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Bee: Yes, and I know. :p Two near parallel lines look like they are going in the same direction. But stretch those lines out over 100 miles and you end up in wildly different places. Our human perception is too coarse to notice such subtle differences until you are shouting, "Hey, you over...

Yes, I understand the responsibility issue very well myself, now that my parents are old and need help.

Once you have left school, you can escape the confines of the average, where the forces pull you back to the centre. Instead, you can rise through a meritocracy where you cash in on your intellect. And maybe your anger dissipates into pity for those who bullied you, as you see them struggle...

Yes indeed, a good insight there Doc. Lateral thinking.

As your probably know, saliva acts as an anaesthetic. No TCP back then! In fact, my great, great, great.....great aunty lived in a tree. Basic living conditions! In fact, social security back then was a mere olive branch. :D [Hangs head in shame.]

Bee, please feel free to start your own thread. You are allowed you know! Lots of research on Metformin as a potential for a life extension drug. Many are taking it without diabetes.

If a human brain is associative, the nerve impulses have to go in one direction at a time, even if much parallel processing goes on. Neurons in our brain are associated with a huge cluster of 10K other neurons. Yet, the directional travel of each impulse is still linear. The impulse may come...

Or could it be a evolutionary form of stress testing your weaknesses? A bit like the urge to suck on a cut you have on your arm. Get that saliva in there to heal the wound.

This is where it gets difficult. As you age, kidneys decline while absorption of vitamins also decline. In order to get your required dose, you need to take more. It becomes a vicious circle of straining your kidneys more and more in a vain attempt to get your daily requirement.

Perhaps playing too many video games turns our perception into dog years. While playing the games, you are so "in" them that you have no idea that those 7 hours have flown by. You only experienced the 1 hour, if using a non-video game playing benchmark.

My understanding is that if someone is aged 10, an IQ of 130 would mean that kid had a mental age of 13. I am not quite sure how that scales with age, but that is at least some kind of benchmark. Doc, did you feel you were "different" to others, perhaps not even knowing why? Or did you feel you...

If you do decide to get it, I would love to hear your comments. Maybe you can relate to the material and get insights you have not yet considered.

Hahah, nice quip there Doc! :D

This is interesting. A discussion on the morality of killing fish has turned into a culinary gastronomique affair. :p

If I understand you correctly, that means that through strict logic you can prove that a God does not exist. Yet logic does not allow a universal negative to be proved. Therefore, through logic, you can both prove and not be able to prove God exists. If there are only condition A (he exists) or...

Let's face it, back in the day we didn't live very long. In 1800, life expectancy was typically around 36 years, with most of us dying of infectious disease, and we all had pretty bad teeth too! If you got married at 18, you would be with your partner for on average 18 years. Actually, my math...

If we bang enough heads together, we might come up with an answer. Sorry, I couldn't resist that one!

You're welcome. The real risk is the opportunity cost of your time. Sometimes there is solace in the comforting words of your cohort.

Nice to see you here Diggers. Get stuck in there with your first post! :ROFLMAO:

We all have them. How often do you get them? What are the triggers?