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Hawking cracks black hole paradox
Hawking believes that he could explain the paradox in the relationship between quantum physics and black holes. He'll be presenting on it at a conference in a day or two.
:: STARTED BY netbanshee
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:54 19.07.04
Flying Saucers in Iran - On Mainstream Iranian TV!
UFOs over Iran!
:: STARTED BY FinderWolf
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:55 14.07.04
Robbie Williams and mental health
If Robbie Williams cannot find a decent therapist, who can help us relative paupers? (discussion of psychiatry, neurolinguistic programming and other therapy modalities and mental health issues)
:: STARTED BY Joetheneophyte
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:34 09.07.04
A Stroke of Genius
A stroke results in a massive artistic output. What are your thoughts on the matter?
:: STARTED BY Tezcatlipoca
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:30 09.07.04
Alkalarian??
What's up with The pH Miracle(tm)? Medical perspectives welcome (even needed).
:: STARTED BY Chiropteran
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:50 03.07.04
Bigger, Taller, and Solar Powered!
Power company plans to build 1000m/3300ft solar power tower in the middle of the outback. Pretty cool...
:: STARTED BY Baz Auckland
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:50 30.06.04
Spinach Solar Cells?
New renewable energy research harnesses plants' ability to create solar power. This natural, biological energy could fuel a nanotech revolution.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:29 29.06.04
Cloak of Invisibility +4!
I am the wind! I am the wind! Now you see me, now you don't! I can see you, but you can't see me! On Susumu Tachi and the science of the invisible.
:: STARTED BY Lord Morgue
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:21 29.06.04
The circulation of technology
How do you think technology "moves" from place to place? Can we predict this?
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:21 28.06.04
Super-strong Toddler
The news coverage reads like something out of the X-men. A mutant four-year-old is showing signs of superhuman strength, and can already perform feats beyond the abilities of normal adults.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:22 26.06.04
Sea Monsters!
A globster washed up in Chile.
File under: kraken, cryptozoology, sea monsters, unexplained things, Cthulhu.
:: STARTED BY Panic
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:33 25.06.04
John Titor, Time Traveler?
Was "he" really from the future? A hoax, or something more intruiging...? Or just an intruiging hoax?
:: STARTED BY FinderWolf
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:06 23.06.04
Lies, Damn Lies...
A risk assessor, Dr. Stephen Unwin has calculated that there is a 67% chance that God exists, using standard statistical tools. Do we have any converts?
:: STARTED BY Lurid Archive
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:17 23.06.04
Wolfram: A New Kind of Science
A place to discuss Stephen Wolfram's book, "A New Kind of Science".
:: STARTED BY Lurid Archive
:: 41 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:29 21.06.04
Sasquatch/Bigfoot Makes Another Appearance
He's back, that furry enigma we all know and love.
:: STARTED BY FinderWolf
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:57 18.06.04
Gene-splicing Proposed to Enforce Monogamy
Genetic tampering with vasopressin receptors may regulate patterns of promiscuity and monogamy. Keywords: fidelity, polyamory, gene-splicing, scientists playing god, free will.
:: STARTED BY *
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:02 18.06.04
The Royal Rife and Gaston Neassen Microscopes
Seeking information on inventions capable of magnifying images of living tissue at a scale many times greater than the most powerful electron microscope.
:: STARTED BY Henningjohnathan
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:51 17.06.04
You are living in a computer simulation.
If artificial intelligence and the substrate independence of human consciousness are plausible, does that mean it is likely that we are living in a computer simulation? Discuss without excessively referencing The Matrix, Mr Anderson.
:: STARTED BY Lurid Archive
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:02 14.06.04
Fly bottles
What are the meanings of the term 'fly bottle'?
:: STARTED BY CyberChimp
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:55 11.06.04
The sound of the universe beginning
Looking at background radiation scientists have reconstructed the beginning of the universe as a sound file. It starts as a low moan, building to a dull roar and then falling to a hiss - and you can listen to it.
:: STARTED BY ephemerat
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:37 10.06.04
Global Dimming
Tell me... is the sky falling or freezing?
:: STARTED BY Henningjohnathan
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:16 10.06.04
Is there any hope for people obsessed with their health?
namely, people who read way more medical encylopedias then they should?
:: STARTED BY --
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:47 06.06.04
Useful Drugs
Thread for discussion of using drugs as tools to achieve specific effect(s).
:: STARTED BY Lionheart
:: 24 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:15 03.06.04
Astrological signs... new ones?
do we now, as a planet, travel through more than 12 astrological constellations? what consequence?
:: STARTED BY astrojax69
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:39 28.05.04
Anti-body question
Why are anti-bodies (antibodies) called anti-bodies?
:: STARTED BY Triplets
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:29 19.05.04
Superflu?
World Health Organisation issues global alert over Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
:: STARTED BY invisible_al
:: 46 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:42 10.05.04
Mass Extinction - coming soon to a planet near you!
It appears that earth is en route to mass extinction. I could use some guidance on the appropriate response to this.
:: STARTED BY misterpc
:: 24 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:41 10.05.04
Sicilian Town Bursts Into Flames
No one can figure out why everything in this bit of Sicily is spontaneously combusting. The Devil? Electricity?
:: STARTED BY Baz Auckland
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:52 08.05.04
Why Necrophilia?
Researching the "motives" of necrophiliacs. Don't worry, kids, not thinking of becoming one myself.
:: STARTED BY John Octave
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:43 07.05.04
Quantum hip-hoppity
A exploration on what quantum theories are, for the layperson, and what those theories might mean by extrapolation. Possible worlds, synchronicity, Super-positions, that kind of thing.
:: STARTED BY Digital Hermes
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:49 05.05.04
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