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You bring me pleasure Iron. Also, how about Putin and that Tiger? It may well have been staged but he at least seemed hardcore.

Aye, a trusty old heuristic won't necessarily hold up in novel situations (which we have been generating by the bucket load since the industrial revolution).

I apologise for the lack of thought behind what follows. It is but a pre-sleep hodge podge of replies: (1) Music looks dead if you look to the top of the pops - but I would contend that this is the wrong place to look. There is a lot of great music out there if you have the time to search and...

I was thinking just that, but then I made sense of the bogus genetic and social assumptions that were being made, i.e. (1) that homosexuality is primarily genetic, (2) homosexuals are the only reservoir of homosexual genes (which is very unlikely if homosexuality is a polygenetic phenomenon or...

Different universities offer different experiences. Whether these differences constitute an advantage or a disadvantage depends on where you want your degree to take you. USyd and UNSW have a monopoly on the big, super-specialised institutions (e.g. POW, RPA, Royal North Shore, Westmead...

Apparently the point prevalence of psychopathy is quite high (compared to the normal population) in law, business and politics.

I managed 1 - (-1) = 0, which majorly screwed up the complex numbers question that relied on the result. Dead careless mistake on my part.

It's probably an urban myth, but some claim that the interviewers asked "If you were a type of bread what would you be, and why?"

The giant pangolin goes down well (unique, docile and occasionally bipedal).

Unfortunately the answer to that question depends on which of your respective gods exist. If a hardline god exists then you're screwed. If a kind, flexible god exists, then you're sweet. If neither exist then perhaps it doesn't matter.

The LHC

Melbourne university is a lot stronger in terms of philosophy. It has quite a good reputation, a lot more staff and a great deal more in terms of course offerings (both current and potential). Sadly Melbourne is loosing one of their big philosophers (Graham Priest) in 2009. ACU has Raimond Gaita...

I've lost track of the development of the whole black hole hype, but am I right to think that it stems from the 'pseudo black hole' which they think they created a while back by colliding gold nuclei on Long Island? The paper, courtesy of arvix (just go to the conclusion - it's Greek to me).

Pun!

There are some hectic doc out there too. Word on the street has it that there are some inner city opthalmologists raking in ~ $1 mil / year (each) doing mainly cataract surgeries. And then there is that california surgeon who does vaginoplasty (designer vaginas) making some obscene figure...

This document should give you a reasonable idea for private practitioners (note that they are late / established career figures). In the public system: the salary for staff specialists employed in the public system is in the order of $230,000.

As Po1nty identified, societies typically have a privileged place for 'healers'. Medicine is the modern extension I suppose. Whether or not you think the respect is deserved I hope that you can understand how it comes about. I do concede that medicine is commonly overly romanticised - but this...

Public health is where the big changes are at. Also, it's not a matter of adjusting one's career path so that the maximum number of lives are saved. No human (that I know) is so simplistic. It's a balance of interest, opportunity, desire for comfortable living, altruism, selfishness and...

For sure, it doesn't count unless you create the surgical technique yourself.

Has anyone in the house survived a premature birth, meningitis, pneumonia, internal haemorrhage, thalassaemia major, status asthmaticus, anaphylactic shock, acute epiglottitis, etc... etc..? (and yes po1nty, I'm in a paeds-oriented head space at the moment)