Fiction Filter: Help me find stories involving apotheosis (glorification of an individual as divine). Books or movies - it doesn't matter. [more inside]
posted on Jul 18, 2008 - 42 answers

What are the best examples of human/computer interaction in tv and movies (please mention specific scenes and episodes if you can). ex: HAL in 2001, The touch screen in Minority Report, Scotty talking to the mouse in Star Trek IV -lol, etc...
posted on Jul 13, 2008 - 33 answers

Help me help the addicts (and possibly the enablers) in my family. [more inside]
posted on Jul 10, 2008 - 10 answers

Am late 50s, living in Portland, OR, divorced many years, really don't want to be here (interested in relocating to southern california), but have early teenager daughter. How do I reconcile wanting to pursue what I want to do with the years I have left, with staying around in this area for my daughter (my ex has custody, zero problems with visitation, etc.). By the time she turns 18, i'll be in mid 60s+, which i know is not the end of the world, but...am i being selfish for wanting to pursue what I think will make me happy, versus "doing time" here just to be physically close to my daughter (we have a great relationship). Genuine feedback appreciated.
posted on Jun 22, 2008 - 26 answers

Literary Darwinism: A relatively new field of evolutionary psychology / literary theory. What has recently been written in argument against it? [more inside]
posted on Jun 3, 2008 - 7 answers

I'm looking for quotations or video clips which deal with what it means to be human. [more inside]
posted on May 30, 2008 - 23 answers

Newly single (after 10-yr relationship). How do I get from Point A to Point B, with Point A being meeting a potentially interesting person, and Point B being the point where I can smoothly ask them to do something with me. All, you understand, in service to just getting to know this other person better. The possibility of a hook-up is secondary (although not completely disregarded.) [more inside]
posted on Apr 22, 2008 - 11 answers

Suggestions for fun/romantic nights at home? [more inside]
posted on Apr 12, 2008 - 8 answers

Help me build a bicycle powered water pump. [more inside]
posted on Apr 9, 2008 - 21 answers

What's the chance that we're related? [more inside]
posted on Mar 16, 2008 - 17 answers

I think my boss is trying to get me to quit. [more inside]
posted on Mar 13, 2008 - 21 answers

I am looking for writings on the infinity of definition. [more inside]
posted on Mar 13, 2008 - 32 answers

What are some things that humans do, that no other animal species does? [more inside]
posted on Jan 27, 2008 - 90 answers

How can I encourage my talkative boss to stick to a meeting agenda? [more inside]
posted on Jan 16, 2008 - 17 answers

How can I assess the economic value of an employee (namely me)? [more inside]
posted on Jan 5, 2008 - 8 answers

Applied to law school, looking to do work in human rights or civil liberties - but my info base is low. Just need more first hand information. Would love to hear about attorneys who love what they do - or if you know an lawyer who loves what they do. What kind of law? What does their/your work entail? Or sites that can give me further information. Thank you!!
posted on Jan 3, 2008 - 20 answers

I am searching for examples of The Infinite, or the immeasurably large, in our mythologies and archetypes. I am also interested in the categories of Truth which came out of the emergence of Western, ontological thought. Does the trust in a rationally conceivable reality deny us the infinity of the mythological realm? By rooting ourselves in the present, and denying atemporal mythologies, do we also deny the infinite origins from where we came? [more inside]
posted on Nov 28, 2007 - 22 answers

I need teaching resources about race: the biology of human "races"; why "race" is not biological but social; how racial categories have shifted over time and place; and related questions on teaching about race? This is as a supplement to reading The Mismeasure of Man in a university "Critical Thinking" class. I need more science and verifiable cross-cultural examples to back up my "there are no biological races" claim. [more inside]
posted on Nov 5, 2007 - 38 answers

How do I deal with a super-chatty co-worker I can't afford to offend? [more inside]
posted on Oct 12, 2007 - 18 answers

How do people go about bringing honest communication into their friendships and relationships? [more inside]
posted on Sep 21, 2007 - 18 answers

i work for a medium-sized web design company. How do I reduce glare inside of our design room while keeping our natural light? [more inside]
posted on Jul 27, 2007 - 14 answers

Something to do with my hands that doesn't make me look like a serial killer? [more inside]
posted on Jul 18, 2007 - 30 answers

What are the factors that control/limit human strength? [more inside]
posted on Jul 2, 2007 - 12 answers

