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1=2: A Proof using Complex Numbers

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http://www.math.toronto.edu
Posted by brruce 414 days ago


This supposed proof uses complex numbers. If you're not familiar with them, there's a brief introduction to them given below.   Read More »
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Machine Gives Full Night's Sleep In 3 Hours

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Posted by brruce 463 days ago


University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have invented a machine that makes you sleep with the PUSH OF A BUTTON, then gives you the equivalent of eight hours of sleep in just two or three hours. The machine uses a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to induce the slow brain   Read More »
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84% of women in survey say they've met new men by ass grinding in club

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Posted by brruce 463 days ago


"Grinding" is exactly what it sounds like -- a man introduces himself to a strange woman by coming up behind her on the dance floor and rubbing his pelvis against her. 84% of the women in the survey say this is how they have personally experienced new men introducing themselves. And to think I wast   Read More »
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7 bizarre things to do AFTER you're dead.

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Posted by treelovinhippie 473 days ago


Some of us just can ’t let go. Even after we’ve assumed room temperature. If this sounds like you, call up your lawyer and have him sharpen his quill. Put one of these burial rituals into your last request, and keep the conversation interesting at the wake.   Read More »
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Drugs and Toxicity: "The least toxic drug known to humans is now illegal."

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Posted by treelovinhippie 499 days ago


The least toxic drug known to humans is now illegal. The most toxic is available at Safeway. None of this makes any sense at all. And yet we continue to imprison people for ingesting substances far less harmful than others freely available. One has to wonder what the prohibitionists are smoking.   Read More »
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70% Of Americans Don't Know Plastic Is Made With Oil

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Posted by ziggy 485 days ago


According to a recent nationwide online survey, 72 percent of the American public does not know that conventional plastic is made from petroleum products, primarily oil. Moreover, 40 percent of the respondents believe that plastic will biodegrade at some point.   Read More »
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Top 20 Historical Myths

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Posted by brruce 499 days ago


Here are 20 of the most common historical myths, which have misled and misinformed people for years, decades, or centuries.   Read More »
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Einstein was right: space and time bend

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Posted by brruce 499 days ago


90 years after he expounded his famous theory, a $700m probe has proved that the universe behaves as he said. The early results from Gravity Probe B, one of NASA's most complicated satellites, confirmed 'to a precision of better than 1%' the assertion Einstein made - that an object such as...   Read More »
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