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Oh, but it is you who is the flamebaiting moron.

Educational regulations vary by state. Many universities offer some sort of general education degree intended for grade school teachers, such as the USC B.S. degree in General Studies. Beyond that, there are programs within other colleges which are education specific, such as the programs in Agricultural Ed., Art Ed., Exercise Science Ed. at OSU. And even beyond that, within other colleges there tend to be multiple degree offererings, such as a B.A. or a B.S. in Mathematics or Physics.

So, there certainly are education degrees beyond Spec. Ed. and Masters of Education. There are so many degree programs out there that saying anyone needs to earn the "same degree" for anything makes little sense. Many EE programs put you within a class or two of getting B.A. in Math AND Physics. All of them could get you into a variety of careers or grad programs, but they are not "the same degree".

This entire place is like one great, big idiot convention.

Then you should fit right in.

See http://www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Lec tures/vistas97.html for more info.

The human race is doomed anyway as the universe keeps expanding, but by colonizing other planets we delay our demise substantially.

Yeah, like this But seriously folks, people with disabilities may not be able to use your website if it relies too much on Javascript.

a thin client system like this would require a VERY fast server(s)! imagine the processing required to run 1000 office/ie sessions (and an obligatory symantec). only recommended for the brave hearted.

slightly less brave souls may want to have a fileserver tftp booting remote diskless clients with linux images. the diskless clients would mount their filesystem over NFS and you're done with it. people can run mplayer/staroffice/your-favorite-app-here all they want without overloading the server

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Ah, I used to work on this sort of stuff. Although TFA is very information poor, I'm guessing that this research was done by Angela Belcher's group. She and a few other folks (including my former prof) have been working with proteins that bind to specific organic surfaces for several years now. She's been at the lead of this particular field for quite a while now. It's a very interesting and promising field of research.

Here's some background for the interested:

M13 is a filamentous bacteriophage. It infect E. coli bacteria and creates a latent infection where the E. coli ends up pumping out hundreds of new M13. Unlike most bacteriophage, the infection is not lethal to the host. The M13 phage itself is thread-like in structure. At the core is the a circular, single-stranded DNA genome arranged in a linear shape. (imagine grabbing a rubber band at both ends and stretching it out so that it's a very elongated and narrow oval) There are 5 types of coat proteins that then coat and protect this DNA. Here's a link to a decent site about M13: http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~mgonzalez/Micro5 21/Lambda/M13.html

One, G8P, is present in thousands of copies and coats the DNA in a spiral fashion. A pipe cleaner is a fairly good representation of what the phage looks like. At the ends, the other 4 types of proteins form end caps. On the end that infects bacteria, a protein known as G3P is present in 5 copies and mediates the atachment of the virus and its incorporation into the bacterium for infection. G3P is important because it's fairly exposed at the end of the virus. Also, experimentation over the years has found a 'permissive' region in G3P. A permissive region of the protein structure that is tolerant to the addition of new amino acid sequences that do not badly disrupt the normal protein function. Therefore, one can genetically engineer M13 to put a small chunk of new protein into this site and the virus is still capable of infecting bacteria and replicating. The inserted bit of protein is also known to be exposed at the end of the virus.

M13 is available in commercially generated libraries where tens of millions of randonly generated DNA sequences have been inserted into M13. These 'libraries' are then infected into bacteria and amplified. The resulting phage are then sold to researchers who want to find pecific protein sequences that bind to certain targets. Mostly, these targets are biological in nature. For example - to try and find peptide-based drugs that bind to and inactivate a particular cellular receptor. Here is a link to a commonly used commercial library (I used to use it and I know Belcher's group did too) http://www.neb.com/nebecomm/products/productE8120. asp The link also has lots of pretty pictures and the like about how phage display screening works in more detail that I've got below.

Essentially, what you do is take a substrate of interest, in this case, cobalt oxide and mix it with a sample of the library. You use incubation conditions where regular M13 doesn't stick to the CoO. If any of the library phage stick you know it is probably because those particular phage have a protein insert which binds specifically to CoO. You do a few rounds of binding and washing to get the strongest binders and then sequence the cobalt oxide binding proteins you've recovered.

