All you need is a little polymerase chain reaction. I assume that's how the grad student could outdo the global silicon chip industry as mentioned in the article summary.
I agree. My older sister thought she might be lactose intolerant, but when she switched to organic milk, she was fine. I don't know if the absence of artificial growth hormones or antibiotic residues could make such a difference, but there's anecdotal evidence for you.
Probably depends on the tensile properties. From what I gather, nanotubes and buckywires could have different characteristics there, since they don't really share the same structure. Without knowing any details, I wonder if the difference would make them more elastic... That would have a mix of effects on ballistics, I suppose.
No? It's the least stable isotope of hydrogen, and in common usage, least stable = most radioactive. If you only consider beta emissions, then no, it's not terribly strong or dangerous; in the case of glow-in-the-dark watches, it's certainly much safer than radium. Still, relative to deuterium, it's much more radioactive.
IANAIB (where IB stands for immunobiologist or whatever they call themselves).
Immunologist. And yes, from what the immunology books say, DNA is an antigen that usually avoids detection by being separated from the immune system, like in the cell nucleus. Once it gets out of there, the system says something along the lines of, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. What is this stuff? I've never seen it before, so it must not belong here. Let's destroy it." That's my understanding of it, at least.
I admit that this technology sounds very interesting, but until they come up with a way to encapsulate it, I don't expect to see it actually working in practice... That is, unless they don't need it to stick around very long.
There are obviously stronger forces than the Earth. I never said we were the cause of sunspot cycles. I merely hinted that planets rotating the Sun, one of which is ours, may contribute.
Although I know very little about the causes of sunspots (aside from cooler surface temperatures, of course), it seems to me there may be something more to our calendar than one would think. We base it on the planet's revolution. Since the Earth exerts a pull on the Sun (albeit a small one) as it revolves, maybe the calendar isn't completely unrelated. If the pull of a planet on a star is enough to locate one many light-years away, perhaps it could have an effect on something like sunspots.
I've seen quite a few community events designed to help terminally ill children in some way, like fund-raisers for trips to see the Pope, bone marrow drives to find a donor match (which may or may not apply in this case, depending on type of leukemia), or to raise money for other expensive treatments. I don't know if it's the norm, since terminal patients who don't have such publicity would be unknown to me, but people frequently do these things to "raise awareness," not to protect their right to privacy. The secretary may well have known and done it anyway in order to follow the rules. After all, nobody gets in trouble for following the rules, right?
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All you need is a little polymerase chain reaction. I assume that's how the grad student could outdo the global silicon chip industry as mentioned in the article summary.
Agreed.
As I posted above, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/organic. Definitions 3a vs. 3b. Round Two. Fight!
It's true. And pretty much anything else you find in an organic chemistry textbook. That doesn't mean they're USDA Certified Organic, though.
I agree. My older sister thought she might be lactose intolerant, but when she switched to organic milk, she was fine. I don't know if the absence of artificial growth hormones or antibiotic residues could make such a difference, but there's anecdotal evidence for you.
They way these people use the term incorrectly drives me nuts.
Seriously.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/organic He's using definition 3a. You're using 3b.
According to the article, it should make decent wiring for molecular circuit boards.
Probably depends on the tensile properties. From what I gather, nanotubes and buckywires could have different characteristics there, since they don't really share the same structure. Without knowing any details, I wonder if the difference would make them more elastic... That would have a mix of effects on ballistics, I suppose.
I guess this was released nearly a month ago, but here's the update that lets you uninstall it: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cecc62dc-96a7-4657-af91-6383ba034eab
Yes! Exactly! Someone understands my point and isn't obsessed with the concept of relative stability. Rock on!
My point is that tritium is not stable. As everyone here has so astutely pointed out, deuterium is stable. We are all in agreement.
No? It's the least stable isotope of hydrogen, and in common usage, least stable = most radioactive. If you only consider beta emissions, then no, it's not terribly strong or dangerous; in the case of glow-in-the-dark watches, it's certainly much safer than radium. Still, relative to deuterium, it's much more radioactive.
IANAIB (where IB stands for immunobiologist or whatever they call themselves).
Immunologist. And yes, from what the immunology books say, DNA is an antigen that usually avoids detection by being separated from the immune system, like in the cell nucleus. Once it gets out of there, the system says something along the lines of, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. What is this stuff? I've never seen it before, so it must not belong here. Let's destroy it." That's my understanding of it, at least.
I admit that this technology sounds very interesting, but until they come up with a way to encapsulate it, I don't expect to see it actually working in practice... That is, unless they don't need it to stick around very long.
There are obviously stronger forces than the Earth. I never said we were the cause of sunspot cycles. I merely hinted that planets rotating the Sun, one of which is ours, may contribute.
Although I know very little about the causes of sunspots (aside from cooler surface temperatures, of course), it seems to me there may be something more to our calendar than one would think. We base it on the planet's revolution. Since the Earth exerts a pull on the Sun (albeit a small one) as it revolves, maybe the calendar isn't completely unrelated. If the pull of a planet on a star is enough to locate one many light-years away, perhaps it could have an effect on something like sunspots.
...many natural history museums'...
I've seen quite a few community events designed to help terminally ill children in some way, like fund-raisers for trips to see the Pope, bone marrow drives to find a donor match (which may or may not apply in this case, depending on type of leukemia), or to raise money for other expensive treatments. I don't know if it's the norm, since terminal patients who don't have such publicity would be unknown to me, but people frequently do these things to "raise awareness," not to protect their right to privacy. The secretary may well have known and done it anyway in order to follow the rules. After all, nobody gets in trouble for following the rules, right?