Comment Re:Ordered sets (Score 1) 404
Black Parrot might be looking for the word "cardinal" (one, two, three, three and a half) versus "ordinal" (1st, 2nd, 3rd...)
Comment Re:The best solution is.... (Score 1) 203
When I was a freshman at MIT, a physics professor asked us in class how many would be willing to go to Mars, but only if it were a one way trip. About a quarter of the class raised their hands.
Submission + - Poisoned Google Image Searches Becoming a Problem (net-security.org)
Orome1 writes: If you are a regular user of Google's search engine you might have noticed that poisoned search results have practically become a common occurrence. Google has, of course, noticed this and does its best to mark the offending links as such, but they still have trouble when it comes to cleaning up its image search results.
Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity 773
myrdos2 writes "A host of common chemicals is feminizing males of every class of vertebrate animals, from fish to mammals, including people. Many have been identified as 'endocrine disruptors' or gender-benders because they interfere with hormones. Communities heavily polluted with gender-benders in Canada, Russia, and Italy have given birth to twice as many girls as boys, which may offer a clue to the mysterious shift in sex ratios worldwide. And a study at Rotterdam's Erasmus University showed that boys whose mothers had been exposed to PCBs grew up wanting to play with dolls and tea sets rather than with traditionally male toys. It also follows hard on the heels of new American research which shows that baby boys born to women exposed to widespread chemicals in pregnancy are born with smaller penises and feminized genitals. It is calculated that 250,000 babies who would have been boys have been born as girls instead in the US and Japan alone. And sperm counts are dropping precipitously. Studies in more than 20 countries have shown that they have dropped from 150 million per milliliter of sperm fluid to 60 million over 50 years."
Comment Testable hypothesis? (Score 1) 550
Here's a thought experiment on how to test whether these are hallucinations or ghosts: lie to some people that their family member has died with an elaborate hoax (fake body, send the family member on vacation, etc.) See if the person "hallucinates" or not. If yes, then that's consistent with "ghosts" being all in the mind. If not...
Of course this particular experiment would be grossly unethical to implement, but maybe similar experiments would get at it. Do relatives that go on long vacations or to war etc. prompt hallucinations?
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