You can churn out hundreds of sequences this way and start building up a library of proteins very specific to a particular inorganic substrate. You can, for example, create proteins that bind to only platinum versus gold and palladium, cupric oxide versus cuprous oxide, etc. There is even evidence that you can discriminate various sizes of nanoparticles and bind to particular crystalline faces of materials this way. I even heard a rumor a few years back of being able to distinguish p and n-doped

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There you go. GPS satellites have sufficiently accurate clocks that the relativistic effects are noticeable.

Here you go.

http://www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast 162/Unit5/gps.html

(This link is more math intensive)
http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2 003-1/node5.html

Well, one of the better arguments that the people of antiquity had for a round earth would be the simple fact that when a ship comes up over the horizon, the sails are seen before the hull. Since there are no reasonably permanent irregularities such as hills and valleys on the oceans, the only way to explain such a thing would be to theorize that the earth has a curve. Combining that with the curve seen on mountaintops it would not be difficult for the ancients to deduce the roundness of the earth. The phenomena of lunar eclipses would also provide more direct evidence for a round earth, as it would have been observed that the earth always casts a circular shadow on the moon. If it were a flat disc, they would have observed the shape of the shadow changing during the eclipse's progress, which they never did.

Yes, the ancients can and did use these arguments, and in fact the ancient Greek mathematician Eratosthenes in the 3rd century BC managed to estimate the circumference of the earth using geometric methods to an accuracy of 39,300 km, only seven hundred kilometers less than the modern figure.

Groening should have forseen this and approached a niche channel for it, Discovery Channel or Comedy Central. Definitely not Fox.

Actually, I would have to applaud Fox for even taking a chance on a series like this. The "major" networks are probably the only ones with deep enough pockets to afford a fully-animated weekly series like Futurama.

There were plenty of geek humor in Futurama, like Bender's CPU being a 6502, church of Robotology: 10 SIN, 20 GOTO HELL, and so on.

A couple more good geek jokes:

• Prof. Farnsworth: "Dark Matter... each pound of which weighs 10,000 pounds."
• In the convenience store booze aisle: a box of Klein beer, served in Klein bottles.
• Walking thru the health gym, past various workout machines including a woman (shown from waist-up) on the Kegelizer.

There are indeed. For instance, the mosquito is a crucial part of the lifecycle of the plasmodium. If mosquitos are eradicated, then the plasmodium goes with it.

Now, as far as I'm concerned, plasmodium sits just above HIV on the list of Species That Have Just Got To Go, but YMMV.

AJAX Special Hazard Precautions

Anyone who tries to tell you that AJAX is a " new approach to web applications" is just rebranding old technology and hyping buzzwords, not engineering software in the real world. Because of browser and DHTML incompatibilities and limitiations, AJAX is like cocaine: it seems glamorous until you actually start using it, then the unintended consequences totally fuck you up.

Special Hazard Precautions for AJAX:

INGESTION: NAUSEA, VOMITING, AND DIARRHEA. EYES: EYE IRRITANT UPON DIRECT CONTACT. SKIN: MAY CAUSE SKIN IRRITATION UPON PROLONGED CONTACT. INHALATION: NONE UNDER NORMAL USE. PROLONGED INHALATION BY UNORTHODOX USE (NON-WETTED) OR ABUSE (SNIFFING) COULD PRODUCE LUNG DISEASE (SILICOSIS). N/K

Emergency/First Aid Proc: INGEST: IF EATEN/DRUNK--YOU MAY THROW UP. DRINK SIPS OF WATER/MILK. IF VOMIT CONTINUES, CALL POISON CTR/DR. EYES: IRRIT. FLUSH W/WATER 15 MIN. IF IRRIT PERSISTS, CALL POISON CTR/DR. SKIN: IRRIT. REMOVE WET CLOTHES. FLUSH W/WARM WATER 15 MIN. IF IRRIT PERSISTS, CALL DR/POISON CTR. INHAL: IF INHALED, MAY COUGH. TAKE SLOW DEEP BREATHS OF FRESH AIR, SIP WATER. IF COUGH PERSISTS, CALL DR/POISON CTR.

