It does no harm to print the pictures, in case of atomic bombing or zombie attack they would be as doomed as any electric device; but they don't change the format every 10 years.
It's easy to find Neanderthal markers, but it's extremely difficult to tell what function they have. I share more or less the same % of Neanderthalness with a Pakistani and a Chinese. We are very similar in some things and very different in other things. For each of those hundreds of millions of base pairs you need to compare thousands of people who have them, with other thousands who don't have them, and check which difference keeps appearing. It can be anything. Or it can an innocuous mutation, you never know.
It took them years to find which 12 genes determined eye color, they're still trying to sort out hair and height; and google's just started with intelligence in nordic europeans. Moore's law's been a great help, as crowdsourcing.
There's a very nice website at: aquarius.gsfc.nasa.gov I can't find anything that describes how they do it, but there's a list of interesting email addresses here.
"This mission is the most outstanding project in the history of scientific and technological cooperation between Argentina and the United States,"
That's why the acronym is SAC and not SSA (Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas - Satellite for Scientific Applications). I think it's just another satellite... This was newsworthy in Argentina only because there are very few local satellites (I can only recall past iterations of SAC). Even the president talked about this, "it is a matter of great pride for our people" (elections are near - the uranium enrichment facility is timed for 2 weeks before the presidential election's second round). But generally anything built by INVAP is newsworthy in the country: they are the big guys in engineering so they get all the important government tasks like reactors, submarines, radars, etc.
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This moscovium made me think of other elements named for places. Europium and Americium for continents. Lutetium for Paris, Californium for California. Dubnium for Dubna, a city in Russia. Francium and Gallium for France, Germanium for Germany, Polonium for Poland), Hafnium for Copenhagen, Holmium for Stockholm (these last 2 from their Latin names). Then Hassium for Hesse (Germany), Rhenium for Eastern France (jk:D), Ruthenium for the old region in Ukraine-Russia, Strontium for a village in Scotland, Berkelium for Berkeley, and Thulium for a mythical island in the north Pole.
"Brick Nintendo before they brick you". Come on!
The FSF has taken many extreme fundamentalist decisions in the past, how can I trust that they are reasonable today? Because they say that "User Content" is anything you do on your 3DS. Wouldn't that be called user activity?
It would be nice to have another article, with a more balanced approach.
Also, according to the orthographic reform the word "daß" is now written as "dass". But I'm sure that, had written everything perfectly, 3 or 4 anonymous posters would have called him a google translator.
Really? So you think potential AlQuaida members are not going to reconsider their membership if it was true that Bin Laden had pornography? This is an obvious PR stunt, I mean, it's the most basic of the basics. I'm astonished that everyone believes this.
Chrome has already displaced Firefox as the largest non-IE brwoser in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and Chile; and other regions are following the same path.
That's what I love about fair competition: now Firefox is bound to implement multithreads if it wants to catch up.
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It does no harm to print the pictures, in case of atomic bombing or zombie attack they would be as doomed as any electric device; but they don't change the format every 10 years.
Map of catholicism in Africa.
Map of AIDS in Africa.
It's easy to find Neanderthal markers, but it's extremely difficult to tell what function they have. I share more or less the same % of Neanderthalness with a Pakistani and a Chinese. We are very similar in some things and very different in other things. For each of those hundreds of millions of base pairs you need to compare thousands of people who have them, with other thousands who don't have them, and check which difference keeps appearing. It can be anything. Or it can an innocuous mutation, you never know. It took them years to find which 12 genes determined eye color, they're still trying to sort out hair and height; and google's just started with intelligence in nordic europeans. Moore's law's been a great help, as crowdsourcing.
About interbreeding with older populations, there's been a lot of research lately. Widespread Denisovan admixture in Papuans and Australians, Archaic admixture in Africa confirmed. We have always mixed, and we will always mix. It is beneficial for natural selection: the "best genes" of population A+B are always better than the best genes of A, or those from B, separated.
Means of production != infrastructure. Marx 101.
I could stand Unity, but this is too much.
Not related, just an excuse to post trollish comments on how social darwinism is freedom and everything else is nazi-communislam.
There's a crucial difference: 20 years ago you didn't have an army of bored teenagers with metasploit.
1. They make everyone jump into HTML5
2. Make some cool MS HTML5.5 Extension (C) TM Patent Pending.
3. (Nothing)
4. Profit!
There's a very nice website at: aquarius.gsfc.nasa.gov I can't find anything that describes how they do it, but there's a list of interesting email addresses here.
"This mission is the most outstanding project in the history of scientific and technological cooperation between Argentina and the United States,"
That's why the acronym is SAC and not SSA (Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas - Satellite for Scientific Applications). I think it's just another satellite... This was newsworthy in Argentina only because there are very few local satellites (I can only recall past iterations of SAC). Even the president talked about this, "it is a matter of great pride for our people" (elections are near - the uranium enrichment facility is timed for 2 weeks before the presidential election's second round). But generally anything built by INVAP is newsworthy in the country: they are the big guys in engineering so they get all the important government tasks like reactors, submarines, radars, etc.
Helium is not from the gremanic Hel, but from the greek Helios, the Sun. There are a couple more.
I though spamers would like this, but they have to either hack their way into the database or recieve a mail from you with your link.
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This moscovium made me think of other elements named for places. Europium and Americium for continents. Lutetium for Paris, Californium for California. Dubnium for Dubna, a city in Russia. Francium and Gallium for France, Germanium for Germany, Polonium for Poland), Hafnium for Copenhagen, Holmium for Stockholm (these last 2 from their Latin names). Then Hassium for Hesse (Germany), Rhenium for Eastern France (jk :D), Ruthenium for the old region in Ukraine-Russia, Strontium for a village in Scotland, Berkelium for Berkeley, and Thulium for a mythical island in the north Pole.
A special mention to the lucky sweddish village of Ytterby that has four elements named in its honor: Yttrium, Ytterbium, Erbium, and Terbium.
Well the last time Microsoft bought a hardware company most slashdotters got multiple orgasms on Kinect videos.
YouTube partners get money from advertisement.
They are clever: you can share as long as you let YT profit from it.
goatse troll
I prefer to read in well-written English, rather than see them bastardize my mother tongue.
DefectiveByDesign.org is run by the FSF You can read the tiny little letters at the bottom of the page.
"Brick Nintendo before they brick you". Come on!
The FSF has taken many extreme fundamentalist decisions in the past, how can I trust that they are reasonable today? Because they say that "User Content" is anything you do on your 3DS. Wouldn't that be called user activity?
It would be nice to have another article, with a more balanced approach.
Also, according to the orthographic reform the word "daß" is now written as "dass". But I'm sure that, had written everything perfectly, 3 or 4 anonymous posters would have called him a google translator.
Really? So you think potential AlQuaida members are not going to reconsider their membership if it was true that Bin Laden had pornography?
This is an obvious PR stunt, I mean, it's the most basic of the basics. I'm astonished that everyone believes this.
Chrome has already displaced Firefox as the largest non-IE brwoser in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and Chile; and other regions are following the same path.
That's what I love about fair competition: now Firefox is bound to implement multithreads if it wants to catch up.
year 317? That's even before Nicaea.