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From a comment on another post, this article about Barramundi.The Barramundi species, like many other fish, are asexual, and undergoes a sex change during its life history, with all fish commencing life as males then undergoing a sex change to become females.Well, well. More on Piscine Sequential Hermaphroditism in Hormones and Animal Social Behavior by Elizabeth Adkins-Regan.
It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations - physics-math - 20 November 2008 - New Scientist (7)
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The apparently solid stuff is no more than fluctuations in the quantum vacuum, fiendishly complex calculations confirm
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Nick Main said:
This is surprising - that the calculations are too hard to solve, so they have to approximate them by using cells. That's what they do in weather simulations, and we all know how accurate that is.This is not the physics I was promised !
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CtrlBreak said:
The Higgs field creates mass out of the quantum vacuum too, in the form of virtual Higgs bosons. So if the LHC confirms that the Higgs exists, it will mean all reality is virtual.
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kris. nuttycombe said:
Something from nothing, indeed.
Nothing Says "Christmas" Like A Blazing Cross In Your Front Yard (1)
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Mississippi-based American Family Association wants you to light up your front yard for Christ this Christmas. Light up your front yard, porch, patio, driveway, business, organization or church this holiday season with a stunning Christmas cross. Stunning indeed!
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OUT magazine a gay publication releases an annual list of the top 100 people deemed most influential in the gay community. This year they have controversial singer Katy Perry on the front of their magazine. Perry sings about kissing a girl and liking it, but does her supposed sexual exploration really get classified as bisexuality? Give me a break. This song was nothing more than lyrics about an experimental kiss, and radio ratings and publicity. ...
The Mind, the Brain, and the Non-Existence of an Interventionist Deity (1)
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From the New Scientist : Creationists declare war over the brain"YOU cannot overestimate," thundered psychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz, "how threatened the scientific establishment is by the fact that it now looks like the materialist paradigm is genuinely breaking down. You're gonna hear a lot in the next calendar year about... how Darwin's explanation of how human intelligence arose is the only scientific way of doing it... I'm asking us as a world community to go out ...
