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Are there a lot of people who are recognizably as beautiful as supermodels who are
not supermodels? Or do the present mechanisms of celebrity reliably account for a majority of people who meet the criteria to be supermodels?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cgc373
at 2:42 AM on June 29, 2008
(31 comments)
Does anyone have a decent citation for the idea that academic politics are so cruel/brutal/intense/vicious because the stakes are so low?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cgc373
at 12:50 AM on January 12, 2008
(4 comments)
Some
web pages with
a lot of
text seem to load slowly, even over broadband, and especially when compared to the bandwidth streaming video uses, I don't understand why. Can somebody explain? (Warning: Those links load slowly.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by cgc373
at 3:18 PM on November 25, 2007
(14 comments)
I would like to read some literate, accurate portraits of what it's like to be an attractive person in present U.S. or European society.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cgc373
at 4:35 PM on August 7, 2007
(25 comments)
Do scientists have an accurate way to measure complexity? Are they able to compare a human body with a city, for example, and say that one is more or less complicated or complex than the other?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cgc373
at 9:33 AM on May 25, 2007
(22 comments)
Zillions of billionaire characters in fiction try to buy their way out of dying by funding crazy research efforts or moving into orbit or whatever—think of John Hurt in
Contact or Lionel Luthor in
Smallville. Are there any examples of such figures in reality, in history? Howard Hughes types with nothing to lose?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cgc373
at 8:53 AM on April 29, 2007
(23 comments)
A friend inherited a bunch of cut precious and semiprecious gemstones (peridot, amethyst, sunstone, maybe some others) and wants to know how to sell them. This is in the Seattle area. Do we get them appraised? How does that work? Who buys precious gems nowadays?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cgc373
at 6:45 AM on November 14, 2006
(5 comments)
Why does a microwave oven door sometimes bounce and sometimes close?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cgc373
at 8:14 AM on March 10, 2006
(17 comments)
