... I have encountered many people (oops, **ANECTODE ALERT**) who are blatantly ignorant of the above issues. My junior year of high school I did a project on...
joeyk
z_kreidelrj@...
Apr 29, 1998 4:58 am
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The Quackerey at the University of Texas school of Nursing Website is in the process of being updated. Please look at the two new links; UTSON's justifacation...
Roahn H. Wynar
rwynar@...
Apr 29, 1998 4:59 am
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... I hate the extension of democracy. It's ok in it's place, but I wish people would leave it there. What does public opinion have to do with what sould be...
Charles A. Lieberman
calieber@...
Apr 29, 1998 5:00 am
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I received a private letter concerning my previous message that included the remark that our sub pub code books had "lead covers." As you can see from the ...
Robert G. Grimes
grimes@...
Apr 29, 1998 5:01 am
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... Well, for one, statements made by and to the general public demonstrate misconceptions about just what clones are, just what forests do, etc. ...
James H.G. Redekop
tzoq@...
Apr 29, 1998 5:02 am
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... Well, I don't disagree that H. sapiens, as I'd understood Neanderthals to be, constitutes a "human-like species" but I'm not sure it's the best way of ...
Charles A. Lieberman
calieber@...
Apr 29, 1998 5:03 am
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... Sure, they'd laugh at me, but that's a little more in the realm of specialized knowledge than being able to tell the Sun from the Moon. Mistaking a star...
James H.G. Redekop
tzoq@...
Apr 29, 1998 5:04 am
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... No, this isn't correct. Chlorophyll is a cluster of carbon rings, although it does have a magnesium atom in the center. Hemoglobin is a protein, consisting...
joeyk
z_kreidelrj@...
Apr 29, 1998 5:05 am
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... This is a variant on an older puzzle, about meeting a large entourage on the road to St. Ives. That one had sort of a trick ending, this one appears to be...
Dave Palmer
dpalmer@...
Apr 29, 1998 5:06 am
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In a recent issue of Muscles and Fitness magazine (M&F) about two months ago (special nutrition supplement issue -cover photo of a 20 something man eating a...
Peter Huston
phuston@...
Apr 29, 1998 5:06 am
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... Well sure. But then, too, many or most people are more ignorant of very basic driving skills, or accounting skills, or communication skills than is good...
K Waldo Enns
kenns@...
Apr 29, 1998 5:10 am
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... From: NEW-LIST - New List Announcements [mailto:NEW-LIST@...] On Behalf Of Randy Cassingham Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 5:16 PM To:...
Aditya, the Hindu Ske...
a018967t@...
Apr 29, 1998 4:59 am
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Posted at 7:00 p.m. PDT Tuesday, April 28, 1998 ... Inner Peace Movement involves raising consciousness to angelic proportions By Larry Gierer Knight Ridder...
tad@...
Apr 29, 1998 6:04 am
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... Are the speakers at the Conference on Volunteerism appear- ing as volunteers, or are they being paid? If they are being paid, the Honolulu papers should...
The Textbook League
textbook@...
Apr 29, 1998 6:28 am
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... Roahn: If your information is right, I hope that you will consider contacting one of the big newspapers in Texas -- say, the _Dallas Morning News_ -- and...
The Textbook League
textbook@...
Apr 29, 1998 6:46 am
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... Michael, I'm never quite sure with you when you are expressing your own opinion and when you are just casting out something to draw the conversational fish...
Samantha Atkins
samantha@...
Apr 29, 1998 7:13 am
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... Yes, one, the narator of the poem. All others are going the other direction....
Paul Bernhardt
pbern7@...
Apr 29, 1998 8:26 am
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... frauds or when evidence is presented to show that what they claim to do is impossible or unlikely...WHY AND HOW can they still make millions of dollars a...
Boxel
boxel@...
Apr 29, 1998 8:30 am
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... Exactly the point. One of the reasons that we often turn off those who could most benefit from some basic scientific understanding is the frequent...
Paul Bernhardt
pbern7@...
Apr 29, 1998 8:50 am
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... (snip) ... I really don't know. I have no trouble accepting the fact that some scientists are arrogant and though I don't recall reading such books they ...
Sigurður GÃsl...
helsi@...
Apr 29, 1998 9:18 am
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Michael D. Sofka wrote: ... ... Nah. They're just not prepared. I have seen both sides of these issues argued by people who don't know what they are talking...
John Blanton
john.blanton@...
Apr 29, 1998 12:21 pm
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[Thanks to Bill Noble (william_b_noble@...)] Glossary of Mathematical Mistakes By Paul Cox This is a list of mathematical mistakes made over and over...
Jack Kolb
KOLB@...
Apr 29, 1998 12:44 pm
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... No. First, hemoglobin is a protein which has heme (a ring system with iron in the center) bound to it. Heme itself is very similar to chlorophyll (except...
Thomas J. Wheeler
tjwhee01@...
Apr 29, 1998 4:22 pm
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... She waved her "usual $10,000 fee."...
Vic Stenger
vjs@...
Apr 29, 1998 4:24 pm
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... These are great, but is there a web page where I can actually see the figures and the Reader-submitted Examples and such? ...
James H.G. Redekop
tzoq@...
Apr 29, 1998 4:24 pm
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... Kevin, I finally located where I had read of the new threat from subs being more silent than our nuclear vessels, here is an excerpt - Note: the entire ...
Robert G. Grimes
grimes@...
Apr 29, 1998 4:26 pm
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I just received the most recent False Memory Syndrome Foundation newsletter. It is rather lengthy so I will not post it, but if anyone would like a copy...
Peter Huston
phuston@...
Apr 29, 1998 4:28 pm
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... In this case, a little of both. Regarding the immediate hypothetical, ... I couldn't agree more. The quality of debate in this country *seems* to be...
Michael D. Sofka
sofkam@...
Apr 29, 1998 4:28 pm
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... This is pretty much what I expected, but I didn't know enough details to challeng it properly. The diagrams they had were two identical molecular layouts,...
James H.G. Redekop
tzoq@...
Apr 29, 1998 4:29 pm
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... Hemoglobin is built from amino acids in the translation of mRNA. The chlorophyll is digested and broken into its constituent amino acids and the magnesium...