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...or ceramic? I don't suppose it would be able to fire plain old clay, but would there be some sort of mixture that could be fired in a self-cleaning oven that could be safely used for food? The resins and such that they sell for "baking" in an ordinary oven aren't safe to eat off of or with. I...

For the purpose of this question, I define "magical thinking" to be any system of thought that makes conclusions based on speculations of faith rather than empirical observation. A belief in a religion, for example, or even adherence to certain secular ideologies. Some studies have shown a...

...touch or take nothing, would u? Imagine the things you could see - but you'd only ever be able to revisit them in your memories. You couldn't take pictures, record sounds or collect any samples of anything you encounter. You couldn't interact with any other beings you might find out there...

I've tried my hand at poetry before and always came up rather lacking. But this, this tiny little snippet, this one-line wonder - it came to me this evening and I realized it was perfect. It stated a whole plethora of things that may well convey to the reader, at least in some abstract sense. I...

instead, could u live with urself? Just curious. Sometimes, the best of intentions go awry. Perhaps the monkeys ought not have been given fire after all. :-\ I'm referring to the deteriorating condition of Earth's ecosphere as a result of humanity's mismanagement of its own technological...

...a virtual fiction? The question means that if this were to be a virtual reality, that would mean the documentation and other evidence we have here from which our assumptions of our history are based - may be entirely fictitious. If there is any of our supposed history you would suspect of...

I don't know much about Locke. Hobbes was okay, but without Calvin's extremely vivid imagination he was merely a stuffed tiger. As for this Locke, which strip was he in? I don't recall the name. Rex Morgan MD, perhaps? ;-)

...an act of art? This is a bit twisty and senseless - gotta' get those thinking caps on! ;-) But when contemplating what constitutes "art", one stumbles upon many, many facets of the subject. Can one appreciating the work of an artist turn their appreciation, itself, into a form of "art"? If...

...civilization? Scientists in general seem to concur with one another that any extraterrestrial intelligence we encounter most likely will have evolved from a predatorial pack-hunting species, hypothesizing that such cooperative social organization is necessary for a species to be able to...

Done correctly, a single net might actually be able to clear its entire orbital path in a matter of days, if not hours. A fairly easy way to dredge space with an eye towards reducing space junk is to launch a two-part satellite, sync its orbit up with that of any given cluster of space debris...