"innocent until proven guilty" - ah, the illusions of youth:-) The US sort of wrote that into the constitution then spent the next 400 years gradually getting rid of it.
Because numerous studies have demonstrated that conversing with someone on the phone, even hands free, demands far more of a person's attention than conversing with someone in the car with you. Under controlled test track conditions drivers holding phone conversations made significantly more driving errors than those conversing with people in the car. The prevailing theory is that when talking on the phone your brain is forced to focus much more intently on the content of the conversation than when talking to a person sitting right next to you.
In the USA, yes there are (can't speak for other countries). It is afforded the same status as lawyer-client or doctor-patient. A spiritual advisor (priest, minister, rabbi, shaman, spaghetti wizard) may not be compelled to reveal what someone told him PROVIDED the communication is in the context of providing spiritual advice or counseling; this context is generally construed very broadly.
Why is litmust test of biological knowledge (for college freshman) whether they know where plants get the majority of there mass?
All of the questions revolve around the carbon cycle. The point is to make sure that college students understand the carbon cycle so that they can discuss global climate change in every college class from physics to poetry.
Speaking of which, why do they need to keep the wings?
Why? You couldn't build a better roof-truss than a wing of a 747. It's a huge structure designed to support lots of weight.
Um, roofs do not need to support a lot of weight, there's generally nothing on top of them. Unless you happen to live in Buffalo, NY and are carrying a heavy snow load. But this house is being built in Malibu. Weight loading on this roof is not a factor.
And the structural elements inside an aircraft wing are optimally designed to distribute the loads typically found on a wing, not a roof. Even a half-assed engineer could design a truss system better suited to a roof than a jumbo jet wing.
Yes, photosynthetic slugs have been known for years (decades). What was unknown was whether any of the genes required for photosynthesis have been incorporated into the genome of the animal as opposed to solely using the genetic material in the consumed chloroplasts. (Yes, chloroplasts do have their own genome.) It was just now shown and reported that the genes to make chlorophyll have in fact been stably incorporated into the slug's genome. That is news.
No, the statement is essentially correct. The slugs harvest (i.e. gain) energy via trapping photons with chlorophyll. They store that energy as chemical bonds in sugar molecules. They then release the energy as needed by metabolizing the sugar. Photosynthesis is the coupled capturing and storing of energy so saying that it "gains" energy via photosynthesis is a reasonable simplification.
First the "six possible changes" is only referring to single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which is the substitution of on one base for another. There are more complex alteration, insertions, deletions, inversions, etc. are not counted among these six. For a SNP to become "fixed", that is stably maintained through subsequent replication cycles you have the initial mutation event (altering a base) but then you must also have the complementary substitution on the other strand of the double helix. If an A is changed to a T on one strand then the complementary T must subsequently be changed to an A to maintain complementarity of the double helix. Once the mutation is fixed it is impossible to tell if the original mutation was the A->T, with complemnting T->A, or vice-versa. More properly these mutations are written as change in the paired bases AT->TA. An AT->TA is indistinguishable from TA->AT. The six possible changes are:
The paper did not release any information to a third party. The contacted the registered owner of the IP address which sent the message. Most definitely a "first party".
The newspaper did not release any information to a third party. They contacted the legitimate, registered owner of the IP, the school, to tell them someone was using their network to post obscenities. The school is not a third party in this case since they own the computer.
I tried using ARD once. You have to license the shit for every workstation.
Bzzzzzt, wrong. Sorry, thanks for playing. Apple Remote Desktop is $499.00 for an UNLIMITED number of managed clients. You license the management computers, not the clients. You would buy one copy of ARD Unlimited for each administrator's workstation.
It looks like that Wikipedia page may need to be updated. From TFA:
"The analysis showed it is highly unlikely that much interbreeding occurred as there was "very little, if any" Neanderthal contribution to the human gene pool, said lead researcher Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute."
Absolutely. Currently the standard read length for Solexa is 36 nucleotides (though some are pushing it much further.) This is a far cry from the 600-800 nt reads we were used to with Sanger sequencing. There are some people working on de novo genome assembly with Solexa paired-end reads. You are correct though, this platform is much better suited to resequencing (e.g. SNP discovery), transcript sequencing/profiling, ChIP-seq, etc. All of these depend on having a reference sequence to map the Solexa reads to. This marks a significant change in why most people will sequence DNA; it won't be to discover new sequence but as a biological assay.
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"innocent until proven guilty" - ah, the illusions of youth :-) The US sort of wrote that into the constitution then spent the next 400 years gradually getting rid of it.
The Constitution was written in 1614?
Because numerous studies have demonstrated that conversing with someone on the phone, even hands free, demands far more of a person's attention than conversing with someone in the car with you. Under controlled test track conditions drivers holding phone conversations made significantly more driving errors than those conversing with people in the car. The prevailing theory is that when talking on the phone your brain is forced to focus much more intently on the content of the conversation than when talking to a person sitting right next to you.
Yeah, just like those ever so necessary and useful male nipples.