Here's the entire Ajax information sheet, with more warnings and hazard precautions.

-Don

Books are far less fragile than any of this digital crap.

Digitizing does not usually capture all of the useful information about the book, either. What was the paper made of? How was it bound? What type of ink was used? This type of info can be critically important for resolving controversies about the authenticity of certain old manuscripts (think The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene or The Vinland Map).

Another problem is that the software needed to interpret the 0s and 1s needs to be kept with the digitized copy. If the data are stored as, say, tiff images, then you'd better make sure that there is software to display tiff imgages around as long as the original data stream is kept.

Bottom line is that digital archiving solves some problems but not all and creates whole new headaches as well.

I'm not suggesting that the crap we pour into the atmosphere has no effect on our climate, but rather that, as the article sort of states, temperatures are only approaching record levels since the advent of systematic temperature records. If we look back over several major climatic cycles in the Earth's history however, what we are experiencing is actually nothing special.

That said, I'm off to buy some factor 50 sunblock.

I'm not suggesting that the crap we pour into the atmosphere has no effect on our climate, but rather that, as the article sort of states, temperatures are only approaching record levels since the advent of systematic temperature records. If we look back over several major climatic cycles in the Earth's history however, what we are experiencing is actually nothing special.

That said, I'm off to buy some factor 50 sunblock.

http://www.cnrs.fr/Cnrspresse/Archives/n347a2.html
Paper is dated from 1997, so it's not such a news item.

You can also peruse the full pdf (http://www.cnrs.fr/Cnrspresse/n403/pdf/n403rd09.p df) from July 2002 explainig how this research we just learned from came to be......

As far as parasistic behaviour go, I have a peculiar liking for "La petite Douve du Foie" :
Dicrocoelium dendriticum (the lancet liver fluke)

"Dicrocoelium dendriticum is called the lancet liver fluke because of its characteristic shape. Unlike most other digenetic trematodes whose life cycles involve aquatic or marine hosts, the life cycle of this parasite is completely terrestrial involving a terrestrial snail as the first intermediate host and an ant as the second intermediate host. The definitive host, which includes sheep, cattle, goats, pigs, and humans (rarely), is infected when it ingests ants that are infected with metacercariae (view diagram of the life cycle). In the definitive host the parasite migrates into the bile duct and causes pathology similar to that caused by Clonorchis sinensis. This parasite is distributed throughout much of Europe and Asia, and it is also found in parts of North America and Australia."http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~paras ite/dicrocoelium.html

What is most interesting with Dicrocoelium dendriticum is that it hijacks the ant and make it climb on grass during full daylight and hold tight with it's mandible so it has a greatest chance of being eaten by a passing sheep - quite un-ant like..

if the ant is not successfull in its "suicide" it will do the same thing day after day until the larva dies or it is eaten...

http://info.biosci.ohio-state.edu/network/etherape .png

http://etherape.sourceforge.net/images/v0.3.1.png

Not virii! Viruses! Though there are no known uses of the plural of virus in Latin, it is believed to have been fourth declension, which would make the Latin plural, if it existed, virus. Regardless, since the Latin definition is not the same as the English definition, it is correct to use the regular English plural.

Special Hazard Precautions for AJAX:

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Emergency/First Aid Proc: INGEST: IF EATEN/DRUNK--YOU MAY THROW UP. DRINK SIPS OF WATER/MILK. IF VOMIT CONTINUES, CALL POISON CTR/DR. EYES: IRRIT. FLUSH W/WATER 15 MIN. IF IRRIT PERSISTS, CALL POISON CTR/DR. SKIN: IRRIT. REMOVE WET CLOTHES. FLUSH W/WARM WATER 15 MIN. IF IRRIT PERSISTS, CALL DR/POISON CTR. INHAL: IF INHALED, MAY COUGH. TAKE SLOW DEEP BREATHS OF FRESH AIR, SIP WATER. IF COUGH PERSISTS, CALL DR/POISON CTR.

