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My barber used to ask me this when I was 5 years old.

The Eastern USA was one of the few places which had lower average temperatures. Some places even had the lowest recorded local temperature. I hope that the people of the US will not be insular, and believe that local temperatures are more important than temperatures worldwide. see...

An antibiotic which does not become less effective may have been discovered. The new antibiotic is called Teixobactin, and is effective against MRSA. It is still early days. Trials have not yet begun. At the moment, it shows no problems with bacterial resistance. The last such discovery was...

The Pope has given a new slant on the seven deadly sins, giving a speech to the Curia outlining their many faults, and not to rapturous applause. 1) Feeling immortal, immune or indispensable. "A Curia that doesn't criticize itself, that doesn't update itself, that doesn't seek to improve itself...

spam. there's a lot of it about.

A new microcomputer will be shipping next year The MIPS Creator CI20 costing $65 People seem quite impressed by it. http://blog.imgtec.com/powervr/mips-creator-ci20-development-board-now-available Have you ever used such a development board? The Raspberry pi is the best known one. If so...

Listen to the comet sing:

Unfortunately, one of these people died as a result of trying to rescue other people in difficulties. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-29782487 Good video here about riptides if you do any sea swimming. (Oh, and it's not a tide it's a current)

Some of the finds in the series Storage Wars are placed in the lockers, according to ex star of the programme, Mogul. OK, it isn't a shock, but doesn't faking ruin the whole concept?

What's going on? He got a seven day ban, which has expired, but still isn't able to post. I am missing my ufo and spectre news. Earth could be being invaded and we wouldn't know anything about it.

What did anyone have to gain from the death of this good and kind man?

No, you banned him for disagreeing with you. There is a difference.

Try putting some of your posts through this grammar checker. See how your words match up to the standards of this on-line grammar Nazi. http://www.grammarly.com/?q=grammar&...FZMQtAodLTMAMQ I thought it had made an error when it said that it had detected plagiarism, but my words were already...

What are your experiences of death and dying? Here's an odd one. When my mother was dying, it was only on the day that she died that I admitted to myself that she would die. It was a fait accompli. I'm not usually so unrealistic in the way that I approach things.

Any chance of reducing the ban to 7 days? I know that 30 is the next stage, but it seems a little OTT.

That would work for me. As soon as I see someone vomiting on themselves, I am off sharpish.

A rock like a jelly doughnut has appeared near the Opportunity Rover. Scientists are baffled as to its nature. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-says-mars-mystery-rock-that-appeared-from-nowhere-is-like-nothing-weve-ever-seen-before-9070323.html

Objective. New World Order. Is it something good that conspiracy theorists have misunderstood, or is it something evil? Does it exist at all except as a concept? (Please don't make this another thread about the World Trade Centre.)

Today is Johannes Kepler's 442nd Birthday, according to google. It seems odd to me that the laws of planetary motion were stated before the laws of gravity. Johannes Kepler, working with data painstakingly collected by Tycho Brahe without the aid of a telescope, developed three laws which...

The writer McGonagall is known as one of the worst poets ever to have written. And the following is one of his best, I mean worst: The Death of Prince Leopold Alas! noble Prince Leopold, he is dead! Who often has his lustre shed: Especially by singing for the benefit of Esher School...