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* Autism/Asperger's syndrome
"Children who lack basic social and motor skills, seem unable to decode body language and sense the feelings of others, avoid eye contact, and frequently launch into monologues about narrowly defined - and often highly technical - interests."
:: STARTED BY Ethan Hawke
:: 51 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:49 16.10.06
Take that NASA
non government funded space travel... zesty! (file under: Burt Rutan, X-Prize, Scaled Composites, shuttle, rocket.)
:: STARTED BY topical b
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:14 12.10.06
Reverse Sokal Hoax?
Is science in a similar state of disarray as the humanities (if you accept Sokal's thesis)? Would an incident like this prove it?
:: STARTED BY Ethan Hawke
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:29 11.10.06
Subordinating science to ideology
Don't kid yourself; science doesn't happen in a happy vacuum.
:: STARTED BY YNH
:: 29 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:50 07.10.06
Huge Mutant Ant Colony Found
Not quite THEM, and the ants themselves aren't the part that's gigantic. Read all about it!
:: STARTED BY FinderWolf
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:25 02.10.06
Privacy Repository
A thread for discussion of issues surrounding the maintenance of privacy, specifically in the context of electronics and network communications. A good place to mention tools and methodologies for maintaining privacy in aforementioned environment.
:: STARTED BY Francine I
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 05:31 30.09.06
The Royal Society's Archives- Open for Three Months Only
The Royal Society has opened it's three and a half centuries of published work for public access.
:: STARTED BY Our Lady in Her Haus
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:35 25.09.06
Vatican Astronomer: Creationism is "a kind of paganism."
Brother Guy Consolmagno and the relationship of science and religion.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 24 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:33 22.09.06
Global Warming
"An enormous floating ice shelf in Antarctica that has existed since the last Ice Age 12,000 years ago collapsed this month with staggering speed during one of the warmest summers on record there, scientists say"
:: STARTED BY Traz
:: 47 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:49 21.09.06
Kerala outs Microsoft
The Marxist government of Kerala, India, is no longer using Microsoft products and is usingo nly free software and OS such as Linux
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:33 18.09.06
Headlines from my future
Actual headlines that should only really come from the future.
:: STARTED BY COG
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:19 16.09.06
Sedna: 10th planet?
A thread to discuss the apparent tenth planet in the solar system, of course you don't have to if you don't want to it.
:: STARTED BY The resistable rise of Reidcourchie
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:44 15.09.06
The US Navy has heard the call of Cthulhu
CNN.com article about recordings of undersea background noise by old US surveillance devices which contain loud sounds of unknown origin. theorized by british scientists to emanate from a giant deep sea creature, possibly a squid.
:: STARTED BY Gus
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:18 09.09.06
The Possibility of Immortality
Is physical immortality and eternal vitality a reasonable expectation of scientific, technological and medical advancement?
:: STARTED BY Henningjohnathan
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:17 09.09.06
2006 fields medal - maths' nobel (one turned down, one to an aussie!)
offerd to four, accepted by three: first time a fields has been declined! who'd have conjectured?
also, an australian among them! and one i have two degrees of separation from!!
:: STARTED BY astrojax69
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:47 01.09.06
Re-write the text books - we have twelve, count 'em twelve, planets: and a chance to name new ones!
so, nine is wrong, twelve is what we know and maybe a dozen more besides... planets, silly.
:: STARTED BY astrojax69
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:28 25.08.06
Apple to announce Intel 'Switch'... rumours or truth?
Have Apple gone mad? Will they change to Intel chips like sources suggest? Or is it all just the rumour control at top speed?
:: STARTED BY Reiland-Yutani
:: 34 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:47 24.08.06
Paperless Loo
A new Loo for you! No Paper, just press a button, but you still have to wash your hands.
:: STARTED BY Pool Ball Incident
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:16 22.08.06
Multi-Point Touchscreen Technology
Existing computer touchscreens register a single point of sensitivity. What about a screen that can register several points (like, say, each of your fingers) at once? Watch and be amazed...
:: STARTED BY CameronStewart
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:26 17.08.06
"New" sea urchins, and "new" species in general.
Wherein the ninjah posts a link to reports of "newly" found species and asks people to discuss this and similar findings.
:: STARTED BY kidninjah
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:22 17.08.06
Following up 'Food of the Gods'
Is anyone applying recent leaps in palaeoarchaeology to the "stoned ape" theory of consciousness championed by Terence McKenna? Even negatively?
:: STARTED BY gyrus
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:53 11.08.06
Biohacking
Are there people sitting in bedrooms somewhere tinkering with genetics? File under: something else to worry about
:: STARTED BY meme buggerer
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:13 27.07.06
Memory Pills.
Pills that can help you remember. And pills that can help you forget. Just by how much should we tinker with our memories?
:: STARTED BY slinky
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:06 25.07.06
Childhood allergies
What are the reasons for the increase in childhood allergies?
:: STARTED BY Vincennes: Bringing Sassy Back
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:55 20.07.06
How Human would one need for "human" rights to apply?
How will human in terms of human rights be defined in the future?
:: STARTED BY Crestmere
:: 42 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:17 17.07.06
Mushrooms under the microscope
Researchers are once again studying the effects of psychedelic mushrooms -- and apparently couching it in terms of mysticism and "life satisfaction."
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:13 15.07.06
Dark Energy
Until the mid-1990s most cosmologists believed that gravity sculpted the Universe. Now it seems a cosmic force is driving the Universe apart, what's that about then?
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:07 14.07.06
Burkhard Heim
AIAA presents best paper prize to hyper/antigrav drive. GUT , UFO , Nazi , superconductors, extra dimensions, testable results.
:: STARTED BY Wombat
:: 44 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:04 14.07.06
Inflatable Space Hotel
Exactly what it says on the tin- the Bigelow space hotel, and how to get there.
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:55 14.07.06
Quasars, the Earlyverse, Dark Matter and Antigravity
Could an undiscovered anti-gravitational force explain quasars and dispell dark matter?
:: STARTED BY Henningjohnathan
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:44 14.07.06
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