More than one member of my family has been diagnosed with hepatitis C. My brother will begin treatment with interferon very soon. I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with Hepatitis C....
Here's a good question that kind of relates to the previous question about plants. Why do plants let the water leave their system into the atmosphere? Is there any advantage to this? I have a answer,...
I am currently in a long distance relationship. I live in the UK and My wife lives in New Mexico. We have been doing this for about 5 months now. We try to talk to eachother by phone and email...
I was a little disturbed by some remarks in a question below that suggested that if you are attacked by someone and protect yourself by fighting back, you can get into trouble. Is this true? So if I...
Regarding this case where Sgt. Smith was convicted for abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib , I understand why he was convicted for intimidating prisoners with his dog, but I don't understand why he was...
This program that I am working with generates a 1-D radial grid by defining radial increments that increase from one to the next by the same factor : ΔR(n+1) = f * R(n) The user provides NLOG...
My computer is currently infected with a trojan called Vcodec, and I cannot get rid of it. The security system provided by my server can't detect it. Spybot-Search&destroy detects it but has been...
This question was inpired from some of the answers in the "war in Iraq" question below. It's easy for us to say "They're better off now because they are free... blah blah blah", but are they...
http://tinypic.com/view/?pic=am2lav This picture shows what I think is a tooth of some type that my wife found on a beach on the southern side Dingle Bay in Southern County Kerry Ireland. Can...
Why is there a switch for every electrical outlet here in the UK? What purpose does the switch serve? Is it a safety issue? In the US, we don't have a switch for every electrical...
Wow, they dug a tunnel underneath the bank to the vault and got away with 156 million reais ($68 million). I know it is crime and it's wrong, but a job like this where nobody got physically injured or...
This was a question I asked my parents when I was a kid, as I could not understand how a single word could be bad. They're just words. I could understand how a sentence would be offensive, but...
This question was inspired from the "What would happen " question below. One answer mentioned the "human infection". Are we really that different than other animals. Many...
My wife and I are from the US and are currently living in Northern Ireland. I am going to school and she is looking for a decent job with no success so far (it's been almost 9 months). She...
I like to make interesting little animations in MATLAB for fun. I am working on making a line grow in random directions without running into itself. It starts at a point in the...
I just read an article that predicted that Iraq will begin moving in the direction of fascism, and all their problems will be blamed on America. Apparently, this will be due to their new...
There is a small area on the left side of my back where I feel a strange tingling sensation. It is not uncomfortable or painful, but it just feels strange. I started feeling it about 2...
Women's rights to me seems to be a much more complicated issue than equal right between races. So I am interested how most women view this issue. Are you satisfied with the way things are...
As most of you know, my wife and I recently moved from the US. Unfotunately, we had to leave our dog and cat with my parents. The plan was to fly them over here at some point, but at this...