DNA is too complex to be made by amino acids alone.
Which is convenient since DNA isn't made from amino acids.
In the USA, yes there are (can't speak for other countries). It is afforded the same status as lawyer-client or doctor-patient. A spiritual advisor (priest, minister, rabbi, shaman, spaghetti wizard) may not be compelled to reveal what someone told him PROVIDED the communication is in the context of providing spiritual advice or counseling; this context is generally construed very broadly.
Of course their idiots...
Who's idiots are you referring to?
Why is litmust test of biological knowledge (for college freshman) whether they know where plants get the majority of there mass?
All of the questions revolve around the carbon cycle. The point is to make sure that college students understand the carbon cycle so that they can discuss global climate change in every college class from physics to poetry.
No, he probably would not have. He fought and defeated the Selden patent, which was just this sort of troll patent.
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsseldona.htm
"If time travel is possible..."
It has already been done; since we have no record of visitors from the future then it must not be possible.
Ah, you arrogant humans, thinking you're interesting enough to pay a visit to.
Why? You couldn't build a better roof-truss than a wing of a 747. It's a huge structure designed to support lots of weight.
Um, roofs do not need to support a lot of weight, there's generally nothing on top of them. Unless you happen to live in Buffalo, NY and are carrying a heavy snow load. But this house is being built in Malibu. Weight loading on this roof is not a factor.
And the structural elements inside an aircraft wing are optimally designed to distribute the loads typically found on a wing, not a roof. Even a half-assed engineer could design a truss system better suited to a roof than a jumbo jet wing.
Scully was referring to himself, not Jobs.
Knowing whether radioactive decay rates are constant goes to our fundamental understanding of matter. How does that not have significance??
the only "bad" was a spelling mistake. (Personell)
The real "bad" is correcting a spelling mistake with another spelling mistake.
The word santax wanted is 'personnel'.
...hard where.
hard there.
great episode, in fact probably my favourite ever
Mine too, but what does it say that the Doctor was barely in the episode?
For something to be defined as art it has to have no purpose or function other than itself.
So if I'm using a Rembrandt to cover up a hole in my drywall is no longer art?
Yes, photosynthetic slugs have been known for years (decades). What was unknown was whether any of the genes required for photosynthesis have been incorporated into the genome of the animal as opposed to solely using the genetic material in the consumed chloroplasts. (Yes, chloroplasts do have their own genome.) It was just now shown and reported that the genes to make chlorophyll have in fact been stably incorporated into the slug's genome. That is news.
No, the statement is essentially correct. The slugs harvest (i.e. gain) energy via trapping photons with chlorophyll. They store that energy as chemical bonds in sugar molecules. They then release the energy as needed by metabolizing the sugar. Photosynthesis is the coupled capturing and storing of energy so saying that it "gains" energy via photosynthesis is a reasonable simplification.
First the "six possible changes" is only referring to single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which is the substitution of on one base for another. There are more complex alteration, insertions, deletions, inversions, etc. are not counted among these six. For a SNP to become "fixed", that is stably maintained through subsequent replication cycles you have the initial mutation event (altering a base) but then you must also have the complementary substitution on the other strand of the double helix. If an A is changed to a T on one strand then the complementary T must subsequently be changed to an A to maintain complementarity of the double helix. Once the mutation is fixed it is impossible to tell if the original mutation was the A->T, with complemnting T->A, or vice-versa. More properly these mutations are written as change in the paired bases AT->TA. An AT->TA is indistinguishable from TA->AT. The six possible changes are:
AT->GC
GC->AT
AT->CG
AT->TA
GC->TA
GC->CG
The paper did not release any information to a third party. The contacted the registered owner of the IP address which sent the message. Most definitely a "first party".
The newspaper did not release any information to a third party. They contacted the legitimate, registered owner of the IP, the school, to tell them someone was using their network to post obscenities. The school is not a third party in this case since they own the computer.
I tried using ARD once. You have to license the shit for every workstation.
Bzzzzzt, wrong. Sorry, thanks for playing. Apple Remote Desktop is $499.00 for an UNLIMITED number of managed clients. You license the management computers, not the clients. You would buy one copy of ARD Unlimited for each administrator's workstation.
...this is actually to ensure more freedom by sacrificing the freedom to do as you please...
Mr. Orwell, is that you?
It looks like that Wikipedia page may need to be updated. From TFA:
"The analysis showed it is highly unlikely that much interbreeding occurred as there was "very little, if any" Neanderthal contribution to the human gene pool, said lead researcher Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute."
Absolutely. Currently the standard read length for Solexa is 36 nucleotides (though some are pushing it much further.) This is a far cry from the 600-800 nt reads we were used to with Sanger sequencing. There are some people working on de novo genome assembly with Solexa paired-end reads. You are correct though, this platform is much better suited to resequencing (e.g. SNP discovery), transcript sequencing/profiling, ChIP-seq, etc. All of these depend on having a reference sequence to map the Solexa reads to. This marks a significant change in why most people will sequence DNA; it won't be to discover new sequence but as a biological assay.