How is the meaning of art and artefacts being altered by the methods we use to: Experience, Define and Preserve them... In other words, in what ways have technologies been used to experience, re-define and/or preserve art and artifacts? [more inside]
posted on Feb 5, 2008 - 12 answers

I read somewhere that, in theory, two solids coming into repeated contact should at some point (assume we're dealing with infinity) pass through each other. Nearest I can come is molecular harmonic resonance, or this slightly dubious writeup. Is this a observed phenomenon? Or is there a formal theory for this?
posted on Jul 24, 2007 - 14 answers

How do I come up with a scientific theory to explain complex phenomena? My area of research is medicine, but I'm interested in the opinions of all flavors of scientists. [more inside]
posted on Aug 3, 2006 - 8 answers

Is Dark Matter the new Phlogiston? [more inside]
posted on Jun 26, 2006 - 35 answers

Dating/Marriage market and game theory [more inside]
posted on Jan 16, 2006 - 11 answers

So has anyone tried to explain sexual kinks and fetishes? I don't mean in a cataloguing sense, but in the same sense that an evolutionary biologist explains a fish's tail shape. Where it came from, what purposes it serves, that sort of thing.
posted on Mar 5, 2005 - 29 answers

In science, what is the difference between a theory and a law? Why is something called a law rather than a theory?
posted on Jan 15, 2005 - 18 answers

Is there any scientific data supporting the theory "If you dream your death in your sleep, you'll die"?
posted on Apr 6, 2004 - 22 answers