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New Findings On Whale Tongues May Lead To Insight On Human Nerve Damage
An anonymous reader writes with this story about the discovery of stretchy nerves in whales. Drawing from the Globe & Mail's story: Researchers from the University of British Columbia have discovered that the largest animals alive – whales – have nerves in their tongues that can double in length and then recoil like a bungee cord. The researchers were studying specimens at a commercial whaling station in Iceland when they stumbled upon the discovery reported Monday in Current Biology. Researchers say it could have important implications for study into human nerve damage. "I had never seen a nerve like that," said Wayne Vogl, of UBC's Cellular and Physiological Sciences department.
Better than bull testicles.
New excuse for Japan to continue whaling, but could be great for health research.
"Oh, look, something about nerves. WE have nerves! We have PROBLEMS with our nerves breaking down! We can claim that this issue can have something to do with OUR nerves! We'll get a press report! Whoopeee!"
That's pretty much what went on in their heads (or someone's head, the moron who decided to make the press release).
Seriously. It's interesting. But it's got as much to do with us as amoebas do.
I think Japan has found a reason to harvest more whales.
Ah, the good old days of the web as it was in 1995? (*boggle*)
Have you set your browser to identify as a desktop browser?
Sigur RÃs: I didn't know that Heaven had a rock band.
Doing this barely works anymore. Literally the web starting going to shit in a whole new way in 2007 when the iPhone came out. Take trying to read news online for example. The page loads super slow as 10000 lines of superfluous JavaScript code gets executed and 20 ad servers are queried. Then comes the top menu which is fucking useless. Then comes the oversized text so I can read maybe 3 or 4 lines on a page. Then comes the pop up overlay email squeeze page. Gotta tap the X ten times before it registers a tap and goes away. Then I scroll the text and up loads an image from some ad server and the text shifts making me click on a link instead of scrolling down so I gotta press the back button and load the page all over again. Then when I finally can scroll the page up come the native browser top and bottom menus so I can see maybe 2 or 3 lines constantly shifting. It's such a shit fuck failure. The mobile web today is a design abomination. --OP, still pissed.
Setting the user agent does nothing if the website is using CSS/javascript to alter the page.
Responsive design is shit.
And what's better? A bloated desktop site that takes even longer to load and you have to scroll all over the fucking place and then pinch to zoom in and out when you want to navigate? Having to download an app (that 99% of the time is just a wrapper for the mobile site) for every fucking website I want to visit so that the app can steal all my private info like my contacts and phone records?
Mobile web sites aren't always the greatest, and the interfaces could use some improvements, but they are better than the other options when you're on the go. If you need the full site, use a PC.
Bad designers think their design is far far more important than the information they are supposed to present, so they get fanatic about preventing even a single pixel being displaced, especially at the explicit request of the unsophisticated swine reading the page.
Just like the 'researchers' torture millions of animals every year, in the name of 'vital' research. Sure it's 'vital', vital to their careers...
Why aren't we doing experiments on whales, since they are so much like humans? Oh, wait...
NO animals are like humans, and all vivisection is therefore fraud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvLwVmVF4PU
Can 2nd that. Responsive completely sucks.
That's no nerve....
What does any of that have to do with an iPhone? Web page bloat is what it is, and has nothing to do with the devices used to view them.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
The funny thing is that the original intent of HTML was to allow the end user to format the page as it saw fit, since the web page author could not know the details of the display size. The web page designers are trying to hammer a screw.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
Because people are attempting to make web pages as "nice" as a native app on an iPhone. Many js libraries now help make web pages more like native apps that there is very little you can do with a native app that you can't with an html page. In addition the html page works on multiple devices.
Kind of like java, write once suck everywhere.
Oh, I'm sure the Japanese 'whale scientists' have known about this for decades.
... with an actual picture of the nerve:
http://news.ubc.ca/2015/05/04/gigantic-whales-have-stretchy-bungee-cord-nerves/
I've had that in my trousers since birth.
The mobile implementation of Slashdot itself is bad enough. Don't blame the limited screen space on your phone, either, because the tablet experience is even worse: slow, jerky and you have to re-enter your login every pea-pickin' time.
>> "I had never seen a nerve like that," said Wayne Vogl
I'm guessing he doesn't spend much time with Japanese tentacle...
I reckon the average penis must at least double in length when erect so do the nerves in there do? An elephant penis can grow to 6 1/2 foot long! And while I think on, what about nerves in frog or bird vocal sacs? Chameleon's tongue? Hyper-elastic skin conditions?
Yeah, no kidding. I can't tell you how many web pages slavishly stick to their pre-defined widths because some hack of a designer thought it looked pretty.
Which means you horizontally scroll on small screens, and on large screens you see acres of unused space.
So much web design is utter crap ... but mobile browsing is utterly pointless. Because it turns into "here, let us forward you to a different link which doesn't have any actual content, won't show you the link you just followed, and has no mechanism to find the link you just followed."
Honestly, I don't know why most places bother with a mobile version of their website if it's just going to be a steaming turd which doesn't show any useful information.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Seems like they licked it.
Even the 12 column adaptive design currently undertaken by many only works for certain styles of websites. In some cases, the content just doesn't morph well, in others it cannot. If "designers" would just let HTML be HTML and live within it, they'd be much better off. Sometimes a large page I can zoom and pan is perfectly fine.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
We'll have to go back in time to get them.
Hear! Hear!
That is exactly the problem with modern web design.