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Technology
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As technology progresses, nuclear proliferation will inevitably increase as these weapons become more and more within the reach of smaller nations and organisations.
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| Yes (25) |  86% | | No (4) |  14% |
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Is the internet going to choke on all this new video content? ISPs say that the internet wasn't built for this kind of content. Short clips are fine but TV quality streamed video is going to put a serious strain on it.
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| Yes (15) | 38% | | No (24) | 62% |
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Medicine
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The shady business of funeral homes selling body parts has come to light recently. Turns out our body parts are worth more financially than most people realized. Will people negotiate the sale of their own body parts before they die and reap some of financial benefits?
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| Yes (26) | 53% | | No (23) | 47% |
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After reading Richard Preston's excellent book "Demon in the Freezer", I'm convinced that a weaponized version of smallpox could be created and used. Vaccines that we have now might not effect the strain created and would be in short supply. Do you think we will see a smallpox attack in the next ten years?
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| Yes (15) | 56% | | No (12) | 44% |
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Personalized medicine is the use of detailed information about a patient's genes in order to select a medication or therapy this is suited to them. The best-known example is Genentech's Herceptin, a breast-cancer drug. Before prescribing the drug, a doctor tests the tumor to see whether it has high levels of the protein Her2.
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| Yes (82) | 91% | | No (8) | 9% |
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A device that can pick up on people's emotions is being developed to help people with autism relate to those around them. It will alert its autistic user if the person they are talking to starts showing signs of getting bored or annoyed.
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| Yes (40) | 74% | | No (14) | 26% |
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A vaccine is a treatment that teaches our immune system how to protect itself against a disease-causing germ like a virus or bacteria. Vaccines are one of the world’s most effective tools for preventing diseases. Polio, smallpox, measles, and mumps have been nearly eliminated from many countries because of vaccines. Ideally, an AIDS vaccine would prevent people from being infected with HIV (the virus that causes AIDS).
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| Yes (24) | 67% | | No (12) | 33% |
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Environment
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E85 is the term for motor fuel blends of 85 percent ethanol and just 15 percent gasoline. E85 is an alternative fuel as defined by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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| Yes (42) | 76% | | No (13) | 24% |
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Battery electric vehicles or BEVs are electric vehicles whose main energy storage is in the chemical energy of batteries. BEVs are the most common form of what is defined by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) as zero emission (ZEV) passenger automobiles, because they produce no emissions while being driven.
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| Yes (46) | 78% | | No (13) | 22% |
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Biofuel is any fuel that derives from biomass — recently living organisms or their metabolic byproducts, such as manure from cows. It is a renewable energy source, unlike other natural resources such as petroleum, coal and nuclear fuels.
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| Yes (37) | 88% | | No (5) | 12% |
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Music
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Art Brut have a quite widespread following of 'franchises', whose names range from AB0 (the classic Art Brut) to AB3.14/Pi or even to AB1948. These franchises often record and play Art Brut songs during performances. The original band is famous in England for their single "Formed a Band".
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| Yes (18) | 55% | | No (15) | 45% |
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Hardcore Punk is a faster and heavier version of Punk Rock usually characterized by short, loud, and often passionate songs with exceptionally fast tempos and chord changes. Some of the biggest acts included Black Flag, Bad Brains, and Minor Threat. Hardcore lyrics often express righteous indignation at society, usually from a politically left perspective. There is a good supply of stuff to write songs about so maybe it's time for a reemergence?
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| Yes (20) | 34% | | No (38) | 66% |
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Could a top 40 song be composed using a scale other than the traditional 12 note scale? For instance the Bohlen-Pierce scale is a harmonic, non-octave scale; its 13 tone steps fill the framework of the twelfth (3:1). It is meant to permit creation and performance of harmonic music in tonal relations that are different from those of traditional scales.
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| Yes (30) | 77% | | No (9) | 23% |
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Dash Rip Rock is known as one of the best live acts in the south. Unfortunately they haven't achieved much radio success (except for "Let's go smoke some pot" which really didn't show how great of a band they are). Fred Leblanc of Cowboy Mouth fame was once a member and originally recorded "Jenny Says" as a Dash song. So could this be the decade that they break through? Do they really want to?
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| Yes (42) | 69% | | No (19) | 31% |
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The Postal Service is an indietronic band featuring singer Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and producer Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel, Headset and Figurine. Death Cab has become so popular it is hard to imagine the Postal Service every coming out with another album.
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| Yes (23) | 82% | | No (5) | 18% |
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Popular Culture
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Bill Simmons (ESPN's the Sports Guy) came up with an idea for a fantasy league where people can pick teams of celebs. Each week you would get points for a celeb making the cover plus less points per photo inside. You're also docked points if your celeb makes the "Fashion Police" section. See the topic details for more of the rules...
