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It would start boiling but this very fact would very quickly cool it off to freezing point: water has a very high heat of vaporization.

And the counter-counterpoint is the paradox of thrift. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift

The physicist involved are also skeptical of their own experiments. That's why they independently build two experiments, ATLAS and CMS, that measure the decay product of the collis…

In similar news, researches recently found that Madagascar was colonized by Indonesian people, not people coming from mainland Africa. Moreover, there were only about 30 female set…

The Bach metaphor is really bad. I believe Hofstadter referees to the canon by which Bach inscribed "Ascendenteque Modulatione ascendat Gloria Regis" ("As the keys ascend so may th…

I think your analysis is way off. The problems you cite are not problems of size but of population density. And I would not think that anybody in their right mind would argue that …

From your description you don't seem to really use the db, so can't you roll your own specialized data structure? If each record is 20 byte, 1/2 million per minute for one hour is …

Fro what it is worth, from my experience doing research it is very important for your sanity to work with other people that are about the same level of competence as you. That mean…

Another solution is to keep the Ctrl keys where they are (note the plural), but hit them with the side of your hands: you just need to roll you hand a little bit to the outside. It…

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to remove. —Antoine de Saint-Exupery