Squarel

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by Squarel 12y ago
You don't think homelessness/starvation/food security/water security will be affected by any future changes in climate?
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by Squarel 12y ago
I am pleased to know that the breakups, affairs, deaths and births I have heard of over facebook did not actually happen. No one ever gives people the full details of their lives, whether via speech, writing, text message or facebook post,
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by Squarel 12y ago
I liked this, I have some of the 1500s or so recipes from when I have been inspired watching historical cooking documentaries, but the problem for me has been figuring out how to translate them properly to modern ingredients.
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by Squarel 12y ago
Indeed. Here in Denmark there are two options for PhD, you can either get one of the proposed topics, or you can submit a proposal. Changing supervisors (at least in my experience) is not a problem, and this happens fairly regularly. It i
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by Squarel 12y ago
Tracking of information has been known about since the initial NSA whistleblowers after 9/11 I have not heard a single conspiracy theorist suggest any of the things disclosed by Snowden, and I have yet to see evidence of RFID chips and
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by Squarel 12y ago
I loved this article. Unfortunately I now have a burning urge to rejoin TBW ARG which I thought I had escaped from :(
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by Squarel 12y ago
That is because different cultures have different customs. In some cultures it is acceptable to hug and put your arm around someone you have not met before, in others, even non-western ones, it is seen as extremely rude. My language teacher
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by Squarel 12y ago
Very nice visualization, but the conditions necessary for fossilization should also be considered when weighting the types of species and drawing conclusions. The conditions for fossilization occur with lower frequency in terrestrial ecosys
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by Squarel 12y ago
Feminism meaning a belief that women should be treated equally to men? Hopefully all of them, and the other 53% too.
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by Squarel 12y ago
Masters student doing botany/pedology. Here because of reason A from OP, but also because I am always keeping an eye out for new tools I can use for data analysis in my thesis.
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by Squarel 12y ago
I have also had this job, the contract that comprised 90% of my work was lost, and the company didn't want me to leave. Surfing the internet at work gets boring very fast though when it is all you have to do. I made it through 8 month
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by Squarel 12y ago
I do not know how it works in the US, but in many countries, you can already opt out of receiving junk mail through your letterbox.
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by Squarel 12y ago
Very nice, not something for me, but I have passed the link onto relatives who are involved in churches.
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by Squarel 12y ago
Sometimes you need speeches like that to remind you that it is out there. Unless you personally have watched these things, you can only know about them vicariously, and emotive speeches motivate others to become involved. Cold hard facts r
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by Squarel 12y ago
I think the amount of taxpayer money spent on this is negligible in the scheme of things, and far cheaper than an ARCGIS license for every child in the country to explore virtual geodata with instead.
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by Squarel 13y ago
Has it just not moved east? Hackers in the west, of any hat-shade, are jaded and cynical now, having been through 20+ years of watching (especially in the US) the responses change exponentially. In the east, from Sudan, through the middle e
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by Squarel 13y ago
How were your parents in encouraging you? Were you surrounded by an environment where the prevailing attitude was "I never needed that skill, I do not see why you do"? Luck determines whether your parents want you to drop out of s
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by Squarel 13y ago
I do actually avoid all Nestle products and subsidiary products that I am aware of,and Coca-Cola etc However...I am reserving judgement on this, but I am not overly happy initially. Will wait to see the next few months before reaching my f
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by Squarel 13y ago
I am not sure that makes it any better. Crime dramas illustrate many things, not all of them related to reality.
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by Squarel 13y ago
This is usually because proponents of nuclear energy are not pushing for "traditional" reactors, but for Breeder reactors. These were the direction we were headed in the 60s, unfortunately, we then discovered that Uranium was not