Fundraiser day 1: Request Week

Today's the first day of Request Week at Majikthise. Help me cover Tom DeLay's perp walk in Austin.

This week's content will be driven by reader requests. Whatever you want, I'll blog it.

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[rob helpy-chalk]

back in the ugly "Nice Guys" thread, Thad talked about overcoming his awkwardness in approaching women, which made me wonder how the two of you hooked up. I know this isn't a personal blog, but cute "how we met" stories are generally things one tells in public without being bizarrely confessional.

One of the reasons I like blogging as a medium is that even when blogs are focused on politics, they have more of a personal touch than the regular media, which uses impersonality to give the illusion of objectivity.

So do you have a cute "how we met" story? One could be reinacted by Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan?

[Thad]

One could be reinacted by Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan?

Only if this reenaction took the form of a "cute meet" where Lindsay and I bonded while watching Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan being tried for their crimes against humanity.

[Lindsay Beyerstein]

Thad, do I have permission to tell the blog how we met?

[Thad]

Well, seeing as it is give the people what they want week…

[Squashed Lemon]

Hey wait, Majikthese has a wholesale answer question for a bargain basement.

Hey majikthes how much to answer all these questions? (make it cheap I am broke. :D)

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http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/125th/

The Top 25
Essays by our news staff on 25 big questions facing science over the next quarter-century.
> What Is the Universe Made Of?
> What is the Biological Basis of Consciousness?
> Why Do Humans Have So Few Genes?
> To What Extent Are Genetic Variation and Personal Health Linked?
> Can the Laws of Physics Be Unified?
> How Much Can Human Life Span Be Extended?
> What Controls Organ Regeneration?
> How Can a Skin Cell Become a Nerve Cell?
> How Does a Single Somatic Cell Become a Whole Plant?
> How Does Earth's Interior Work?
> Are We Alone in the Universe?
> How and Where Did Life on Earth Arise?
> What Determines Species Diversity?
> What Genetic Changes Made Us Uniquely Human?
> How Are Memories Stored and Retrieved?
> How Did Cooperative Behavior Evolve?
> How Will Big Pictures Emerge from a Sea of Biological Data?
> How Far Can We Push Chemical Self-Assembly?
> What Are the Limits of Conventional Computing?
> Can We Selectively Shut Off Immune Responses?
> Do Deeper Principles Underlie Quantum Uncertainty and Nonlocality?
> Is an Effective HIV Vaccine Feasible?
> How Hot Will the Greenhouse World Be?
> What Can Replace Cheap Oil -- and When?
> Will Malthus Continue to Be Wrong?

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http://www.claymath.org/millennium/#top

Millennium Problems

In order to celebrate mathematics in the new millennium, The Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts (CMI) has named seven Prize Problems. The Scientific Advisory Board of CMI selected these problems, focusing on important classic questions that have resisted solution over the years. The Board of Directors of CMI designated a $7 million prize fund for the solution to these problems, with $1 million allocated to each. During the Millennium Meeting held on May 24, 2000 at the Collège de France, Timothy Gowers presented a lecture entitled The Importance of Mathematics, aimed for the general public, while John Tate and Michael Atiyah spoke on the problems. The CMI invited specialists to formulate each problem.

# Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
# Hodge Conjecture
# Navier-Stokes Equations
# P vs NP
# Poincaré Conjecture
# Riemann Hypothesis
# Yang-Mills Theory

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PS. I really don't have question now. I like the blog the way it is. I just like to post these item. Really interesting. Who knows somebody here has the answer.

[mudkitty]

Thad and Lindsay sittin in a tree...

Have you guys checked out Eels yet? I swear, I do not work for them. However, my girlfriend plays violin for them/him (haven't spoken to her in ages as they are constantly on the road this year.)