Here's the entire Ajax information sheet, with more warnings and hazard precautions.

-Don

Um, the periodic table is just a consequence of the mathematics of 3D spherically symmetric waves. Namely, the number of electrons per period is just the number of eigenvalues with a unique energy in the energy well formed by the nucleus. And the shape of that energy well is determined by the same mathematics, so really it's all just the consequence of having a central point and standing waves which interact with that central point, and having three dimensions.

Here's how it works. You have a central point, with some flux of force-carrying particles. If those particles are conserved (mass-less) as they are in the case of photons, the density of those particles must go as 1/r^2 from the source point. The energy of something that interacts with those force carriers will be:

integral[r0..r1]{F dr} = J/r0-J/r1 where J is the coupling constant. If that potential is attractive (J negative) then the energy with respect to infinity at a point r is -|J|/r.

Now, we want to solve for the standing-wave states around such a potential well. The energy of a particle in such a well is the sum of its kinetic energy (p^2/2m) and that potential (-|J|/r). The operator p_x corresponds to hbar/i d/dx, and so on (which you can get by looking at the properties of an operator which translates the system in space, and showing that for the behavior of a wave with only a momentum part to translate the wave according to its momentum, it requires that the momentum operator be hbar/i d/dx ...)

If you want to see more about how that's derived using the generator of translations and so on, check out:

http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~gerlach/math/BVtyp set/node111.html

So anyhow, we want to solve: Hpsi = Epsi where H is p^2/2m - |J|/r

p^2/2m = hbar^2 / 2m ( d^2/dx^2 + d^2/dy^2 + d^2/dz^2 )

H = p^2/2m - |J|/r

hbar^2/2m lapl(psi) - |J|psi/r = E psi

Where lapl is the laplacian operator (d^2/dx^2 + d^2/dy^2 + d^2/dz^2 in cartesian coordinates)

Write the whole thing in polar coordinates, it's a separable linear second order eigenvalue problem (solve for the permissible values of E). So you have different solutions in the three directions (r, theta, phi). The radial solutions have different energies - these are the 'n' levels in the periodic table, each of which is a row. The solutions along theta and phi are the 'l' and 'm' quantum numbers, which correspond to different elements within a row, and why there are a different number as 'n' increases. It is because the values of l and m are bounded by the values of n.

There is another piece of information you need, which is that the electrons surrounding the nucleus have an internal degree of freedom - spin. So everything gets multiplied by two (one state for spin up, one state for spin down).

This is why the first row has two elements, the second row has eight, etc.

Now, the trick is that by this logic, the third row should have eighteen elements, but it again only has eight. The reason here is that the many electrons around the nucleus aren't really non-interacting as has been assumed up to this point, and there are other small effects one needs to take into account to get the energies exactly right (the momentum operator I've used is non-relativisitic, and there are interactions between the spins of the electrons and the spins of particles in the nucleus) So the higher angular momentum (l) states don't have quite the same energy as the lower ones. In fact, n=2, l=3 has a higher energy than n=3, l=2 so n=3, l=2 fills up first.

And thats my attempt at cramming the highlights of a one-semester QM course into a /. post to explain the periodic table. I've left out a few things, like how to derive the Schroedinger equation (that Hpsi=Epsi bit) and how to actually solve the thing you get. A quick search revealed the following sites, which are probably a good place to go for those wan

Aha ! Now I finally know what it is ! a movie version of Firefly ! Yay !

All I need to figure out is what the hell Firefly is.
Thankfully, Google never fails.

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The more sophisticated something gets, the harder it is to secure it, or make sure everything works right - space shuttle, human body, city society. Look at your body - you have a ton of white blood cells and all kinds of invader detectors, but you still have cancer cells, and illnesses that bypass these measures. Even meter-long worms can pass through your body/muscles without properly setting off the alarms and crawl out by your ankles or knees. Yes, security measures are needed, but there are always ways to get around them. All you can do is just do things better, like your body does, and fight back, come up with better tricks, but you're dreaming if you think you can ever eliminate security threats. Life is a risk, live it. And often it may take a lot less effort to look at the causes of why people resort to what they resort to, and doctor that instead.

