Don't forget that organic food isn't just about increased nutritional content( and that is assuming this study is telling the truth, for example, Stanford has ties to Monsanto).
Organic farming is also about food security. Having food at all. Conventional farming uses fertilizer made from oil. A finite resource that is running out. Making artificial fertilizer has been polluting and destroying our environment........including farm land and drinkable water.
Organic food is also about human health in terms of pesticide use. When you buy organic food you aren't consuming the pesticide that is used on other crops. You are also aren't contributing to the manufacture and disposal of pesticides which is getting into your soil, your water and effecting your health indirectly.
Most Americans, Canadians and Many Europeans eat large amounts of those foods, yet autism is still a problem in those countries. Something doesn't fit.
Your URL is to a web site article authored by a photojournalist. No credentials related to health, medicine or nutrition beyond being a personal trainer.
The Huffington Post is not exactly known for being a reliable source. Dr. Furnham is just an ordinary MD, not a researcher, who likes to write diet books. The Vitamin D Council might be a bit biased in writing how Vitamin D can help autism.
Hope it is all true, despite the sources being sketchy.
Your conspiracy theory seems like another example of the well-recognized cognitive dissonance that Democrats have about Republicans: We're all really stupid, except when we're able to hatch these amazingly sophisticated conspiracies to steal elections.
Reasons why some Americans are Repubicans:
1. They are rich, it benefits their self interests, they know it and they don't care about other issues ( fair enough, that is human nature ).
2. They were raised Republican, the people around them are Republican, they have an emotional affiliation with the word "Republican" they way some people do about a religion eventhough they seriously don't believe what is in the writings. This emotional affiliation creates a filter such that they will not look at the facts and how it relates to their interests, with an open clear mind.
3. They are under-informed, misinformed or just not that bright.
Group 2, can be of average intelligence and event smart. Group 1 tends to have very smart people, who got rich and/or stay rich by using their smarts...and resources, to misinform, then emotionally manipulate Group 3 and Group 2.
That is how there can be many stupid people who are Republicans ( Group 3, TEA Baggers, etc ), yet Republicans can and do pull many dirty unethical tricks that require intelligence.
[i][b]It's not so much that it's a "lie" as it is cherry-picking results and then making non-sequitor, strawman arguments.
So, a study shows that TEENAGERS who smoke marijuana cigarettes FOUR TIMES A WEEK have low IQs. And the "powers that be" would use this as an argument that marijuana should remain illegal because "smoking pot makes you dumb."
There are several problems with this. First, the cherry-picking. Heavy pot uses (4+ times/week) correlates with dumbness. Sure. And teens who get drunk four times a week are going to do poorly in school, and teens who eat fast food four times a week are going to get fat.[/b][/i]
Aren't you doing the same thing. The BBC article referred to using pot 4 times a week and you are comparing it with getting drunk 4 times a way.
To be fair to you the BBC article did not mention dosage
I agree 100%, but if you have ever listened to marijuana activist talk their message tends to be that ANYTHING less than 100% positive written about marijuana is a LIE by the powers that be.
I've seen a few documentaries on youtube about cars powered by compressed air batteries. I'm disappointed that these cars are not coming to the U.S., but I am excited for the people in India who will be getting them.
These cars are not air powered. The tanks of compressed air that drive the cars are really just batteries.....aka devices for storing energy. The air in the tanks, like the hydrogen in hydrogen powered cars, is not an energy source. The energy stored in the tanks of compressed air comes from the energy used to power the air compressing machines.
Actually, I read somewhere that most of the vaccine deniers have college degrees....just not advanced ones or ones in the sciences.
They are educated enough to know that researchers and doctors don't know everything as well as being full of shit sometimes. They are not educated enough to evaluate the data. Hence the arrogance in thinking they know more than the researchers or somebody with SOME credentials selling them something knows more.
Interestingly, people with less education than this demographic just do what they are told by doctors and get the vaccines.
I think the problem is uniquely fixable as far as geek culture goes. Geeks understand rules. We make and use them.
All that is needed is education. Mabye a little bit more adapted to Geeks in spelling out more precisely what the rules are and more importantly why they should obey them.
All it takes is for the leaders in geek culture, the popular CEOs, the uber geeks, the Linux Torvald's to publicly and strongly state they are for education, perhaps providing the education.
