Not bad. 2.5 hours including time out to make a curry, and 88 mostly-relevant threads.
I looked at ten pages of Technology first. It’s overwhelmingly about consumer electronics: computers, gaming, music, etc. Plus a bunch of threads about other stuff that looks a bit lost, such as discussions about airliners or kite-powered ships, and one thread about ‘wall cancer’.
The health forum contains plenty of stuff about research, which is technically science but is probably fine where it is. I didn’t bother looking very hard or listing anything from there.
10 pages of the motoring forum turned up a few threads about alternative fuels and energy sources, plus a lot of interesting material for any psychologists out there.
Living in Taiwan contains a pile of stuff, mostly about environmental issues and related solutions. eg air filters, dehumidifiers, etc. Some of the discussions about weather, earthquakes and so on get quite technical and the culprits would probably enjoy continuing away from the banter but I didn’t list those threads. Also, a (disappointingly) few questions about flors and fauna, including the sticky about gardening.
Teaching occasionally descends into psychological issues rather than practicalities, so there is obviously interest in the more scientific aspects among a hardcore group. Prolly not worth moving any threads though. I didn’t bother looking in detal or listing anything.
Some discussion in food about technical/health issues that likewise probably doesn’t need to be redistributed.
Lotsa stuff in open, some more technical than others. I guess it depends on how ‘serious’ the forum wanted to be.
D&R contains a lot of discussion about how stupid SO’s really are for their scientific beliefs in which various 'mosuns expose themselves as being spectacularly uninformed. As with a lot of other discusssions, when one topic wanders into science for a while it doesn’t count and is not listed below. There are also bits of research about why all men are bastards, etc., but I was too hungry to bother with them either.
I got a bit lost with categorizing stuff. I only made the effort at first to try and get a sense for what the scope of any new forum would be. (Science and nature? Science and Tech? Natural Philosophy? The Tainan Cowboy Appreciation Forum?) It all fell apart after a while, so it’s not a very good division. Anyway:
General
[Things you can't see but you KNOW exist. (Discussion.)
[Does hot food have more calories?
[Does Talking to Your Plants Really Help?
[Double-helix nebula discovered near center of our galaxy
[Flame First, Think Later: New Clues to E-Mail Misbehavior
[Former Ariz. governor says he saw UFO
[Metric Help for Americans
[Not sure: Philosophy? Theory? Scholarship?
[Cantor, Cohen, Set Theory
[Derrida
[Deleuze, Hallward
[Birth Order and Your Personality
[What metal is this?
[Green Taiwanese Car Driver
[Dust storm warning! - weather discussion
[At last! Some REAL science
[Taiwan's Awesome Fruit!
[Everyday Mysteries?
[Is religious belief a result of evolution?
[January 4th - Meteor Shower
[Rongorongo: the other mystery of Easter Island
[Dragonbabe's Comet
Science/tech to do with home/environment (includes fixing things):
[How to look after a coriander plant?
[Cleaning mildew off leather jacket?
[Phantom Tremors
[Artists: How do you dispose of your dangerous chemicals?
[Plumbing Problems
[Eco/Self Sufficient Living
[Global Warming = Moving Towards Metrosexuals
[What is it about rainy days that just make me so tired?
[Jalapeno plant
[Beer Talk - Scientific
[I think every electrical appliance in my house hates me
[Mould on clothes
[I need help with my lawn
[Fixin' the *&%$ Bathtub
[Any Experience with Dehumudifier?
[Heavy smog last couple of days
[Activated Carbon Filter Face Masks: Any Good?
[Water in the breaker box. help
[Air quality readings: what are they monitoring?
["Wall cancer"
[Vacuum cleaners
engineering/making stuff
[Big banana over Texas
[Selling the moon
[Space recovery,the new venture to make zillions
[Tanker truck fire causes amazing highway collapse in Calif
[Considering buying airbrush/compressor setup
[Taipei 101 - World's Tallest (Part 2)
[FedEx Dumps A380, to Buy 15 Boeing 777s
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Energy/fuel
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[tw.forumosa.com/t/r-d-in-the-oil-sands/35198/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/fuel-cell-motorbike-as-seen-on-tv/31742/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/the-r-car-lithium-battery-powered-car/30966/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/electric-car-0-to-60-mph-4-secs/30168/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/want-fries-with-that-biodiesel-fuel-story/25404/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/honda-unveils-diesel-system-to-rival-gasoline-cars/32048/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/the-car-which-runs-on-air/36596/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/anyone-drive-an-electric-scooter/34635/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/china-claims-fusion-reactor-test-a-success/32250/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/chinese-automakers-showcase-eco-cars/37389/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/alternative-vehicles/37059/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/biodiesel-and-petrodiesel-in-taipei/36765/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/ethanol-in-taiwan/37530/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/german-cargo-ship-to-be-propelled-by-kite-power/34568/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/australia-working-on-beer-power/37645/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/germanys-cheap-beer-tradition-under-threat-from-biofuels/37403/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/cloud-seeding-and-free-energy/35802/1
Research/new stuff
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[tw.forumosa.com/t/ufo-science-key-to-halting-climate-change/36095/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/huge-ocean-discovered-inside-earth/36144/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/female-sexual-preference-flexibility-is-genetic/37081/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/of-beer-and-bubbles-the-formula-for-a-perfect-pint/37470/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/why-beer-can-have-different-tastes/36200/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-researchers-retract-dna-paper/34826/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/liquid-armour-tires-cant-be-punctured-body-cant-be-cut/29006/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/scientists-create-invisibility-cloak/32710/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/us-to-fund-man-made-lightning-raygun-tech/37489/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/new-technology-removes-viruses-from-drinking-water/36171/1
Bunnies, flowers, etc
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[tw.forumosa.com/t/bird-brained-china-scientists-learn-to-fly-pigeons/36079/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/whats-the-name-of-those-pointsettia-like-flowers/36251/1
[tw.forumosa.com/t/ants-ants-ants-how-to-get-rid-of-them/12864/1
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