It's not just a dedicated place of learning, it's a place of research.
Many of the top schools aren't called "top schools" because they teach well. They're top schools because they have to researchers and experts a wide range of subjects who make themselves available to students. If you have a large number of the top people in the world, and they all expect to have the highest salaries of anyone in their line of work, then you have to find a way to increase income to meet their demands. When you see a faculty to student ratio, it can be interpreted as the number of students it takes to pay one person's salary (on average).
This is all on top of providing infrastructure and a vast number of services to enough people to fill a small city (in many cases).
Reminds me of the meat that's still in tact (though a little freezer burnt) from Shackleton's (failed) expedition to cross Antarctica almost 100 years ago.
"For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Ziti, on the night he was betrayed, took noodles, and when he had given thanks, he served it and said, 'This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.' In the same way, after the spaghetti [he took] the ladle, saying, 'This sauce is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you eat of my body, in remembrance of me.' For whenever you eat this pasta topped with sauce, you proclaim the Lord's death until he is reheated." (1 New Corinthian Kitchen 11:23-26)
(As in it's stupidly impossible, yet most people won't know it. Similar to how any fat lazy Anime fan can find anything on any government website in less than ten minutes, and will still complain about how hard it is.)
Pull out a deck of cards, shuffle it, and deal the cards out in order. Assuming a perfect random shuffle, the chances of you getting those exact cards in that exact order is 1/52!, or 1/80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000.
This is about the probability of picking a point in the universe (in three spacial dimensions), and it landing in our solar system (or at least a ball with the same diameter as Pluto's orbit).
Buying a car which uses no gasoline, but still relies on burning coal is considered the pinnacle of being green.
Burning biodiesel is considered better for the environment than regular gasoline or diesel. Not because its emissions are considerably better, but because it comes from plant.
"Clean" coal will be better than regular coal because instead of letting its emissions go into the air, we plan on trapping "all" of them and burying them.
Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopaedia Galactica that fell through a time warp from 1,000 years in the future defines the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybnernetics Corporation as "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
People have an average lifespan of less than 80 years. So it's unlikely that a communicable disease would last for more than a couple centuries, right?
(Apparently just entering "Woooooooooooooo!" creates an error. I have to explain that it's supposed to be a giddy mod, thus destroying any semblance of assuming intelligence present in at least part of the/. community).
But seriously folks*, I would suggest the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, and especially their plaster cast museum.
I know it's not science per se, but just seeing Greek pillars, Roman sculpture and even the entire facade of a French church are awe inspiring (or were for me).
*Yes, I'm posting this near the top so it has a higher probability of being seen. Sorry.
Yes, but what GP was specifying was that evolution, mutation and natural selection are not the same thing at all.
It's similar to how hydrogen and oxygen atoms are essential parts of a water molecule, but it's crucial not to just lump the three together as being one in the same.
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It's not just a dedicated place of learning, it's a place of research.
Many of the top schools aren't called "top schools" because they teach well. They're top schools because they have to researchers and experts a wide range of subjects who make themselves available to students. If you have a large number of the top people in the world, and they all expect to have the highest salaries of anyone in their line of work, then you have to find a way to increase income to meet their demands. When you see a faculty to student ratio, it can be interpreted as the number of students it takes to pay one person's salary (on average).
This is all on top of providing infrastructure and a vast number of services to enough people to fill a small city (in many cases).
Reminds me of the meat that's still in tact (though a little freezer burnt) from Shackleton's (failed) expedition to cross Antarctica almost 100 years ago.
http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/Antarctica/DiscoveryHutMeat9.10.04.JPG
"For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Ziti, on the night he was betrayed, took noodles, and when he had given thanks, he served it and said, 'This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.' In the same way, after the spaghetti [he took] the ladle, saying, 'This sauce is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you eat of my body, in remembrance of me.' For whenever you eat this pasta topped with sauce, you proclaim the Lord's death until he is reheated." (1 New Corinthian Kitchen 11:23-26)
http://www.dynetics.com/
The next Die Hard movie!
(As in it's stupidly impossible, yet most people won't know it. Similar to how any fat lazy Anime fan can find anything on any government website in less than ten minutes, and will still complain about how hard it is.)
pick any 3 letters
Are 'POO' and 'ASS' already taken?
Pull out a deck of cards, shuffle it, and deal the cards out in order. Assuming a perfect random shuffle, the chances of you getting those exact cards in that exact order is 1/52!, or 1/80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000.
This is about the probability of picking a point in the universe (in three spacial dimensions), and it landing in our solar system (or at least a ball with the same diameter as Pluto's orbit).
Top Gear did it, though it was a crane rather than a cliff.
whoops, didn't mean to post as AC.
When has green not meant better?
Buying a car which uses no gasoline, but still relies on burning coal is considered the pinnacle of being green.
Burning biodiesel is considered better for the environment than regular gasoline or diesel. Not because its emissions are considerably better, but because it comes from plant.
"Clean" coal will be better than regular coal because instead of letting its emissions go into the air, we plan on trapping "all" of them and burying them.
etc., etc., etc.
"We're whalers on the moon,
We carry a harpoon.
But there ain't no whales
So we tell tall tales
And sing our whaling tune."
Apparently not a Simpson's fan.
Facts are useless. You can use facts to prove anything that even remotely true.
And yet Tarantino is applauded for Kill Bill.
The problem is that most people hate frozen spinach. They routinely mistake the fresh stuff for really good lettuce.
Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopaedia Galactica that fell through a time warp from 1,000 years in the future defines the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybnernetics Corporation as "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
Actually, Cracked.com used this news story to determine how stupid the user bases of a few websites actually are.
Slashdot got two stupids out of ten.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/which-site-has-the-stupidest-commenters-on-the-internet/
The Republicans are constantly finding Jeeves.
I thought the Al Gore rhythm killed Jeeves.
People have an average lifespan of less than 80 years. So it's unlikely that a communicable disease would last for more than a couple centuries, right?
Let me put it this way:
Poorly run companies have HMOs and patients.
Less poorly run companies have HMOs, doctors and patients.
Well run companies hide the fact that there are HMOs.
some one must have ocd to have fully made that!!
Yes, people who do things without monetary reward have a disease.
Woooooooooooooo!
(Apparently just entering "Woooooooooooooo!" creates an error. I have to explain that it's supposed to be a giddy mod, thus destroying any semblance of assuming intelligence present in at least part of the /. community).
But seriously folks*, I would suggest the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, and especially their plaster cast museum.
I know it's not science per se, but just seeing Greek pillars, Roman sculpture and even the entire facade of a French church are awe inspiring (or were for me).
*Yes, I'm posting this near the top so it has a higher probability of being seen. Sorry.
I know... Microsoft Experts? Here?
Yes, but what GP was specifying was that evolution, mutation and natural selection are not the same thing at all. It's similar to how hydrogen and oxygen atoms are essential parts of a water molecule, but it's crucial not to just lump the three together as being one in the same.