1. Halliday and Resnick ROCKS! It just does. Its a great book. I use it for my college classes, because it was clear.

2. Best book on Particle Physics, Unfortunaly there is not a book, but there is a website that was one NATIONAL EDUCTATION AWARDS. (and its FCKING GREAT)! (I SWEAR TO GOD I WET MYPANTS!

http://www.particleadventure.org/

Nuff said.

>>13510
yes but it is not the hand wielding the tool that is fixing it.

>>13720

>>13499

Think of what happened during WW I and WW II.

Both sides in WW I used chemical agents as a weapon of war. It was so horrific that during WW II. While both sides had the weapons they were afraid to use for fear of the enemy using them back. So during an all out war both sides didn't use some of their most destructive weapons at their disposal.

That being said I think that is a good argument against just because nukes were in the equation it kept the cold war from going hot. It also doesn't mean that nukes were not the cause. Try not to put war in such a black and white picture.

>>13727
Vandalism is its own purpose.

>>13725
This.
What operating system is it?
I use Linux and LibreOffice and it all works flawlessly. The only annoyances I get at the moment are from using Cinnamon DE, because it's a young project, but they're minor enough to put up with until the software matures a bit.

>>13730
To be more specific, Linux Mint 12.

I became a scientist because I've been encouraged in the field since I was a child. It was a lifelong and fulfilling interest my father supported and I grew up watching all kinds of science, nature, and adventure shows, and of course Star Trek. Halfway through college, the university stuck me in geology when the geography program shut down. They thought it was a better fit and I suppose they were right. Sad to say though, professionally I cannot be a scientist. All a geologist can do is work petroleum and you do that for the money, not for the science. In short, start with child-like idealism, end up sucking dick in the rat race like everyone else.

>>13715
>Sad to say though, professionally I cannot be a scientist. All a geologist can do is work petroleum and you do that for the money, not for the science.
Since when geologists can't work at research institutes and do science for a living?

>>12343

Since I live in Texas and currently don't have a graduate degree. You'd be surprised just how much the oil and gas industry dominates my field here. Doesn't matter, I'm working on a graduate degree, so I'll get to do science in a couple years.

>>13649
here, have some green words. you post lacked vegetarian originality.

>no research but can hash out typically american opinon
get an actual bill fuckwit
>America not doing something because it costs too much.
lol plane boats, Warhammer 40k in the middle of nowhere, and Reagenonimcs better than health care or education?
>everyone under 30 doesn't use metric explicitly
I wish I had a job

>>12864
>A long time a go in all the kingdoms far away (from America) lefties were considered evil. Knights and warriors were trained to hold their weapons in their right hand, the RIGHT hand, the only hand good enough to smite the lefties with.

No, it's because the majority is right-handed that the left-hand was considered evil. Try to even do the dishes with wrong hand.

>>13716
That's pretty much synonymous with what I said.

The left had was considered bad because more people were naturally good with their right and people who predominately used their left hand were considered bad as a result.

Uh... what? The article is about new findings regarding how long ago humans spread over the world. If you're referring to the fact that humanity started in Africa then that's old, old news.

>>13706
What he said

In my late night grappe-fueled stupor, I seem to have become caught up in all the colorful allegory, and skipped over the relevant part of the story, which is, the early migrations out of Africa are finally being recognized to have happened much earlier than previously thought. Pretty neat. Badly posted tho, I'll grant you.

So much fail in this thread.

The fact that the question says "first die" is (of course) crucial. It is telling us that the dice rolls are discreet events (d1 and d2). Order matters. And we can distinguish d1 from d2.

"Given that the sum is 7" means we aren't taking the probability of all 36 combos of 2 rolls. Only the 6 times that the dice add up to seven. It is "given" that the sum is seven. It is certain. If we were taking the probabilty out of all 36 combos given would be replaced with "and".


d1+d2=7
1+6=7
2+5=7
3+4=7 <-
4+3=7
5+2=7
6+1=7

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why is there so much analyzing and math here? If the sum is seven it means the second die can be either 1,2,3,4,5 or 6.
The first die will be the number that goes with the second to make the sum of 7, which can be 1,2,3,4,5 or 6.
The probability that it's 4 is 1 in 6.
/thread.

The probability of A given B, P(A|B), is equal to the probability of A and B, P(A∩B), over the probability of B, P(B).
P(A∩B) == 4/162 and P(B) == 4/27
(4/162)/(4/27) == 1/6

Don't mind me, just using actual statistics.

>>13514
lot of truth to this. Eating a piece of ripe fruit after getting processed sugar out of your diet is pretty amazing.

Eating high quality food and maintaining a high level of physical fitness is necessary for anyone who wishes to improve their mental performance. Anyone who says they are too busy to eat right or work out is a damn fool. Anybody who says bad food tastes better than good food is either mentally or physically deranged, perhaps both.

I've met way too many fat scientists, and it's rather disgusting. The body is a singular system, you can't maximize any part of it without improving the other parts as well. The smartest athletes I've met have been the most athletic, and the fittest scientists I've met have been the most mentally capable. Why are people who are so smart capable of being so stupid?

>>13673
The problem with fast food is not that it doesn't have enough calories. The problem is that it isn't a balanced source of nutrients, and the ingredients are of poor quality. The meat they serve is known to increase cancer rates if eaten on a regular basis, and most of the flavoring is artificial.

>>13709
http://thatsnotironic.com/

That is very old. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CornerShot

:)

>>13513
uh, i think youre missing the point dude