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Why not just use body fat % measurements?

Always check to see if a place near you will accept furniture items as a donation. (Goodwill, Salvation Army, etc.) If nothing else you get a tax credit for the donation.

The bandwidth is improving. If they could fix that 240000ms ping it would at least be bearable.

Can we get a citation for the toxicity of ABS? My Google-fu is failing me as I can only find articles that say the fumes can cause minor irritation when inhaled or in contact with …

You forgot to add in all those tie fighters chasing them that also tried to make it through an asteroid field.

Could also be a holdover from using cents. I have always seen the cents symbol used after the number so 70¢ is a shorter way to write $0.70

In the US you must provide a valid photo ID when checking in to validate your age.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/imgs/a/124/kennedy.png I think going to the moon was a good choice.

Just add the hostile take over expansion called Risk. http://www.gilwood.org/riskopoly.htm

Just to clarify there are toxins that will bioaccumulate such as heavy metals, however simply including meat/dairy/eggs in your diet will not cause this.

This is called phase shifting(1) adding a large enough inductor to all of your resistive loads will cause your power factor(2) to drop. Unfortunately for you the power company bill…

It has to do with the mucus in the nasal cavity not draining properly do to the lack of gravity. Most of your sense of taste is actually due to smell which is reduced when you have…

This should be the standard, but the exception is always going to be multi switch circuits with multiple switches controlling the same light.

This is true, that is why I only eat the "skins" of modern pennies if I don't have any old ones. The inside is where all that nasty zinc comes from.

Considering that the magic 8-ball has a patient, why not? (Granted it is actually an interesting patent since it solved the problem of air bubbles obscuring the answers on the answ…

Just goes to show there is no such thing as a free lunch, you have to pay for it with information.

Mold has been using penicillin to kill bacteria for a very long time. Resistance to it has been developing right alongside it, but it is only in the past 75 years that we have incr…

How does paying bills and credit card debt mute the effect of the tax break?

At least the ideas are put on record and able to be accessed by someone who could see it through once the patent has expired, which fortunately is a reasonable amount of time.

I would think that having a resistance an antibiotic meant that a bacteria was losing out on a different advantage. This is why resistant bacteria only exist in places where having…

That explains why the search/filtering for products on Target's site was so terrible when I recently had to buy an item from there.

But by now the rate of creation should equal the rate of decay so even though "new" carbon is being made the amount of carbon doesn't really change.

Edit: Other replies are better. Just going to add that if we create a new element that is stable it will be big news by itself.

Doing some quick math the used car would have to be valued at 70% of the new car's value to make the monthly payments equal. Edit: Also going to point out that you will lose about …

As scary as that sounds, I feel it is better than the mindless landmines laying around from past wars. In theory, when the war is done you could hit the disarm or recall button unl…