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Measuring the Speed of Light With Valentine's Day Chocolate 126

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @04:04PM from the speed-of-the-sound-of-loneliness dept.

Cytotoxic writes "What to do with all of those leftover Valentine's Day chocolates? — a common problem for the Slashdot crowd. The folks over at Wired magazine have an answer for you in a nice article showing how to measure the speed of light with a microwave and some chocolate. A simple yet surprisingly accurate method that can be used to introduce the scientific method to children and others in need of a scientific education."

Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality 380

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 11, 2010 @05:30PM from the applied-psychology dept.

the3stars writes "'Removing part of the brain can induce inner peace, according to researchers from Italy. Their study provides the strongest evidence to date that spiritual thinking arises in, or is limited by, specific brain areas. This raises a number of interesting issues about spirituality, among them whether or not people can be born with a strong propensity towards spirituality and also whether it can be acquired through head trauma." One critic's quoted response: "It's important to recognize that the whole study is based on changes in one self-report measure, which is a coarse measure that includes some strange items."

Comment Leagalise "Sheep love" (Score 1) 255

by guru_Stew on Friday September 28, 2007 @12:14AM (#20778431) Attached to: New Zealand Police Act Wiki Lets You Write the Law

I'm quite sure this is simply a way to legalize sexual relations with sheep. Politicians couldn't be seen to propose this, but left open to the general population of NZ it'll find it's way in there.

Journal Journal: hotmail security

Journal by guru_Stew on Friday September 05, 2003 @01:38AM

I noticed that when sending myself an asp script I wrote at uni to my hotmail account, which I could acess from home, the hotmail server executed the page before displaying it, rather than allowing it to be downloaded like a normal atachment. Does this mean any one can execute ASP scripts on the hotmail server?

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