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    Brexit Thread V - The Final Countdown?!?

    The story so far: Is Britain about to leave the EU? Snap UK General Election Brexit Thread III - How to instantly polarise your country without even trying Brexit Thread IV - They're laughing with us, not at us 107 days left until 29 March 2019 Will Brexit launch Britain into a bright future...
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    Nuclear technology and proliferation

    http://www.nature.com/news/us-grants-licence-for-uranium-laser-enrichment-1.11502 GE and Hitachi claim to have developed a technology (involving lasers) that could potentially cut the price of enriching uranium by a factor of 3. This could cheapen the operation of nuclear power plants (or...
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    Pi is wrong!

    Pi is wrong...according to the proponents of Tau Day. And no, its not about legislating Pi to be three in accordance with the Bible, but a quite sensible proposal: They argue, that Pi is the wrong choice for the circle constant and that the true circle constant should be what is currently...
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    Should we develop a gay "cure"?

    So I saw this today, and it got me thinking. A brief summary: Scientists found out that mice lacking a certain gene have no preference with which sex they mate. So these mice go for males as often as for females. By injecting these mice with a chemical they could restore the sexual...
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    [MOD] PatchMod with rebalanced REF

    Current Version: 1.02 Changelog: Version 1.02: - Based on PatchMod 1.07 Version 1.01: - Integrated improvements of PatchMod 1.06b - Decreased effect of giving in to the King's demands (IMO the effect was to great in the previous version) I have expanded the PatchMod by Dale and...
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    This year's Nobel Prizes

    The Medicine Nobel Prize winners for this year has been anounced and it goes to one German and two French for the discovery of the HPV and HIV viruses: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2008/ Does anyone want to speculate who is going to get Physics and Chemistry? The...
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    Death By U.N. Vote

    I learned today, that not only one can assign cities to someone else by a U.N. vote, but also assign the capital to someone else. If the unfortunate owner of that capital doesn't have any other city, all others (and of course he himself) then have a vote whether to kill him or let him live...
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    Installing BTS 3.17 without running the Patch .exe

    About two months ago my Windows installation self-destructed and wouldn't boot anymore. At the moment I have neither the time nor the nerves to reinstall it and as I didn't need it for anything but Civ4 and I managed to make that work with wine I haven't been troubled by that. However now I...
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