what defines maturity?

That's right, I just heard about a software that you install on your cell phone and supposingly repels mosquitos within 2m range of the phone. Do you really believe these things work or smart people who thought of these ideas first figured out a way to make millions why you with your phone are testing to see if it really works? For sure the marketing works!

I don't want to advertise them here but there are websites where people report the names of people with sexually transmitted diseases like hiv, herpes, etc...Problem is anyone can put anyone's name on the site and in order to delete your name if it's not true you must provide medical reports to the website owner that you are std-free!! Some people think this is the right thing to do but I personally think they should ban such websites. You don't right a wrong with a wrong. What's your view on this sensitive matter?

Why do we associate crossed legs with ease and relaxation if this position puts stress and injure on our knees?

Stuck in the airport from dusk till dawn waiting for my flight, tired and exhausted I fell asleep for about 2 hours sitting with my legs crossed, one of top of the other. Woke up from terrible pain in my left knee (read more)

Industrial education is outdated and a school of creativity/problem-solving would be a refreshing change.

A school where teachers learn from their students, and use that knowledge to enhance their students' creativity within the student's field of greatest passion or ability. The more the student learned, the more that student would be encouraged to expand into other fields of passion and ability. The teachers would be required to talk to every student as if they were an adult and not encourage an atmosphere of superiority vs inferiority, but rather an atmosphere of collective problem solving. If one student does not understand, everyone in the class would work with that student until they could figure out how to teach the lesson in a way that made sense to the confused student. If one student in the class is a trouble-maker for one reason or another, the whole class would work together until they figured out how to quell this problem. The main focus of such a school would be to figure out the strengths of each student, and to design creative ways for each individual's strength to interact with the strengths of every other individual in a classroom. This would establish a proper foundation for the future of society as a whole.

I heard that it is better for a woman not to take anti pregnancy pill if she had never give birth. why?

Could you please tell me your opinion about organic and non-organic food for kids?

A commercially available male pill becomes reality in a few years. Contraception improves and abortion rates decline. The pill package doesn't come in circles and colors, but men refuse to use it, so the pill is made to also work as protein supplement for the gym or as a male erectile aphrodisiac! Do you think more men would take it if made to work this way? If you're a man, would you take it straight, stirred or shaken?

H. Clinton and Obama are advocating more requirements to own/provide health insurance. As a teacher, public healthcare seems very reasonable and humane. As an economist, I question if we are prepared for the changes in the supply and demand of doctors?
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What about using distilled water to rinse dishes from soap?

I think that would make it safer for our health because after the water dries, on the surface of the dishes there are remnants left from the impurities found in the regular tap water.
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