Am I the only one that thinks it's sad that Slashdot's code for avoiding accidental goatse clicks is better than many mail client's code for avoiding having someone steal all of your money?
Obviously you've never clicked on a goatse link at work or while your girlfriend was looking over your shoulder. It may be painful, but you can recover from online identity theft.In the long run, however, no amount of psychotherapy and pills will eliminate that terrible image from being permanently scalded into your brain cavities. Nor will it restore your job or help you ever live down the fact that you once got dumped for, "being into extreme male anal fetishes." =P
Seriously guys, is it our right to bomb the moon? and permanently scar her chi forever? Rather than being passive observer's of this horrible Astrological act of Terrorism by the evil U.S. Government we should all be contemplating the beauty of the moon, and focusing compassion towards her to help her through what will surely be a difficult and painful time for her. Join countless others on this date in a movement of group meditation to help mend the scars that our less compassionate brethren will bequeath upon the heavens!
/sarcasm
In all seriousness, I am really excited about this. Hopefully if we do discover large concentrations of water it will be an ass kick in the space industry to get our act together and get onto building a colony =)
That's a good point, maybe we should cover them with some sort of protective layer. Hmmm, we could make sure the protective layer has good traction too so people can walk on their roofs safely without falling. I know, we can cover them with sandpaper! I'm surprised this hasn't been thought of before. =P
What about some of the work of William Gibson such as Neuromancer. I haven't read any of his stuffy myself, yet, but it is certainly on my list. As I understand it, Gibson pioneered some of the more common concepts of what an 'information age' would entail as well as having some interesting commentary on the 'cyberspace counter culture' that such an age could/would develop. Also, I think some of his stuff addressed the rise of entertainment forms like reality T.V. Considering that these are pretty popular and common concepts these days, adding one of his novels might have some poignant significance for some of the students.
Also, as mentioned by others above, I think 2984, Fahrenheit 451, and Brave New World all should be studied thoroughly if they are not taught in common Lit classes at your school. I know we were never required to read 1984 in my school and, though I sought that book out myself, many students I graduated with still don't understand what I mean when I discuss some recent government policies with them and then make a reference to 1984. Naivete of the masses is a powerful tool for those in power and as a teacher you can take an active role in combating that naivete.
9130 - 8800 BC? That is an important find! I remember when I was digging through information about older cultures out of boredom (I know...seriously) I was impressed that most of the oldest cultures documented extensively existed in Egypt and Asia (China, India, and even Japan). I had hard time finding any information about ancient European and Semitic cultures. That is pretty impressive that there is a temple predating the Egyptian civilization in Turkey. I wonder if any influence or link can be traced between it and the Phoenician culture...
I remember the first time I sing-songed this to a jerk when I was, like, 5. She immediately went outside, picked up a very large stick, and beat me senseless with it. And my older sister asks me why I never come visit her anymore....
Well, in the terrorist's defense, getting a parking ticket right before his final suicide bombing could lower his karma enough to drop the count down to 71 virgins....or something...
Imagine the Hollywood scripts that could come from this new material. Rather than having adamantium grafted to his skeleton, Wolverine could have had glass grafted instead. Then, rather than being a badass unstoppable killing machine, he could gimp around on a cane fantasizing himself to be a super villain before Bruce Willis discovers himself to be an unlikely super hero with absolutely no backstory who cannot be broken! We can call the movie "A Tale of Two Unbreakables" and make billiions!. Profit!
...marketers have defended the practice by insisting it gives Americans what they want...
If I wanted some giant faceless social entity telling me what I want I would:
A) Start going back to church
B) Start using Microsoft products at home again
C) Start wearing a dark turtleneck and buying Apple prodcuts
D) All of the above
And since I do none of the above, and never intend to, I say to you, marketers, go f*** yourselves. I have a brain. I think. I make choices. I have freewill. Stop looking at me as an endless consumer statistic for you to shovel your broken/flawed/rushed/under-designed P.O.S. products into the mouth of, and start looking at me as the living, breathing, intelligent human being I am, you insensitive clods!
