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So this will be a fairly US-centric thread I imagine, but if you have a similar political system in your country the same thing may be possible there as well. In the US, we have primary elections, where each party chooses a candidate they want to represent them in the general election. For the...

I had this idea around a decade ago and never got around to posting it, but now I want to post it. Basically, it goes through the lyrics of Weird Al Yankovic's song "White and Nerdy", a parody of Chamillionaire's song "Ridin'". For each part of the song, give yourself one point if you fully...

The season is almost over, yet no one has started a thread on this topic. I watched some of the conference title games today. The Baylor/OSU one was probably the most interesting, as OSU had a chance to win in the final seconds, but couldn't quite get a touchdown on a fourth down. Also, I was...

I know that is sort of a long thread title, but I find it odd how there remains a handful of people in the developed world who lack things like electricity and running water. It's definitely a small percentage (probably not more than 0.5% in the U.S., limited to extremely rural and poor areas...

In English spelling was not standardized until around the mid 1700s, so reading texts written before that time can sometimes be a bit challenging, but not too hard. Most books written before then have spellings modernized to make them easier to read, and usually there are footnotes for words...

Apparently some Roman neighborhoods are going to not have water access for eight hours a day for a while due to water shortages. The shortages are caused by a hot, dry spring and leaky pipes. I'm surprised such a major first world city is having to ration water like that. I know Los Angeles had...

That is the question for this thread. When I'm in North Carolina I'm in land that was once part of the British Empire, and when I'm in Oklahoma I'm in land that was once part of the Spanish Empire. I'm in North Carolina right now so I'll vote for the British Empire.

In English you can say 3500 as three thousand five hundred but people often just say thirty-five hundred. Does the same thing happen in other languages?

I have the requisite technology to train an explorer or an adventurer, but for some reason I am unable to train them. Any idea why?

How dark is your sky according to the Bortle scale? Where I am on the OU campus, the sky is probably about an 8, simply because there are so many streetlights that you can easily see color. But by going into an open field a little ways off campus without lights within 100-200 ft. (30-60 m) of...

How do I trade with my overseas cities? I founded one but it doesn't have access to any of the resources from my cities on the mainland.

Which do you prefer? I keep all my devices I can on 24 hour time, but when I speak I use 12 hour time, so I don't confuse people. I think it would be simpler if we all used 24 hour time and no longer had to worry about a.m. and p.m., but considering how hard it is for the U.S. to switch to...

That's my question. I know we'd all die, but how would the fluorine react with everything else?

I'm finding that by midway through the ancient era I get really bogged down. I'm playing a game and it's 545 BC, I have eleven cities, and most of them can produce a building/unit in one turn. So each turn I have to select about eight new buildings or units to build. It gets really time...

Which country do you think is the most religiously diverse? It seems to me that India is a good candidate, having large Hindu and Muslim populations as well as sizable Christian, Sikh, and Buddhist populations. The U.S. also has a lot of diversity, with a wide variety of Christian denominations...

We had a thread on is a few years ago that got closed, and a moderator said to wait a few weeks before starting a new one. It's now been two and a half years, so hopefully I've waited long enough. I suppose the recent El Niño causing record warmth is evidence that warming hadn't stopped, but...

Where I live in North Carolina average winter high temperatures are in the low 50s F and average winter low temperatures are in the low 30s F. However, temperatures on a given day can vary 20 degrees F either direction. Snow is infrequent, usually accumulating only once or twice a year and...

Does anyone know of any English textbooks for non-native speakers that are freely and legally available online? I'm a native English speaker, but I'm curious as to the order in which people who learn English as a second language learn it. An introductory level textbook might be more interesting...

I am curious as to if there are any good books or articles on the history of human thought about the age of the Earth. I am curious as to how people started discovering that the Earth is more than a few thousand years old and how the discovery of different fossils, evolution, and plate tectonics...

What are the sunrise and sunset times for your city today? If you want, add the twilight times as well. For Chapel Hill, NC Sunrise: 6:00 a.m. Sunset: 8:36 p.m. Civil twilight begins: 5:30 a.m. Civil twilight ends: 9:06 p.m.