I don't have an answer to the OP question, but I will say that for me, in the pictorial and plastic arts, death is the most powerful and fertile...
Some of you may have seen the 1957 movie Quatermass 2. My favourite scene occurs in the following video, from 14:50....
Having read the novel "All You Need Is Kill" on which it's based, I look forward to seeing "Edge of Tomorrow". It's a pretty good story - or at least...
I'm thinking in terms of set exercises rather than general problems, and these are always more varied and more numerous at undergraduate level. At...
Most interesting, and quite understandable. It reminds me of the more general phenomenon of abstraction facilitating inhumanity, so for example the...
The undergrad v PhD difficulty question is interesting, and I admit it's hard to back up my assertion. I was thinking of two things, chiefly: the...
Many people, especially younger ones, look upon PhDs as exceptional achievements, the pinnacle of academic work, things to be viewed with awe. When...
There's a shed-load of stuff, including lots of youtube videos. Here's one page: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/esp_vida_alien_29.htm
You're a fast replier, Sorcerer, like a cowboy shooting from the hip ;-) This reminds me of David Icke's theory of reptilian bloodlines (cf. the...
You might actually have a point about eugenics, not in relation to my (hypothetical) algorithm, but if it actually happened, because I can imagine...
Actually, this is probably the antithesis of eugenics because *everyone* would be pressed into reproducing.
No flowers, and no contraceptives either!
It's common, especially in relation to post-Apocalyptic conditions, for books and films to refer to breeding programmes whose purpose is to enable a...
This nails it. If you divide all the words into morphologically distinct groups, then you acquire the ability to distinguish between them, especially...
Another example of the amazingness of ants. Thank you.
Thanks for the replies. He's already done a few bits of voluntary work (and a course at night-school too) and it was a dead end; the closest he got...
(I hope this is the right sub-forum for this.) My friend, a 30 year old Englishman, after following the path of least resistance through higher...
I haven't read much steampunk, but it's definitely one of the better genres. Well, good luck with the project.
G'day, mate! I've only just discovered this message (I never got an email notification...) so I apologise for the delay. To answer the question, I...
Aqueous Id has supplied the answer, and I must say, I kinda regret not thinking of it myself. I wonder if the space agencies will consider...
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