As a "real" woman, I ask that you not speak for me. Rather, I demand it. Any woman who has committed herself to the years of rigorous effort required to pass as female, much less actually opted for surgery, is going to be taking so much estrogen and so many androgen blockers that we 'real' women will mop the freakin' floor with her unless she was already a gifted athlete in her prior life. And if she was, she deserves the right to compete and demonstrate that against her peers.
There are a few Olympic sports which are skill based rather than physical prowess, and a person with Kleinfelter Syndrome could easily be an Olympic-calibre archer or rifle marksman.
This is not actually true - the shape of one's breasts is far more closely related to genetics, nutrition, and number of children nursed. Especially nutrition - most of the effects of nursing are due to borderline nutritional quality during lactation. If all of your protein is going to making milk instead of maintaining your mammary ligaments your breasts will sag.
So you have birth control pills and improved farming practices to thank for perky breasts.
You end up with seacoasts covered in dead fish. The local birds are often fairly happy for a week or so, but since it's a one-time or only rarely and irregularly repeated thing there's no significant long term effect that I'm aware of.
It probably also kills any corals and sponges in the area, so depending on how fully killed the reefs are you lose reef protection, resulting in stronger storm surges and faster beach erosion.
No. I didn't RTFA and this time it bit me in the butt. Sorry for that. The comments made it sound as though it's both new and useless, and it's neither.
There are projects underway in the environmental movement to purchase US coal export terminals and close them, as well as to purchase mining rights in coal-producing areas. Very similar to well-established programs to purchase tracts of rainforest. I'd say they are well aware of China's expanding use of coal and the subsequent greenhouse gas emission.
Yes, you're spoiled. Colorado is on average the fittest state in the nation. Lucky skiers, and all those lovely mountains to cycle up! (not joking about that, I'm a hillclimber and central KY just doesn't offer too much)
Why the assumption that everyone should come to our current lifestyle? Why not instead assume that we first-worlders could back off a little, be very nearly as comfortable with just a bit less, and then bring everyone to that standard instead?
No one who knows what they are doing uses raw manure on farm fields. The nutrients are still locked into complex molecules and can't be easily taken up by the plants. All manure used on fields is to my knowledge composted, and at large scales goes through hot composting which elevates the internal temperature of the pile to over 130degF, more than adequate to kill nearly all pathogenic bacteria. Try again.
IANAA, but I believe real property refers to real estate and large physical items of over $5000 or so in value, while almost everything else is called 'chattel' - things you could pick up and carry around on your person. It's a holdover from the English common law system.
I'm not in the field at the moment. The DH is working on his PhD and so I took what I could get, which was in inkjet printer material dev. They needed somebody with microscope and cleanroom experience and excellent attention to very small details, and I had those in spades. The low pay is due to being a contract employee rather than a regular, and being located in a cheap smallish town. Around here, I'm actually considered to be making pretty darn good money.
There aren't a whole lot of female biologists on/.; I figure we should back each other up. It wasn't my intent to be stalker-y, but you're right, consolidating the info wasn't very polite. My apologies.
If you are going to rip off The Economist wholesale, please include in your submission at least an acknowledgment of the original source beyond merely the URL of the originating site. It's only polite.
Can someone with access to the full article tell us whether or not the researchers assessed that the consoles were actually installed, and that the parents allowed the children to use them? I know if I showed up at home with some random game console my mother would have said, your father will have to install it, and when Dad got home he would have wanted to have dinner and watch TV all evening. If there's only one TV, the kids are going to lose out on using it.
Yes, I know that these are elementary schoolers which means that their parents were involved in signing the consent for them for the study. I also know just how good people are at following through on things they've signed up for for themselves, nevermind their kids.
This has actually become an issue over some international treaties; the Executive branch is the one that is empowered to sign the treaty, but it must be ratified by the congressional branch. I don't recall a particular example at the moment, but there have been some treaties where the POTUS has signed the agreement and it has not been ratified, causing various international problems with countries that don't have this odd bifurcated approval process (that is, nearly all of them) and think hey, you signed this! and the Congress goes, yeah, but we didn't agree to it, so nyah.
Many non-photosensitive congenitally blind people have what is called non-24 hour sleep-wake disorder, where their circadian rhythm is basically free floating. Blind people who are still photosensitive have lower incidence of this disorder, as long as they get some light each day (preferably morning sunlight).
Somehow this is an insult to Mohammed? Wha? Makes no sense whatsoever. And Interpol should be saved for big stuff anyway, not doctrinal differences. Whoever authorized the arrest needs some remedial training.
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As a "real" woman, I ask that you not speak for me. Rather, I demand it. Any woman who has committed herself to the years of rigorous effort required to pass as female, much less actually opted for surgery, is going to be taking so much estrogen and so many androgen blockers that we 'real' women will mop the freakin' floor with her unless she was already a gifted athlete in her prior life. And if she was, she deserves the right to compete and demonstrate that against her peers.