Of course Americans don't want targeted advertising. They know it will just result in more advertisements for porn, penis pills, and 'personals' sites (quotes because we all know they are just the www version of 1-900 numbers).
I was going to put a vote in for some kind of electronics project as well. I am finding that more and more of my friends (college age +) who have great DIY spirits (car and motorcycle tinkering, learning computers in depth, even sewing) look at electronics as some sort of black box of magic that they can't/shouldn't tamper with. My own roomate was looking for a pair of LED blinkers to install on his motorcycle, when I recommended he make some himself using bought/scavenged materials he got nervous at first. When I started drawing some circuit diagrams for him and told him I would help he got excited.
My point is, electricity, in and of itself, is nothing to be feared/worshiped if properly understood. Teaching kids to hack away at some electronics could greatly improve their understanding of some of the most common items we use everyday.
As for a suggestion, I would tell you to have each of them go home and get their parents/grandparents to donate an old walkman to them for a project. Then have them disassemble it and use the components to make some kind of mobile toy (hence using something with a motor) that they can take home and show off. Of course, this requires soldering, but it still could be great fun for them. I personally have built two Symets (little bouncy pseudo robot things) from old Discman's and had a great time doing it.
The argument is for a longer school year, and not necessarily more hours in school.
According to the article, I see a mixed plethora of information regarding possible 'improvements to the school year. Let's see some of them:
Her school is part of a 3-year-old state initiative to add 300 hours of school time in nearly two dozen schools.
Regardless, there is a strong case for adding time to the school day.
Charter schools are known for having longer school days or weeks or years. For example, kids in the KIPP network of 82 charter schools across the country go to school from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., more than three hours longer than the typical day
Several schools are going year-round by shortening summer vacation and lengthening other breaks.
and finally:
"Those hours from 3 o'clock to 7 o'clock are times of high anxiety for parents," Duncan said. "They want their children safe. Families are working one and two and three jobs now to make ends meet and to keep food on the table."
So from the content above (and yes, there are very many more examples discussed but I don't feel like quoting the whole article) it appears that a variety of solutions are both being given as examples to the problem of kids spending too little time in school. Some parts of the article spend time discussing the benefits and drawbacks of adding hours onto the end of the school day. They last quote by the Secretary of Education shows that. Other discussions center around schools that are trying to lessen the time between terms by shortening summer breaks and going to a year round schedule with no mention of actually increasing the amount of yearly time spent in the classroom. Frankly, that system sounds very beneficial for reasons you pointed out:
Think about that for a minute, especially on how it affects knowledge retention.
...which, in general, I agree with. The 3 month drag from one year to the next gives kids a viable excuse to forget everything they learned the last year. Though I could make a counter point that it also gives kids the opportunity to take a full time job for a few months and get a feel for what it is like to work hard on a standard work day calendar, that would take me on a tangent and I would rather not digress.
Now if you will reread my original post, you will note that, while passionate, the criticisms were not unfounded based on the content of the article. The article was wishy-washy enough to say, "Here are how some schools are adding time or rescheduling their classes, this should happen nation-wide but we haven't made a decision on how to do so yet."
My point was that, the one option of adding more hours to the classroom day was not the best option. There are serious deficiencies in American education. We try to teach using an arbitrary rewards system (grades) which appeals to very little of the student population and teaches them to jump through hoops rather than learn. We stifle curiosity and questioning by genuinely interested students so that teachers can maintain a pre-scheduled pace to ensure that the contents of chapters X through Y are covered before standardized test time. Rather than actually try to help students gain some insight and context on what they are learning, many teachers (not all) blow over them in the name of an arbitrary schedule that they decide. Finally, I flamed the fact that high school and grammar school teachers are some of the most underpaid shapers of society. Frankly, they are shapers of society. They help instill values and knowledge in the youth of our world who, one day, will lead the world. This is a very important role to play in society and one that comes with great responsibility. I was trying to point out that the brightest, best, and most capable indivi
Yeah, I have to call BS on Obama's idea and theory as to deficiencies in America's education. The problem with our education system does not come from spending too little time in the classroom. It stems from numerous factors, the least of which do not include, low teacher salaries inspiring more competent people to avoid teaching, lack of creativity in teaching techniques (really, not all children learn the same and A's - F's is just a stupid arbitration), inability to inspire young kids (I would bet that 9/10 American kids view school as a combination of social time and the child equivalent of 'boring work'), and a suppression of curiosity in those who do ask questions (completely anecdotal, but I can name 7 people I know right now that were actually punished for asking too many questions in the classroom).
