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Maybe this project would work?

Pictures right here...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/dinosaurs /chronology/127mya1.shtml
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/pterosauria. html

and are pterosaurs really dinosaurs at all?
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinosaur.htm l

and the nearest relly would be your pet budgie.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/avians.html

And you can even make your own paper pterosaur
http://www.rain.org/~philfear/ptercaddie.html

Since our actions stem from our beliefs, whether proven or not, I think it's silly to think that there is "no point to believing". I believe that it is immoral to kill someone. There is no proof in morality, but as a result of my belief, I am much nicer to be around. :)

If I got anything out of reading books on NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), it's that our beliefs have consequences, and sometimes it's better to belief something -- even if it's untrue -- because the results are good.

For example, I believe that a lie will always be found out.

flour.

There have been many industrial accidents that have killed thousands of people. There was an incident in India where a chemical leak killed 3,800people. In California a Dam burst killing an estimated 450 people. A naval disaster involving a ship full of explosives killed over 2,000 people. The Great Smog of 1952 killed over 4,000 people. Over 1,500 people died on the Titanic.

Chernobyl caused 31 deaths not including cancer. Because of the nature of cancer is hard to estimate the number of people who died from cancer caused by the Chernobyl disaster. My quick google search showed reports predicting between 20,000 and 100,000 deaths due to cancer. Which placed the eventual overall death toll much higher than any of the other disasters listed, however it should be noted that tobacco results in hundreds of thousands of deaths a year in the U.S. alone and has no benefit to society, yet it is widespread. I think that looking at the overall risks people take in daily life the increased danger from using nuclear power is not substantial, and it would have many positive impacts for society.

The hapless Amiga, a machine a decade ahead of its time (there's a lesson in there somewhere)

You know, reading all these comments about Who and Buffy, I just don't get it. Oh, well, personal preference I guess. Maybe it's like sushi, you don't know how good it is until you get drunk one night and eat it. No sushi/Buffy analogy intended. Me, I prefer to show my geekness by asking people if they every watched Captain Scarlet and the Mysterions.

We should also tell them that while in college he was a thespian, who even performed the act in front of paying customers. Also, that he has admitted that he feels affinity for South Carolina, a state which is much loved by its residents. Further, It is a known fact that, on a number of occasions, he emulated older boys at a certain playground. It is also known that his parents not only permitted him to masticate in their presence, but even urged him to do so. Most explicable of all, this man who poses as a paragon of virtue exacerbated his own sister when they were both teenagers!

You can find more along this vein where I copied this from.

Yes, the bathroom-tile man-machine argument sounds pretty 'out there'; however, there is a long tradition of books attempting to connect-up seemingly dispirate myths, legends, stories and poems. Taken in abstract, Robert Graves's claim that the stories of Jesus and Hercules are different versions of the same myth, sounds mad. Perhaps it is, but Graves's justification takes a few hundred pages and is pretty convincing. By the time he goes into how theories of accretion can pollute oral narratives and the effect of the written-word in making particular versions of stories more canonical than others, he's made a point.

Fact is, Wheat wasn't the first nor will he be the last. Sir James Frazer's 'The Golden Bough', Joseph Campbell's 'The Hero With a Thousand Faces', etc, etc, etc, are all equally mad. But each of them is attempting to do something very human and touching: they are attempting to detect some order, sanity, ration and reason in an otherwise pretty random and chaotic world -- just as Kubrick was doing, just as Homer was doing...