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Dante
Has anyone read Dante's Divine comedy? So far read the first five cantos. Understood the first half of the first canto, than was lost and found my way back. Second was lost upon me. Third-fifth made sense, but some parts were hazy. This we do for a political science class ( Read more... ) -
Ghosts and reality
In tv shows, cartoons, movies you often see ghosts, people, who can walk through objects, people etc. The question is what stops them from being pulled around by other stronger gravitational objects? Why don't they fall through through the ground? What stops them from hurtling to the center of gravity of earth ( Read more... ) -
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Canadians love HDTV even if they don't fully understand it
Almost 60 per cent said they were not at all knowledgeable about the latest advancements, compared to less than 40 per cent of men polled across the country. I would definitely think that 40% is too low a number. Most men would lie to cover up not knowing.
Forty-eight per cent of those ( Read more... ) -
Trade and Dumping
We learnt that dumping is actually good for the consumers and bad for the import competing industry of the country where the good gets dumped ( Read more... ) -
Income gap between gender
MSN is amusing, once you log out, they give you plenty of fun but usless articles to look at.
Being a woman doesn't pay - labour congress says men still make more
There were two times more men earning over $60,000 a year than women, and far more women than men worked at jobs that earned less than $35,000.
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How to make badminton interesting
All the good players left. That does not make me a good player. Me = average player ( Read more... ) -
Free data
Not sure how many of you would be interested.
http://data.un.org/Default.aspx
It seems like a good site. Not great search abilities, the results aren't manipulation friendly. But, better than nothing. Especially on those pesky numbers, where one can't find otherwise. -
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Corn/Maize
I presume people here have eaten Corn/Maize, right? Another presumption, it is corn on the cob, and not corn in individual forms ( Read more... ) -
Amy Week
Today is Amy week in our world. We get to ask Amy all the questions we haven't been able to ask over the past year to a year and a half. Who shall ask the first barrage of questions?
If enough questions are asked, than i am sure, we will see Amy come back to LJ.