People have been saying that about Apple since Apple existed. They have come out with a few lower priced things over the years, but those products came and went while the expensive stuff remained.
I don't hate Apple. I've been shopping around to replace my PC at home and would go Mac, but for the price difference.
The big difference between Apple & Kubuntu versus Microsoft & Canonical is that the first group is not forcing a desktop environment meant for a tablet on to desktop PC users.
I can understand why Microsoft decided to remove that option, though I disagree.
They want to the users to give Metro a fair try by living with it for a while. It is different enough where most people only see it once until they set an option to get rid of it. I've been using Windows since 3.0 and the first thing I do at a new job is get rid of the XP theme and set things up to look classic.
I think this is a mistake for Microsoft. Forced changes without easy options to go back angers users. Ubuntu and Unity are in a similar situation. Between Microsoft and Canonical trying to promote a tablet desktop on non-tablet PCs I think Apple and the KDE will be the winners.
On my formerly Ubuntu box at home the change motivated me to give the KDE and Kubuntu a look for the first time in years. Luckily I really like it and am now unlikely to go back to Ubuntu and Unity(or GNOME )
I don't mean any disrespect, but you seem to imply that "those people" don't know what they are talking about and have a bit of attitude. It seems like your post has a bit of an attitude.
Those are good techniques you are criticizing.
You could have brought up the very good point that programmers should ask themselves why the former devs did something a certain way.
I've dealt with a number of legacy code bases, done poorly. Some of the worst examples were done by veteran procedural programmers who picked up an OO language via tutorials.
The worst of their evils could be greatly reduced by all tutorial and book authors, by stating, promiently, the rule of thumb that if the module they are typing goes past one screen in height that they should start thinking about breaking it into another module.
Almost every language has a module of some kind ( procedure, function, subroutine, etc ).
Medschool is about Mneomics. The best book on that subject is Harry Lorrayane's "The Memory Book". It has been around and impressing people for decades.
Now, about notetaking.
The point of a lecture is to get things you will not by reading the text book.
To maximize the benefits of a lecture you will want to read and take thorough notes on the text before the lecture. Here you have the luxury of time to do a good job. Get a book on notetaking. The benefit of taking notes in this situation is that it helps get it into your brain permanently, in a "fun" way, by organizing the information and forming a map/shelving unit in your brain for organizing information that comes after it. If you are just copying points down, you are doing it wrong. You want to organize/outline the information.......the taking of notes forces you to think about the material in some way, hence gluing the maps in.
By the time you get to the lecture you will have a familiarity with the material and a framework for it. You can give your full attention to LISTENING to the profresssor, thinking about what he is saying and as a result asking questions that will help you.
You wouldn't have had a chance for this benefit before because you would have been too busy trying to get down everything he was saying. But now you have all of that already, so you can relax, LISTEN, and think about the relationships of things as s/he talks......increasing your command of the material.
My personal opinion is that learning a handwritten notetaking system is better. The point isn't to preserve the material in a record. You have your textbook for that. The point is to get it into your brain so that it stays there. The slower speed of writing your notes holds it in your memory and makes you process your material much more than if you recorded it, highlighted it, etc
Windows is the operating system of just about EVERYBODY. Including people who may be conservative and even provincial. My guess is that a marketing person at Microsoft finally got heard and they decided to lose the name "Metro" after learning it was too urban and possibly "gay" aka "threatening" for some folks.
You can take my post as an insult if you like. That isn't how it was meant. I stand by it.
It SHOULD be the case that Americans take uninterrupted power service for granted. Many people fought long and hard for the standard of living we Americans are losing.
Instead of telling people to adapt to it via shaming them for not being self reliant when basic utilities go out, as the other Anonymous Coward did, people should be encouraging others to complain about it so it gets changed.
That is how the world works.
Instead of taking my message as an insult I encourage you to complain about and fight the conditions in your country instead of accepting and adapting to it. That is how progress gets made.....and as Americans are starting to learn...that is what is necessary to maintain it.
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Don't forget that organic food isn't just about increased nutritional content( and that is assuming this study is telling the truth, for example, Stanford has ties to Monsanto).
Organic farming is also about food security. Having food at all. Conventional farming uses fertilizer made from oil. A finite resource that is running out. Making artificial fertilizer has been polluting and destroying our environment........including farm land and drinkable water.
