I have lived for 20 years in an established Midwestern suburban area (all major residential developments are 50-120 years old) where the Emerald Ash Borer has just begun to take its toll. Aside from the green ash (a frequently-planted street tree) we have blue, black and white ash, all native to the area in fair numbers. I walk a lot in my neighborhood. I know individual trees, and I notice when one is gone. I really noticed the one morning this spring when eight were gone in one day along my mile-long walk to the train. It's a lot like bereavement, which is something pretty well established to increase stress and disease.
Whether and how trees benefit us while alive is one thing, but since this study focused on areas infested with EAB it seems to be more about measuring the effects of losing a great number of trees in a short time.
Maybe the people of Lithuania don't seem to mind because their Tax Agency actually has a reputation for fairness, due process, and reasonable penalties for violators. Stranger things have happened.
I personally made use of the street view in Lithuania to "visit" my ancestors' villages. (They left for the US ca. 1910, but the villages have survived the past century pretty well.)
Also, 'to electrocute' means 'to execute with electricity.'
The word 'electrocute' seems to be undergoing a semantic shift. I am seeing more frequent usage where context suggests a meaning of "giving an electric shock". I suppose eventually the medical and electrotechnical literature will be forced to use something like "fatal electrocution" which will then be criticized as redundant (like "Pilotless Drone").
Although no new permits are issued for it, several buildings in downtown Chicago have legacy systems that reject heat from cooling systems into the Chicago river. Some of these buildings were clients at my former employer. At the downstream end of downtown (i.e. the south Wacker/south Riverside Plaza buildings) the water temperature in the river got into the 90s (fahrenheit).
If the creators of Go! had called their language Go, then Google *might* have chosen another name for Go. Apparently Goo was already taken. Maybe they could have used (their ticker symbol) Goog. Of course they might have just used Goo!.
There's no way to quantify it, but I'm going to say this technology is approximately a billion times more likely to save your life than it is to cause you to be a discriminated underclass of people who are outcasts due to genetics
What then is the relative likelihood that we will receive targeted advertising based on our genetic profile?
...had individuals who are more intelligent than modern humans. No need for it. And both collective minds chose to contact humanity.
I think creators of these fictional races (in Doctor Who and Star Trek respectively) have more insight into the future of humanity than Paul Tyma.
For the hospital you linked, it does sound like the organ is not harvested until they know there's a recipient. But there still have to be some cases where the transplant doesn't happen. It's hard to imagine the hospital simply writing off their costs in those cases.
What's more, in many places they're changing the standards so that it's opt out and good luck if you happen to be taken to a hospital that doesn't have a record of you not wanting to give up your organs, or where you have specific wishes you want respected.
I'm going to go out on a short, cynical limb and guess that the hospitals still get paid (well) for removing and preserving the organs from such "donors" whether or not they have a chance of finding a recipient, and that these same hospitals lobby for the revised standards in the name of "saving more people."
Ironically, considering their role in electronic communications, I still receive IEEE spectrum and Industry Applications in print.
Ironically, considering their role in the early WWW, I still receive my University of Illinois Alumni magazines (the general one, the college of engineering one and the Electrical and Computer Engineering one) in print.
Not so ironically, I still receive National geographic in print.
Probably because it's coming from the News Bureau which generates releases for publications with general readership. There's probably something better if you dig into the homepages for the individual researchers and labs. Paul Braun's group, which created the electrodes, has some PDF articles. William King's page has a list of publications, but no links or documents.
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I have lived for 20 years in an established Midwestern suburban area (all major residential developments are 50-120 years old) where the Emerald Ash Borer has just begun to take its toll. Aside from the green ash (a frequently-planted street tree) we have blue, black and white ash, all native to the area in fair numbers. I walk a lot in my neighborhood. I know individual trees, and I notice when one is gone. I really noticed the one morning this spring when eight were gone in one day along my mile-long walk to the train. It's a lot like bereavement, which is something pretty well established to increase stress and disease.