This new planet, orbiting around G-star like our Sun (HD 149026), weighs roughly equal to that of Saturn, while its size is significantly smaller in diameter. Planetary modeling suggests that the core of the planet alone must have 70 times more mass than Earth, indicating the possible existence of a metallic solid core inside the planet.

Great! They found Cybertron. It is only a matter of time before the Transformers bring their war to Earth.

roses are #0000FF
violets are #FF0000
Stroop's effect
is all in your head

Yeah, Here are some of those toys.

What, you weren't talking about theorists?

Thorem 4.5.3 covers this.
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/theory-bk/th eory-bk-fourse5.html
Just read up to Th. 4.5.3.
QED.

neil@t40-n Documents $ g++ -O3 primetest.cpp -o primetest
neil@t40-n Documents $ time ./primetest

real 0m54.903s
user 0m54.692s
sys 0m0.062s

neil@t40-n Documents $ time java -server primetest

real 0m49.468s
user 0m49.181s
sys 0m0.082s

Using J2RE 1.4.2 IBM build cxia321420-20040626:

neil@t40-n Documents $ time java primetest

real 1m1.570s
user 0m59.739s
sys 0m0.149s

ICC (optimization flags as suggested here, plain -O2 and -O3 were the same speed as gcc with -O3):

neil@t40-n Documents $ icc -O2 -tpp7 -xW primetest.cpp
neil@t40-n Documents $ time ./a.out

real 0m49.635s
user 0m49.345s
sys 0m0.051s

Note that the original primetest.cpp would not compile with icc initially, I had to include math.h instead of iostream. IBM's Java runtime also does not appear to have a -server option.

Riiiight.

So, you posit that rural dwellers are self-reliant and accountable for their own actions, while city dwellers want government handouts.

Well, actually, the real data shows that the opposite is true. Let's talk taxes. Consider this study of the 2000 Bush-v-Gore election results, as mapped against states that receive net benefits from federal spending. If you want more recent data, you can map the raw facts yourself against the result of the 2004 Bush-v-Kerry election using this data published by taxfoundation.org.

I'm come from plain talking folk, so let me just say it how it is. How red staters can keep posing about their hardy self-reliance while simultaneously sucking so hard on the public teat provided by the blue staters strikes me as being, at the very least, impolite. I don't mind contributing my fair share of taxes - I view it as an investment in my country for all that it provides to me- and for some of those taxes to go to support the undereducated, indigent or unfortunate, be they rural or urban. I don't even expect the recipients to say "please" or "thank you" when they take the money given to them. But do expect not to have my hand spit when I'm trying to give you the handout.

So, pass this around to your fellow self-reliant, hardy, accountable red staters -- Strut around and pose all you want, but if you can't be polite, give us back our taxes.

Thanks a bunch.

I've seen screens before it came out of alpha, and it's also directly ripping off iChat's messaging window. You don't know what I'm talking about? Thank goodness for google images and bloggers with their screenshots.

In this house, we OBEY the laws of thermodynamics!:
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kagan/phy367/P3 67_lec_08.html/

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This lameness filter really sucks.... I'm not sure how i feel about OSU blocking it. I guess they do it because it hurts their network, but what if they block something else?

It's too late for anyone to even think about putting a stranglehold on nanotech. I humbly submit three must-have technology arenas that depend on it: aircraft, auto, and chip design. manufacturers.

Current military jet propulsion is just about at it's limit. The engines could burn hotter, but that would mean melting the turbine blades, which I believe are a titanium alloy. The only way to currently combat this is to coat the blades in a ceramic, but getting the ceramic to stick to the alloy is problematic. Nanotechnology allows researchers to test the coating and how different additives such as boron can help. If the engine can burn hotter, than the aircraft can go quite a bit faster.

Fuel cells are arguably the way the automotive industry will derive power for vehicles 25 to 50 years from now. A huge part of the problem with fuel cells is the total inefficiency of the product. This is not due to a design flaw however, just a manufacturing one. Looking at the metallic-ceramic interface at the micron and nanometer lengthscales reveals that the two substances barely touch...a large source of the inefficiency.

