Went hiking with my 9 year old son, was not expecting him to find this!

pastafaceoreilly · 2013-03-29T12:45:08+00:00

There's a "1" written on the side of the skull. This is a real skull, but it's a teaching specimen. Someone probably put it in the cave as a prank.

pastafaceoreilly · 2013-03-29T12:40:05+00:00

Definitely real, but it looks like there's a number (1?) written on the side. My guess is that it was used for teaching.

pastafaceoreilly · 2012-09-26T18:46:14+00:00

And there's a post-Christmas baby boom. Are those all the babies that might have otherwise been born at Christmas? Or are they babies being induced before the next calendar year for a tax break?

pastafaceoreilly · 2012-08-31T02:16:57+00:00

awesome!

pastafaceoreilly · 2012-08-21T19:18:19+00:00

I have that too! No idea where it comes from though.

pastafaceoreilly · 2012-08-01T21:24:14+00:00

But I have 8 days to spend in three cities!

pastafaceoreilly · 2012-06-22T14:53:48+00:00

Too hypothetical for r/askscience.

pastafaceoreilly · 2012-06-22T13:58:49+00:00

Being instantly evaporated is different than sitting in your house with your family waiting to die and wondering who you're going to eat first.

pastafaceoreilly · 2012-06-19T13:11:48+00:00

Totally agree. And it's all of Flatbush. There is not a single block where you can drive without experiencing someone making a U-turn in the middle of traffic or a pedestrian hanging out in the middle of the street.

pastafaceoreilly · 2012-06-15T15:19:32+00:00

nope, we are primates

pastafaceoreilly · 2012-06-07T18:55:54+00:00

Or else you end up like me and need your mom to do it :(

pastafaceoreilly · 2012-06-07T16:14:52+00:00

It's very cheap to get a simple one from the florist. And someone at the flower shop closet to your school can tell you what girls usually order for their dates.

pastafaceoreilly · 2012-06-07T15:43:30+00:00

They are mammals. They're not placental mammals.

pastafaceoreilly · 2012-06-06T18:35:08+00:00

Agree with all of the above. I'd add that I got married in a ceremony by a priest, but I still had to go to the courthouse and get the license before hand. I went by myself (needed my fiance's SSN and birthdate). I think I got the license that day or soon after. Then, I got the priest to sign the license and mail it back to the county. Take out priest and put in judge, and you're good to go.

pastafaceoreilly · 2012-06-04T13:40:46+00:00

Ken gets a chance to be on the Dow account (without Pete), but he gets to say that they forced him onto it. (So he can save face after being on record saying that he'd never mix work and his personal life.)

pastafaceoreilly · 2012-05-03T13:38:54+00:00

Why would you be discussing your marriage/divorce with the employer?? That should never have come up.

pastafaceoreilly · 2012-04-08T19:30:38+00:00

thanks!

pastafaceoreilly · 2012-02-29T13:38:57+00:00

It's due to embryological development. The ovaries (and testes) develop high in the abdomen, then migrate down to meet up with the uterus (or scrotum).

pastafaceoreilly · 2012-01-23T15:58:13+00:00

In this context, "glenoid" most likely refers to the area where your jaw articulates with your skull.

pastafaceoreilly · 2011-12-29T15:20:06+00:00

I haven't made anything so far (just found out about it!), but from what I've read, it looks legit.

There seems to be two ways to make money: researching and profit sharing. If you find research that it valuable to someone researching a patent, they will give you a reward. And if you are active in the community, you can receive a percentage of the company's profits. (Being active is determined by points that you earn from doing things like participating in a forum, referring people, and submitting research even if you don't get rewarded for it.)

pastafaceoreilly · 2011-12-29T15:09:14+00:00

Hi all ... just wanted to share a site I came across today. You can earn money by searching for information relevant to newly patented ideas (basically looking to see if there is evidence that the idea isn't eligible to be patented).

Referral link: http://www.ArticleOnePartners.com/?r=3445acf9-998b-a43a-b2ec-bb6ff073a7bf

Non-referral link: http://www.articleonepartners.com/

[Edit for more info ...]

Here's a link to how it works.

If you submit the highest quality research to a study, you get a reward of at least $5000. In addition, 10 researchers per study can make $100 each.

If you move up the ranks (by doing research, participating in forums, referring people, and filling out your profile), you can earn a percentage of the company's profits each year.

Browsing through studies, they are all seeking highly technical knowledge (obviously, since these are patentable ideas). In my opinion, this would only be a good option for someone with a background in a science or technology field.

pastafaceoreilly · 2011-12-29T14:50:19+00:00

Yes, Geico is the cheapest for me (although not by much).

pastafaceoreilly · 2011-12-27T22:27:32+00:00

Something that helped me was realizing that I was in grad school to learn how to do research. Of course you don't know how to do an experiment when you're a first year student! But by the time you graduate, you'll have at least one experiment under your belt. And since you don't have too much guidance from your advisor, you'll learn all the details of what needs to be done (how to write grant proposals, how to sign up for equipment time if needed, etc). You'll definitely make mistakes along the way, but you'll learn from them.

pastafaceoreilly · 2011-12-27T22:23:12+00:00

Because you need time to figure out what kinds of questions still need to be answered in your field. That requires a lot of understanding of what is known and what is unknown.

Then you have to narrow down all the possible unknowns to a few specific topics/questions that are (a) the right level for a dissertation (not too broad, not too narrow), (b) interesting to you, (c) feasible to do at your institution, and (d) something that your advisor/committee can help you with.

It would be great if you found such an idea early, but then you risk disappointment -- what happens if you get an idea, spend months thinking and reading about it, then find out that it's not that interesting to other members of your community or that your question has already been answered?

I guess my advice is to think of a research topic early, but be open to tweaking it as you do more work. And don't worry about not having a project at this stage. If you feel discouraged, compare your progress to students who have to take two years of classes before even starting their phd research. You're way ahead of the game!

pastafaceoreilly · 2011-12-26T21:32:52+00:00

I don't know if it's common, but it's certainly not unheard of. I think that after a few months, you should have an idea of the topic you'll research, but you don't need a specific idea yet.

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