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  1. Elendur

    My meager introduction to the field of mathematics

    Hello. My name is André Berglund and I present to you my bachelors essay. This has stemmed from my studies at Umeå University, more specifically the program "Physics and Applied Mathematics". On to the title (which here will be wonderfully formatted using skills beyond everyone else but me...
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    Physical/Life Sciences Formal Debates

    I'm quite the 'frequent flyer' to the Physics & Life Sciences sub-forum, and while I visit it a lot more than its Creation & Evolution sub-forum, I can't help but to feel as if there's something missing. The first have no sub-forum dedicated to formal debate, as the latter has. I think that is...
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    Species: ALRE

    There is a lot of games in development that are available either as alpha or beta versions (alpha means that it's in the earlies stages of development, beta is near release). Here's one that's reached v.0.6.00, alpha: Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution 0.6.0 Gameplay Trailer -...
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    Electricity - Some sunny numbers for fun

    I'm eating lunch right now and want to play with some numbers. EIA - Electricity Data Gives: 11.92 Cents per Kilowatthour for a residential april, this year. Solar Panels From 58¢/Watt, World's Lowest Price. Gives: 68 Cents per Watt (Note that these sites were chosen because they...
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    Soylent - Food replacement

    I don't really have the time to participate in this thread in full, but I thought that I'd share this with you. Blog post that describes how he started and how he feels: How I Stopped Eating Food : Mostly Harmless Blog post with ingredients: What’s In Soylent : Mostly Harmless To...
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    Vsauce

    For those who feel that they have a little "geek" inside of them. Vsauce and Vsauce2 (and Vsauce3 for gamers) are channels that present fun stuff mixed with facts and sometimes just bizarre things. Here's one clip from the "Mind blow" category they have going. $65,000 Whale POOP -- Mind Blow...
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    Zooniverse - For citizen scientists

    https://www.zooniverse.org/projects#all For those who feels like doing science at home. Not all science requires years of study or massive computations, these projects are utilizing skills humans possess that would take huge computer resources to imitate and has tutorials to walk you into the...
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    Arificial selection in populations of fruit flies.

    There is plenty of arguments raised due to 'macroevolution'. Some classical ones like 'a dog will aways be a dog', some complaining about speciation, etc etc. All that has got me thinking. Fruit fly that will be used (just for generation information, the fact that they're usually used etc)...
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    BOINC - For those with idle time on their processors

    I made a search and found some threads about BOINC, but the latest one was from 2009 and I didn't feel like grave robbing. Homepage Download Project list Short description: BOINC is a program that uses the idle processor power of your computer to process data from projects of your choice...
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    Mathematics

    Mathematics is a fascinating subject. Math makes the world go round. Math makes you read this. Math is simply put: The most awesome thing in this universe. ( :P ) But I made this thread for two purposes: 1. I want fun and interesting information about math to be spread, so post what you like...
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    Definitions and assumptions

    Hi, I've been reading a lot of threads and watching a lot of information regarding both atheism, creationism and theism (mostly christian, due to several reasons). I've seen some sites that have FAQs and some explanation to their standpoints. Now to the main point of this thread: Have anyone...