There are a few Olympic sports which are skill based rather than physical prowess, and a person with Kleinfelter Syndrome could easily be an Olympic-calibre archer or rifle marksman.
My sympathy for your loss.
The majority of Americans do, in fact, live in urban areas. The link includes a breakdown of various degrees of urbanity.
This is not actually true - the shape of one's breasts is far more closely related to genetics, nutrition, and number of children nursed. Especially nutrition - most of the effects of nursing are due to borderline nutritional quality during lactation. If all of your protein is going to making milk instead of maintaining your mammary ligaments your breasts will sag.
So you have birth control pills and improved farming practices to thank for perky breasts.
You end up with seacoasts covered in dead fish. The local birds are often fairly happy for a week or so, but since it's a one-time or only rarely and irregularly repeated thing there's no significant long term effect that I'm aware of.
It probably also kills any corals and sponges in the area, so depending on how fully killed the reefs are you lose reef protection, resulting in stronger storm surges and faster beach erosion.
No. I didn't RTFA and this time it bit me in the butt. Sorry for that. The comments made it sound as though it's both new and useless, and it's neither.
Here, check this one out. No way to input preferred meals, but it's far more flexible than the thing in this article.
http://bwsimulator.niddk.nih.gov/
There are projects underway in the environmental movement to purchase US coal export terminals and close them, as well as to purchase mining rights in coal-producing areas. Very similar to well-established programs to purchase tracts of rainforest. I'd say they are well aware of China's expanding use of coal and the subsequent greenhouse gas emission.
Yes, you're spoiled. Colorado is on average the fittest state in the nation. Lucky skiers, and all those lovely mountains to cycle up! (not joking about that, I'm a hillclimber and central KY just doesn't offer too much)
GP was referring to number of donations, not to value. People (and their votes) are not dollars.
Why the assumption that everyone should come to our current lifestyle? Why not instead assume that we first-worlders could back off a little, be very nearly as comfortable with just a bit less, and then bring everyone to that standard instead?
No one who knows what they are doing uses raw manure on farm fields. The nutrients are still locked into complex molecules and can't be easily taken up by the plants. All manure used on fields is to my knowledge composted, and at large scales goes through hot composting which elevates the internal temperature of the pile to over 130degF, more than adequate to kill nearly all pathogenic bacteria. Try again.
and they chose car noise. How uninspiring.
IANAA, but I believe real property refers to real estate and large physical items of over $5000 or so in value, while almost everything else is called 'chattel' - things you could pick up and carry around on your person. It's a holdover from the English common law system.
me too, except I was in my twenties for my first flight. :-)
I'm not in the field at the moment. The DH is working on his PhD and so I took what I could get, which was in inkjet printer material dev. They needed somebody with microscope and cleanroom experience and excellent attention to very small details, and I had those in spades. The low pay is due to being a contract employee rather than a regular, and being located in a cheap smallish town. Around here, I'm actually considered to be making pretty darn good money.
There aren't a whole lot of female biologists on /.; I figure we should back each other up. It wasn't my intent to be stalker-y, but you're right, consolidating the info wasn't very polite. My apologies.
She's probably just now getting to work, seeing as she's Canadian and has a real day job.
The mole is the number of atoms contained in the mass in grams of the average atomic mass of any substance. Hardly arbitrary.
If you are going to rip off The Economist wholesale, please include in your submission at least an acknowledgment of the original source beyond merely the URL of the originating site. It's only polite.
Can someone with access to the full article tell us whether or not the researchers assessed that the consoles were actually installed, and that the parents allowed the children to use them? I know if I showed up at home with some random game console my mother would have said, your father will have to install it, and when Dad got home he would have wanted to have dinner and watch TV all evening. If there's only one TV, the kids are going to lose out on using it.
Yes, I know that these are elementary schoolers which means that their parents were involved in signing the consent for them for the study. I also know just how good people are at following through on things they've signed up for for themselves, nevermind their kids.
This has actually become an issue over some international treaties; the Executive branch is the one that is empowered to sign the treaty, but it must be ratified by the congressional branch. I don't recall a particular example at the moment, but there have been some treaties where the POTUS has signed the agreement and it has not been ratified, causing various international problems with countries that don't have this odd bifurcated approval process (that is, nearly all of them) and think hey, you signed this! and the Congress goes, yeah, but we didn't agree to it, so nyah.
Many non-photosensitive congenitally blind people have what is called non-24 hour sleep-wake disorder, where their circadian rhythm is basically free floating. Blind people who are still photosensitive have lower incidence of this disorder, as long as they get some light each day (preferably morning sunlight).
Somehow this is an insult to Mohammed? Wha? Makes no sense whatsoever. And Interpol should be saved for big stuff anyway, not doctrinal differences. Whoever authorized the arrest needs some remedial training.