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Before in my "I'm back!" blog entry, I lightly touched on the topic of the placebo effect. Well now for a lesson based around the placebo effect. Let's review.

The Placebo Effect is most famous for its role in medicine. In the context of medicine, the placebo effect is the effect of expectation. In many tests that test the effectiveness of medication, one of the control groups get a sugar pill. The sugar pill is medically useless, however, some people who took the sugar ...

You guys know the name of the game and what your reward is. No bonus question this round though. Let's do this!

1. True or False
In Ancient China before paper was invented, they used silk to make books and for writing.

2. Find the volume of a rectangular prism with the dimensions of 6 in wide, 4 inches tall, and 9 inches long.

a. 19 in
b. 216 in
c. 19 in^3
d. 216 in^3

3. Who (what country) has been to space first? ...

Two bombs exploded near mosques in Tripoli, Lebanon. 42 dead, about 350 injured.

http://rt.com/news/lebanon-tripoli-d...explosion-900/ - News report on it from rt.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=sub9r-hn6O0 - Video of the two bombs going off. WARNING: GRAPHIC

People like music. People like different kinds of music, or music by different people, but as a general understanding, people like music. Some people don't like music. I'm not here for that. I'm here to give my hypothesis as to why people like music.

Music is related to the part of the brain that gives off happiness with emotion, food, and sex. That's right. The same areas that include eating that double cheeseburger, crying after that double cheeseburger, then having sex after crying ...

You guys know the name of the game, and you guys know the prize! Let's do this! Also new rule: whoever got to make a lesson cannot win until 3 quizzes pass. For example Adonis cannot win the quiz until Quiz #4. With that in mind, let's do this!

1. True or False
Gunpowder was accidentally created while trying to make an immortality/medicinal/health beneficial thing for the emperor of China

2. In terms of chemicals, what does SiO^2 mean?

3. William ...