Finally, if you want photonic or plasmonic computer chips, you're going to have to rely on nanotechnology. Current research being conducted is using carbon nanotube interconnects in the circuit. These allow electrons (or photons) to move throughout the system with little to no loss of the data carrier (the *on).

There are other must-have applications that may seem to have a negative environmental impact, but actually help it. Corrosion resistant materials for instance. Ask yourself how the Yucca Mountain containment facility will keep from developing even the tiniest hole due to corrosion, over 10,000 years?

Just food for thought. If you are insterested in separating the science from the fiction, check out the research being done at OSU's Material Science Engineering School[osu.edu]

This is just the latest in a long line of what I like to call "The Jingo-izing of IT"

Its a not so clever ploy to try and reframe the topic into one of 'nationalism'. Previously we have seen people tell us that Open Source could be used by terrorists. and that OS is bad for national security

As it is obvious to the choir I am preaching to, this is BS. Its an attempt to get people scared. Because the IP that Sun has donest belong to 'the wealthiest nation' or 'a nation' or even the the state or city Sun has its HQ. Its owned by Sun. If it does belong to a nation or government then I want my share of Sun's profits, as the govt of the US is supposed to be working, in theory, for the people. (But this isnt a political science post.

From the conclusion pageWith the 6xx-series Pentium 4, Intel has ensured that important functionality such as protection from memory overflow, power management and 64-bit support on the desktop is no longer an AMD domain. And with HT support and SSE3 instructions, the new Intel processors offer additional benefits. One change will annoy Intel, however: on the installation CD for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, the most important operating system files are no longer in the 'i386' folder; Intel systems must load the installation files now from the 'AMD64' folder. Although that might hurt the industry leader, Intel may draw comfort from the fact that it has already sold more 64-bit chips than the inventor of the x86-64 architecture, AMD.

Intel "needs" to access installation data from the AMD64 folder? I thought the user was accessing the data from the AMD64 folder? What's next; Intel accessing its microcode from the folder AMD64/jonah/i386? Last I checked, it's AMD that always is compared to Intel and not the other way around. Is everyone jumping onto the AMD side now? Doesn't anyone remember that AMD cuts corners, especially apparent when a CPU's heatsink is dislodged?

Using est with a genitive and an infinitive is an idiomatic construction that means "It is characteristic of x to y." Literally the sentence means "It is of a fool to persist in error." It has no real subject any more than the sentence "It is raining." has a real subject.

I also adopted modern capitalization conventions out of habit and I don't think I'm especially wrong for doing so since that's often done when printing lists of Latin one-liners.

I think you're right about not putting est at the beginning of the sentence though. It doesn't change the meaning any, but reflecting on it further there would be no reason for the original author to put emphasis on est when it plays a minor role in the sentence.

Searching a bit on Google led me to this site which refers to this construction as the predicate genitive. One of the examples they give is:
"multa loqui stulti est" = "To say many things is characteristic of a fool."

And in the other examples est comes at the end of the sentence. So following this mold, I'd think that
"persistere in errore stulti est"
would be more likely.

But I suppose that also introduces an ambiguity as to whether stulti is a predicate genitive or if it modifies errore.

Anyway, I saw the phrase in Gavin Betts' "Teach Yourself Latin" and I don't have my copy at hand (and now this will probably bother me until I go and hunt it down). It's a very good book that I would highly reccomend to anyone interested in learning Latin.

Hydrogen temperature increases as the gas expands.

Quick FYI: Temperature decreases as a gas expands. For a link to a High school level treatment click here.

Plus, if he does the exterior, he's got the whole angle of repose problem. That'll be one big pile of popcorn.

(I wonder... what *is* the angle of repose of popcorn? Google provides this interesting but irrelevant gem, but that's all. I guess he'll just have to measure it himself.)

Now, popcorn balls, that's another matter. Maybe he could re-side the fella's house in gooey popcorn balls, colored like red brick. Might have a bit of a rodent and ant problem later, of course...