The article and even the summary states that countries which continually outperform America in tests send their children to school for less hours than America. That doesn't even warrant the correlation vs. causation fallacy that's just crappy incomplete analysis by Obama's Secretary of Education. Forcing students to spend more hours in the mindnumbing clusterf*** that is the modern lecture system in America is not going to educate them or make them learn more, its just going to push them closer to brainless downer activities after school like more TV. I mean really, who wants to go home and play with an electronics toy/learning kit when they just spent 8+ hours listening to someone they hardly respect drone on about a bunch of topics that they haven't been given a reason to care about?
Don't increase the schoolyear Mr. President, increase teacher salaries giving intelligent people a reason to teach other than philanthropy and find a way to inspire invention and innovation in the classroom. Increasing the time spent in a broken system is just going to increase the number of broken children's minds.
I like how I got modded funny....I was actually trying to be serious....maybe it was the irony of the last sentence that did it... >
I used to make this same exuse...
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...for myself as to why $15 per month was not an unreasonable WoW fee. Then I stopped paying for monthly subscriptions and reunited my life with the real world. I learned something when I did that. WoW and video games in general, as much fun as they are, shield you from the joys of reality. Granted, the fees being paid are less than those you would pay for going to the movies or going to the bars, but you don't actually get to meet people face to face in WoW or Halo 3 online. Frankly, if I don't play WoW all day, I probably will get bored, get outside, and might just meet someone. Suppose I ask that someone to come hang out and watch a movie with me. Well now I just made a friend and watched a possibly decent movie for $15. I would say that having a pal to go run amock with rather than spending my afternoons and evenings in front of my computer was well worth that $15.
In fact, you can also find fun things to do in the real world that are cheaper than WoW AND movies. Imagine that. For instance, suppose again that I don't play video games all the time and instead walk down to the beach every so often instead. After awhile, walking alone might get boring so I start swimming, skimboarding, surfing, or playing volleyball there. Now not only have I saved myself the cost of the video game, but I have started learning a new skill, which in and of itself is a much more rewarding experience than epic loots. On top of it, I'm at the beach, even if I don't meet anyone I can gawk at all the cute girlies in bikinis. Priceless.
Don't live by the beach? Make for a mountain hike, or go explore a forest, or go buy a $15 bike off craigslist and start mountain biking...the possibilities are endless really.
I suppose what I am getting at is that this mindset of "Either video games or drinking or movies..." is really stifling. For some reason we think it makes sense to pay a crapton of money for eye-candy which really just paints a picture of what's already alive and well in our own imaginations when, in fact, we could be going out and living our own adventures.
Do yourself a favor...just say no to video games (mostly, I do admit that I still play Halo regularly and own both Mass Effect and Fallout 3).
When I first read about this (after reading this summary) it seemed somewhat intriguing. Who knows, perhaps it could allow some useful knowledge to be slapped on some of the webpages and articles on the internet that are scant on details or technical info. However, after looking at the download page of this little plugin, it appears that you can sync this service with " Blogger, Facebook, Twitter and Google profiles" which means, to me at least, that if I am reading an article regarding a new possible HIV vaccine, rather than have helpful comments with related studies and scientific journal entries attached to it, the article will instead hemorrhage a barrage of comments that have to do with people fearing getting AIDS from public restroom toilet seats and the "ZOMG 70ta11y @w3some HAWT girl the b@ng3d at a 9427y last night"....who had AIDS....
