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    Which piece of lab equipment would you find handy at home?

    Ugh, the ear-splitting shrieking when you forget to tighten the door would keep me up at night. I'd probably go for the rat guillotine.
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    The Great CFC Low Income Food Experiment Challenge!

    I wasn't necessarily replying to the terms of the OP, I was responding to what I think are some unstated assumptions behind the experiment itself.
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    Was the eradication of smallpox/rinderpest genocide against a species?

    Viruses aren't sentient. They're not even organisms!
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    The Great CFC Low Income Food Experiment Challenge!

    Although I guess that this challenge is pretty commendable, it won't do much in the way of debunking the notion that poor people can live healthier on their meager budget. Why? Because poor people don't have access to the same information that you, a CFC poster, do. Here's what I mean: We have...
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    Semi-automatic weapons...

    I'm ok with proven responsible people being able to buy whatever guns they'd like to defend against whatever threat to their personal security.
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    Soda Causes Depression!!!

    Science does not work that way. That said, I'm pretty happy with my decision to quit my soda habit cold-turkey (though occasionally I'll grab a cold one if it's there).
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    Disgusting Culture of Conspiracists

    Sure, there's been a lot of anti-socialist views, but he's the only one that brought the paranoia that we associate with conspiracy theorists into the limelight. Without him, people's latent mainstream anti-socialist views would never really have become active, resulting in people who went to...
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    Are you addicted to caffeine?

    Yes. In fact, one of the worst feelings in the world is when you wake up too late to justify grabbing a morning coffee (like say, if it's around noon).
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    Disgusting Culture of Conspiracists

    Well, when they had actual say over things that actually happened and people's lives were negatively affected by them (like the McCarthy era).
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    Disgusting Culture of Conspiracists

    Conspiracy theorists aren't that important anymore. Just enjoy laughing at them!
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    Comings, Goings, and New Arrivals VI

    So I haven't posted here since Oct. 2011. Things seem to have changed.
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    Recommend Six Must-read books.

    The Great Gatsby, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Understanding Poetry, To Kill a Mockingbird, Norton Anthology of British Literature, Art History (Stokstad, just bsing at this point)
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    National Novel Writing Month

    Might try it next year, when I'm not in school.
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