Money is not the worst part of divorce.

The business model appears to be, entice people to behave badly for free then blackmail them for $20 each when they change their mind, I assume they picked $20 because it would come under the minimum threshold for most 'small claims' courts. It beggars belief that commercialised blackmail is not a criminal offense. Sure most of the victims are amoral cockroaches scurrying for cover, still doesn't make it right.

Watch the clip I posted below. I believe the GP's point is there appears to be; no flock, one flock, multiple flocks, and the flock can appear to 'instantaneously jump' from place to place. IANAQP but I think it's a very neat way to visualise a quantum jump. If you understand the math of QM that's great, math is the language used for the best description we have of nature. The rest of us who barely remember what an eigenvalue is from the math degree we did decades ago have to rely on tenuous analogies and imperfect metaphors when describing it with a 'natural' language, such as english.

Disclaimer: I don't think an electron is composed of a flock of smaller particles, I visualise it as a kind of "knot" in a force field, sometimes the field lines are "pulled" tight enough to observe the knot. Other times it's like a loose extension cord, you not sure if there's a knot until you start to untangle it.

Thanks, that's the way I understand it. I haven't heard the flock of birds analogy before but I have seen large flocks like this one in Australia.

Give people a fucking warning before you post.
That sudden hard-right turn into political lala land almost gave me whiplash.

Clue: If you're watching a woman work and she looks up and flashes a smiles at you, you smile back. It's not at all "scary", at worst it's good manners, at best it's an invitation to approach her.

The far side was hilarious and works wherever the English language is spoken, Bloom county has never made me chuckle, I find the points it makes obvious rather than clever. Perhaps it is cultural, after all Bloom County is squarely aimed at an American audience.

It's a fact of nature that an average male has 1.5X the upper body strength of an average female, so on average a man will hit a golf ball a lot further than a woman, ie: Both men and women are "good enough" to play golf but men have a significant competitive advantage on the first shot of each hole simply because they have male anatomy and can hit the ball harder.

"Content of your character" is paraphrasing MLK's famous civil rights speech - "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

According to the ideals of the civil rights movement, the people in the maths contest are to be judged on their math skills, not their genitalia.

Nonesense, there's plenty of unbiased pure science out there, try the WG1 report from the IPCC, it the only report they produce where the text is not negotiable by the diplomats from the ~150 donor nations (of every political persuasion) that fund the IPCC's measly $5M/pa budget. . A huge and very tedious effort goes into creating the WG1 report, none of the scientists are paid a dime by the IPCC. The WG1 report has a remarkable reputation for accuracy and quality, it has been issued 5 times in the last 25yrs, it receives intense global scrutiny every time it's issued, yet nobody has ever found a technical error in any of the final versions, errors such as the infamous glacier glitch have been found in the reports where diplomats have the final word on contents.

If you are like me you will need to listen to some of the more communicative scientists who wrote the reports before you can even begin to understand what the WG1 report actually says in plain english.

AGW "skeptics" have had more than a fair hearing over the past few decades, statistically their minority views have been given way too much attention in the MSM for the past 20 odd years, using exactly the same tax free 'think tanks' that tobacco companies used to perpetuate the lie that smoking doesn't cause cancer within the MSM.

Their long list of unsupported claims and illogical objections have been found wanting time and again. The national academies of science (and many, many, similar institutions) have stated on several occasions that AGW is "established science" in the same way as relativity, quantum mechanics, tectonics, evolution, etc, are 'established science', to the best of my knowledge the NAS were the first major institution to make that kind of statement, they have held that view since the late 1950's when spectrometers were finally sensitive enough to detect that the CO2 and H2O IR absorption spectra were interleaved and not overlayed as previously thought.

Every scientific institution on the planet that has an opinion in the subject has stated they agree with the basic claims that the earth is warming and human emissions are responsible for most, if not all, of the observed warming. Even the American Petroleum Institute (publically) agrees with those basic claims. The pentagon regards it as the greatest medium and long term threat to global stability, and has done so for over a decade.

How much longer are you going to sit on the fence deciding whether or not it's a serious problem?

"Save the planet? - The planet is fine, the people are fucked." - George Carlin.

Fact - humans, like pigs, are omnivores.

Unwanted Advice - Get over it, and stop attacking someone who has single handedly done more to sell the benefits of humane treatment of our enslaved prey to the meat industry than global organisations such as PETA could ever hope to do with their immature and condescending, self-righteousness.

First, I just want to tell you how much I admire your work to demystify autism. I've been a huge fan since I saw "The woman that thinks like a cow" documentary many years ago. Since then I have gained three very lovable granddaughters, the oldest is six and mildly autistic. Your documentaries and talks were invaluable in helping me to understand autism before I experienced it up close and personal. You are one of the "great teachers" in my life and for that you have my eternal gratitude.

Question : Do you know a way to prevent 'dust bunnies' landing in clean bath water? - I can't even see them without glasses but they scare the bejesus out of my granddaughter. :)