The article states that the clinical trials are being conducted on patients with various levels of the disease. It also states that they are hoping to see the degenerative rate of the disease slow due to the treatments. It does not, however, talk about whether or not this stem cell treatment, or a similar one, could be used to treat patients with a developed case of ALS. For instance, to the/.er that talked about saving Hawking's life, Hawking has had the disease long enough that many of his motor neurons have probably already died out. Can this treatment be used to restore or replace said neurons? For those ALS patients that are already severely disabled, treatment needs to go beyond the stage of slowing the disease down. I would love to see ALS patients walking and talking again that couldn't previously.
Neuralstem's own website also seems rather scant in details on therapy for highly developed levels of ALS. Does anyone know of any research being conducted to treat the latter stages of ALS or how relevant this treatment is for those stages?
Though still in the very early stages of development, if perfected, carbon nanotube-based cells could provide a more efficient method of converting light to electricity....
ans
While the device is certainly in its earliest stages of development...
So it uses a rather exotic material and is still in the "earliest stages of development" but is on the horizon? Really? It sounds to me like we probably won't see them commercially available for at least another 10 years...then again, I suppose the truth of the statement depends on one's definition of, "on the horizon," but I wouldn't expect to be seeing these guys in Home Depot anytime soon...
...that somewhere else in the world, there is a young, badass mother fighting off robots from the future that were designed to look like my Governor in a heroic attempt to destroy this new technology along with her scrappy, but as-of-yet slightly immature son....
At least, I think that's where we are in the time-line right?
It is exciting to see a political figure take a stance on something important that makes sense for once. I thought a man with enough backbone to fight for net neutrality publicly would certainly have a moustache but a quick google search proved my assumption wrong.
Perhaps he had some facial hair in a past life or something...
Slashdot Mirror
Am I the only one that thinks it's sad that Slashdot's code for avoiding accidental goatse clicks is better than many mail client's code for avoiding having someone steal all of your money?
Obviously you've never clicked on a goatse link at work or while your girlfriend was looking over your shoulder. It may be painful, but you can recover from online identity theft.In the long run, however, no amount of psychotherapy and pills will eliminate that terrible image from being permanently scalded into your brain cavities. Nor will it restore your job or help you ever live down the fact that you once got dumped for, "being into extreme male anal fetishes." =P
Seriously guys, is it our right to bomb the moon? and permanently scar her chi forever? Rather than being passive observer's of this horrible Astrological act of Terrorism by the evil U.S. Government we should all be contemplating the beauty of the moon, and focusing compassion towards her to help her through what will surely be a difficult and painful time for her. Join countless others on this date in a movement of group meditation to help mend the scars that our less compassionate brethren will bequeath upon the heavens!
/sarcasm
In all seriousness, I am really excited about this. Hopefully if we do discover large concentrations of water it will be an ass kick in the space industry to get our act together and get onto building a colony =)
Physics through math? =P
That's a good point, maybe we should cover them with some sort of protective layer. Hmmm, we could make sure the protective layer has good traction too so people can walk on their roofs safely without falling. I know, we can cover them with sandpaper! I'm surprised this hasn't been thought of before. =P
I think 2984, Fahrenheit 451...
Epic preview fail....that was supposed to be 1984....
What about some of the work of William Gibson such as Neuromancer. I haven't read any of his stuffy myself, yet, but it is certainly on my list. As I understand it, Gibson pioneered some of the more common concepts of what an 'information age' would entail as well as having some interesting commentary on the 'cyberspace counter culture' that such an age could/would develop. Also, I think some of his stuff addressed the rise of entertainment forms like reality T.V. Considering that these are pretty popular and common concepts these days, adding one of his novels might have some poignant significance for some of the students.
