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Brewing your own hobo-wine on todays subprime mortgage budget
By lawngnomehitman in Science
Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 02:46:39 PM EST
Tags: homo, hobo, wine, yeast, booze, drunk, drunkard, nazis, drinkin' it up (all tags)
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Recently GhostOfTiber posted a story about brewing your own beer.
I say, if you're going for the real hobo/homeowner experience, just brew wine, it's easier, and I'm fucking lazy. Also, wine takes about 2 weeks to ferment, none of this worrying about carbonation or anything, let's just get lit!
If you actually care about the way things taste, you might want to make some GhostOfTiber Ale and drink that until you no longer taste things, but that's entirely your prerogative...
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Real Education Reform
By yuo in Science
Tue Jun 03, 2008 at 11:16:20 AM EST
Tags: interesting, education, yuo, montessori, fire fire fire fire fire fire fire fire fire fire, don't be naive (all tags)
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Let's face it, there's nothing wrong with you. Despite what you may think and despite what you may have heard from other people, you've actually turned out pretty well. What did you do today? Did you play a video game? That's great! Games are a big part of what life is all about. Did you go to work? I'm so proud of you! You're taking charge of your life. Right now, you're reading this article, which means that you're literate in the most useful language on this planet. You're a great person, and whatever path your life took to get you here has been largely successful.
However, I don't think anybody would say that our education system in its current incarnation is perfect. Luckily, your experience also puts you in a great position to discuss how to ensure that tomorrow's children live happy productive lives. That's why I think we can all agree to reform our education system by obliterating it. During summer break, the schools are more-or-less empty, and that's the perfect time to do some good.... I'll bring the matches if you spring for the gasoline. ;-)
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Serpents, Serpents Everywhere!
By givemegmail111 in Science
Mon May 19, 2008 at 11:10:42 AM EST
Tags: marine biology, serpents (all tags)
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It went something like this, aboard many an ancient vessel:
A calm sea, a quiet voyage along a route traveled by hundreds of ships a year. Suddenly, the lookout's voice pierced the stillness: "Serpent off the bow!"
The crew came charging forward, crowding the rail, gaping in disbelief at the stunning sight before them. For here indeed was a grotesque creature shaped like a huge snake, its body shimmering and undulating, its fangs bared menacingly. Then as mysteriously as it appeared, the fearful thing dipped below the surface, vanished, never to be seen again.
Thus was born another sea serpent legend—a legend which reasonable men scoffed at and scientists ridiculed. And yet, if there are no such things as sea serpents, how could every man in the crew have witnessed the same sight? How were all of them able to give the same description of something that was strictly a figment of their superstitious imaginations?
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Polar Opposites
By Sgt York in Science
Tue Jul 10, 2007 at 06:23:23 PM EST
Tags: biology (all tags)
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Polar water is cold.
Of course, I mean the water geographically located near the poles of the Earth, not water that is polar in nature. Steam is polar. But I digress.
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By Sgt York in Science
Fri Jun 01, 2007 at 12:20:16 AM EST
Tags: fiction, science, not science fiction, based on a true story (all tags)
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First, they came for the smallest of us, and I did nothing for I was large. Next, they came for the dark one, and I did nothing because if they wanted him, I was safe. Then they came for my brother and I did nothing, because I was afraid. When they came for me, I screamed like the rest. I was returned like the rest, and fell into a dreamless sleep, to wake to a nightmare, just like the rest.
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Tremor
By MichaelCrawford in Science
Sun May 13, 2007 at 11:37:59 AM EST
Tags: Side Effects, Psychiatry, Medicine, Motion Disorders, Leavin on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again, Vancouver, British Columbia (all tags)
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My hands shake, sometimes uncontrollably. It got so bad when I was working for
Live Picture back in '97 that I was unable to type. Whenever I held my hands over my
keyboard they would bang on it so loudly that my coworkers came to see what the noise
was. I feared I would no longer be able to provide for myself as a
computer programmer, so I demanded my
psychiatrist find some way to make it stop.
Hand tremor is a side effect of many of the medicines used to treat mental illness;
in my case it turned out to be caused by the valproic acid I take to prevent mania. Once
we figured that out, my doctor prescribed propanolol, which is more commonly used to treat
anxiety and high blood pressure. My hands still trembled, but at least I could type again. However, I still cannot reliably hold a drink in my left hand - the shaking makes me spill it.
Usually the shaking bothers other people more than it bothers me.
One night a woman I met
at a cafe asked me if I had Parkinson's Disease. When I told her it was because of my
medicine, she demanded that I stop taking it and allow her to treat me with herbal medicine
instead.
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The Great Modern Glucose Poisoning Epidemic
By localroger in Science
Sun Apr 22, 2007 at 07:01:42 PM EST
Tags: health, localroger bloviates (all tags)
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There is about a one in three chance that you are seriously ill and don't even know it. It's not a disease caused by a
pathogen but a chronic long-term poisoning that starts with your pancreas and nervous system. In the first decade or so you
aren't even aware that you are ill, but your nervous, endocrine, and circulatory systems are decaying. Eventually random
symptoms start to appear,
the kind of things we tend to blow off as "just getting old."
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Blackpowder Rockets (100 comments)
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Thursday, April 20th
Evolutionary Psychology, Memes and the Origin of War (192 comments)
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Abstract Mathematics, Group Theory, and You (116 comments)
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On Meditation (132 comments)
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Peak Oil: the next big thing. (Part Two.) (326 comments)
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Irreducible Complexity - Mathematical Definition and Refutation (115 comments)
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