Organic food is also about human health in terms of pesticide use. When you buy organic food you aren't consuming the pesticide that is used on other crops. You are also aren't contributing to the manufacture and disposal of pesticides which is getting into your soil, your water and effecting your health indirectly.
The TSA is another one of his lovely legacies.
Most Americans, Canadians and Many Europeans eat large amounts of those foods, yet autism is still a problem in those countries. Something doesn't fit.
Your URL is to a web site article authored by a photojournalist. No credentials related to health, medicine or nutrition beyond being a personal trainer.
The article doesn't mention autism at all.
The Huffington Post is not exactly known for being a reliable source. Dr. Furnham is just an ordinary MD, not a researcher, who likes to write diet books. The Vitamin D Council might be a bit biased in writing how Vitamin D can help autism.
Hope it is all true, despite the sources being sketchy.
No disrespect intended.
Hope it is all true.
That is news. Wow. No disrespect, please keep doing that.
Reasons why some Americans are Repubicans:
1. They are rich, it benefits their self interests, they know it and they don't care about other issues ( fair enough, that is human nature ).
2. They were raised Republican, the people around them are Republican, they have an emotional affiliation with the word "Republican" they way some people do about a religion eventhough they seriously don't believe what is in the writings. This emotional affiliation creates a filter such that they will not look at the facts and how it relates to their interests, with an open clear mind.
3. They are under-informed, misinformed or just not that bright.
Group 2, can be of average intelligence and event smart. Group 1 tends to have very smart people, who got rich and/or stay rich by using their smarts...and resources, to misinform, then emotionally manipulate Group 3 and Group 2.
That is how there can be many stupid people who are Republicans ( Group 3, TEA Baggers, etc ), yet Republicans can and do pull many dirty unethical tricks that require intelligence.
[i][b]It's not so much that it's a "lie" as it is cherry-picking results and then making non-sequitor, strawman arguments.
So, a study shows that TEENAGERS who smoke marijuana cigarettes FOUR TIMES A WEEK have low IQs. And the "powers that be" would use this as an argument that marijuana should remain illegal because "smoking pot makes you dumb."
There are several problems with this. First, the cherry-picking. Heavy pot uses (4+ times/week) correlates with dumbness. Sure. And teens who get drunk four times a week are going to do poorly in school, and teens who eat fast food four times a week are going to get fat.[/b][/i]
Aren't you doing the same thing. The BBC article referred to using pot 4 times a week and you are comparing it with getting drunk 4 times a way.
To be fair to you the BBC article did not mention dosage
I agree 100%, but if you have ever listened to marijuana activist talk their message tends to be that ANYTHING less than 100% positive written about marijuana is a LIE by the powers that be.
I wish I would have read your comment before I posted one of my own and forfeited my temporary rights to moderate this thread.
I would have liked to mod this comment up.
Well done!
+1
America's future if overpopulation keeps going up and if we keep electing Republicans to savage the middle class
I've seen a few documentaries on youtube about cars powered by compressed air batteries. I'm disappointed that these cars are not coming to the U.S., but I am excited for the people in India who will be getting them.
These cars are not air powered. The tanks of compressed air that drive the cars are really just batteries.....aka devices for storing energy. The air in the tanks, like the hydrogen in hydrogen powered cars, is not an energy source. The energy stored in the tanks of compressed air comes from the energy used to power the air compressing machines.
The existence of an outlier doesn't disprove the existence of a demographic trend and what that demographic trend means.
Actually, I read somewhere that most of the vaccine deniers have college degrees....just not advanced ones or ones in the sciences.
They are educated enough to know that researchers and doctors don't know everything as well as being full of shit sometimes. They are not educated enough to evaluate the data. Hence the arrogance in thinking they know more than the researchers or somebody with SOME credentials selling them something knows more.
Interestingly, people with less education than this demographic just do what they are told by doctors and get the vaccines.
I think the problem is uniquely fixable as far as geek culture goes. Geeks understand rules. We make and use them.
All that is needed is education. Mabye a little bit more adapted to Geeks in spelling out more precisely what the rules are and more importantly why they should obey them.
All it takes is for the leaders in geek culture, the popular CEOs, the uber geeks, the Linux Torvald's to publicly and strongly state they are for education, perhaps providing the education.
People have been saying that about Apple since Apple existed. They have come out with a few lower priced things over the years, but those products came and went while the expensive stuff remained.
