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I think they're both about 6 minutes.

Post in in creative and/or send it to interested people. (myself included) Anyway, today was alrightish so far. I overslept, and am still failing to work out what my alarm did - it wasn't going when I woke up, and I had taped down the turn off alarm switch, and the tape was still in place, and the alarm symbol still on. I've subjected it to various tests, and the alarm doesn't seem to turn off, so something odd's going on. Either way, I missed my single lecture, which doesn't matter greatly as I can read up on it, but I opened my email inbox to find that they'd decided to spring a surprise practical on us all, so went to that, and it was actually quite fun. Not so much a practical as a lecture with lots of interesting videos of cell division. So after that, I decided 'twas high time to hoover my room, and I had the unmissable experience of using a Henry for the first time. (sorry Dyson, but you just don't match up) My carpet is a strange one, it seems to be covered in a layer of hair (mostly not mine), that never really comes off entirely, whatever you do to it. I tried my damndest, and got somewhere by alternating rubbing with hoovering, but I fear a few odd bits of MYSTERY HAIR still remain. (Note to pedants: I am aware that Henry vacuum cleaners are not manufactured by the Hoover company, but really don't care) Anyway, on to work, with perhaps an elegant side dish of work with lime dressing. Game theory first I suppose.

Go ahead and watch them, but don't expect much - they're very short, and I think one of them borrowed most of it's jokes from another episode. If you really do want more azudai, you could always read the manga. That's quite fun, it's done entirely in four panel gag strips (yon-koma), and though a lot of it is similar to the anime, there's some different bits too.

Sounds like fun. Enjoy.

Yeah, sounds like a plan. Well, number 3 is a cryptic crossword clue, so the answer is two words, the first of 7 letters and the second of 6, and somehow relates to the clue, most likely in two different ways, neither of which is directly related to the clue's actual meaning. As for number 10... first, find out another word for water bear, and then see if you can find a way to see my bookshelf.

I'll give you that, it's done by hormonal suppression. No, but the use of the term polyandry suggested I was talking about those that are polyandrous.

I want the answer I expected, dammit!

Plan 9 from Outer Space people... but then, that's so bad it's good.

Sorry to nitpick, but you probably want to get it right.

That doesn't stop them breeding. There's a method employed that actually prevents any copulation from taking place.

That still doesn't answer the question. What stops the non-dominant females from breeding?

Right, things to do, hopefully before Sunday, will cross out as I go: - A load of questions on game theory. - A load of questions on reaction kinetics. - An essay on methods used to elucidate the cell cycle. - An essay on the relevance of amplification in transduction of cell signals. - An essay on primates. - File all my new notes, as they're in a bit of a mess. - Buy a ruler that is actually straight. - Sort out various bills. - Revision, revision, revision, revision... (this one won't be getting crossed out any time soon)

But how? (no, she doesn't just attack them)

Haha, that shows some effort. Yep, a proper trick question this time, well done.

Right, I'm opening this thing up to anyone.

He wants a hosting site, so http://tinypic.com/ would probably be more useful.

It seems so, so I'll give you the points, but I think acidified potassium dichromate(VI) was used in the UK, hence the orange to green colour change. Ah well, I guess any oxidising agent works.

Nope, and yes I do mean the Drunkometer, you'll have to find out what that "chemical solution" is.

Nope, that detects pH, and alcohols are very weak acids.

Erm, actually I think that's right, and mine's wrong.

Hell, the quote was from the Interlingua wikipedia article on the origin of life. You can just google the quote and it comes up with the page, and you can return to the main page to find out the language, which I assume is what Noodleman did. I knew that most people wouldn't think of that, and would try and guess the language, because it looks tantalisingly like languages they might know, but is never quite right. That's why I chose the question.

Then it's even easier, as you don't need to multiply out anything at all. You have A = (3+2x^2)(1+x)^(-2)(1-4x)^(-1) (I arbitrarily called it A) We know that: (1+x)^(-2) = 1 - 2x + 3x^2 + ... and (1-4x)^(-1) = 1 + 4x + 16x^2 + ... So A = (3+2x^2)(1)(1) + (3+2x^2)(-2x)(4x) + (3+2x^2)(3x^2)(16x^2) + ... = 3 + 2x^2 - 24x^2 - 16x^4 + 144x^4 + 96x^6 + ... = 3 - 22x^2 + 128x^4 + ... (the x^6 term is the 4th, so I removed it) Anyway, that's the approach. The calculations might be a bit wrong, I did it quickly. Also: For 3+2x^2, root3(1+2x/3)^2 is incorrect. it is only correct for (3+2x)^2.

Do you mean (3+2x)^2/ (1+x)^2(1-4x)? If so, you need only multiply out the bracket, divide by each of the two terms you calculated earlier, then simplify. Remember that binomial expansions are finite for powers that are postive integers.

It's an invented language, a little like Esperanto but designed to combine all the romance languages into something easy that anyone who speaks them can understand.

Neither of these. That's right, 'twas a semi-trick question.