Am I the only one wondering, for example, why the hell they're selling glass bottles in the shops past the security check (just smash one of those and you have a potentially deadly weapon) when they won't even let anyone bring their own beverages?
Actually, you may not be that far off...
From the article Unnatural evolution
"We see lots of mice [and voles] there, they look normal, they have babies, everything looks fine," says Ron Chesser, a population geneticist at the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory in Aiken, South Carolina, who is investigating Chernobyl's wildlife. "But these are the most contaminated animals I've seen anywhere. They're living on radioactive materials. How are they managing to survive?"
To help answer that question, Chesser, Robert Baker from Texas Tech University in Lubbock and Ron Van Den Bussche at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater have analysed the sequence of a gene in voles and mice living in the shadow of Chernobyl's doomed reactor. The gene, which codes for an energy-producing protein called cytochrome b, is located in the cell's mitochondria rather than the nucleus. Under normal circumstances it changes at the steady rate of one mutation in every million letters of genetic code per generation. The rate supplies biologists with a handy evolutionary ruler - the greater the number of differences in their cytochrome b genes, the more distantly related are two animals or two species.
The researchers were astonished to find that the cytochrome b genes of two different species of Chernobyl vole were riddled with new mutations - one new mutation for every 10 000 letters of DNA code. Voles of the same species living in uncontaminated areas 30 kilometres away did not share this rapid rate of mutation. "We're seeing more diversity in the mitochondrial DNA between two individual Chernobyl voles than we see between two different species, such as mice and rats, which parted company about 15 million years ago," Chesser says.
I want a google maps mashup that tells me who in my neighborhood has herpes.
You know, the risk of getting herpes is quite slim when sitting in front of a computer in your parents' basement 24/7... (which I assume you do, since you're on./).
Space Beer (Tankard / The Meaning of Life (Noise Records 1990))
Read in the morning paper They're shooting up another satellite Experiment on the final frontier To create the ultimate beer Precious yeast spinning in orbit Unrestrained gravity fades Nobody knows what this brew will be A magic potion? Chemistry? Everybody loves the new beer So good you want to drink it day in night It's better that and Pils, any Ex Makes you feel like really good sex If you're sick, don't fear the doctor 'Cos he has wonderful news: a case of Beer will replace the pills A drink of healing cures your ills A new idea - great innovation Future beer - it's a sensation
Chuck it down, tap another barrel Magic potion out of space Chuck it down, it's a drinker's heaven Live it up and drink this beer Space beer! Space beer! Space beer - this is what I like Space beer - it tastes alright
If you stick to drinking Space beer Hangovers - headaches will be in the past The Sci-Fi-booze makes you healthy and wise Your dick and brain will grow in size If you're bald, it'll make your hair grow If you're not, drink it for fun Your liver wants more and more of it It keeps your stomach strong and fit We love it - a beermaniac Utopia We want it - oktobertest comucopia
Future beer is so fantastic There is no end to what this stuff can do It multiplied - it's no trick of the light Empty bottles fill overnight It's the best nothing can match it Number one - galaxy wide The aliens from all over space Will come to earth to get a taste A new idea - great innovation Future beer - it's a sensation
Scientist predicted that life couldn't survive in a number of environments on earth, yet it has been found in each one:
1- In lakes frozen hundreds of meters down in antarctica 2- In the dept of the ocean where NO light permeates 3- Next to Volcanic openings in the earths crust were tempuratues are well over 800 degress c 4- In the highly acidic and poisionus ponds in Yellowstone National Park
I am sure that there are more but I can't think of any.
Why not just check out the job market? Look at ads for interesting jobs and their requirements. I would definitely recommend you to write a few applications, even if you don't feel 100% certain that you want the job(s). Job ads can sometimes be quite misleading and going to interviews will be good experience, a chance to find out more precisely what the companies are looking for and what you can expect from them. Many companies also use psychometric tests for evaluating applicants and although alot of those are crap (especially if over interpreted (which they often are, unfortunately)) it could be interesting to be able to take such a test.
During the autumn, I was looking for a job, attended a few interviews and got the chance to take some psychometric tests. Even though I'm a bit sceptical to those tests, it was an experience and I think I got a clearer view of where I want to go and what I want to do jobwise.
This is one of the reasons I like the e-card service my bank provides. It allows you to create a virtual one-time credit card with a specified amount of money for on-line shopping. This makes sure you don't get charged for more than you specify (among other things).
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Am I the only one wondering, for example, why the hell they're selling glass bottles in the shops past the security check (just smash one of those and you have a potentially deadly weapon) when they won't even let anyone bring their own beverages?
I'm wondering the same thing. It's like using decapitation as a cure for headache.
Seems to me like they're putting a lot of emphasis on the ".mp3 format". Would another format (.ogg or .flac) be ok, then?
How is this microneedle-thing different, from eg. this?
Always spell always with one l.
On a more serious note though, I tend to agree.
Read in the morning paper
They're shooting up another satellite
Experiment on the final frontier
To create the ultimate beer
Precious yeast spinning in orbit
Unrestrained gravity fades
Nobody knows what this brew will be
A magic potion? Chemistry?
Everybody loves the new beer
So good you want to drink it day in night
It's better that and Pils, any Ex
Makes you feel like really good sex
If you're sick, don't fear the doctor
'Cos he has wonderful news:
a case of Beer will replace the pills
A drink of healing cures your ills
A new idea - great innovation
Future beer - it's a sensation
Chuck it down, tap another barrel
Magic potion out of space
Chuck it down, it's a drinker's heaven
Live it up and drink this beer
Space beer! Space beer!
Space beer - this is what I like
Space beer - it tastes alright
If you stick to drinking Space beer
Hangovers - headaches will be in the past
The Sci-Fi-booze makes you healthy and wise
Your dick and brain will grow in size
If you're bald, it'll make your hair grow
If you're not, drink it for fun
Your liver wants more and more of it
It keeps your stomach strong and fit
We love it - a beermaniac Utopia
We want it - oktobertest comucopia
Future beer is so fantastic
There is no end to what this stuff can do
It multiplied - it's no trick of the light
Empty bottles fill overnight
It's the best nothing can match it
Number one - galaxy wide
The aliens from all over space
Will come to earth to get a taste
A new idea - great innovation
Future beer - it's a sensation
There, fixed it for you.
Why not just check out the job market? Look at ads for interesting jobs and their requirements. I would definitely recommend you to write a few applications, even if you don't feel 100% certain that you want the job(s). Job ads can sometimes be quite misleading and going to interviews will be good experience, a chance to find out more precisely what the companies are looking for and what you can expect from them. Many companies also use psychometric tests for evaluating applicants and although alot of those are crap (especially if over interpreted (which they often are, unfortunately)) it could be interesting to be able to take such a test.
During the autumn, I was looking for a job, attended a few interviews and got the chance to take some psychometric tests. Even though I'm a bit sceptical to those tests, it was an experience and I think I got a clearer view of where I want to go and what I want to do jobwise.
In Soviet Russia, you have to pay even if nothing has been sent to you.
This is one of the reasons I like the e-card service my bank provides. It allows you to create a virtual one-time credit card with a specified amount of money for on-line shopping. This makes sure you don't get charged for more than you specify (among other things).
Why not gather all new users and have one presentation for all of them (once a week or something), instead of sitting down with each one?
What? Game & Watch aren't video games!?!
Nah, the quote you're thinking of is probably Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it..
The only lesson history has taught us is that man has not yet learned anything from history.