Another installment of "Did you know..."

her209

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Did you know that in some cultures, the word for prostitute and actor is the same?
 

Saint Nick

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search youtube for "shift happens"

I'm sure its all a load of crap though... not really sure.
 

Amused

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Originally posted by: her209
Did you know that in some cultures, the word for prostitute and actor is the same?

In my culture, the words "prostitute" and "politician" are synonymous.
 

Cerpin Taxt

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A fluorescent microscope makes use of a special set of filters that essentially allow a certain wavelength of light to pass in one direction and a second wavelength of light to pass in the other direction. These filter sets are tuned to matched the absorption and emission spectra of the fluorescent proteins with which the specimen is treated.

Deconvolution is accomplished on a microscope by means of a metered sequential vertical "stack" of images acquired through a certain depth of focus which are then processed with a deconvolution algorithm according to the system's point spread function.

Phase contrast converts variations in the refractive indices of a specimen into variations in intensity which are visible to the eye.
 

Mallow

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Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: her209
Did you know that in some cultures, the word for prostitute and actor is the same?

In my culture, the words "prostitute" and "politician" are synonymous.
haha, that is true in my own personal culture ;)
 

IEC

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Originally posted by: her209
Did you know that in some cultures, the word for prostitute and actor is the same?

I guess that means politicians qualify as actors AND prostitutes, eh?
 

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: her209
Did you know that in some cultures, the word for prostitute and actor is the same?

In my culture, the words "prostitute" and "politician" are synonymous.

Not exactly... you pay a prostitute so you can screw them, but you pay a politician to screw you.
 

Accipiter22

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To recycle a plastic bottle takes twice as much energy and consumption as it would to just make a new bottle.

If we built a 30 mile x 30 mile land fill we would have enough space for all of America's trash for the next 700 years