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• 1 month ago

  What is the name of a magazine with issues by topic, I think it's published in Brooklyn and begins with 'C'?

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• May 20th, 2008

  What's the best bar for good whiskey in NYC?

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• July 2nd, 2007

  Where are good places to hike within a few hours of Newark, NJ?

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• January 18th, 2007

  know a good sturdy old laptop?

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• 1 month ago

  What is the name of a magazine with issues by topic, I think it's published in Brooklyn and begins with 'C'?

  Nope. It just hit me, it’s “Cabinet.”
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• March 3rd, 2009

  Define: Love.

  Wholehearted, unconditional acceptance and understanding.
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• November 9th, 2008

  I know there is a connection between in-utero x-rays and cancer. Is there a connection for young people's x-rays and cancer or tumors as well?

  On which studies are you relying for this known in-utero x-ray / cancer connection? I think the findings of the Oxford Survey of Childhood Leukemia from the 1950s have not been easy to confirm. Check out: http://www.jfponline.com/pdf%2F5505%2F5505JFP_ClinicalInquiries4.pdf Every time you fly you get a dose of cosmic (gamma) radiation roughly equivalent to a chest X-ray. As carcinogens go, I wouldn’t worry about infrequent X-rays exams (as compared to alcohol, tobacco, common viruses [HPV], and plastics [vinyl chloride]). Of course, there’s no reason to get an X-ray unless you or your kid really needs one.
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• June 30th, 2007

  Are there any good cures for jetlag?

  The normalization of body rhythms to the local daylight regime takes different amounts of time, and sleep rhythms may adapt more quickly than temperature cycles, for example. I find melatonin (or even benadryl) to be a good soporific to induce sleep and Modafinil (Provigil) if available can help relieve grogginess in the morning until you adjust. cheers!
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• June 30th, 2007

  Is there a free program like Mathematica?

  There are several options depending on what you need, here are a few:Axiom: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/axiomGiNaC: http://www.ginac.de/Yacas: http://www.xs4all.nl/~apinkus/yacas.htmlFermat: http://www.bway.net/~lewis/ and you can probably find more info at SymbolicNet: http://www.symbolicnet.org/ I personally like R (http://www.r-project.org/) but it more a replacement for S or Matlab than for Maple or Mathematica. Good luck!
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