Recent content by Steven Kyzburg

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Only two and a half gigabytes? I'm surprised

As a side note, if your looking for a direct calming for nerves I find that imagining yourself as a huge all powerful being striding about the podium or situation that your confronted with. Just imagine yourself being great and it generally works to quell the butterflys.

Agreed, that's why I dropped it like a rotten fish and adopted something else :L

Agreed, i've been told that i'm a great public speaker but i'm as nervous as hell when I do it, my arms and legs shake even as i'm doing it. But when your doing it you have to simply realise that you have to do it and now your there you may as well do it right, so be assertive, own that...

I've never edited Wikipedia, but a friend of mine edited the page on Copper and for one month it surely informed thousands of viewers that someone by the name of Proffessor Egadd (my alias) had "discovered" copper.

Thanks, it's a typo coupled with a late night, lots of chemistry coursework and not thinking clearly. Should have said millions.

Yep, it's in Bill Brysons A Short History Of Nearly Everything, tis a fabulous book; I highly reccomend it.

No they didn't produce life, the composition of it just changed slightly; invovled electricity to simulate lightening setting thigns i motion if I recall. In anycase some scientists are beginnign to think that life started around volcanic vents rather than sludge like pools. Life itself is...

Or as Bill Bryson put it, stretch out your arm and hold a nail file in the other. Your arm stretched out reprsents the entire history of the earth, and with a single stroke of the nail file you can obliterate humanity.

It can and as far as we know it did. Firstly I noticed that you think that the earth is only a few hundred million years old (correct me if you don't think this) But for your information a technique called carbon dating can date samples of rock rather "accuratly" (When your looking back by...

With regard to how random it is i'm refferring to evolution. Although perhaps random is a bad choice of word since it is misleading. In either case, evolution is down to chance, down to the possibility that a situation will favour one particular allele, or, in an extreme case, that vast...

Although in principel I agree with you as far as i'm aware mutations are integral to the entire concept of evolution and without those mutations it would be impossible to happen.

Speciation occours when two seperate groups of the same species are seperated from each other (be it geographically or maybe in term of behaviour so courting rituals ect) and each accumulate different ratios of a certain gene. In each group, if they can't mix with each other, they'll undergo...

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