I have mod points but I'm also a biochemist so I thought I'd answer a few of your questions.
The pesticide is a seed coating? How frequently do bees come into contact with seeds that are planted?
The pesticide in question is also found in pollen. Since Bees come into frequent contact with said pollen, it's not too much of a surprise that at certain levels, it can be harmful to them.
Also, it's apparently used in the UK. Are only North American bees susceptible to this? The article says:
In short, no, they are not the only ones susceptible. The LD50 for bees is in the ppm range but there is concern that bees show abnormal behavior at ~20 ppb. Different plant components contain different concentrations of the insecticide. Mostly in the leaves which can have up to 20x the amount of insecticide shown to change bee behavior.
The pesticide its self is designed to mimic Nicotine in that it works against the neurological systems of many species of insects.
One more example of why ad blocking has its security benefits. What's worse is that doubleclick and friends are used by pretty much every site out there including Slashdot. It's a shame that although a lot of people would be willing to support sites like Slashdot allowing a few ads to load occasionally; doubleclick just isn't trustworthy enough to allow that.
From the article it seems they're using both the seebeck effect and photovoltaic cells to do this with two different semiconductor materials. Basically it's a type of solid state solar thermal power generation.
In the other way, you dont have freedom. But, practicing anything you have does not require money.
Please explain how that is the case outside of others subsidising such speech (eg. propeganda in this case) through the government. Unequal means of producing speech is another matter. The internet did a lot to level the playing field by significantly reducing the barriers to broadcasting various forms of speech. Youtube being a good example of this. Are the barriers to speech eliminated? Of course not. But they sure are a lot lower than in countries where government censorship is much more common.
Yeah... There is a lot of whining going on but having read the paper myself, I can't really say that the detractors don't have a point. The x-ray data from the paper indirectly indicated Arsenic based DNA. There isn't any conclusive proff that it is. The Arsenic DNA was immersed in water which generally destroys Arsenic esters like what Arsenic DNA is but it didn't shatter like glass as it should have. The Phosphorous impurity is several times higher than those levels found to sustain certain microbes. Phosphorous levels found inside these cells were enriched 600 times preferentially to Arsenic. The paper had no mention of how much Phosphorous was required for growth of the microbe. PCR wasn't attempted on the Arsenic DNA (which should fail if it is what they think it is) Honestly, were it up to me, I wouldn't have approved it for publishing either.
I wonder how many times these have burned legit users. The game thinks that it's pirated even though it isn't and cripples its self. It's bound to happen some time.
Another factor affecting the stability of a nucleus is whether the number of protons and neutrons is even or odd. Among the 354 known stable isotopes, 157 (almost half) have an even number of protons and an even number of neutrons. Only five have an odd number of both kinds of nucleons
The reason why this is so is that nuclei just like atoms in chemistry have shells (in chemistry it's electrons with nuclei it's protons and neutrons) filled shells are more stable which is why there is an island of stability. The island of stability is centered around the magic numbers 114 (the number of protons) and 184 (the number of neutrons) magic numbers of either protons or neutrons tend to create more stable nuclei. nuclei with odd numbers of either are less stable in the same way that Fluorine is less stable chemically compared to Neon. The nuclear shell is not full and is therefore less stable to various modes of decay.
Your point concerning alpha and fission modes of decay is more likely to increase the half life significantly excluding electron capture and beta decay modes.
elements 114-116 have isotopes with half lives that are significantly higher than nuclei in the 100-113 range as these lower nuclei tend to have half lives measured in fractions of a second. The island of stability is a misnomer. It'd be far more accurate to say that it is an island of relative not absolute stability. The odds of finding any nuclei beyond uranium with a comparable half life or even stable nuclei is remote.
111 has an odd number of protons which is strike number one. odd numbers of protons or neutrons are much less stable and strike number two is that the island of stability is for the most part concerning stability against fission and alpha radiation decay. Strike number three is that the stability of isotopes of element 111 are markedly less stable than isotopes of elements 114-116
Actually it seems that this strain is capable of tolerating both Phosphorous and Arsenic which is not as unexpected as finding an obligate Arsenic based form of life.
Yeah... pretty much... At least Unbibium was somewhat more plausible being closer to the island of relative stability; element 111 isn't even close in nuclear terms.
but my guess is that geo-political and fundy-religio restrictions are the only things stopping this sort of activity from greater proliferation.
Quite wrong actually. It took over a hundred attempts before Dolly was cloned successfully. The clones that were produced had significant health problems. The genes aren't entirely methylated the way they ought to be and the telomeres are markedly shorter than they should be. To clone a human being at this point would be incredibly inhumane.
When have you seen them going after other companies if they don't provoke the legal fight first?
SCO's fight against Linux was funded in part by Microsoft. Then there are the 235 mystery patents that Linux supposedly violated. They're more into scare tactics than outright patent war,
The problem with that is that airlines often do not give refund for tickets... ever. They still get their cash if you fly or attempt to fly at all. Best to take a train or drive.
Japan's population is aging and getting smaller. From Japan's point of view, it makes sense to augment society's ability to cope with the increased workload by developing robots capable of doing a lot of the work.
show me an example of a monopoly that didn't start with some corporation getting powerful enough to start influencing government to its own ends and thus ensuring the corporation's position.
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I have mod points but I'm also a biochemist so I thought I'd answer a few of your questions.
