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Thanks - great article. I do love MeFi - but Ask is the only bit that I still visit and use. It really does work well.

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re: manners on ask mefi - http://www.slate.com/id/2211694/

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hey - I was about to post this clip of Eddie Murphy impersonating James Brown, but then I noticed you already had one up. This copy is a little longer with more James, if you want to replace it. Heh!

Hey thanks for that! Care to vote for it maybe?

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Good talk, but not really a brain channel vid. I suppose the connection of human behavior and experience to minds and brains is there, but that's pretty tangential to what he's talking about. I added it to philosophy and happy instead - ok?

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Hi- I think this meets criteria for brain... http://www.videosift.com/video/Mihaly-Csikszentmihalyi-Creativity-fulfillment-and-flow

It's one of those videos which is (IMO) very enlightening and useful to all, yet has no obvious fit in any particular category.

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What a beautiful kitten. I love that shade of ashen gray. Do you have a video you'd like me to promote?

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My little pumpkin eater-

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Thanks! I noticed you went through your vids to add some to the channel, but you can't use the invocation on your own vids - you have to use the 'modify video details' page to do it. I went back and added a few myself. Some (not all) of the others, though, I'm not so sure about. Basically, any video in the channel should provide some knowledge about how the brain or mind works to produce some particular behavior, as opposed to just demonstrating that behavior. I'm also avoiding social psychology for that reason as well. It's a bit of a tightrope walk - I want the channel to be well focused, but I don't want it to be too narrow.

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Brain channel, cool!

I don't have any real figures, winkler, and I'm not sure if you mean construction-wise or operation-wise...
I will tell you that if you read my summary you'll know the kind of climate we're in (some nights in winter get down below zero) and we still only have the heat on for an hour at night. Hardly lose any heat at all. We spend about $1,000 per year on propane (but we cook and heat water with it as well as heat the house) and our electric bills never go over $250/month.
My only even remote complaint about Rastra is that you cannot easily hang/mount anything to the walls. It's mostly styrofoam! Pictures, shelves, etc are all hung on the interior walls of the house, which are wood framed/drywall.
If you mean construction-wise, of course there are a lot of factors which would have to be factored in to properly compare, but this is a 2,100 square foot two story house with four bedrooms and two & a half baths. Built on five acres, sitting on solid rock which had to be leveled with heavy equipment so that one side of the house is actually five feet underground. It cost around $90,000. We think it averages out in cost to be pretty much equal to wood framed houses. Considering that the labor costs are so much less, etc. plus detail work such as rounded corners around all windows & doors are very easy instead of being specialty work. (The rastra is practically carvable) Anyway, hope that helped answer your question!
Have a great weekend!

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Thanks for posting this..very interesting. Being in New England, insulation matters. The IR pics were fascinating.
Do you know how cost compares to a traditionally framed house?

Hell, avoid anyone with parents so egotistical they named another human being in their own honor.

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Rule of thumb: Avoid candidates named "Jr." or "III".