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If you were a ritualistic serial killer, how would you kill your victims? What criteria would you use to choose them? What methods would you use to get away with it? Why would you kill?

Having always had an interest in nutrition, and now having taken an Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism class last semester (as well as having some other Biochemistry and Physiology classes under my belt), I've decided I'm going to do a series on nutrition on my Facebook community page if...

Expected response #1: Who are you? Expected response #2: Who are you? Expected response #3: You were gone? Expected response #4: *mumbles* goddamit... Expected response #5: Can you go away again? Expected response #6: Who cares? Obligatory link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIYbio http://www.ekac.org/transgenic.html Any thoughts as to whether this is a good idea? What are possible benefits/detriments? Should non-scientists, amateurs, citizens etc. have access to and/or be allowed to perform genetic experiments and bioengineering on...

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I looked around and was surprised this wasn't mentioned yet (or if it was, that it wasn't popular enough to still be at the top). Any thoughts? If you haven't heard about it, here are some links: Names of victims. The shooting was heavily planned out by the perpetrator.

I have to write a paper for my online cultural anthropology class and I've decided to write it about the culture of INTP forum (lucky all of you). So, in order to get a wider range of views on the subject, I'm going to ask you all some questions. Keep in mind that these questions are concerning...

Are you fucking serious? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PZcgUEkBIX0 I looked for some of this 'music' on youtube, but all I found was reaction videos. I ended up coming upon a website that was attempting to hock this shit for anywhere from $6.50 to $199.95. So I did...

American Atheist organization upset about a cross shaped piece of rubble from ground zero being put in 9/11 memorial museum. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/post/ground-zero-cross-unconstitutional-because-it-exists/2011/08/04/gIQAFTyFuI_blog.html

I found this concept rather strange. Anyone familiar with simple calculus is aware that the derivative of displacement is velocity, the derivative of velocity is acceleration, and possibly familiar with further derivatives such as jerk, jounce (snap), crackle, pop, lock, and drop. Anyone a...

I've been reading a book called "Radical Evolution" that lays out three scenarios about what may happen when the 'curve' of technological progress approaches the singularity. The first scenario is called Heaven, which has been discussed several other times on this forum. The second is called...

Why is this true? Why is this 'considered' true? Can mass/energy be arbitrarily created or destroyed? If so, how? ...or, perhaps, why? (more of a philosophical question, maybe). Is it safe to base other theories/hypotheses of physics/chemistry on this "law"? How is this law proven aside...

It's a popular topic around here (at least with me) that education is a broken system - or, outdated at best. Since I've gone to college a few years ago after having spent six years in the "real world" after high school, I've certainly taken a notice of this, and this summer semester especially...

http://www.ticalc.org/pub/83plus/basic/math/calculus/ Found this site interesting. The ultimate calculus program is really nice and user friendly, with the downside that it requires a lot of memory. Another problem I've found is that the mean value theorem feature doesn't give the value of "c"...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13000253 I'm sure most people here know about gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. According to this article, they may have discovered the particle for a fifth fundamental force of nature - although the article doesn't...

I've been asked a few occasions about the type of hip-hop I listen to - not often, but I think the fact that I listen to it is sort of an enigma around here. So, I've decided to make a thread talking about and showcasing some of my favorite artists. When I first decided to make this thread, I...

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/special/section/spotlight-joss-whedon/ For anyone else who is a fan of Joss Whedon's work (Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Serenity, Dollhouse, numerous comics etc) this is an ongoing series of essays that are being written about Joss Whedon's work, going in order from his...

I've recently read an article in Scientific American MIND about daydreaming. I won't go into the neurological details, since that seems to turn people off from reading my posts, but it mentioned a "condition" that doesn't have an actual name called Maladaptive Daydreaming. I know I can be a bit...

Introduction - feel free to skip to next paragraph (I realize this post is long). Science often utilizes an idealized (and usually impossible) archetype for which real life can be compared. In chemistry there is something called the Ideal Gas Law, which is the ideal state of a single gas: PV =...

It's me on chat fool.

It's a futile task, but there is no reason not to try: I want to describe the subjective of experience of being a conscious, sentient being. I am of the opinion that subjective experience is not exactly the same for everybody. I think different personalities and people of different intelligence...

INTP's are (stereotypically) supposed to be theoretically minded: Extroverted intuitives (Ne) are supposed to find patterns and meaning in often times disparate things; introverted thinkers (Ti) are supposed to be good at systemizing and ordering things into a logical mental model. This may or...

http://www.ted.com/talks/henry_markram_supercomputing_the_brain_s_secrets.html Blue Brain Project: building a brain. This is a must see video for anyone interested in the brain and artificial intelligence - especially the last half or so of it...

Rapper Eyedea of Eyedea & Abilities died on October 16 (cause still unknown). As far as I'm concerned, it's a bigger blow to music (or at least independent hip-hop) than the death of Kurt Cobain or 2pac. YouTube - Oliver Hart - Step by Step

First, this proposal is not all that modest. It would be expensive, difficult, and very different from what we have been doing so far. That being said, this system would need to be funded. In order to do this, there would need to be tax increases. This is a curse word in the western world, and...

