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    Thread: read real japanese essays
Post: read real japanese essays

does anybody have the read real japanese fiction/essays mp3s and also the breaking into japanese literature mp3s? the websites are down
elhnad Group study 20 19,077 2014-12-08, 11:44 am
    Thread: Links to good media for learning Mandarin
Post: Links to good media for learning Mandarin

i love this fluentflix site, can't wait til it's fully released and the bugs are sorted out
elhnad Chinese and Hanzi 48 25,405 2012-09-21, 9:12 pm
    Thread: What's your area of study?
Post: What's your area of study?

Majored in Mathematics, Statistics, and economics, but learned relatively nothing in spite of almost a 4.0. got half way through the actuarial track but truth seeking took focus over working an office...
elhnad Off topic 45 10,652 2011-12-06, 11:08 pm
    Thread: To stay healthy you should...
Post: To stay healthy you should...

yudantaiteki good points, i agree that the free market isn't the best in dealing with long term effects of decisions, but I argue the govt dominated sphere is even less able to deal with longterm effe...
elhnad Off topic 48 7,723 2011-12-06, 10:45 pm
    Thread: To stay healthy you should...
Post: To stay healthy you should...

Tzadeck, you are right that a free market maximises profits, but that doesn't mean that it can't promote health at the same time. I suggest you give some more time to the studies of numerous economist...
elhnad Off topic 48 7,723 2011-12-05, 3:16 pm
    Thread: To stay healthy you should...
Post: To stay healthy you should...

"random stuff"? hmm i think he quoted a book you've assumingly never read that's the basis of his argument and mine. I appreciate your attempt at explaining the rise of regulatory agencies and I enco...
elhnad Off topic 48 7,723 2011-12-05, 9:49 am
    Thread: To stay healthy you should...
Post: To stay healthy you should...

Javizy with the sense of thinking out of the box which is necessary in an age where the mainstream doesn't get the optimal results. “At the University of Arizona, a 2007 study found that the averag...
elhnad Off topic 48 7,723 2011-12-04, 10:00 pm
    Thread: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling
Post: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling

@Javizy I already tried the nutrition route, thanks for the contribution, gotta keep tryin. I second the statement of stress wreaking havoc in the body. Thanks for reminding me about the Zebra and Ul...
elhnad Off topic 222 48,812 2011-11-03, 12:24 pm
    Thread: Links to good media for learning Mandarin
Post: Links to good media for learning Mandarin

gdaxeman, Lara and her band are pretty good (Lara's hot) although I've never loaded up on them before. They were put together/produced I think by Jay Chou. AN BRIEF OVERVIEW OF CPOP What got me int...
elhnad Chinese and Hanzi 48 25,405 2011-10-24, 8:34 pm
    Thread: Music problem - cannot find anything I like
Post: Music problem - cannot find anything I like

thanks Realism for putting that together, looking forward to checking it out
elhnad General discussion 109 31,524 2011-10-24, 6:27 pm
    Thread: Music problem - cannot find anything I like
Post: Music problem - cannot find anything I like

Realism Wrote:Do you know that Chinese pop music copies Japanese pop music?? They're pretty much the same thing. can you provide some backup to this? i don't know but it just seems that the ppl i list...
elhnad General discussion 109 31,524 2011-10-20, 9:50 am
    Thread: Music problem - cannot find anything I like
Post: Music problem - cannot find anything I like

I listen to a lot of chinese pop music but have yet to find anything that does it for me in japanese music. It might just be a fundamental difference in the way the sounds are pronounced, the way chi...
elhnad General discussion 109 31,524 2011-10-16, 12:23 pm
    Thread: HIGH cholesterol?....Fear not!
Post: HIGH cholesterol?....Fear not!

Surreal Wrote:if you consider the meta-analyses to be the most important sources of information (I don't like calling studies "evidence"...) it would have made sense to include direct links to them an...
elhnad Off topic 68 8,988 2011-07-12, 10:19 pm
    Thread: HIGH cholesterol?....Fear not!
Post: HIGH cholesterol?....Fear not!

Tzadeck Wrote:As for cholesterol, as I've said, I'm not arguing that you're wrong. Science done about long term health has been done very sloppy. Ben Goldacre once wrote a list of things we know tha...
elhnad Off topic 68 8,988 2011-07-11, 10:50 pm
    Thread: HIGH cholesterol?....Fear not!
Post: HIGH cholesterol?....Fear not!