Also, as mentioned by others above, I think 2984, Fahrenheit 451, and Brave New World all should be studied thoroughly if they are not taught in common Lit classes at your school. I know we were never required to read 1984 in my school and, though I sought that book out myself, many students I graduated with still don't understand what I mean when I discuss some recent government policies with them and then make a reference to 1984. Naivete of the masses is a powerful tool for those in power and as a teacher you can take an active role in combating that naivete.
9130 - 8800 BC? That is an important find! I remember when I was digging through information about older cultures out of boredom (I know...seriously) I was impressed that most of the oldest cultures documented extensively existed in Egypt and Asia (China, India, and even Japan). I had hard time finding any information about ancient European and Semitic cultures. That is pretty impressive that there is a temple predating the Egyptian civilization in Turkey. I wonder if any influence or link can be traced between it and the Phoenician culture...
I remember the first time I sing-songed this to a jerk when I was, like, 5. She immediately went outside, picked up a very large stick, and beat me senseless with it. And my older sister asks me why I never come visit her anymore....
M Night Shyamalan
So that's how you spell it...Slashdot's commentators, almost as effective as Google's "Did you mean..." feature =)
Well, in the terrorist's defense, getting a parking ticket right before his final suicide bombing could lower his karma enough to drop the count down to 71 virgins....or something...
Imagine the Hollywood scripts that could come from this new material. Rather than having adamantium grafted to his skeleton, Wolverine could have had glass grafted instead. Then, rather than being a badass unstoppable killing machine, he could gimp around on a cane fantasizing himself to be a super villain before Bruce Willis discovers himself to be an unlikely super hero with absolutely no backstory who cannot be broken! We can call the movie "A Tale of Two Unbreakables" and make billiions!. Profit!
...marketers have defended the practice by insisting it gives Americans what they want...
If I wanted some giant faceless social entity telling me what I want I would:
A) Start going back to church
B) Start using Microsoft products at home again
C) Start wearing a dark turtleneck and buying Apple prodcuts
D) All of the above
And since I do none of the above, and never intend to, I say to you, marketers, go f*** yourselves. I have a brain. I think. I make choices. I have freewill. Stop looking at me as an endless consumer statistic for you to shovel your broken/flawed/rushed/under-designed P.O.S. products into the mouth of, and start looking at me as the living, breathing, intelligent human being I am, you insensitive clods!
Of course Americans don't want targeted advertising. They know it will just result in more advertisements for porn, penis pills, and 'personals' sites (quotes because we all know they are just the www version of 1-900 numbers).
I was going to put a vote in for some kind of electronics project as well. I am finding that more and more of my friends (college age +) who have great DIY spirits (car and motorcycle tinkering, learning computers in depth, even sewing) look at electronics as some sort of black box of magic that they can't/shouldn't tamper with. My own roomate was looking for a pair of LED blinkers to install on his motorcycle, when I recommended he make some himself using bought/scavenged materials he got nervous at first. When I started drawing some circuit diagrams for him and told him I would help he got excited.
My point is, electricity, in and of itself, is nothing to be feared/worshiped if properly understood. Teaching kids to hack away at some electronics could greatly improve their understanding of some of the most common items we use everyday.
As for a suggestion, I would tell you to have each of them go home and get their parents/grandparents to donate an old walkman to them for a project. Then have them disassemble it and use the components to make some kind of mobile toy (hence using something with a motor) that they can take home and show off. Of course, this requires soldering, but it still could be great fun for them. I personally have built two Symets (little bouncy pseudo robot things) from old Discman's and had a great time doing it.
That's my two cents.
The argument is for a longer school year, and not necessarily more hours in school.
According to the article, I see a mixed plethora of information regarding possible 'improvements to the school year. Let's see some of them:
Her school is part of a 3-year-old state initiative to add 300 hours of school time in nearly two dozen schools.
Regardless, there is a strong case for adding time to the school day.
