There are many small, unglamorous problems in science whose solutions are nonetheless important.

Your 1080p h264 files are probably just shitty upscales of low quality divx files some weeaboo downloaded off of Share.

Einstein's belief in God is what lead him to make his stupid "God doesn't play dice" comment. If one of the greatest scientific minds ever to exist can be crippled by religion, then I have good evidence science and religion are incompatible.

Normal cells do not reproduce indefinitely not because their DNA is breaking down, but because of checkpoints in the cell cycle. In cancerous cells, these checkpoints fail because of problems such as the overexpression of oncogenes or the underexpression of tumor suppressors.

The advantage of published books is that someone has already screened most of the crap and I don't have to see it. Except when someone drops the ball and lets something like Wide Sargasso Sea through. Anyway, I'm going to happily maintain my standards. You can recognize goatse.cx as art if you want to keep up your trendy relativism.

It is a sad day when bad fanfiction and AMVs are considered "art and culture."

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/food/beverages/coffee-tea/coffee-taste-test-3-07/overview/0307_coffee_ov_1.htm Your are apparently in the minority. CR's taste test found McDonald's coffee was the best.

In the same time period, China has also conquered and displaced the natives of Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia. The parts of Southern China formerly occupied by the Miao were conquered and settled by Han Chinese a bit earlier.

Open sores software just proves his point.

I didn't find HL Math very useful, but that was probably because I had a horrible teacher, and it doesn't fit in well with the normal American math curriculum. On the other hand, if you're going for a degree in physics, the IB Physics Higher Level course will not be very useful. It's not at all comparable to the AP Physics C course. HL Chemistry was not as bad as Physics, but not great either.

The French Baccalaureate is not the same as the International Baccalaureate. (Although, having complete the IB program, I do not have many good things to say about it's science standards and offerings.)