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Paolo

Awesome stuff guys, I saw the announcement - it's a great idea and I can't think of anyone better placed to execute it. I hope I'll be able to contribute some time to the collaboration (when I finally have some time available again!)

Paolo

Not sure if this is still of use for the situation that started the thread, but for future reference there is Down House in Bromley, Darwin's home and natural lab for much of his life. Then there's the Grant Museum in Bloomsbury (although they're shut until next Spring as they move their collections...

Paolo

N.B. there is an interesting review of one element of this discussion here:

Gender-related dimorphisms in the patterns of cellular activity and neuronal plasticity in response to repeated stress (pdf)

Paolo

There are physical differences between sexes, including differences in the structure and/or activity patterns of the brain. But there are physical differences between members of the same sex as well. I'm not sure how useful gender segregation is as a mechanism for understanding the cognitive implica...

Paolo

Saying ultimately everything is down to evolution is like saying it's ultimately down to physics; that's true but misleading. No adult of sound mind is a prisoner of evolution, nor is any society. Any person of sound mind can change themselves and their behaviour; any society can change its ethics....

Paolo

Mickeyd, my post was addressing the validity (or otherwise) of your a priori assumptions. Perhaps if you refrained from copy-pasting large tracts of text and going off on a tangent when someone raises an objection to your rationale, it would be easier for us to engage in useful discussion. Keep it s...

Paolo

Sticking to the thread topic, the only arguments for the existence of God (gods) that I have ever seen or heard have either been based on assumptions founded on religious texts (which I do not consider to be a valid source for a variety of reasons, not least because there are so many different texts...

Paolo

45p as a minimum price for a unit is only going to hit the drinkers of really cheap or really strong booze. It will put people off whisky, gin and other spirits (for better or worse) and probably drive the poorest alcoholics to drinking alternatives to 'safe' alcohol, so there will probably be more ...

Paolo

Fia wrote:I do have to ask: Why What does it achieve

It will help to stop global warming - obviously!

Paolo

pps: the ref to natural selection...hopefully it won't be a bait coz we have already spoken about Evolution and it is fairly clear that natural selection is also a pseudo Not going into this in detail again - Natural Selection is a simple process that works at a variety of levels, with interactions...

Paolo

Alright...cool, thanks - I didn't know about that. So, then if we look at it on the opposite polarity, there would be a point of maximum temp too? Since all energy together cannot heat up more than a certain temp, just like they cannot be colder than a certain temp? If this is true, then temp is re...

Paolo

That was what was on the Victorian Pharmacy the other night, wasn't it? I think I saw one at the Wellcome Collection, I assume they just generate a hundred or so volts [---][/---] it'll feel as if the 'doctor' is doing something powerful to you and so enhance the placebo effect. Next time I'm talki...

Paolo

The whisky certainly helped . . . Umm, Dave, what whisky did you have? I may need it to understand Paolo's link! In simple terms, quantum entanglement is a relationship between objects that means one reacts to a change in the state of the other at a faster-than-light rate (I think it's at least 10,...

Paolo

A time machine may work, but it would only be able to operate within the time span it had been operational for and it could only transmit information by utilising quantum entanglement.

Transmitting matter through time is implausible at best.

Paolo

I cannot comment much on this, except to say that if at least some of is true it is horrifying and certainly different from what we in Britain tend to learn - that the British Raj ended suttee and brought some order to the subcontinent. I am really sorry that you feel so hurt and angry about what f...

Paolo

seyorni wrote:Humanists don't eat humans?

A misnomer, then....

Surely it would be a humanitarian who ate humans, as a vegetarian eats vegetables...

Paolo

...the fact is there is only an infinite continuum of temperature... [pedant]There is not an infinite continuum of temperature, there is a theoretical absolute zero point where there is no energy left in the system (−273.15°C or 0°K) and there is a theoretical maximum temperature which would have e...

Paolo

...the fact is there is only an infinite continuum of temperature... [pedant]There is not an infinite continuum of temperature, there is a theoretical absolute zero point where there is no energy left in the system (−273.15°C or 0°K) and there is a theoretical maximum temperature which would have e...

Paolo

...the fact is there is only an infinite continuum of temperature... [pedant]There is not an infinite continuum of temperature, there is a theoretical absolute zero point where there is no energy left in the system (−273.15°C or 0°K) and there is a theoretical maximum temperature which would have e...

Paolo

The point I have been trying to make, over and again, is that the person who disbelieves in God has no need to prove his argument; it is up those who claim that their belief in God is true... to back this claim up in some way. I agree with this, although I would say that the person making the claim...

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