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Hi there, I am looking for an easy way to teach my son the periodic table, if there is one! He is in second year of secondary and he suffers from dyslexia so any suggestions would be really welcomed....
Before anyone asks, no I am not drinking or smoking anything tonight(yet)! but this is something that I've been wondering about for a long time and it all stems from the idea of matter, anti matter,...
There is a lovely big sparkly diamond on an advert for dishwasher powder, that I really love looking at. Why are humans attracted to sparkly things? Does our love of shiny glittery things serve any...
Hi, I'm trying to plot a dodecahedron on an ancient 3D program (VU-3D on the ZX Spectrum, in fact). What I need is a set of co-ordinates for the vertices, either absolute or relative... it doesn't...
Last month during a test at the LHC some neutrinos apparently travelled faster than light. This as we all know has been proven to be impossible. So do we really understand all of the properties of...
Particularly lysosomes. I think I'm getting a low yield as some remain attached to the cytoskeleton and are then lost. I want to add something that could dissociate the lysosomes from the...
How does Google store all the information?
Where does Google store all the information?...
Occasionally, my digital tv and Digibox make loud popping and cracking noises, caused by poor reception. What is actually making the sound? It seems much louder than the volume setting of the tv, and...
This science allows whole genes to be extracted and inserted into another species. Some strange occurrences have come from this. On a Horizon program they took genes from a spider that produced the...
I have asked this question before, but didn't get a satisfactory answer. "When walking on the beach at the water's edge, why is some sand hard and compacted while other is soft and waterlogged?...
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On a 38 number roulette wheel, what are the odds on throwing the same number 3 times?
Explain the bones of skull bone with their clinical features
http://www.telegraph....ami-to-hit-earth.html...
A curve is given by x=t2, y=t3. Find the eqn of the tangent with parameter u and the eqn of the normal to the curve at a pt whose parameter is v Find the parameter of the point where the tangent at...
Number of hydrogen atoms replaceable by a base in an acid.
I read in a magazine recently that scientists reckon that soon we could use computers to "see" what we have dreamed about and possibly even record dreams to watch the next day. Is that true,...
Its remarkable how we can look back billions of years soon after creation. If all those events happened billions of years ago how do we know what happened to those events since?
Watching Stargazing Live tonight, they were talking about SETI. I'm sure I remember funding being withdrawn from SETI a few years ago, and it being closed down. I think we discussed it here - but it...
The government has decided to remove funding from 'creationist' schools, is the 'enlightenment' back on track?
http://www.guardian.c...m-intelligent-design?...
