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Hi there! Can you give me your general thoughts on the difference between objective and subjective? You don't have to get too detailed, or much in depth. Just give me your thoughts. Stray if you like - be as discursive as you please. But you don't have to. I thought this article might serve...

I have an insatiable need to consume hot sauce. Like say, if I eat a burrito, I used to pour a few drops on the top and bite (then repeat). Recently, I took to biting a bit of the burrito and then upending the bottle of hot sauce and drinking a little. Little mouthfuls grew to outright silly...

This is a complete episode of Firing Line. William F Buckley, the conservative (ya think???) host, interviews Allen Ginsberg, one of the most prominent and most popular of American poets at that time. Ginsberg is quite decidedly left, though he championed positions which were also embraced by...

Of course, I am NOT encouraging or promoting the use of alcohol in any form or for any reason. http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/06/23/alcohol-pill

Can any kind of cat be in the box? Your answers must be in the proper form. I mean the proper meter. Call me Norm. No, don't. My name is William. Call me Bill. I'm feminine and really rather silly. So call me Bill. But never call me Billy.

Lately, I've been having two problems with sleep: One, not so disturbing but probably unhealthy, is that I never remain asleep for more than three hours. Usually, I wake every one to two hours. I haven't slept for a steady eight hours in forever, but duration of sleep is becoming less and less...

I didn't know whether to put this here or in the Lounge - meaning that I want this to be about kids who are extremely good at something at a very young age: It doesn't have to be music or anything in the arts. My brother is a drummer and we stumbled across this prodigy, a drummer named Avery...

Don't know if this has been done before. My favorite painter is Caravaggio, hands down. This is my favorite of his. It's called "The Inspiration of Saint Matthew." I like how the angel's hovering motion is captured in the swirling garments. Also, how the angel is the youth (though ancient)...

Ozzy Osbourne turned 70 yesterday. Love him or hate him, you gotta love him. Or hate him. I love him. I liked him when all I knew were the songs from Paranoid. I loved him the first time I head the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath album. His voice was prime then, his lyrical vocal lines (the melodies of...

https://www.popsci.com/cow-farts-are-an-even-bigger-problem-than-we-thought My local news station ran a story on this the other day. :D

Maybe it's fake. But in today's climate, who knows? I would be glad to be shown this was fake:

As a lifelong worker in healthcare facilities, including nursing homes (2), assisted living facilities (2), and a Hospital, I could not help but be impressed by how "modern" Islamic healthcare was in their "Golden Age", which according to Wikipedia lasted from around the 9th century to around...

I didn't know where I should put this. The article linked to in the OP is working in or under what they are calling "Experimental Biology". I have promised, for my 14 yrs, to stay out of the science forums, and I'd like to keep that promise. However, if a mod or admin should like to move it to...

This began in the 'Images that make you laugh' thread. Jobar. Holy crap, yet another psychotic in a labcoat. This man was truly warped, and I have no doubts whatsoever that he thoroughly enjoyed giving all those wonderful water and yogurt enemas to patients at his happy-happy sanitarium. I...

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Reid I used to trot out Thomas Reid in the old threads, not because I thought his thought was as sophisticated as someone like...oh... Decartes, Hegel, Kant, or my boy Spinoza, but because of his very humorous and gentle way of criticizing Hume and...

In my many discussions of the mind/body problem, extending to off and online activity over the past 20 years, I have (kinda) resolved only recently that there is no mind/body problem. The duality, mind and body, only exists insofar as we have an objective existence as a physical body which can...

Which one is Kiki? Which one is Bouba? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

Can there ever be a meaningful, useful synthesis of science and poetry? Since I'm not a scientist, I've no possible way to really approach the question, but I know* there are scientist/poets amongst us here who might be able to. The above is a short quote from a giant article (actually part 4...

Dave Rubin for POTUS, John Stossel for VP. A new beginning for the USA. ?? This could start a shitstorm?