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£75, really? You'd be better off signing up to to an evening course at college - your fee would be waived due to low income. Edit: Now i think about it, travel might end up costing a fair bit, depending on where you go. There's an Adam Smith Course from April to June but if you don't have a car gett...

To be honest, I think either sex can be as bad as the other, having lived with both messy girls and guys. Our landlady does seem to have this strange impression that girls make better tenants and she's told me before that she wouldn't take a group of guys. This despite the fact that the messiest peo...

Look at those sad eyes - it's obviously a cry for help - he doesn't really want to die

You're much better off living in Fife or Albany Park - having lived in Fife Park for two years and then gone into private accom, I've never had to suffer a fire drill and never will

Well, they need at least three feet to right themselves if they fall, so ideally they want to be higher than that. Plus cats can survive falls from several stories. So I doubt jumping down from a high tree poses much of a problem for them, health-wise. The stupidness emerges when they climb up somet...

Necklace, bracelet, earrings. Traditionally us girls tend to like shiny things

It is £10.50 return to Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dunfermline (probably Glenrothes and Kirkcaldy too, though I haven't asked about them) - apparently bus fares don't vary according to distance

Surely only a small percentage of your year will get a first and not all of them will want to do a PhD - so I would think it's definitely worth giving it a go

Well Firefly didn't really have it easy at all since Fox aired it in the wrong order and confused the hell out of everybody :P I think i would have preferred if the FBI guy was introduced later and in this ep we just had the hints of how things aren't right at the dollhouse. Or else the other way ro...

Anyone else watch it? I kinda felt that they threw quite a lot of plot points into the pilot but since the second episode involves flashbacks, i can see it all being fleshed out as we go. I'm still sad about Firefly's cancellation so i'm really crossing my fingers for this to work out. Though appare...

That's a bit of an attitude you have there. Researching apes and monkeys in the wild is an important part of evolutionary psychology and the cost of getting involved in that is rather prohibitive when you're a student - i wouldn't have seen anything wrong with raising funds to allow students to get ...

The fact is, all forms of altruism must have some kind of gain/probability of gain or else no body would be altruistic. What's the point in doing something if you get absolutely nothing from it, not even a little piece of self-satisfaction?

I wanna know the same as Orudge - when's my vodka going back down to £1?

The psych department never had apes here (or at least not as far as I've been here) and as far as i know the monkeys that they had are now gone - from what the rumour mill told me, they weren't being used enough to warrant keeping them. Research on monkeys is easily carried out at Edinburgh Zoo anyw...

I did actually think about dipping down at one point - but my advisor said to me that it didn't necessarily look good on your transcript unless you had a good reason for doing it so i ended up just picking another fourth year module. (considering my reason had been 'that looks interesting and the fo...

Prove to me that such a thing exists and I'll pay more attention to the shopping list of available deities which demand my devotion. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are already crossed off the list, btw. I can't possibly take their god seriously. With the whole universe to play with, he finds that ...

I just don't understand the appeal of a god who doesn't take into account who we are as people but only whether we believe in him. But then I agree with Darwin, heaven isn't really heaven if the people you love aren't there and even less so if they're in eternal suffering. Better just to have all th...

Well, if they're being disrespectful cos it's a religous holiday, then can we get time off for all religious holidays? Not everyone is Christian and celebrates Easter and I'm sure the university have some kind of policy where you're allowed to take days off for religious celebrations - i'm guessing ...

Well i think that laregely depends on the variant of Christianity that you follow. Though the idea that only faith can save you rather upset me when i was a child, since my mum is an atheist and it seemed to me that people were saying that she would go to hell no matter what she did with her life. M...

If atheism's true there's no need to worry about anything that's not important to you - you get less than a century to exist, it's a bit of a waste if you're not enjoying it. Whereas all religions dictate certain behaviours in life to ensure a happy afterlife. There was an article in New Scientist t...