Yes, because getting up at 5:45 in the morning to meet the bus that arrives at 6:15 +- 15 minutes to go to school, then arriving home at 3:30 in the afternoon with four hours of homework certainly is "only a few hours a day"
Humans also have a very slight magnetic sense - I've heard it's linked to in a small piece of natural magnetite behind your nose, but it isn't very strong.
There's been some interesting experimentation done with implanting tiny magnets into fingers - the brain adapts pretty quickly to the new input (http://feelingwaves.blogspot.com/ is one example).
A different theory I've seen is that humans coevolved with parasitic hookworms and the like. Deliberately infecting people with overactive immune systems with small amounts of hookworms often results in a more reasonable degree of immune response, as the parasite damps down the immune reaction to ensure its won survival.
The theory is, of course, that people in parasite-heavy areas got selected for more and more active immune systems to compensate for parastic infection, resulting in dysfunction when the parasites are removed.
People who work in clean room for chip manufacturing and the like for a few hours a day have noticeable differences in immune function as well.
Well, the only people who've experienced it have gotten really good at freediving, like Yasemin Dalklç, so I imagine the physiological response only starts exhibiting itself once it gets enough external stimulus.
A) people use it for conversations, but I haven't found an easy way to interleave two people's twitter feeds and get a meaningful sense of the conversation
B) It's always in reverse chronological order
C) There's no way provided to go to an arbitrary point of someone's twitter feed
Does anyone have any tools that would address any of these issues?
(And I am not in the least suggesting that the Pentagon has been mapping Afghanistan in a humanitarian effort to chart its wealth. The same spectroscopic technologies that tell you "this mountain is full of Chromium" will also tell you that it is "full of opium", "full of dynamite" or even "full of people").
And if you point them at DC they'll report that it's "full of shit".
The child can get access to a book when it is needed by going to the public library or most likely the school library. Anyone over the age of..35? should remember talking to a teacher to take notes or get source material for a project. I don't think many kids have been to one lately as they are more than happy to hand copy things from a book without any question of the source.
Books and libraries teach NOTHING. Zero. And any material relevant to elementary/highschool education is readily available from a teacher for free. If anything, Books/libraries are more like the effect of electronic calculators on the ability to basic math by hand or in ones head. They are a crutch and perfect for our ADD world where listening for more than five minutes is considered torture.
>It's also the same principle that keeps planes in the air -- higher pressure on the bottom of the wing relative to the top. Common misconception. Planes fly because of two reasons: 1) The wings are typically angled downward 2) Pure downward-directed thrust.
Well, temperatures in Jupiter's atmosphere vary a lot. You've got areas with room temperature gasses at 10x atmospheric pressure, which is an environment suitable for multiple Earth-based critters.
Tardigrades can easily go up to 5,000 ATM and 100 C, so... yeah.
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Yes, because getting up at 5:45 in the morning to meet the bus that arrives at 6:15 +- 15 minutes to go to school, then arriving home at 3:30 in the afternoon with four hours of homework certainly is "only a few hours a day"
Humans also have a very slight magnetic sense - I've heard it's linked to in a small piece of natural magnetite behind your nose, but it isn't very strong.
There's been some interesting experimentation done with implanting tiny magnets into fingers - the brain adapts pretty quickly to the new input (http://feelingwaves.blogspot.com/ is one example).
That's a bearly legitimate claim without any real scientific research.
A different theory I've seen is that humans coevolved with parasitic hookworms and the like. Deliberately infecting people with overactive immune systems with small amounts of hookworms often results in a more reasonable degree of immune response, as the parasite damps down the immune reaction to ensure its won survival.
The theory is, of course, that people in parasite-heavy areas got selected for more and more active immune systems to compensate for parastic infection, resulting in dysfunction when the parasites are removed.
People who work in clean room for chip manufacturing and the like for a few hours a day have noticeable differences in immune function as well.
You misunderstand the original post.
What he's saying is that slashdot's purpose is "failing to present their message in a way that encourages public discussion and support".
As far as I can tell, kdawson is doing an excellent job of it.
Well, I suppose we'll be calling Ballmer "Fëanor" now.
You're missing the assumption that the probability of having a boy and having a girl is equal, which technically isn't correct.
>>Don't Spend
So you're the guy nobody knows who shows up, takes food from a meeting, and leaves.
Here you go!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Lenna.png
Well, the only people who've experienced it have gotten really good at freediving, like Yasemin Dalklç, so I imagine the physiological response only starts exhibiting itself once it gets enough external stimulus.
No, he just lives beneath-
blah blah his mom's fat.
Meh, humans can do that too with enough training.
No, really. Look it up.
Don't pay the minimum amount. Always pay at least one cent over it.
The credit score calculation has a binary "did this person pay only the minimum amount" as part of it.
The main issues I have with twitter are that
A) people use it for conversations, but I haven't found an easy way to interleave two people's twitter feeds and get a meaningful sense of the conversation
B) It's always in reverse chronological order
C) There's no way provided to go to an arbitrary point of someone's twitter feed
Does anyone have any tools that would address any of these issues?
Wasn't he that guy from pokemon?
(And I am not in the least suggesting that the Pentagon has been mapping Afghanistan in a humanitarian effort to chart its wealth. The same spectroscopic technologies that tell you "this mountain is full of Chromium" will also tell you that it is "full of opium", "full of dynamite" or even "full of people").
And if you point them at DC they'll report that it's "full of shit".
The child can get access to a book when it is needed by going to the public library or most likely the school library. Anyone over the age of..35? should remember talking to a teacher to take notes or get source material for a project. I don't think many kids have been to one lately as they are more than happy to hand copy things from a book without any question of the source.
Books and libraries teach NOTHING. Zero. And any material relevant to elementary/highschool education is readily available from a teacher for free. If anything, Books/libraries are more like the effect of electronic calculators on the ability to basic math by hand or in ones head. They are a crutch and perfect for our ADD world where listening for more than five minutes is considered torture.
How many buttons, triggers, sticks and pads are on a modern controller like the 360?
The hardware is intimidatingly obtuse, and a high price tag turns people off from it.
Sears used to sell Tommy guns for twenty bucks by mail.
Because once we have inertial drives, it's only a little while before we can colonize other planets.
The technology lens itself very well to that.
Haven't you been listening to the news?
Swine Flu.
Or, you know, he plays Dwarf Fortress.
Ah, good old Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome.
>It's also the same principle that keeps planes in the air -- higher pressure on the bottom of the wing relative to the top.
Common misconception. Planes fly because of two reasons:
1) The wings are typically angled downward
2) Pure downward-directed thrust.
Well, temperatures in Jupiter's atmosphere vary a lot. You've got areas with room temperature gasses at 10x atmospheric pressure, which is an environment suitable for multiple Earth-based critters.
Tardigrades can easily go up to 5,000 ATM and 100 C, so... yeah.