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Ah yes, "Guernica" by Picasso. Brilliant piece. I can't say that I have a favourite artist or piece of art but the first piece that comes to mind for me is "The Starry Night" by Van Gogh:

To be fair I don't know for certain if it is but it is the conclusion that I came to after looking at their store. In their store they have a "God Bless France" line of goods because "If anyone is in need of God's Blessings, it's France... ". Some other product lines include "LOL means Love Our...

You are aware that they are a Poe site, right?

We ought to be able to. At present the gate insulators of the smallest MOSFETs are only 4 or 5 atoms wide and are comprised of an oxide layer. I guess what might happen is that they will start using other materials that increase the potential barrier, thereby reducing the power loss. Just...

Can't say I've read Lawrence Krauss but I have heard this sort of idea bandied about. As I understand it, it comes down to how one defines "nothing." Clearly, at the very least, there must be some "Laws" that exist and thus one could argue that it is not possible for something to arise from...

With regard to this question, does the phenomena of experiencing a burning sensation when someone drops ice cubes on your bare back at the beach while exclaiming "Oh $&!%, the hot coals!" count?

My guess is that while they will have the same pasts and have experienced the same past they will experience different futures. The fact that the brain is created while the person is still alive means that the brain does not continue a stream of consciousness but rather creates some sort of...

Strictly speaking I think it is possible for this to be true in that if your brain were to be reconstructed atom for atom as it is now, it would appear to you as though you were frozen in time (assuming you had the ability to sense the outside world via eyes, etc). The only thing is that I can't...

The high fructose content of Dr Pepper is the concern from what I understand. In particular, the health concern regarding the liver should be noted.

This video series (I have only put a link to the first video in the series here), while not addressing all your questions, is very good I think and covers most of what you have talked about.

This is just an aside but I have been pondering the validity of defining an atheist as "one who lacks belief in a god/gods." Surely if atheism can be defined as above, a theist should be able to be defined as "one who lacks disbelief in a god/gods?" i.e. the opposite of the definition of...

The committee will probably be looking for a bit of critical thinking I would say so you should probably stay away from very well known experiments that have been done in the past. As an example of what you should maybe look at doing I did reasonably well in a science fair at that age by doing...

Found it I think. Unfortunately I don't have membership to Nature so I can't read it myself to be sure. An article based on the research and with references shows same numbers quoted by the radio show ones. Article based on the research: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100113/full/463149a.html...

I think CJ was looking for some reasoning behind why you believe that morality is based purely on the happiness and well being of the concerned parties. You need to provide reasoning behind why you think that morality is based only on these before performing an investigation.

Cool. This makes a lot more sense - It's actually what I was trying to say I thought might be more likely to happen in my post :)