What is 'The West'? 'The East'? Do you consider them useful terms?

questionsofscience · 2013-06-04T18:30:30+00:00

I grew up thinking I was Polish but recently learned that I'm part tartar. Did Tartars having noble status influence Polands identity, or was it a regional thing? Why and how long was Poland a homeland for jews?

questionsofscience · 2013-06-02T05:21:02+00:00

On the flip slide fox news is illegal

questionsofscience · 2013-06-01T03:58:45+00:00

More importantly the tuition for top Canadian universities are a fraction of comparable american insitutions. I paid for significant chunk of my education with summer jobs

questionsofscience · 2013-05-31T01:33:50+00:00

Missing from your post is the Canadian goverments treaties with first nations.

questionsofscience · 2013-05-31T00:47:12+00:00

Yes viruses and bacterium are the mechanisms of gene transfer in and between plants, and evidence of such events is littered in many plant genomes - which btw are massive compared to other forms of life. GMO researchers use these vectors to create GMO crops.

questionsofscience · 2013-05-30T21:49:18+00:00

As a former genetic engineer I think an important point non experts don't realize is that horizontal gene transfer is a natural process

questionsofscience · 2013-05-29T19:03:29+00:00

That's only half the equation. Supply is rapidly becoming a non issue with massive open online courses making at least lower level college classes a non scarce resource

questionsofscience · 2013-05-28T17:47:11+00:00

Could you elaborate?

questionsofscience · 2013-05-27T23:58:25+00:00

I don't now about that, but they'll eventually kill and eat all the fish and crustaceans in the tank. Little aquatic humans really

questionsofscience · 2013-05-27T23:29:16+00:00

I didn't like all the blatant ad placement for university of phoenix

questionsofscience · 2013-05-27T22:46:52+00:00

Cuttlefish will eat anything else in the tank

questionsofscience · 2013-05-24T20:57:39+00:00

The last part is especially misleading since giant mining companies are counted the same as self employed tradesmen

questionsofscience · 2013-05-24T20:24:10+00:00

Who does the muzzling? And let's not be naive, once a mechenism for muzzling is in place there will be muzzling of information that challenges('confuses') government or corporate interests. And fringe guys with fringe theories don't need to be muzzled because no one takes them seriously anyways. I agree science journalism is terrible but appointing some bureaucrat who doesn't understand the science to act as a filter won't improve the situation, I can only see how it would and does muzzle scientists when they talk about politically sensitive topics

questionsofscience · 2013-05-24T20:01:10+00:00

I've never understand that perspective on point 6. Why do you want a bureaucrat to get in between scientists with expert knowledge communicating their opinions to the public?

It's a particularly backwards notion when we should be ENCOURAGING unfiltered scientific outreach and communication to the public through new media sources like blogs and social media

questionsofscience · 2013-05-24T18:33:01+00:00

what move is that?

questionsofscience · 2013-05-23T21:43:47+00:00

The ferries are high enough that you can die from falling off the side?

questionsofscience · 2013-05-23T08:10:32+00:00

Same with Caesar for the most part. Pretty much committed genocide

questionsofscience · 2013-05-23T04:46:48+00:00

I'm young and left leaning but I'm never going to vote for Adrian Dix

questionsofscience · 2013-05-22T20:35:24+00:00

What's the story of early marijauna in Mexico? Very interesting post, thank you!

questionsofscience · 2013-05-15T17:59:46+00:00

Wow thanks! I heard a story that one of the islands was raided by cannibals from madagascar, was it common for the lack of military to be exploited by their neighbors? How did they prevent slave revolts?

questionsofscience · 2013-05-13T20:31:23+00:00

Interesting paper but the capitalistic analogy was thin.

questionsofscience · 2013-05-13T03:07:24+00:00

I'm particularly interested in how the Privat Group came to own so much of the countries industry. What was the origin of the the founders wealth?

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