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Modern Mechanix is a blog that features scans of old articles and ads from such magazines as Modern Science, Popular Mechanics, etc. This one is particularly interesting as it features the practice of adding nonsense couched in impressive scientific terms to create the appearance of...

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

From another thread, which got me wondering... Two things I'm thinking about: There are predictions that in a relatively few years, the landline telephone will be extinct, or nearly so, as everyone will have a cell phone; I know a lot of people - Mrs. BPSCG, my mother, Mrs. BPSCG's mother...

My email notification is too loud. It's much louder for instance than when I'm playing music from my hard drive. So is there a way of turning the volume down but without at the same time turning the volume down for other things like my mp3 player?

OK, odd science problem here. My car has ahd an oil change lately, and the past couple of times the oil changer has pointed out that the cap had a yellow sludge on it. From what I don't know. I had them do an engine purge. Fast foward a little bit, I was checking my oil today and found that the...

Source Wasn't sure wether to post it in the politics or the religion subforum, so I'm posting it in both.

Source Wasn't sure wether to post it in the politics or the religion subforum, so I'm posting it in both.

I guess they're doing a year-end names in the news dealie... and it's uber-short notice, but she's about to do a piece on quack extraordinaire Kevin Trudeau, including apparently the unsavory details he doesn't like people knowing about his past. I believe he'll be on after the spot on Brian...

For some time, there has been a debate on this board over the definition of species. hammegk has taken a common sense point of view. "A dog is a dog, a cat is a cat." He also believes that evolution may not be able to account for macro-evolution. Let's say these lists of letters are a...

Does it have to do something with their temperature ? Why do they usually go out the exact moment you turn them on ?

Does anyone have a good summary of what the process is for turning philosophical ideas into physical reality? How do ideas like "capitalism" which may start in the mind or the mind may reflect the physical reality of people trading back and forth ----- how do those types of ideas become a...

My friends computer turned off on him all of the sudden and won't turn back on. It looks like it's receiving power since the ethernet cable glows when its plugged in. A week ago we installed a DVD burner. I disconnected it, and a bunch of other things to see if I could get it working but...

What a great Independence Day gift! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=V200CY1JBFIR1QFIQMFSM54AVCBQ0JVC?xml=/news/2005/07/04/wirq04.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/04/ixworld.html Somehow, when I read this, I am reminded of Douglas Adams and his Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy...

I'm so glad I don't care about the Red Sox. But these folks sure do. *yawn*

Calling all geeks! Okay, here's the thing: the new box is not powering on. The power supply is plugged in, the switch is set to 115. Flipping the switch causes the green LED on the mobo to fire up. The PWRBT plug is in the appropriate place on the board - I checked like four times. The...

What I'm trying to ask is this: If a light is on in a room and you're leaving the room but coming back to it later, how long is it that you'll be out of the room before it's worth it to turn the light off to save energy? Should you leave it on if you're coming back in 30 seconds? 1 minute? 5...

I am not sure I am posting this to the right forum but for me a discussion about Atlantis belongs always to the Paranormal. I remember the days I was at the University in a course about the Platonic Myths, when we were studing " Timaios" and " Critias" we were wondering how could it be possible...

I find it annoying that equipment doesn't really turn off anymore. Your computer for instance - the motherboard has power even before you hit the switch. It's just pretending to be off. I remember when this trend first started, being wrist deep in printed circuits only to notice that the fan...

I was surfing the internet and I came across a picture of a clown. Then I immediately started thinking about Stephen King's "It" (because I have such healthy thought processes). There is a scene where one boy witnesses his friend being dragged off by a mysterious glowing ball of "dead light"...

This is something people would watch weekly! A professed psychic/communicator/dowser/etc. would be tested with a shot at a million bucks. Can't you see James Randi in a tux hosting this show? Maybe it wouldn't be big enough for the major networks, but it's gotta be better than a lot of the...

Giant Solar Tadpoles Born in Explosion Solar tadpoles swim back to the Sun during the April 21, 2002 coronal mass ejection imaged by NASA's TRACE spacecraft. Credit: NASA

Why Pubic Hair Does Not turn Grey? I mean like the hair of the head. Do you know some special reasons? Thanks, S&S Edited to fix the spelling of "pubic".