where is the forum for natural sciences?

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Save billions of insect lives? Some would ask if you were freakin' nuts. Insects will be here long after we're gone.

In the 70s there was a population growth awareness poster that showed people standing on every square inch of land and some ankle-deep or knee-deep in the ocean. We will have displaced all other mammal life long before that happens. That's why I'm a strong supporter of zoos, though the National Zoo in D.C. is a national disgrace. In the future, animals will only live in zoos.

The most entertaining while highly scientific approach to the paranormal, especially parapsychology I came across is in the books of Susan Blackmore.

"In Search of the Light: The Adventures of a Parapsychologist" and "Dying to Live: Near-Death Experiences" are certainly worth reading and "The Meme Machine" is a great book about modern genetics either. Highly recommended!

Personally, I don't see anything unusual about near-death experiences. They merely seem to stimulate the part of the brain where spiritual experiences occur, in much the same way that LSD, sex, or yoga can.

Well, yes, that is exactly what I would expect too. But since that subject attracts attention of many people it is worth some further investigation using scientifically approved methods. Is it not?

There are things like people reporting they have seen a surgery situation of themselves from a perspective like floating at the ceiling of the room and so on. While that is quite unbelievable it is interesting and entertaining to read a precise and well made investigation.

National Public Radio, (or maybe it was Public Radio International,) aired an episode of To The Best Of Our Knowledge in the last few weeks called "The Brain and Belief: Electrons and Enlightenment" or something like that, which discussed this very issue. I don't know if it's archived online or not.

no one want to talk about natural science?

i'll be around if anyone is ready

What do you mean by natural sciences? I am starting a degree in it.

Why do you not start a new thread with the subject you want to talk about, so people can reply to you?

I was just curious as to what the OP meant my natural sciences, and how loose the OP is prepared to go.

Sorry Hadron, I wanted to quote skyblu. Clicked the wrong button... I am curious as well but we do not have subject to talk about, do we?

I could give you a maths puzzle to do if you want...

Yep, go ahead!

I have a right angled triangle. I want to split it into a trapezium and a smaller triangle, such that the trapezium has the area of 7/16 of the intial triangle. I want to make a cut perpendicular to one of the edges perpendicular to one of the edges adjacent to the right angle (not the hypotenuse). How far along does the edge does the cut have to be? Prove that it applies to any right angled triangle. No calculus needed