A few years ago I stumbled on a website that proposed (very likely fake) upgradeable human parts for sale : added memory, bionic eyes, legs, etc. I can't recall this website and can't find it on Google, does that ring a bell to anybody?
posted on Jun 27, 2007 - 3 answers

What reason would there be for a male to pass himself off as a woman on the internet? Should I tell my girlfriend her online confidante is actually a guy? [more inside]
posted on Jun 12, 2007 - 23 answers

I once read a claim that the Chinese government had funded "research" whose aim was to prove that Han Chinese are a different species to other humans. It was a physical book, not online. What might it have been? And incidentally, is the claim true?
posted on May 18, 2007 - 14 answers

I know someone who has, in the last six months, lost a husband, had a house go into forclosure, mother had a stroke, and is close to the breaking point. [more inside]
posted on Apr 28, 2007 - 10 answers

How do my co-workers and I deal with the owner of the start up company we work for when he doesn't want to change his ways? [more inside]
posted on Mar 14, 2007 - 10 answers

"A human is halfway in size between an atom and the known universe"... This is a paraphrased quote I have come across several times. I like it. Who said it first? How true is it in the most literal sense? And, finally, what errors arrive in postulating a universe, or an atom, which can be measured AT ALL from our singular, relativistic, perspective? [more inside]
posted on Feb 18, 2007 - 14 answers

QuoteFilter: about the universe and thought. [more inside]
posted on Dec 10, 2006 - 9 answers

Help me stop being so paranoid and/or self conscious. [more inside]
posted on Oct 22, 2006 - 21 answers

How do you determine how smart someone is? [more inside]
posted on Oct 4, 2006 - 58 answers

Help me find an old insightful email commentary (one that did the rounds on email) on the chauvinism of American network coverage of the Olympics in mid-90s. [more inside]
posted on Sep 27, 2006 - 5 answers

I'm constantly told I don't "look like" my ethnicity...do I? [more inside]
posted on Sep 7, 2006 - 59 answers

So my mother-in-law died and I feel like my siblings haven't been there for us at all..am I expecting too much? [more inside]
posted on Jul 29, 2006 - 30 answers

Why do humans and animals(?) urinate from their sex organs? Are these two bodily functions in some way related? Are their examples of animals that pee & have sex with parts of their bodies that are spaced far apart? [more inside]
posted on Jul 22, 2006 - 32 answers

Is human flesh vegan if given willingly by its owner? [more inside]
posted on Jul 10, 2006 - 33 answers

I'm on the hunt for sites and/or blogs about big ideas... Who wants to join me? [more inside]
posted on Jul 9, 2006 - 17 answers

How long can a reasonably healthy human survive without water? [more inside]
posted on Jun 29, 2006 - 24 answers

Are Humans Evolving? [more inside]
posted on Jun 21, 2006 - 33 answers

Suppose it was possible to move between 2006 and thousands/millions of years ago. And suppose I snatched a baby from a 2006 maternity ward and swapped it with a baby born in the year 0006 as they lay in their maternity ward. [more inside]
posted on Jun 17, 2006 - 16 answers

MacabreFilter : Why doesn't my dog show an interest in my blood? [more inside]
posted on Jun 12, 2006 - 18 answers

The Protagonist: What can you tell me? [more inside]
posted on Jun 8, 2006 - 17 answers

How does one prove that all humans see the same colors? Is it possible? [more inside]
posted on May 31, 2006 - 82 answers

Why is electrical a word, but electronical isn't? [more inside]
posted on May 21, 2006 - 58 answers

linguists: i vaguely remember a story that i can't verify. the gist is this: two groups of people who spoke the same language became separated by some minor geographical obstacles, like hills, and remained so for a period of years (decades, i think). upon analysis some years later, their common tongue had forked noticeably into fairly different languages. is this true? [more inside]
posted on May 13, 2006 - 17 answers

What experiments have been carried out where animals perform better than us at particular cognitive tasks? [more inside]
posted on May 9, 2006 - 13 answers

Can anyone suggest some diversity management exercises or activities? [more inside]
posted on Apr 3, 2006 - 4 answers

Why do I get so easily aroused? [more inside]
posted on Mar 29, 2006 - 30 answers

Quick question for those of you with any knowledge of the subject: Is it possible (by possible I mean legal) for an employer to change the pay structure for an employee from salaried but eligible for overtime pay to a salaried but not eligible for overtime? This is a case where working overtime is required by the job. This is in Illinois. [more inside]
posted on Feb 23, 2006 - 14 answers