I don't think I need a summary on academic integrity, but I think the researchers working for the government, the NIH, and pharmaceutical companies could! I blame the government on a lot of things, e...
elhnad Off topic 68 8,988 2011-07-06, 3:41 pm
    Thread: HIGH cholesterol?....Fear not!
Post: HIGH cholesterol?....Fear not!

the main point was to show GAPING holes in the hypothesis so that the conventional view can't be true as is. I don't tend to say what is true, just that the mainstream one isn't. There's a huge disti...
elhnad Off topic 68 8,988 2011-07-06, 8:09 am
    Thread: HIGH cholesterol?....Fear not!
Post: HIGH cholesterol?....Fear not!

there is a correlation between BLOOD cholesterol and heart problems, but NO CORRELATION between FOOD cholesterol and heart disease. The why for the first correlation has been researched, if you're in...
elhnad Off topic 68 8,988 2011-07-05, 2:54 pm
    Thread: HIGH cholesterol?....Fear not!
Post: HIGH cholesterol?....Fear not!

I typically assume that ppl who spend a lot of times on forums as these have also ventured out and spent time on other forums figuring stuff out and getting away from other myths perpetuated to us as ...
elhnad Off topic 68 8,988 2011-07-05, 11:05 am
    Thread: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling
Post: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling

Tzadeck Wrote:For the record, I think it's been sufficiently proven that drugs can be effective at treating serious depression long term. And I also think that meditation, when talked about in a medi...
elhnad Off topic 222 48,812 2011-06-09, 1:48 pm
    Thread: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling
Post: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling

IceCream Wrote:... so, you want to discredit all academic papers as ghostwritten fiction, and then post random articles from the internet written by well, who knows really, there's no credentials at a...
elhnad Off topic 222 48,812 2011-06-08, 12:57 pm
    Thread: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling
Post: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling

I apologize. if it wasn't clear in my post, when i wrote "you" i meant "both of you" as in could both of you provide evidence for your respective claims, not just icecream. secondly, i wasn't thinkin...
elhnad Off topic 222 48,812 2011-06-07, 9:57 pm
    Thread: MRI scanning the brains of meditating monks
Post: MRI scanning the brains of meditating monks

mudbum Wrote:Its funny how we need tons of provable research to explain how something that doesn't cost any money on your part to practice, actually works. Sum up, go meditate now people. It's a way ...
elhnad Off topic 9 6,124 2011-06-06, 10:36 pm
    Thread: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling
Post: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling

I don't know much details about drugs effects on depression (know more on general drugs effects in general) and yes i'm biased towards drugs but am open to modifying positions, but I just wanna steer ...
elhnad Off topic 222 48,812 2011-06-06, 10:26 pm
    Thread: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling
Post: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling

Javizzy, Have you ever been to http://msngroup.aimoo.com/TheScientificD...w.msnw.htm ? The moderator is pretty big into the stress response as he thinks stress from the internal (mind) and external...
elhnad Off topic 222 48,812 2011-06-06, 8:25 pm
    Thread: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling
Post: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling

IceCream Wrote:As for the rest of the program's claims, the things like "it's not a good idea to give antidepressant and antipsychotics to pregnant women and children" are very true, but doctors here ...
elhnad Off topic 222 48,812 2011-06-06, 8:03 pm
    Thread: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling
Post: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling

in any case that post was good in showing bias, but did nothing to show that the scientologists views on psychoactive drugs are wrong.
elhnad Off topic 222 48,812 2011-06-05, 4:48 pm
    Thread: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling
Post: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling

yea documentaries are usually very strongly biased, understandably so since they're trying to get as many ppl to watch and will release the strongest impression. and then the filmmaker is just dependi...
elhnad Off topic 222 48,812 2011-06-05, 4:46 pm
    Thread: Teach Yourself to Read Advanced Math & Science Like a Foreign Language
Post: Teach Yourself to Read Advanced Math & Science Lik...

good point..i do wonder what the OP thinks ppl will achieve by readingthe OP's list of books. although on the other hand based on dizmox's suggestions, i further realize how different everybody is. ...
elhnad Off topic 28 7,914 2011-06-05, 11:34 am
    Thread: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling
Post: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling

bodhisamaya, have you seen this blog http://www.zenzenwakaran.co.uk/ I think you should link to it since essentially it is very similar to yours and im sure ppl who've read through yours would love t...
elhnad Off topic 222 48,812 2011-06-05, 2:09 am
    Thread: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling
Post: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling

bodhisamaya Wrote:The problem with psychiatrists is that they rely on research directly funded by the pharmaceutical industry. Surprise! Surprise! They almost always give you drugs as a part of their...
elhnad Off topic 222 48,812 2011-06-04, 11:40 pm