(Whoops Crisp got a fine answer in first. Well it doesn’t hurt to have more explanations so this hamster will also respond.) There are two...
Engineering Standards of Measurement (A friend passed this on to this hamster.) Process work, as you know, involves getting people to change the...
Aerosimon, take a number X = 0.55…. multiply it by 10 to get 10 X = 5.55… Now subtract X from 10 X to get 9 X = 5.0 Divide both sides by 9 to get X =...
Eye, (May this hamster call you Eye?) somehow this hamster missed your post. And a fun post it is. Glad you aren’t dead. Though conversing with a...
Odin, this hamster guesses that the most powerful “computer” in the world is no longer the traditional telephone system. (Though not that long ago it...
The Mythical American A similar topic came up in the emotional aftermath of 9/11. This hamster was surprised to discover that unbeknownst to this...
Counterbalance, this hamster agrees. This hamster’s friends and associates tend to be scientists and rationalists. This hamster’s comments often...
Merlijn, Imahamster agrees with your statement of Godel’s Theorem. There are several equivalent formulations of Godel’s Theorem. Godel’s Theorem is...
Mathematicians have had to give up on “absolute truth”. Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem showed that in all but the simplest formal systems there exist...
Merlijn, Imahamster will undertake such a challenge. Being the cantankerous critter this hamster is, this hamster will expound on whatever this...
Suppose that “free will” contributes to a person’s actions. Now videotape the person. As you play back the video you might think, “This person has no...
If only this hamster did have a little omnipresence. This hamster knows little of the online Stryder and none about the “real” Stryder. What this...
Stryder, this hamster is crushed. You don’t want a new world to evolve from decaying smooshed hamster? Sigh. (Dreams of a hamster dynasty fading…)...
This isn’t only about newborns. The technology to change an adult’s genetic material exists today and is being improved rapidly. This is not some...
God, this is interesting stuff. Here's an article on micro RNA modifying messenger RNA to regulate protein synthesis. (Natural anti-sense...
Antioxidant Prevents Autoimmune Diabetes in Mice While not directly related to aging, Imahamster found this article interesting....
A Martian butt.
Truenemo, Imahamster shares your desire to be MORE than one was born to be. Possibilities aren’t limited to gene engineering. Augmenting human...
Arnold has calf implants. Many men have hair transplants. Women tattoo “eye shadow”. If anyone wants to change their body then this hamster says...
During a recent staff meeting in Heaven, God, Moses, and Saint Peter concluded that the behavior of Ex-President Clinton has brought about the need...
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