There are lots of condom brands, sizes, and pleasure-inducing gimmicks out there ? but it's not always easy to find which one will work best for you. When beginning to explore sexual intimacy, roadblocks like yours may arise, but the fact that you're dedicated to practicing safe sex despite this challenge is commendable. Just remember, even though it may take time and some trial and error to fi...

Quality can be defined as “a degree of excellence. In practice, we use testing as a measure of the outgoing quality of devices. The problem is that there is not a oneto-one correlation between test and quality. Just because a unit is tested doesn’t guarantee that it is defect-free. Similarly, “guaranteed-by-design” functionality, usually isn’t (with no offense intended to the incredibly talente...

The discovery of intelligence elsewhere would be of even greater import, as we have always considered humans to be special, even the pinnacle of Creation. To learn that there are others out there – others whose cognitive abilities exceed our own – would be a discovery that would recalibrate how our species views itself. It would also have consequences that can be only vaguely gauged, in much th...

There is a well-known argument from Leibniz’s Law for the view that coincident material things may be distinct. For given that they differ in their properties, then how can they be the same? However, many philosophers have suggested that this apparent difference in properties is the product of a linguistic illusion; there is just one thing out there, but different sorts or guises under which it...

We note here the constant (p/(1−r))p is best possible, as shown in [9] by setting an = n −1−(1−r)/p−ǫ and letting ǫ → 0+. This implies inequality (1.2) for 0 < p ≤ 1/3 with the best possible constant cp = (p/(1 − p)) p. On the other hand, it is also easy to see that inequality (1.2) fails to hold with cp = (p/(1 − p)) p for p ≥ 1/2. The point is that in these cases p/(1 − p) ≥ 1 so one can easi...

A method has been recently suggested 1] for building conndence intervals for the time remaining in an epoch using for data only the length of time since the beginning of the epoch. This method, here-to-fore referred to as \Gott's Formula", depends on the \Copernican principle in time", and is an extremely clever and powerful idea. Its power lies in the fact that it does not depend on particular...

During the past 5 years, several procedures for inducing antibodies capable of reacting with nucleic acids have been developed. These include immunization with phage lysates, ribosomes, purines, and pyrimidines or derivatives thereof coupled to proteins and polypeptides, denatured DNA or oligodeoxynucleotides complexed with methylated bovine serum albumin, and Gram-negative bacteria. It is now ...