Other - Science - June 2007

How many actually succeeded (found still holding the cuestick and you know what all over the place)? Would a coroner be able to distinguish, by doing an autopsy, if the guy knew he was about to die (from whatever) and wanted to experience one last orgasm before dying?...and not dying because of it or dying while in the act?...or foul play?

2007-06-28 00:24:27 · 1 answers · asked by cpc26ca 1

2007-06-27 19:46:07 · 5 answers · asked by denise-boshers@sbcglobal.net 1

2007-06-27 16:06:51 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Like my sister is smart and her friend isn'st and my sister's friend is older then her.

2007-06-27 16:00:26 · 7 answers · asked by Marrinah 1

I can't afford to pay $200 for a valve the size of a box of matches ... looking for a company that has the size/scale to NOT have to charge me up the wazoo.

2007-06-27 05:07:51 · 2 answers · asked by Dan 1

2007-06-27 04:50:49 · 7 answers · asked by Anita 3

There have been so many great inventors in our history, but which invention do you think is the best. Televisions, microwaves, computers, phones, cellphones, cars, airplanes? The choices are endless.

2007-06-27 04:28:44 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-27 04:00:16 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

that is completely objective. I want to learn about pure science, not someone's agenda.

2007-06-27 02:24:53 · 11 answers · asked by Mystine G 6

do i start from zero an turn counter-clockwise to the 1st number? then what? HELP!!!

2007-06-27 00:05:49 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can you please tell me what a monocular compound microscope is? please...

I've been searching for it for about an hour but I haven't found it yet! Please help me* It would be much better with an image

Please......................

2007-06-27 00:04:01 · 3 answers · asked by wolframite 2

is there any way to open without filling it w. water ect.? the combination goes up to 70, would it be wise to start from 111 untill i find the combination? how long would that take?, and i forget how to even enter the combo if i DID have it.. do i start on Zero? what do i do?

2007-06-26 23:58:27 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-26 23:45:09 · 1 answers · asked by camerupt 1

The kind that is used in magnetic experiments. Please tell me the name and place of the store(s) if possible. I've already tried some hardware stores and bookshops.. and please don't direct me to online shops. Thanks!

2007-06-26 23:34:41 · 3 answers · asked by Jadey 1

I was looking in the National Geographics book and there was this creepy creature in the arctic part, what exactly is it?

2007-06-26 23:33:55 · 2 answers · asked by UMYEAHH 2

There is a bed bug outbreak in our area. Unfortunatly we found some in our mattress. Do we need to buy a new mattress now, or can this be solved somehow?

2007-06-26 20:24:43 · 6 answers · asked by oneakmusic 2

So expalin to me how this theory of 4D works? I'm still confused in math class.

2007-06-26 20:06:33 · 2 answers · asked by Luke 2

Are scientists (especially - math, physics, IT, ...) thinner (on average) than the rest of population or not? Why is that? What is more true (on average):
- thin people are clever
- clever people don't eat much
- thick people are clever
- it is all rubbish

2007-06-26 19:50:57 · 4 answers · asked by fanda 2

I read somewhere in a medical journal that the brain fully matures at age 26. So, technically you couldn't be considered a full-fledged adult until then. Wicked! 4 more years!

2007-06-26 19:29:50 · 2 answers · asked by Shadowfaxw 4

2007-06-26 15:40:24 · 5 answers · asked by sharon 1

Though they are very confusing, and mysterious to me I think parallel universes and other deminsions are very facinating. I have always been very interested in learning about them but I haven't really had the chance to find anything out yet, so does anyone know anything about them at all? Are they merely things created in a persons mind...when things go through them they are said to disappear by a way through a form of a cloud. If this is true where do the things go I mean yea maybe but where is this or does anyone know other than anyone sucked into this "time warp" (maybe a stupid question but...) I just want to know as much as I can about these things so any information will help me out : )

2007-06-26 15:25:30 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-26 15:05:27 · 5 answers · asked by lullabyelady 2

What exactly is laughter in terms of biology, and nerves etc....

2007-06-26 14:08:15 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Let's first consider the recent Eyre-Walker & Keightley article in Nature magazine3. By comparing human and chimp differences in protein-coding DNA, they arrived at a deleterious (harmful) mutation rate for humans of U=1.6 per individual per generation. They acknowledge that this seems too high, but quickly invoke something called "synergistic epistasis" as a just-so explanation (I'll address this later).

What is not adequately conveyed to the reader is just how bad this problem is for evolution. It is related to the renowned geneticist J.B.S. Haldane's reproductive cost problem that Walter Remine so eloquently elucidated in "The Biotic Message"4. What we will determine is how many offspring are needed to produce one that does not receive a new harmful mutation during the reproduction process. This is important since evolution requires "beneficial" mutations to build up such that new features and organs can arise (I say "beneficial" loosely, since there are no known examples where a mutation added information to the genome, though there are some that under certain circumstances can provide a temporary or superficial advantage to a species5). If over time harmful mutations outpace "beneficial" ones to fixation, evolution from molecules-to-man surely cannot occur. This would be like expecting to get rich despite consistently spending more money than you make.

So, to determine the reproductive impact, let

p = probability an individual's genome does not receive a new defect this generation

A female is required to produce two offspring, one to replace herself and her mate. So, she needs to produce at least 2/p to pay this cost and maintain the population. Let B represent the birth threshold:

B = 2/p

The probability p of an offspring escaping error-free is given by e^-U6. Therefore, making the substitution,

B = 2e^U. For U=1.6, B = 9.9 births per female!

What pray tell does this mean? What are the authors failing to make crystal clear? It says that females need to produce over 10 offspring just to keep genetic deterioration near equilibrium! A rate less than 10 means certain genetic deterioration over time, because even the evolutionist's magic wand of natural selection cannot help (in fact Eyre-Walker & Keightley had already factored in natural selection when they arrived at a rate of 1.6)

Now consider that extremely favorable assumptions for evolution were used in the Eyre-Walker & Keightley article. If more realistic assumptions are used the problem gets much worse. First, they estimate that insertions/deletions and some functional non-genic sequences would each independently add 10% to the rate. Second, and more importantly, they assume a functional genome size of only 2.25% (60K genes). When they assume a more widely accepted 3% functional genome (80K genes), they cite U = 3.1, which they admit is "remarkably high" (even this may be a favorable assumption, considering Maynard Smith estimates the genic area to be between 9 - 27%7).

Widely recognized geneticist James Crow in an article in the same Nature issue agrees that the deleterious rate is more likely twice the rate cited by Eyre-Walker and Keightley8. So if we use Crow's revised rate of U=3, we get:

B = 2e^3 = 40 births before we get one offspring that escapes a new defect!

2007-06-26 13:29:08 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

We all seem to be intimately connected (in every way imaginable) to each other and everything else in the universe, so are we literally all the same thing that has been subdividing and re-combining since the beginning.

2007-06-26 12:42:40 · 9 answers · asked by upperdeluz 2

What kind of jobs can you get if you major in Nutrtional Science and do they get paid a lot?

2007-06-26 12:28:20 · 4 answers · asked by cremedelacreme 3

For example, how would you measure the shape of square and a square with a pieace of corner missing, so that you can distinguish any shape from another?

2007-06-26 11:51:21 · 2 answers · asked by shapetalker 3

2007-06-26 11:29:22 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Don't be stupid.

2007-06-26 10:54:33 · 6 answers · asked by Spanglish 2

If you were making a presentation to an audience of non-scientists how would describe 1 PPM. I was hoping to conger up something most people could quickly grasp.

2007-06-26 09:28:39 · 8 answers · asked by Menehune 7