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  1. Re:High School on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    (Rule 1. Hot glass looks exactly the same as cold glass.)

    Also, hot tombstone pizza looks the same as warm tombstone pizza. I'm not sure why I still haven't figured this one out.

  2. Re:High School on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    (Rule 1. Hot glass looks exactly the same as cold glass.)

    YES!

  3. Hot photos on Huge Phytoplankton Bloom Found Under Arctic Ice · · Score: 5, Informative

    Okay... so I couldn't visualize a huge phyto-plankton bloom and TFA was no help. Here's something.

    http://spiff.ucsd.edu/chaos.gif

  4. Re:You live in the USA? on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 2

    I thought the Avatar was on Nickelodeon....

  5. Khan Academy on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.khanacademy.org/#chemistry

    Sounds to me like home schooling is letting the kid down a bit. I loved my public Chemistry / physics education... Making rockets, playing with Science Olympiad, Egg Drop contests. I remember on the first day in my High School chem class, the teacher demonstrated infra-red radiation and the speed of light by taking a bowl filled with soap water, and a propane tap, and creating (and then lighting on fire) propane bubbles. He pointed out that as soon as you saw the flash, you felt the heat, and then went into a lecture about wave radiation and the light spectrum.

    You can probably do that with your own kid, but there is something to be said about the benefits of learning something from someone who is passionate about the material.

  6. Re:NEP;DR on A Day In the Life of a "Booth Babe" · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Opinion != news on Ask Slashdot: Reasonable Immigration Policy For Highly-Trained Workers? · · Score: 1

    Thus the "Ask Slashdot:" category... News organizations can dabble in opinion, and Slashdot is only roughly similar to a "News Organization".

  8. Re:Impact energy not the same for small objects on Mosquitos Have Little Trouble Flying in the Rain · · Score: 1

    I guess it worked out anyway, looking at this thread with a filter of 3+, all I see are zero.kalvin's posts and your post wishing you could upvote him more.

  9. Ministry of Science on South Korea Surrenders To Creationist Demands On Evolution Textbooks · · Score: 1

    What else can you expect from a ministry:

    ministry [mnstr]
    n pl -tries
    1. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms)
    a. the profession or duties of a minister of religion
    b. the performance of these duties ...

    I don't believe science should be ministered.

  10. Hmm.. it does seem faster in metric.

  11. Re:Steve WHO? on World Cup Memo Written By Steve Jobs Going Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    Yeah... everyone knows that Tesla actually invented the Apple II.

  12. I see... on Scientific Literacy vs. Concern Over Climate Change · · Score: 1

    So basically the science says that Democrats are smarter then Republicans because their brains are bigger? Makes sense to me.

  13. Oh it's on ____.

  14. Not sure if I agree on Nicholas Carr Foresees Brains Optimized For Browsing · · Score: 2

    I only skimmed the article though. Back to facebook.

  15. Only victory is total defeat on Wear a Mask During a Protest In Canada: 10 Years In Jail · · Score: 1

    This seems so ridiculous the only thing in mind could be a lesser desire... Basically:

    Want A
    Ask for A * 2
    Major uproar created
    "Compromise" and offer A as a reduction
    Get A, while opponents feel like they've won

    Hopefully we won't see a law in the next couple of years that punishes mask wears with 5 years in prison.

  16. Because it works so well for forums... on Google Patents Using iPhones To Kill 'Free Bird' · · Score: 1

    We're no strangers to love
    You know the rules and so do I
    A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
    You wouldn't get this from any other guy

    I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
    Gotta make you understand

    Never gonna give you up
    Never gonna let you down
    Never gonna run around and desert you
    Never gonna make you cry
    Never gonna say goodbye
    Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

    We've know each other for so long
    Your heart's been aching
    But you're too shy to say it
    Inside we both know what's been going on
    We know the game and we're gonna play it

    And if you ask me how I'm feeling
    Don't tell me you're too blind to see

    Never gonna give you up
    Never gonna let you down
    Never gonna run around and desert you
    Never gonna make you cry
    Never gonna say goodbye
    Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