I've recently read a bit about Socrates (for my philosophy class), and it explained that in the time of Socrates, he was somewhat of a staple in downtown Athens. If one took a walk through town, they were likely to see Socrates, disheveled, dirty, and willingly impoverished out in the street...

A couple weeks ago or so, after having about hit 'rock bottom' I finally gave in and went to a doctor to get an antidepressant subscription. She subscribed me Bupropion, which is a dopamine and norepanephrine reuptake inhibitor as opposed to a serotonin reuptake inhibitor (something I discussed...

I'm in a stupid mood, so I thought I'd do something stupid. Let me have it!

Dissociative Identity Disorder is a mental disorder that causes someone to shift between two or more different personalities and usually results from childhood trauma. Someone with multiple personalities has different 'autobiographical selves' or "...one human brain to generate at least two...

I uploaded these on some random site, so I'm not sure if they'll work - if they do, feel free to tell me what you think (this is the best I could do with a 20 dollar mic and a pirated version of CoolEditPro). Anomie Lyrics: Abandonment Lyrics:

I've never wanted to be a hermit more in my life. Some interesting (but equally horrifying) videos about how much just Americans consume. [/SPOILER] And, of course, the impact this is having on the planet. One does not need to believe in climate change to think that this is...

Being as inept at math as I am, having reached stoichiometry in my chemistry class has been a bit frustrating for me. If anyone knows some good recourses for learning about it, I'd appreciate if they could point me there. And, if anyone is willing to help me with a few problems (I'm sure there...

Introduction: I've noticed a few times that some people have anywhere from a slight misunderstanding to a complete lack of knowledge on how evolution by natural selection operates, and since this is probably the one area that I'm not retarded, I've decided to indulge myself and educate anyone...

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Some more of my rambling: I've always found the idea of trying to discover oneself a strange concept. It's as if there is something inside us that we don't know. This, of course, is true on a reductionist level - we have barely scratched the surface on how the brain works, and all we can really...

For those interested in learning about evolution, but don't like reading: What Darwin Never Knew. - This is probably one of the best shows I've seen about evolution - it's layman's terms but doesn't dumb it down as if it's talking to school children. The Code of Life - DNA and genetics; it's...

They say if you stay awake for 72~ hours you can start hallucinating. I'm about half way there - who wants to go for the gold with me?

Is our personality an antagonist of our free will? This could mean either a biological or social constructivist aspect of personality. Are human beings completely free to make decisions, but constantly have their personality (or other things, such as intelligence, values, social expectations)...

If you were able to send a message to an alien civilization, much like the Voyager or the Arecibo message, what would you say to them? What sort of information might be pertinent to let another intelligence know they are not alone? How would you communicate this message, not knowing what sorts...

Anyone seen this show on Spike TV before? I've never heard of it until tonight and, even though it's retarded, I can't stop laughing.

I lost my phone number, will you give me yours? ...yeah, I'm a little high right now.

A lot of people, here and on other MBTI forums, seem to think that being NT is an automatic pass to having above average intelligence. I see a lot of people say things like "I can't believe INTP's would act this way!" and so forth. It has me thinking about how smart people actually see...

There is a place where one could download instrumentals to music (mostly interested in rap instrumentals, but any would do, I suppose). Or, even a program that allows one to make their own instrumentals. Free would be the best, because I'm such a poor bastard. I have recently obtained, through...

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm A good site for anyone wishing to get an MIT education for free (you don't even have to register). Some of them you can actually watch or listen to MIT lectures (shit that people doll out thousands of dollars for), but quite a few of them...

This video says it all for me (but I'll get back on a reply with my own words once I've mulled it over in my head a bit). YouTube- What's the Big Idea? (Brian Greene), 2008

I'm sure many people have already heard about this, but I thought I'd make a post for discussion about it, anyway. It sounds like a very interesting discovery that will have a large impact on what we know about human evolution...

This is an open challenge to the first person that accepts one these topics: Do the benefits of biotechnology (biologically engineered crops, gene therapy in the medical field etc) out weigh the detriments? My position: that the benefits do out weigh the detriments. Should religions be able to...

People can create open challenges, making a statement for or against a certain claim, topic, subject, idea etc, and accepting the challenge of another person. Once this is done (publicly) both contenders can come up with their own ground rules about the word count of their posts and how many...

I wonder if anyone else would be interested in having a forum for formal style debates, perhaps requested and set up by a moderator or something. I'm thinking in a style where both debaters put up an introduction, stating their arguments and supporting them - these are done independently...

I found this interesting. All of the 300 exoplanets found have been gas giants (similar to Jupiter, Neptune etc) because of the way in which they have to detect them. The main way to detect a planet is by seeing how it's gravity affects the rotation of the star (they both orbit a mutual center...