I know why. But I want to know how and why Maddox chose Randi.

When I worked in a print room, and had to shuffle paper quickly, I learned to make my hands sweat at will, as I hate people who lick their fingers to achieve this. (Why sweating is less unpleasant to me, I don't know.) My question is, is this an unusual ability? Can anyone do this? As I'd...

Go out and take a look! Peak, in my neck of the woods, is in 45 minutes (or at 7 pm ct time).

Isn't it odd how one day...it might be yesterday, a week ago or last year, you had a problem that needed solving? Then, today, out of the blue, the solution is right there. You don't even have to think about it. you just DO it. Then it dawns on you. You go, "Saaaaay...I had the same situation...

If a male Islamic suicide bomber gets 72 virgins....what does a female Islamic suicide bomber get? 72....young boys??? I wonder what they promise the women who bombs themselves and others to smithereens.

I frequent another posting board as well as this one. Wel, okay, I don't frequent this one yet, since I just joined it, but trust me, you'll be sick of me within the hour. The other board has a member by the handle FreeThinkingMind. He's 15. He once gave the the following definitions, which I...

This isn't meant as a topic at all, just that in a recent thread, she pointed out a neat forum-- www.christianforums.com --and I'm completely enthralled. I'm too much of a MORON to find the original thread she posted the link in, so well, thanks Denise.

I attended the meeting last weekend and had a great time. I posted a quick review of it on my journal if anyone’s interested in checking it out. I’ve been checking out these forums in the past few days while waiting for my account to be authorized. They look like a good place to discuss and...