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It's very likely that you will have to cut up / mess around with animals which have been killed soley for the purpose of teaching in your course, e.g. in my course I have attached electrodes to the beating heart of a killed canetoad (they have O2 exchange at the skin, hence continued beating), I...

I will attempt a couple of them. (1) What is the meaning of life? - The answer I would propose is 'Mu', using the Robert Pirsig interpretation of 'mu' as 'unask the question'. What I mean by this is that I don't think that the question itself is necessarily a sensical one. It presumes that...

Interest versus intent perhaps?

Substitute x=2sin@ into the first one, so that dx = 2cos@d@, yielding (Int) (2cos@)d@/(4 - 4sin2@) = 1/2 (Int) Sec@ d@ You then have a painful process: http://www.math.com/tables/integrals/more/sec.htm = 1/2 ln|sec@ + tan@| + C ---------- Converting back to x ---------------...

Certainly, I agree that you have hit on a problem worth considering. However, I should point out that Russia does, in fact, accept outside help: http://www.pih.org/where/Russia/Russia.html Also, the point isn't to blame other nations for Russia's problem. The point is that Russia's problem...

Another way of dealing with the problem (speaking in terms of infectious diseases in general) --> invest more in research/medications which aim to lessen the prevalence of the disease. Regardless of what we do, infectious agents typically refuse to respect national borders. Even if we do...

Have you got an interest in med yourself? I'll PM you about it.

If you assume that uk = (k+3).2k, and uk-1 = (k+2).2k-1 then, given un = 4un-1 - 4un-2, we obtain: uk+1 = 4uk - 4uk-1 = 4.(k+3).2k - 4.(k+2).2k-1 = (2k+6).2k+1 - (k+2).2k+1 = [(k+1] + 3).2k+1 , as required (or so it would seem) (Edit, for the sake of completion: You can easily...

The issue being discussed doesn't arise if only 'extremely violent people' are banned. Unfortunately his policy also involved banning non-violent people simply because they were superficially similar, in terms of appearance and cultural background, to violent people. So, answering your question...

Speaking for myself I don't hate religion, but I do dislike bad arguments - which commonly include arguments for god/religion.

Your notion of practicality is a very one-sided one. Are such values practical for lebanese individuals? I would argue that they aren't. In fact, I don't think anyone really gains much from being the target of discrimination. Personally I see why it is reasonable to ban a known ruffian from...

Sounds pretty scary, though it beats death. Top marks to the street thugs for ingenuity.

Change needn't be a negative thing. Suppose that science constantly betters itself... what's wrong with a foundation which strives towards self-improvement?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Unit_Zappa

Haha, oh dear... I just looked at the website and it was my principal. All I can say is: no comment.

I think that what they're doing is wrong. Denying access to people they know to be rowdy is one thing, but putting a blanket ban on a given race is another. It's just flat out racist. They're denying rights to entire racial groups so that others can "enjoy a pint in peace". Think about it, some...

How does religion deal with the plurality of moral views within a population? Does it simply deny their validity? Also, consider the case that a mutable moral structure may be a beneficial thing in that it could allow us to modify our moral code in cases where certain moral rules lead to...

It hasn't been argued because, I suspect, most people realise that it's extremely unlikely that we could eliminate crime in a society. Perhaps, in a very loose sense, it is possible for a society to be atheistic and without crime, but for the most part I think it's something of a pip dream. I...

I don't think people choose to be moral because of the existence of religion (take me for example). Similarly, I definately don't think that morality finds its origins in religion. There are decent evolutionary explanations for why we engage in altruistic behaviour (a good recent publication I'm...