Deathly Hallows - no spoilers

2007-07-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
I just finished it. I'm in San Diego, so I lost three hours due to the time change, but just finished it. It's amazing, wonderful, deeply moving, and not just everything I hoped for, but far more. Happy reading to all of you still working on it!!! Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom

Got Brains?

2007-07-21 Thread jon louis mann
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12301feedId=online-news_rss20 A man with an unusually tiny brain a huge fluid-filled chamber called a ventricle took up most of the room in his skull, leaving little more than a thin sheet of actual brain tissue more than a 50% to 75% reduction.

Re: Got Brains?

2007-07-21 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 04:19 PM Saturday 7/21/2007, jon louis mann wrote: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12301feedId=online-news_rss20 A man with an unusually tiny brain a huge fluid-filled chamber called a ventricle took up most of the room in his skull, leaving little more than a thin sheet of actual

RE: war is terror...

2007-07-21 Thread Dan Minette
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jon louis mann Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:31 AM To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: war is terror... That is one - rather bizarre - way of looking at things. I would suggest that in fact the

Got Brains?

2007-07-21 Thread jon louis mann
the whole brain was reduced... more than a 50% to 75%... the brain is very plastic and can adapt to some brain damage.. If it happens very slowly, different parts of the brain take up functions normally done by the part pushed to the side... (snip, snip.~) Half My IQ And Makes Twice As Much

Re: Deathly Hallows - no spoilers

2007-07-21 Thread Charlie Bell
On 22/07/2007, at 5:38 AM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: I just finished it. I'm in San Diego, so I lost three hours due to the time change, but just finished it. It's amazing, wonderful, deeply moving, and not just everything I hoped for, but far more. Happy reading to all of you still

Re: Deathly Hallows - no spoilers

2007-07-21 Thread Julia Thompson
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Gautam Mukunda wrote: I just finished it. I'm in San Diego, so I lost three hours due to the time change, but just finished it. It's amazing, wonderful, deeply moving, and not just everything I hoped for, but far more. Happy reading to all of you still working on

war is terror...

2007-07-21 Thread jon louis mann
the evidence is that a blockade would not have ended WWII. it would have allowed the Soviet Union to switch it's forces to the Eastern Front... which probably would have resulted in a Soviet sphere. (snippet) my japanese stepmother told me the americans dropped the bomb because japan was

Re: Deathly Hallows - no spoilers

2007-07-21 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 7/21/07, Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just finished it. I'm in San Diego, so I lost three hours due to the time change, but just finished it. It's amazing, wonderful, deeply moving, and not just everything I hoped for, but far more. Happy reading to all of you still

Re: Got Brains?

2007-07-21 Thread PAT MATHEWS
He was in the civil service with an IQ of 75? Pat, biting tongue on bureaucrat jokes. http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/ __ The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual.The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.--William James

RE: Deathly Hallows - no spoilers

2007-07-21 Thread Jim Sharkey
Gautam Mukunda wrote: It's amazing, wonderful, deeply moving, and not just everything I hoped for, but far more. Yes, it was an excellenet capstone to the series. There were a couple of parts that were underwhelming, such as the epilogue, but for the most part it was a great read. I got to

Re: Got Brains?

2007-07-21 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:00 PM Saturday 7/21/2007, PAT MATHEWS wrote: He was in the civil service with an IQ of 75? Pat, biting tongue on bureaucrat jokes. I beat you to that one. Nothing To Brag About Though Because It Was So Obvious Maru -- Ronn! :) ___

Re: Got Brains?

2007-07-21 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 05:59 PM Saturday 7/21/2007, jon louis mann wrote: are members of mensa trying to compensate for poor self esteem, or the opposite, or are they simply seeking to network with other geniuses? I suspect that the answer is as varied as the individual. I went hoping for the latter reason, and