The Hall of Fire

Well actually, Di, I have heard or read it said somewhere that body composition involving fat, muscle and density is somewhat different in blacks and whites, which would have implications for floatability and other aspects of sport performance. My husband is a runner and I recall him saying said th...

My understanding of the term is consistent with what vison wrote. Wiki quotes the "Dictionary of American Regional English" which combines the idea about the Presbyterians that Padme mentioned with the visual aspect (sunburn) of which vison makes mention: In the Dictionary of American Regi...

In comparative terms, Google probably does not compare to the power that GM once wielded. GM employed more people at its height, was a larger consumer of supplies for a larger number of companies (and therefore provided jobs and revenue for many others downstream), and had a larger percentage of rev...

cemthinae wrote:I snapped this yesterday for Project 365, then today realized it might be appreciated here. Click thumbnail for the bigger picture.

Fantastic pic. Looks like a fractal.

BrianIs AtYou

Brian, I was speakign of the earth as a system, heat comes in, and it goes out. The inequality in this process is what would cause global temperatures to fluctuate... although surface and air temperatures can fluctuate without the system's overall level of energy changing. The actual change in temp...

Yov, indeed, when it's in the atmosphere it's part of a greater system, and while it has the same chemical and physical properties as it does in the lab, it has a much larger system that it is interacting with, and while it might absorb more heat than if it weren't there , the system in its entiret...

Rather, the evidence suggests that it is the reverse, that when temperatures rise (for some reason), CO2 levels go up. Well, there actually IS a mechanism for why temperature might go up when CO2 rises. However, I have yet to see a countervailing theory with evidence as to why CO2 would rise if the...

So rising CO2 causes warming. But you say humans don't cause warming. Are you saying humans aren't the source of the recent (past century or two) dramatic increase in CO2 levels? If not, where is it coming from? As it must come from somewhere—volcanic eruptions on the scale of Yellowstone, say, or ...

From a meta-textual standpoint, the dwarves illumunate the concept of sub-creation. As Aulë's children, they serve as an example of sub-creation within Arda from the standpoint of those within the story. As such, Elves and Men are (in a way) more "real" as created beings ; beings directly ...

I've never understood the notion of different views of the same God. The only way I can see that that could be the case is if the various sacred writings were consistent with one another, or if they were none of them truth. For example, it can't both be true that Jesus was the Son of God and that H...

Reading a comic is more like watching a movie, except that a single frame is taken for each shot. In the example that Maria gave, it would not be uncommon on TV or in movies to have a shot of a a door, and then a following shot of a boot kicking in a door. I am in fact certain, I have seen such scen...

Pakistan - Christian janitor died saving Muslim students There is a tendency sometimes to focus on what divides, and even to make divisions greater. This is the story of a man who crossed that divide and died for it, and his story (and the aftermath) is an illustration of how close we are, but also...

I went to read up on the coup here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_d'état_attempt (I tried to put it behind a cut, but I think that acute accent makes the link "illegal" for our software.) Whenever you have trouble setting up a link like this, just convert the offending cha...

Ah, well for the versions of the vids I sent, video one has a translation, of the lyrics. Reading them, the opening makes a little bit more sense. (There is an actual diologue between the students the teacher and the "pregnant" girl at the end) Vid 1 with translated lyrics If it's any hel...

There is often gain in those situations, though, just not material gain. If I do something like that--helping someone without expectation of return--it makes me feel good. That feeling, of having done good, has value. It's also socially constructed to a great extent. Not only that, but we all benef...

The structure of the poems are similar, but not identical. Both are eight lines long, and the first line of both has eight syllables, though subsequent lines vary, and the rhyme schemes are not the same. These are interesting points, as is the rest of the analysis, but with regard to one small thin...

I was going to post that. Sometimes comedy gets to the heart of the matter better than anything else. Indeed. The Onion had the following up the other day: Obama's Declaration Of Swine Flu Emergency Prompts Pro-Swine-Flu Republican Response October 28, 2009 | Issue 45•44 WASHINGTON—Claiming that th...

http://www.cuf.org/Faithfacts/details_view.asp?ffID=57 There is much more to the discussion at the above site, which is concerned with the Catholic moral response to ectopic pregnancies, but the following sums up the basic guiding principles as expounded by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops: I...

She was not only a drag on McCain, she killed his campaign I disagree with this. I think that McCain killed his own campaign with his "I'm suspending my campaign two days after saying the fundamentals of the economy are strong" response to the economic crisis. I think the American people ...

She was not a drag on the ticket of McCain, she boosted him from being a total and complete failure to at least making it respectable. Only her enemies would say she was a drag on the ticket (and yes, that's many republicans). I totally put McCain out of consideration once he selected Palin (and on...