The pesticide in question is also found in pollen. Since Bees come into frequent contact with said pollen, it's not too much of a surprise that at certain levels, it can be harmful to them.
In short, no, they are not the only ones susceptible. The LD50 for bees is in the ppm range but there is concern that bees show abnormal behavior at ~20 ppb. Different plant components contain different concentrations of the insecticide. Mostly in the leaves which can have up to 20x the amount of insecticide shown to change bee behavior.
The pesticide its self is designed to mimic Nicotine in that it works against the neurological systems of many species of insects.
One more example of why ad blocking has its security benefits. What's worse is that doubleclick and friends are used by pretty much every site out there including Slashdot. It's a shame that although a lot of people would be willing to support sites like Slashdot allowing a few ads to load occasionally; doubleclick just isn't trustworthy enough to allow that.
From the article it seems they're using both the seebeck effect and photovoltaic cells to do this with two different semiconductor materials. Basically it's a type of solid state solar thermal power generation.
Please explain how that is the case outside of others subsidising such speech (eg. propeganda in this case) through the government. Unequal means of producing speech is another matter. The internet did a lot to level the playing field by significantly reducing the barriers to broadcasting various forms of speech. Youtube being a good example of this. Are the barriers to speech eliminated? Of course not. But they sure are a lot lower than in countries where government censorship is much more common.
There's nothing wrong with the delete key. The problem is that insert is so very close to the delete key that it is easy to hit delete on accident.
Why create a new site when this is just as likely to happen with Wikileaks? The people who originally leaked these documents had to be found somehow.
Yeah... There is a lot of whining going on but having read the paper myself, I can't really say that the detractors don't have a point. The x-ray data from the paper indirectly indicated Arsenic based DNA. There isn't any conclusive proff that it is. The Arsenic DNA was immersed in water which generally destroys Arsenic esters like what Arsenic DNA is but it didn't shatter like glass as it should have. The Phosphorous impurity is several times higher than those levels found to sustain certain microbes. Phosphorous levels found inside these cells were enriched 600 times preferentially to Arsenic. The paper had no mention of how much Phosphorous was required for growth of the microbe. PCR wasn't attempted on the Arsenic DNA (which should fail if it is what they think it is) Honestly, were it up to me, I wouldn't have approved it for publishing either.
It's a potential new strategy for them to deal with bug reports. The "that isn't a bug; you're just a dirty pirate" defence.
I wonder how many times these have burned legit users. The game thinks that it's pirated even though it isn't and cripples its self. It's bound to happen some time.
Take a look at this.
The reason why this is so is that nuclei just like atoms in chemistry have shells (in chemistry it's electrons with nuclei it's protons and neutrons) filled shells are more stable which is why there is an island of stability. The island of stability is centered around the magic numbers 114 (the number of protons) and 184 (the number of neutrons) magic numbers of either protons or neutrons tend to create more stable nuclei. nuclei with odd numbers of either are less stable in the same way that Fluorine is less stable chemically compared to Neon. The nuclear shell is not full and is therefore less stable to various modes of decay.
Your point concerning alpha and fission modes of decay is more likely to increase the half life significantly excluding electron capture and beta decay modes.
elements 114-116 have isotopes with half lives that are significantly higher than nuclei in the 100-113 range as these lower nuclei tend to have half lives measured in fractions of a second. The island of stability is a misnomer. It'd be far more accurate to say that it is an island of relative not absolute stability. The odds of finding any nuclei beyond uranium with a comparable half life or even stable nuclei is remote.
111 has an odd number of protons which is strike number one. odd numbers of protons or neutrons are much less stable and strike number two is that the island of stability is for the most part concerning stability against fission and alpha radiation decay.
Strike number three is that the stability of isotopes of element 111 are markedly less stable than isotopes of elements 114-116
They're saying that cap is what is bad not the network speeds which is true.
Actually, she did mention that Arsenic was replacing Phosphorous in ATP as well which is damned interesting. See here.
Actually it seems that this strain is capable of tolerating both Phosphorous and Arsenic which is not as unexpected as finding an obligate Arsenic based form of life.
Yeah... pretty much... At least Unbibium was somewhat more plausible being closer to the island of relative stability; element 111 isn't even close in nuclear terms.
That would solve the telomere problem but the improper methylation issue remains. This may be solved with embroyonic research
Quite wrong actually. It took over a hundred attempts before Dolly was cloned successfully. The clones that were produced had significant health problems. The genes aren't entirely methylated the way they ought to be and the telomeres are markedly shorter than they should be. To clone a human being at this point would be incredibly inhumane.
We *are* the grey goo. We're effectively using the chemical by products of one form of nanotechnology (life) to kick start another.
SCO's fight against Linux was funded in part by Microsoft. Then there are the 235 mystery patents that Linux supposedly violated. They're more into scare tactics than outright patent war,
There's a difference between allowing for ignorance and catering to it.
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The normal populace might but then again they will accept a lot out of fear.
The problem with that is that airlines often do not give refund for tickets... ever. They still get their cash if you fly or attempt to fly at all. Best to take a train or drive.
Japan's population is aging and getting smaller. From Japan's point of view, it makes sense to augment society's ability to cope with the increased workload by developing robots capable of doing a lot of the work.
show me an example of a monopoly that didn't start with some corporation getting powerful enough to start influencing government to its own ends and thus ensuring the corporation's position.