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| Yes (22) | 39% | | No (35) | 61% |
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A language will be adopted which removes complexities of gender and simplifies tense will become popular. The overall intention will be faciliate learning as much as possible by removing as much complexity as possible. The language could also be restricted to sounds that are common to most languages.
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| Yes (16) | 24% | | No (51) | 76% |
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Could it be possible after sprouting a million plot lines that the biggest TV show around could end with it all being a lame dream sequence? There are just so many plot lines right now there is no way they are going to wrap them all up. I think they are going to drag it out longer than Gilligan's Island and with a lamer ending...
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| Yes (14) | 30% | | No (33) | 70% |
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A dog hybrid is a cross between two different breeds. Hybrids are also known as crossbreeds or crossbreds, although the term crossbreed is also used to refer to a mixed-breed dog where the breed of only one parent is known. Among the better known dog hybrids are Labradoodles and Goldendoodles.
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| Yes (102) | 42% | | No (143) | 58% |
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Style
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Belts are steadily inching their way up the waists of Hollywood's most fashionable starlets for spring—and gaining some heft in the process. Whereas winter saw thinner versions slung low on the hip of many a pair of jeans, these belts are cinching the season's most feminine dresses—both full and body-skimming.
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| Yes (20) | 69% | | No (9) | 31% |
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Are knickers back in fashion for fall 2006? According to Cynthia Nellis of About.com, it is part of a "School-girl vibe". Would you wear them this fall or buy them for your girlfriend/wife?
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| Yes (13) | 45% | | No (16) | 55% |
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Is it possible that there will be a backlash against stick thin actresses? Could the reaction go so far as to embrace Rubenesque actresses? Dictionary.com defines Rubenesque as "Plump or fleshy and voluptuous".
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| Yes (87) | 65% | | No (47) | 35% |
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Salt Lake City fashion designer Jared Gold recently began offering jeweled brooches featuring brightly colored Swarovski crystals affixed to a live, 3-inch-long Madagascar hissing cockroach that a woman can allow to roam a short distance around her dress or jacket via a silver chain affixed to the roach's back.
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| Yes (11) | 23% | | No (37) | 77% |
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Politics
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The United States, the world’s leading debtor nation, is now heavily dependent on Chinese capital to underwrite its fast-growing debt. If China ever decides to divert their capital surplus elsewhere, either to internal investment or to the development of oil, gas, and mineral resources elsewhere in the world, the U.S. economy will be in trouble.
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| Yes (32) | 86% | | No (5) | 14% |
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In Arizona political activist Dr. Mark Osterloh is placing his bets that a proposal to pay one lucky voter $1 million will drive people to the polls. Do you think this kind of incentive scheme is going to work?
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| Yes (16) | 53% | | No (14) | 47% |
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If tests like the Scholastic Aptitude Test and Law School Aptitude Test are good enough to predict performance in college and professional schools, a Presidential Aptitude Test could do the same for entry to the White House. The test might even include a section on basic English grammar.
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| Yes (36) | 51% | | No (35) | 49% |
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Instead of vetoing legislation President Bush has been issuing signing statements after signing major legislation. The signing statement is an official document in which a president lays out his interpretation of a new law.
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| Yes (29) | 67% | | No (14) | 33% |
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Seems like Fox and the Republican Party are closer than ever. Fox is now the preferred network at the White House. Requests to show other networks on the White House TVs have been denied.
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| Yes (27) | 59% | | No (19) | 41% |
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Travel
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Would you travel to Thailand after seeing the destruction that the tsunami caused? I was actually at a beach on the other side of Thailand when it struck. I'd go back but I know there are many who wouldn't dare. Have the plates finished their shifting and will people feel safe going back in the next five years?
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| Yes (30) | 86% | | No (5) | 14% |
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Hidden deep beneath the surface of Yellowstone National park lies one of the most destructive and yet least-understood natural phenomena in the world - a supervolcano. Only a handful exist in the world but when one erupts it will be unlike any volcano we have ever witnessed. The explosion will be heard around the world. The sky will darken, black rain will fall, and the Earth will be plunged into the equivalent of a nuclear winter.
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| Yes (95) | 70% | | No (41) | 30% |
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Looks like every band is organizing a cruise. Dave Matthews, Bare Naked Ladies, and Sister Hazel (The Rock Boat). Seems like muscians don't mind being cornered by their crazy fans.
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| Yes (25) | 69% | | No (11) | 31% |
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By the end of the decade, Virgin Galactic - the most exciting development in the story of modern space history - is planning to make it possible for almost anyone to visit the final frontier at an affordable price.
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| Yes (78) | 75% | | No (26) | 25% |
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Travel companies are jumping on the Amazing Race bandwagon and offering customized packages to groups who want to travel and compete against each other.
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| Yes (9) | 5% | | No (159) | 95% |
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