Much has been written on this subject most of it detrimental. But I read somewhere last week that we use the principal of permanent magnets to help power some of the offshore wind turbines. Because we...
If water going down a plug hole in the northern hemisphere goes clockwise, and in the southern hemisphere goes down anticlockwise, is there a place on earth where is goes straight down??
How good or bad is a disc shape for flying? We all know that frisbee's can go quite far but this is because they're thrown if a ufo it had an engine on it where would it go, and wouldn't it make the...
Religionists on this site and elsewhere in the world of belief always quote faith as a virtue, something to be proud of. Why? 'Faith' is a euphemism for 'blind credulity' or 'belief without the need...
I just noticed the latest posts on the side of the screen and it was all people looking for answers to crosswords. That's like people who do quizzes in pubs who walk around asking for the answers off...
Listening to a phone in debate on my local radio station at the moment about angels. The guest speaker has just stated that you need to be half asleep or half awake to see them or to communicate with...
In Stephen King's third novel, The Waste Lands, of his Dark Tower series, he refers to a train breaking the sound barrier. Now, I know a chap like King would do his research but is the...
A mate of mine wont eat anything that has been microwaved, and Im a bit iffy myself but dont bother too much about any health risks if Im hungry. Are there any studies either way to suggest that there...
Isnt it more honest, for the evolutionary,scientifically inclined, to describe themselves as agnostic, rather than atheist? Time and again, Ive read on this site that the best answer that we have as...
Being British is about Driving a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then traveling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch...
Did anyone else see this on Wednesday night? One in three of our schools are now faith schools funded by the tax payer, but in the area of religious education not only do some of them teach the...
Recently discovered on wiki answers( like answerbank but without the funny bits) that snakes do not have vocal cords. This undermines the credibility of the first testament from page 1 (or is it 2?)....