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The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term. Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following: First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all sou...

Make sure your resume is in top-notch shape by avoiding the top 10 resume blunders: 1. Too Focused on Job Duties Your resume should not be a boring list of job duties and responsibilities. Go beyond showing what was required and demonstrate how you made a difference at each company, providing specific examples. When developing your achievements, ask yourself: * How did you perform the job better than others? * What were the problems or challenges faced? How did you overcome them? What were the results? How did the company benefit from your performance? * Did you receive any awards, special recognition or promotions as a result? 2. Flowery or General Objective Statement Many candidates lose their readers in the beginning. Statements such as "A challenging position enabling me to contribute to organizational goals while offering an opportunity for growth and advancement" are overused, too general and waste valuable space. If you're on a career track, replace the objective w...

 Check out this cool video on multi-touch interface screen demo, by Jeff Han. Its going to be the ground-breaking technology for human-computer interface. So much of it, reminds me (actually reminded to me by Gowri Shankar) of Minority Report. Man, either Spielberg is a genius or he knew of this kind of research when he made that movie.

One of the first few questions that any one who has arrived in the US fresh from India asks is, "How do I send money home to my parents in India?". There are many ways you can do this. Send them a personal check (from the same bunch of checks provided by your bank that you use to pay your bills with). Write out the amount in dollars. Mail it home any which way that is convenient. Have the recipient deposit the check into their savings bank account. In due course of time (about 15 - 20 days), the check will be cleared (at the exchange rate on the day of clearance) and the money available for withdrawal. Some banks will allow you to encash the check immediately at a discounted price. Of course, if you want to send money periodically, you could send them a number checks appropriately post-dated. As an alternative to the above method of sending personal checks, you could make a Cashier's Check (in dollars) which...

The lion Sleeps Tonight From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" began as a 1939 African popular music hit "Mbube" that, in modified versions, also became a hit in the US and UK. "Mbube" (Zulu for "lion") was first recorded by its writer, Solomon Linda, and his group, The Evening Birds, in 1939. Gallo Record Company paid Linda a single fee for the recording and no royalties. "Mbube" became a hit throughout South Africa and sold about one hundred thousand copies during the 1940s. The song became so popular it that Mbube lent its name to a style of African a capella music, though the style has since been replaced by isicathamiya (a softer version). American musicologist Alan Lomax brought the song to the attention of folk group The Weavers' Pete Seeger. In 1952, they recorded their version entitled "Wimoweh", a mishearing of the original song's chorus of 'uyimbube' (meaning "you'r...

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At a fund raising dinner for a school that serves learning disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question: "Where is the perfection in my son Shaya? Everything God does is done with perfection. But my child cannot understand things as other children do. My child cannot remember facts and figures as other children do. Where is God's perfection?" The audience was shocked by the question, pained by the father's anguish and stilled by the piercing query. "I believe," the father answered, "that when God brings a child like this into the world the perfection that he seeks is in the way people react to this child." Then he told the following story: Shay and his father had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked, "Do you think they'll let me play?" Shay...