Charter schools are known for having longer school days or weeks or years. For example, kids in the KIPP network of 82 charter schools across the country go to school from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., more than three hours longer than the typical day
Several schools are going year-round by shortening summer vacation and lengthening other breaks.
and finally:
"Those hours from 3 o'clock to 7 o'clock are times of high anxiety for parents," Duncan said. "They want their children safe. Families are working one and two and three jobs now to make ends meet and to keep food on the table."
So from the content above (and yes, there are very many more examples discussed but I don't feel like quoting the whole article) it appears that a variety of solutions are both being given as examples to the problem of kids spending too little time in school. Some parts of the article spend time discussing the benefits and drawbacks of adding hours onto the end of the school day. They last quote by the Secretary of Education shows that. Other discussions center around schools that are trying to lessen the time between terms by shortening summer breaks and going to a year round schedule with no mention of actually increasing the amount of yearly time spent in the classroom. Frankly, that system sounds very beneficial for reasons you pointed out:
Think about that for a minute, especially on how it affects knowledge retention.
Now if you will reread my original post, you will note that, while passionate, the criticisms were not unfounded based on the content of the article. The article was wishy-washy enough to say, "Here are how some schools are adding time or rescheduling their classes, this should happen nation-wide but we haven't made a decision on how to do so yet."
My point was that, the one option of adding more hours to the classroom day was not the best option. There are serious deficiencies in American education. We try to teach using an arbitrary rewards system (grades) which appeals to very little of the student population and teaches them to jump through hoops rather than learn. We stifle curiosity and questioning by genuinely interested students so that teachers can maintain a pre-scheduled pace to ensure that the contents of chapters X through Y are covered before standardized test time. Rather than actually try to help students gain some insight and context on what they are learning, many teachers (not all) blow over them in the name of an arbitrary schedule that they decide. Finally, I flamed the fact that high school and grammar school teachers are some of the most underpaid shapers of society. Frankly, they are shapers of society. They help instill values and knowledge in the youth of our world who, one day, will lead the world. This is a very important role to play in society and one that comes with great responsibility. I was trying to point out that the brightest, best, and most capable indivi
Yeah, I have to call BS on Obama's idea and theory as to deficiencies in America's education. The problem with our education system does not come from spending too little time in the classroom. It stems from numerous factors, the least of which do not include, low teacher salaries inspiring more competent people to avoid teaching, lack of creativity in teaching techniques (really, not all children learn the same and A's - F's is just a stupid arbitration), inability to inspire young kids (I would bet that 9/10 American kids view school as a combination of social time and the child equivalent of 'boring work'), and a suppression of curiosity in those who do ask questions (completely anecdotal, but I can name 7 people I know right now that were actually punished for asking too many questions in the classroom).
The article and even the summary states that countries which continually outperform America in tests send their children to school for less hours than America. That doesn't even warrant the correlation vs. causation fallacy that's just crappy incomplete analysis by Obama's Secretary of Education. Forcing students to spend more hours in the mindnumbing clusterf*** that is the modern lecture system in America is not going to educate them or make them learn more, its just going to push them closer to brainless downer activities after school like more TV. I mean really, who wants to go home and play with an electronics toy/learning kit when they just spent 8+ hours listening to someone they hardly respect drone on about a bunch of topics that they haven't been given a reason to care about?
Don't increase the schoolyear Mr. President, increase teacher salaries giving intelligent people a reason to teach other than philanthropy and find a way to inspire invention and innovation in the classroom. Increasing the time spent in a broken system is just going to increase the number of broken children's minds.
I like how I got modded funny....I was actually trying to be serious....maybe it was the irony of the last sentence that did it... >
...for myself as to why $15 per month was not an unreasonable WoW fee. Then I stopped paying for monthly subscriptions and reunited my life with the real world. I learned something when I did that. WoW and video games in general, as much fun as they are, shield you from the joys of reality. Granted, the fees being paid are less than those you would pay for going to the movies or going to the bars, but you don't actually get to meet people face to face in WoW or Halo 3 online. Frankly, if I don't play WoW all day, I probably will get bored, get outside, and might just meet someone. Suppose I ask that someone to come hang out and watch a movie with me. Well now I just made a friend and watched a possibly decent movie for $15. I would say that having a pal to go run amock with rather than spending my afternoons and evenings in front of my computer was well worth that $15.
