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What does it mean to be a man? I'm talking about the male sex, not about being a human. We often hear people say ''Come on! Be a man!'' as if being a man is about something very precise. What is manliness beyond having a penis and more facial hair? What is manly and what is not? And why is...

Here's the scenario, a weird cosmic ray suddenly wipes out all digital information. All the little 0s and 1s would be flushed down the drain... Not a single computer in the world would be functional... What would happen?

http://unews.utah.edu/p/?r=120607-1 Are Humans Evolving Faster? Findings Suggest We are Becoming More Different, Not Alike Media Contacts Dec. 10, 2007 - Researchers discovered genetic evidence that human evolution is speeding up - and has not halted or proceeded at a constant rate, as had...

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Are human beings slowly evolving towards monogamy? Or not at all?

The left-right duality is used so much in this forum it would be good to have a discussion on what these terms really mean. My feeling is that there is a vague understanding of what the terms mean but in the end, everybody's got their own little interpretation and it causes much confusion and...

Did the US have any appropriate moral reason to be in Vietnam?

The question is simple enough. Was the annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki morally justifiable?

"the quest for Gaia is an attempt to find the largest living creature on Earth." -James Lovelock- The Gaia hypothesis proposes that the Earth as a whole is an organism that auto-regulates itself. For some, the hypothesis...

Will the US ever get out of the Republican-Democrat duality?

Is feminism still necessary? Is it necessary in Western society in particular?

Bill 101 paved way for peace HUBERT BAUCH, The Gazette Published: Saturday, August 25 Monday marks the 30th anniversary of the day the Charte de la langue française, commonly known in anglo Quebec parlance as Bill 101, became law in the province. It was at the time, and yet remains, the most...

From a practical point of view, we pretty much all understand what gravity is... When we drop something, it falls to the ground... It's pretty simple... But when you really think about it, gravity is not that easy to comprehend, if it can be comprehended at all... In classical Newtonian...

A man who declares himself as being a member of Al-Qaida has phoned Radio-Canada (francophone CBC) to say he was in front of the US consulate in Montreal.... with a bomb... It's probably a lunatic... but who knows....

An album I recorded with my band has somehow made it to Korea and there is a review on the Web I would like to understand. I've tried translating it with translation tools but there isn't much to be understood... Can anyone here translate from Korean to English (or French)? Here is the link...

We often refer to something called ‘reality’. But what is reality? Does reality include any single thing our minds can come up with? Or is reality exclusive in the sense that some things are simply not real? Would that imply the existence of a ‘non-reality’? Surely, planet Earth is more real...

What do you value more? Time or money?

What is the true value of gold? What practical use does it have that justifies it being a central focus of economy?

Saturn's Strange Hexagon 03.27.07 http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/172325main_pia09188-516.jpg A bizarre six-sided feature encircling the north pole of Saturn near 78 degrees north latitude has been spied by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This...

Will Harper be inlfuenced by the current Quebec election in his next federal budget due March 19th? Will he be more generous with Quebec then he would have been if Quebec was at the beginning of a 4 year Liberal mandate? Right now, the polls indicate a very tight and unpredictable 3 way race...