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Chemistry Sets for Adults?
An Anonymous Coward asks "I've been pursuing a few different lines of study, to refresh myself in basic sciences before I return to school. Right now I am reading up on Chemistry, and thought it would be fun to acquire a chemistry set just to play around with and maybe learn a few things from. Do any science geeks here have any suggestions?" My childhood garage probably still has purple and black stains all over it (lucky I was wearing glasses). 300 in one electronics kits, anyone?
I'm not currently in America -- but yeah, paranoia is getting bad there... or .. I dunno. Some of it's paranoia, and some of it's justified.
For example, evidence does show that Vicki Weaver was targeted (read crosshairs, murder) because she was the outspoken racist in the Ruby Ridge incident.
Donald P. Scott (LA Times, 1991/2) really was murdered for his land.
A guy named Lamplugh really did have ATF agents burst in in jackboots, crush his kitten to death to make a point, terrorize his family, and he was innocent of anything, just a gun dealer who wouldn't help them set up someone else on false charges, yada yada yada. The list goes on.
That was *before* Bush. Now, they really are hauling people away to Cuba, in the dead of night, and torturing them there, just like the Argentinan "disappearance squads". How many it is, the government refuses to say. But it *is* happening.
Is it paranoia? It's hard to tell.
Considering the flap about the child-abuse cases in the Catholic Church in Boston, I have to wonder how far down the line we Catholics are. I'm not too sure. But when you get to a police state, it does tend to extend its grip.
Correct Horse Battery Staple: 72 bits of entropy. Enter "Correct H" into google. When it generates the phrase, that's
I wonder if the Professional Association of English Majors lets chem majors the join their society as "honorary losers" since that might be the only major less useful than an english one.