Whether and how trees benefit us while alive is one thing, but since this study focused on areas infested with EAB it seems to be more about measuring the effects of losing a great number of trees in a short time.
So if we further assume the employees are spherical ...
A much more reasonable assumption with American employees than with Chinese.
Maybe the people of Lithuania don't seem to mind because their Tax Agency actually has a reputation for fairness, due process, and reasonable penalties for violators. Stranger things have happened. I personally made use of the street view in Lithuania to "visit" my ancestors' villages. (They left for the US ca. 1910, but the villages have survived the past century pretty well.)
They missed Bob's Bunker in Wisconsin! http://antiquetvguy.com/Frameset%20Pages/HomepageFrameSet1.html (Click on Bob's bunker at left. I apologize in advance for the geocities hangover web design.)
Also, 'to electrocute' means 'to execute with electricity.'
The word 'electrocute' seems to be undergoing a semantic shift. I am seeing more frequent usage where context suggests a meaning of "giving an electric shock". I suppose eventually the medical and electrotechnical literature will be forced to use something like "fatal electrocution" which will then be criticized as redundant (like "Pilotless Drone").
Although no new permits are issued for it, several buildings in downtown Chicago have legacy systems that reject heat from cooling systems into the Chicago river. Some of these buildings were clients at my former employer. At the downstream end of downtown (i.e. the south Wacker/south Riverside Plaza buildings) the water temperature in the river got into the 90s (fahrenheit).
Do you visit model railroad clubs and chastise them for playing with toys when there's so much real freight to be moved?
...Robert Adler's Space Command television remote control which used struck aluminum rods to generate ultrasonic frequencies detected by the set.
They chose a bad, confusing name: btcd
Imagine if bitcoins were instead called x-Koins. What would this project be called?
If the creators of Go! had called their language Go, then Google *might* have chosen another name for Go. Apparently Goo was already taken. Maybe they could have used (their ticker symbol) Goog. Of course they might have just used Goo!.
There's no way to quantify it, but I'm going to say this technology is approximately a billion times more likely to save your life than it is to cause you to be a discriminated underclass of people who are outcasts due to genetics
What then is the relative likelihood that we will receive targeted advertising based on our genetic profile?
...they follow Bennett Haselton's forthcoming advice on how to improve the process.
...had individuals who are more intelligent than modern humans. No need for it. And both collective minds chose to contact humanity. I think creators of these fictional races (in Doctor Who and Star Trek respectively) have more insight into the future of humanity than Paul Tyma.
For the hospital you linked, it does sound like the organ is not harvested until they know there's a recipient. But there still have to be some cases where the transplant doesn't happen. It's hard to imagine the hospital simply writing off their costs in those cases.
What's more, in many places they're changing the standards so that it's opt out and good luck if you happen to be taken to a hospital that doesn't have a record of you not wanting to give up your organs, or where you have specific wishes you want respected.
I'm going to go out on a short, cynical limb and guess that the hospitals still get paid (well) for removing and preserving the organs from such "donors" whether or not they have a chance of finding a recipient, and that these same hospitals lobby for the revised standards in the name of "saving more people."
There's no "on a plane".
Unless you're talking about snakes.
Too bad we can't actually mod (and meta-mod!) our judges.
Ironically, considering their role in the early WWW, I still receive my University of Illinois Alumni magazines (the general one, the college of engineering one and the Electrical and Computer Engineering one) in print.
Not so ironically, I still receive National geographic in print.
...beautiful magazines...
Best. Euphemism. Ever.
Probably because it's coming from the News Bureau which generates releases for publications with general readership. There's probably something better if you dig into the homepages for the individual researchers and labs. Paul Braun's group, which created the electrodes, has some PDF articles. William King's page has a list of publications, but no links or documents.
I sure hope they don't go after Randall Munroe.
You're right. Anne would just have been posting about Justin Bieber.
Really, no one read the headline and thought: "They're a long way down the road because they're driving away without us!!!"
And yet, someone saying "I can't tell whether you're an incredibly subtle troll or you're just dumb." gets modded 5 insightful.