I don't hate Apple. I've been shopping around to replace my PC at home and would go Mac, but for the price difference.
The big difference between Apple & Kubuntu versus Microsoft & Canonical is that the first group is not forcing a desktop environment meant for a tablet on to desktop PC users.
I can understand why Microsoft decided to remove that option, though I disagree.
They want to the users to give Metro a fair try by living with it for a while. It is different enough where most people only see it once until they set an option to get rid of it. I've been using Windows since 3.0 and the first thing I do at a new job is get rid of the XP theme and set things up to look classic.
I think this is a mistake for Microsoft. Forced changes without easy options to go back angers users. Ubuntu and Unity are in a similar situation. Between Microsoft and Canonical trying to promote a tablet desktop on non-tablet PCs I think Apple and the KDE will be the winners.
On my formerly Ubuntu box at home the change motivated me to give the KDE and Kubuntu a look for the first time in years. Luckily I really like it and am now unlikely to go back to Ubuntu and Unity(or GNOME )
I don't mean any disrespect, but you seem to imply that "those people" don't know what they are talking about and have a bit of attitude. It seems like your post has a bit of an attitude.
Those are good techniques you are criticizing.
You could have brought up the very good point that programmers should ask themselves why the former devs did something a certain way.
All true
I would add that one of the disappointing things about programming is that few people ever see let alone appreciate a job well done.
If the application works or even works "good enough", nobody cares if the coding is done well.......they don't even care to look at it.
I've dealt with a number of legacy code bases, done poorly. Some of the worst examples were done by veteran procedural programmers who picked up an OO language via tutorials.
The worst of their evils could be greatly reduced by all tutorial and book authors, by stating, promiently, the rule of thumb that if the module they are typing goes past one screen in height that they should start thinking about breaking it into another module.
Almost every language has a module of some kind ( procedure, function, subroutine, etc ).
A nonexpert opinion follows..........
Medschool is about Mneomics. The best book on that subject is Harry Lorrayane's "The Memory Book". It has been around and impressing people for decades.
Now, about notetaking.
The point of a lecture is to get things you will not by reading the text book.
To maximize the benefits of a lecture you will want to read and take thorough notes on the text before the lecture. Here you have the luxury of time to do a good job. Get a book on notetaking. The benefit of taking notes in this situation is that it helps get it into your brain permanently, in a "fun" way, by organizing the information and forming a map/shelving unit in your brain for organizing information that comes after it. If you are just copying points down, you are doing it wrong. You want to organize/outline the information.......the taking of notes forces you to think about the material in some way, hence gluing the maps in.
By the time you get to the lecture you will have a familiarity with the material and a framework for it. You can give your full attention to LISTENING to the profresssor, thinking about what he is saying and as a result asking questions that will help you.
You wouldn't have had a chance for this benefit before because you would have been too busy trying to get down everything he was saying. But now you have all of that already, so you can relax, LISTEN, and think about the relationships of things as s/he talks......increasing your command of the material.
My personal opinion is that learning a handwritten notetaking system is better. The point isn't to preserve the material in a record. You have your textbook for that. The point is to get it into your brain so that it stays there. The slower speed of writing your notes holds it in your memory and makes you process your material much more than if you recorded it, highlighted it, etc
Windows is the operating system of just about EVERYBODY. Including people who may be conservative and even provincial. My guess is that a marketing person at Microsoft finally got heard and they decided to lose the name "Metro" after learning it was too urban and possibly "gay" aka "threatening" for some folks.
Hello Anonymous Coward;
You can take my post as an insult if you like. That isn't how it was meant. I stand by it.
It SHOULD be the case that Americans take uninterrupted power service for granted. Many people fought long and hard for the standard of living we Americans are losing.
Instead of telling people to adapt to it via shaming them for not being self reliant when basic utilities go out, as the other Anonymous Coward did, people should be encouraging others to complain about it so it gets changed.
That is how the world works.
Instead of taking my message as an insult I encourage you to complain about and fight the conditions in your country instead of accepting and adapting to it. That is how progress gets made.....and as Americans are starting to learn...that is what is necessary to maintain it.
If your post was meant to shame me on my virtues of self reliance it didn't work.
I don't think I or any other American *SHOULD* need to what to do if a basic utility goes out for more than a day at time.
We are the country that invented the air plane and landed on the moon. The shame is in having our basics be so unreliable.