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  1. Xayma

    Sex with partner 400% better.

    Source: New Scientist Discuss. I couldn't decide to post it in here or in Love and Relationships, but it has an absolute figure so in here.
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    Conservative Alumnus Pulls Offer to Buy Lecture Tapes

    Source: New York Times
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    Camwhoreing and all that fun stuff.

    Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid Online World Source: New York Times (Free Registration required) Also related on this topic Making a Connection With Justin Where the Credit Card Trail Leads A Shadowy Trade Migrates to the Web Documenting a Crime That Thrives on...
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    Erotic images can lead to blindness

    Source: New Scientist
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    Offer non-believers ethics, schools told

    Source: Sydney Morning Herald Online Is this just an attempt to introduce christian morality into children? I would love to see the ethics, that are proposed being taught, although I have no problem with ethics being taught, it should be limited to professional ethics and not personal ones...
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    Frozen lake shines bright in Martian crater

    Ok posting it in here because I think it is more relevant than in News, Current Affairs and Politics and I wouldn't call it light or offbeat news. Source: http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn7755-frozen-lake-shines-bright-in-martian-crater.html
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    US Ruling threatens file-trading-software makers

    Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7598 Opinions? Are the legitimate uses of filesharing so overshadowed by the illegal uses that it is worth sacraficing innovations in the area to try and minimise the spread of copyrighted material?
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    It's a small world, as far as universities go anyway

    To bring a few old issues up on things like HECS, and the issue of reliance on international students, it seems like the only ones with a thriving uni system are the USA where full fees are paid to private universities. Edit: This is mainly to foster a discussion on how the developed world...
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    What Women Want

    Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/24/opinion/24tierney.html Could it be that biological reasoning is responsible for the pay gap, that individual women can succed but most choose not to, making the feminist claim about pay inequalities weaker (although still present currently, it...
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    Australia Uneasy About U.S. Detainee Case

    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/international/asia/10hicks.html Also http://smh.com.au/articles/2005/04/13/1113251669327.html which is taken from that. Should the Australian government be intervening in this matter, or should it let it take it's course. Perhaps more importantly is the...
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    Sexual Education and Abstinence

    In a rare situation Im creating a topic. But as I'm sure all of you well read people will know (ok maybe three of you) the US government has been criticised heavily for promoting abstinence only sexual education. For those too lazy to read the above the site is http://4parents.gov...
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    Buff Coloured Section of the exam

    I have obtained *shifty eyes* a buff coloured section of the exam, unfortunately I dont have access to my scanner atm, so what do I get when I can scan them :p and more importantly do you want dodgy ones I can get by using my digi camera.
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    VCE/HSC exam equivilances

    Although the following list will not be perfect it will give a point for you Victorians to use HSC exams if you run out of past VCE exams (which should be done first) I'll do more extensive lists afterwards. Mathematics Methods is pretty much the same as Mathematics Extension 1 you could use...
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    omg!!

    Due to the forum time change various posts will appear ahead of the thread creators hence I quoted it for ease of reading. 74 is a pretty good ranking. Not great but very good. Of course that means nothing if you are coming last in every subject but otherwise it is good. Smallcattle they...
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    Poll on main page.

    Can someone please fix the spelling of Labor. It is spelt Labor as it was based of the USA Labor party not the British Labour party.
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    Shaping of Understanding

    Goign through the 2002 HSC paper about how is understanding of an event, situation or personality shaped in the texts you have studied. Would you discuss how your understanding of an event is essentially bias due to the author's close proximity to the subjet (doing 50th Gate) and how memory...
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    Please put my mind at rest

    Can I please get a UAI prediction from my trial marks: The school wasn't ranked, and probably never will be although we do get a few band 6's each year in every subject. NB: My English trial mark was bad, it was to do with simple exam technique (I was to general as the themes fit many...
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    HSC Countdown

    Does everyone recieve the HSC countdown as 91 days (as I posted this) (and Im guessing so since the <100 day posts were at the same time as it displayed it for me)? If so it's off by 2 days (its showing 2 days too many) :). Of course if your feeling evil just leave it till STUVAC and then all of...
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    UAI Prediction (Just a ballpark figure)

    Could someone please give me a ballpark figure of a UAI. Ill put in all semi-relevant information but I understand that it might not be too easy. Subject___Half Year Mark____Exam Rank____Assesment Rank___Approx Half Year Mark of 2nd/1st Maths______94%___1/37___1/37___90% Maths Ext...
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    "Degree in a day"

    USYD, Friday 16th April. Anybody else going to be there? Or am I going to be on my lonesome (assuming I can convince a few people to let me out of a cadet trip for a day otherwise I won't be able to go on the cadet trip:chainsaw: )
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