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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_framing#German_tradition...

Is your 50 years a guesstimate or do you have a source for that?

It is interesting why brick or concrete - preferred materials in other parts of the world, are not so common for residences in the US.

To me wooden houses have a charm that concrete or brick construction does not. Also, I feel that I can fix/update things in a wooden house more easily than in a brick or concrete house because of the drywall construction.

If the ice melts more slowly, it absorbs less heat, so it cools the drink less. You can get the ice to melt more slowly by reducing its surface area, but your drink will also be warmer.

The word "superstar" labs is itself loaded. Scientific discovery has always been heavily influenced by chance, and the fact that certain labs regularly publish in high profile journals has more to do with political connections rather than the intrinsic quality or impact of their work.

It's interesting to me how we finally got rid of Original Sin, but now have replaced this with other, atheistic forms of this, like trying to make our children feel guilty about Native Americans and Slavery. I personally think this is the best way to increase tensions.

I can find nothing unnatural about the existence of a single universe with particular constants that give rise to life that then studies the universe. There is nothing in this that leads inevitably to the conclusion someone has been rolling the dice many times until this came about.

This circulating current generates a magnetic field. Proper orientation of the head and tail magnets leads to both magnets being pushed in the same direction because of their interaction with the generated magnetic field.

This is the force that drives the train.

The level of secrecy, however, probably depends on field. I was in neurophysiology + cognitive science. Colleages in the molecular biology field complained of competition and secretiveness from colleagues.

I suspect that this extends not just to the US but to Europe as well. I knew of a researcher from Denmark in a certain field who was known to 'sit' on a certain resource and control access to it to reduce competition and further their own name.

For a certain period in development, children reject their parents, naturally. But then we often come back (often when we are parents ourselves). But, if our children have large genetic changes from us, artificially done, how will our children look upon us? As pets, perhaps? Or mere caretakers?

An interesting (and scary) thing too, is whether higher intelligence - as measured by these metrics - leads to "colder" humans, who make more rational decisions, such as euthanizing the old and weak, which would then include the parents.

But I got on a horse, flew to the edge and now I'm falling for ever.