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I just want to study economics -- I've always loved Harvard and that entire area. I wonder if there is someone I could contact ... I have an application right here, but it is for undergrad ...

Anyone know how hard it is to get into Harvard for Post-Grad studies??

Ok, you didn't say that -- I take it back. So you agree with me that people of faith can practice good sound science. Great! Now aren't you over-generalizing here? Who are you referring to? Are you grouping all people that are religious under a specific group that is unable to have a...

Hey man, don't use me as a guage for your market success -- because intelligence has NOTHING to do with market success. The correlation is probably below .20, which would make it virtually worthless. One of my biggest fears would be to go home with a chick and have her drop her pants and...

Yes I was. You just put things in a matrix and go from there -- standard math for 2002 college math classes -- maybe cutting edge shit for 1950's. Although 98% is a pretty big estimate -- that leaves 2% of the general population able to solve it -- and that percentage on the right side of...

I got 11 out of 16 correct. I'm in deep shit if I have too much too drink at the wrong bar!

One is considering the European version of this puzzle where the houses are counted from left to right, and the other would be the Hebraic solution where the houses are counted from right to left.

Do you think that Rock'n'Roll would be any different today if Buddy Holly hadn't been killed in 1959?

Yeah, but who says that the sum of all angles in a triangle is always 180 degrees? What about non-Euclidean geometry? The universe is non-Euclidean -- it is only our very limited local perception that leads us to believe that 180 degrees is the sum of all angles in a triangle.

If someone is offering 100 shares, maybe you can buy it. If someone is offering 10% of the float, maybe he/she knows something you do not?

It was an ATM machine -- in retrospect!

Ok, then I'll step back one more and say that I once made a decision not even to become a trader. Now what? I'm not even in the game anymore under that one! :)

What should I do??

Free will is an interesting topic. Free will supposedly means that "I" have the ability to do whatever I want when I want. However, isn't that really determined by my past and also my abilities, biases, preferences? Many times I have wanted to throw a brick through a window, but was unable to...

So by that analysis of quantum mechanics and free-will, I could decide to just stay flat and disprove your hypothesis.

Stu and Gordon, I am not here to force my opinion of god into your life. It is clearly obvious that both of you are hard-core materialists who are rigid in logic and science -- which is great. However, don't make the false argument that one who practices faith cannot be a good scientist...

Mr Subliminal is correct. Way to go! This is a problem with human probability decision making to resort to "wholes" instead of parts. There are 6 sides total (think of sides, not cards). 3 sides are white and 3 sides are red. Since the card on the floor is showing a red side, we can...

Three cards are placed into a hat. One card has a white face on both sides. A second card has a white side and a red side and the third card has two red sides. A card is drawn out of the hat and falls to the floor and shows a red side. The other side was not seen. What is the probability...

Again, what necessitates god to intervene in anything? You are applying your own human ideals on a "thing" that is beyond logic and reason. Knowledge is all well and great, but even if you knew everything, where would that get you? I'm going to wave my magic wand and suddenly Longshot now...

I don't think it is presumptious to believe in god. A belief, by its very nature, means that you rely on faith. Now if I said, "I know there is a god," then I am stating that god is provable through scientific fact. Beliefs are generally those things that cannot be tested or proven while...