    Never gonna give you up
    Never gonna let you down
    Never gonna run around and desert you
    Never gonna make you cry
    Never gonna say goodbye
    Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
    Find more similar lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.com/ak5

    Give you up, give you up
    Give you up, give you up
    Never gonna give,
    Never gonna give, give you up
    Never gonna give,
    Never gonna give, give you up

    We've know each other for so long
    Your heart's been aching
    But you're too shy to say it
    Inside we both know what's been going on
    We know the game and we're gonna play it

    I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
    Gotta make you understand

    Never gonna give you up
    Never gonna let you down
    Never gonna run around and desert you
    Never gonna make you cry
    Never gonna say goodbye
    Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

    Never gonna give you up
    Never gonna let you down
    Never gonna run around and desert you
    Never gonna make you cry
    Never gonna say goodbye
    Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

    Never gonna give you up
    Never gonna let you down
    Never gonna run around and desert you
    Never gonna make you cry
    Never gonna say goodbye
    Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

  17. Doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me... on The Rise of Chemophobia In the News · · Score: 1

    Google trends has this to say about the "Chemophobia" rage...

    Your terms - chemophobia - do not have enough search volume to show graphs.

    Suggestions:

    Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
    Try different keywords.
    Try more general keywords.
    Try fewer keywords.
    Try viewing data for all years and all regions.

    Although... Biebermania seems to be maintaining nicely. http://www.google.com/trends/?q=biebermania&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0

  18. Re:That was Rand Paul. on Congress: The TSA Is Wasting Hundreds of Millions In Taxpayer Dollars · · Score: 1

    Heh... thought it was intentional. There are some similarities in the belief structures of Ayn Rand and Ron Paul.

    As a side note, typing those two names next to each other almost made me have a dyslexic seizure... kind of makes me want to try it a few times over...

    Ayn Rand Ron Paul Ayn Rand Ron Paul Ayn Rand Ron Paul... kind of like a tongue twister for fingers.

  19. Re:There is one thing we can do... on What To Do About an Asteroid That Has a 1 In 625 Chance of Hitting Us In 2040? · · Score: 1

    I can't remember much, but I feel like Animal Crackers are involved. We should stick some of those in cryo to... just to be sure.

  20. Passive Aggressive is Passé on Cell Phone Jamming Devices Enjoy an Increase In Popularity · · Score: 1

    Seems to me it wouldn't be too hard to put a directional antenna on one of these jammers with a really narrow beam. Then you could just blast the obnoxious social retard, and leave the Doctors and the Undercover cops okay to make and receive calls just fine. Short side here is that it might be a little obvious when you stand up and point a ray gun at the jerk...

  21. Re:remember how lobbying ALWAYS works on DNS Provision Pulled From SOPA · · Score: 2

    Clearly put. It seems that the job of a politician is to compromise every value (on either side). Therefore if your opponent asks for something that is odious, as long as you can get that odiousness halved it looks like you have made a success.

    The Politician equation is:

    (Approved Change) = (Opponents Requested Change) / 2 = (Perceived victory)

    Thus the Lobbiest equation is:

    (Requested Change) = (Desired Change) * 2

  22. Re:Great a new boom. on The Rise of Developeronomics · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seems to me that there is miles of difference between a born Engineer (a smart, logical thinker who loves tinkering and solving problems), and a sold Engineer (someone who has no inclination or desire towards engineering, but simply wants to make as much money as possible).

    I don't think there will be a Boom of engineers, because what any decent company is trying to do (and what this article is referring to) is get their hands on GOOD engineers... a product that you cannot commoditize.

  23. The nice thing about originalists... on Analysis of 250,000 Hacker Conversations · · Score: 1

    Is when you call them a Douche, you know they understand how you truly feel.

  24. Slightly better on Defunct Satellite To Fall From the Sky · · Score: 1

    Then the odds of getting hit by a piece of the satellite are the odds that a piece will hit near enough to you that you can grab it and keep it as a trophy of improbably odds.

  25. Stinks. on Man Becomes Artist When He Sleeps · · Score: 1

    Smells like a hoax to generate interest in otherwise unremarkable artwork to me.