In fact, you can also find fun things to do in the real world that are cheaper than WoW AND movies. Imagine that. For instance, suppose again that I don't play video games all the time and instead walk down to the beach every so often instead. After awhile, walking alone might get boring so I start swimming, skimboarding, surfing, or playing volleyball there. Now not only have I saved myself the cost of the video game, but I have started learning a new skill, which in and of itself is a much more rewarding experience than epic loots. On top of it, I'm at the beach, even if I don't meet anyone I can gawk at all the cute girlies in bikinis. Priceless.
Don't live by the beach? Make for a mountain hike, or go explore a forest, or go buy a $15 bike off craigslist and start mountain biking...the possibilities are endless really.
I suppose what I am getting at is that this mindset of "Either video games or drinking or movies..." is really stifling. For some reason we think it makes sense to pay a crapton of money for eye-candy which really just paints a picture of what's already alive and well in our own imaginations when, in fact, we could be going out and living our own adventures.
Do yourself a favor...just say no to video games (mostly, I do admit that I still play Halo regularly and own both Mass Effect and Fallout 3).
I just want to know if I can use it to attach my computer to my toaster yet.....
When I first read about this (after reading this summary) it seemed somewhat intriguing. Who knows, perhaps it could allow some useful knowledge to be slapped on some of the webpages and articles on the internet that are scant on details or technical info. However, after looking at the download page of this little plugin, it appears that you can sync this service with " Blogger, Facebook, Twitter and Google profiles" which means, to me at least, that if I am reading an article regarding a new possible HIV vaccine, rather than have helpful comments with related studies and scientific journal entries attached to it, the article will instead hemorrhage a barrage of comments that have to do with people fearing getting AIDS from public restroom toilet seats and the "ZOMG 70ta11y @w3some HAWT girl the b@ng3d at a 9427y last night"....who had AIDS....
Sad and lame.
The article states that the clinical trials are being conducted on patients with various levels of the disease. It also states that they are hoping to see the degenerative rate of the disease slow due to the treatments. It does not, however, talk about whether or not this stem cell treatment, or a similar one, could be used to treat patients with a developed case of ALS. For instance, to the /.er that talked about saving Hawking's life, Hawking has had the disease long enough that many of his motor neurons have probably already died out. Can this treatment be used to restore or replace said neurons? For those ALS patients that are already severely disabled, treatment needs to go beyond the stage of slowing the disease down. I would love to see ALS patients walking and talking again that couldn't previously.
Neuralstem's own website also seems rather scant in details on therapy for highly developed levels of ALS. Does anyone know of any research being conducted to treat the latter stages of ALS or how relevant this treatment is for those stages?
Though still in the very early stages of development, if perfected, carbon nanotube-based cells could provide a more efficient method of converting light to electricity....
ans
While the device is certainly in its earliest stages of development...
So it uses a rather exotic material and is still in the "earliest stages of development" but is on the horizon? Really? It sounds to me like we probably won't see them commercially available for at least another 10 years...then again, I suppose the truth of the statement depends on one's definition of, "on the horizon," but I wouldn't expect to be seeing these guys in Home Depot anytime soon...
Ocean's Thirteen that a system like that.
Uuuuum, yes?
Was that a question or a statement?
...that somewhere else in the world, there is a young, badass mother fighting off robots from the future that were designed to look like my Governor in a heroic attempt to destroy this new technology along with her scrappy, but as-of-yet slightly immature son....
At least, I think that's where we are in the time-line right?
It is exciting to see a political figure take a stance on something important that makes sense for once. I thought a man with enough backbone to fight for net neutrality publicly would certainly have a moustache but a quick google search proved my assumption wrong.
Perhaps he had some facial hair in a past life or something...