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It's not starvation, but not as good as a law degree by far.

This reckons that planetisimals can form from dusty ice slush in "a few thousand years" and it's not alone. Having a look at the known turmoil in the rings - shepherd moons and so on - they have to have a fairly solid source of replenishment somewhere, or they'd be history in mere millennia.

While FIRST can be somewhat and expensive and possibly hard to get started, what usually helps is to find a sponsor of some sort. I'm not directly involved with FIRST in my area, but I know quite a few mentors at Ohio State that run 2-3 FIRST teams here in Columbus. One of the teams is actually a group of homeschooled students. As these students enter college (at least in engineering where I work in the first year program) at some point or another their experience in the program helps them out and they're always enthusiastic about it at the same time.
Getting sponsors for both mentors and money does require work and sometimes being in the "right place." A good place to look for mentors and occasionally financial help is nearby colleges/universities. Typically they'll be interested in helping somewhat for outreach and also for recruiting purposes.
Another option in the sciences involves designing your own robot competition of sorts. For at least one idea you may want to check out the FEH Website which I manage for OSU. The Design Project page contains a good deal of materials used for such a project with freshmen engineering students. You may also want to check out the Lecture Notes pages for ENG H192 and ENG H193. Materials can be somewhat costly ($200 per robot contoller, roughly $150/team to build a robot) and the learning curve requires some time to introduce C programming with the controllers used, but OSU freshmen typically come out with a all around good idea as to what goes into a team design project from start to finish and get some good electrical/mechanical experience.

I learned calculus (at the college freshman level; my high school was way too rural back then for anything like calculus courses) from the OSU Calculus&Mathematica program and thought it was great.

The advantage was being able to learn the principles of which you speak, without having to get bogged down in the mechanical aspects. For example, we'd be given a problem, we'd have to figure out the relevant equations and set up a system of simultaneous equations to solve (this is the real principle), then let the computer do the crunching to arrive at the solution.

(We also had paper-and-pencil tests where we had to demonstrate knowledge of the principles and a little of the mechanical stuff).

Actually its totally appropriate. Highschools that want to do CalculusI thru DiffEq for their advanced students use Mathematica and Calculus Remote from The Ohio State University (CROSU), or University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Netmath program. I believe Harvard does the same.

I think a problem might be that you associate highschool math with trig. Using Mathematica in a self-based course of instruction they can move as fast as is natural for them. Why not let the kids move past dull rote mechanical skills and learning by doing something useful?

Is there really any reason why (the undergrad intro) QM can't be taught in HS using visualization and moderate Linear Algebra skills? I mean, if they can get as far as DiffEq? Isn't it more the *style* of instruction (chalk vs. powerpoint), and what we have them do for homework that holds them back more than the concepts?

So since when does /. post school plugs?

Afterall, I think if you want to talk about CG, ya'll should check out this school in FL called Ringling School of Art and Design. That school usually takes most of the awards from all of the festivals they enter including the Student Academy Awards. They also have 'impressive grants/software/hardware/etc' too :-P From what I've seen USC fell off the map in CG land several years ago and hasn't done many impressive things lately. Some other state schools like Ohio State are really shaking things up though.

Or you could go to http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/. That is where I used to get my weather data when I used to set up the weather computer for the newscast.

What you found was *selected excerpts* from a study that isn't available yet on the web.

No. An "executive summary" is different from selected exercepts. It you don't believe that conclusion, you can go get the study and debunk it.

None of this stuff is earth-shatteringly new. These calculations have been common knowledge for all credible political scientists for decades at least. The Wall Street Journal publishes these figures annually, among many other places you could find them.

Since you still haven't got the hang of Google yet, here's a more detailed PDF

How can you trust results from a study where you can't examine the numbers behind the conclusions?

It's fairly simple to verify any specific figure on that page by referencing first the CBO for the total taxes paid, and then the Census for the state-targeted expenditures.

Bah! Back in my day we used ARCNET, Twinax, PLIP, or if we were really lucky, SLIP, and WE LIKED IT!!!