Iran has been at war with Israel since the fall of the Shah. It supplies, arms, trains and to some degree directs Israel's most effective enemy Hamas/Hezbollah. A targeted electronic weapon which slows down the progress of the Persian nuclear program is mild compared to Jerusalem's other alternatives.
The article talks about a protein which has been coopted into egg production in birds. It doesn't deal with the sensational headline at all.
The first creature which we could call a chicken came from an egg. Its bird ancestors hatched from eggs. The reptiles from which they derived laid eggs long before the protein in question made its way into eggs.
Wild swine like warthogs, bush pigs, Visayan warty pigs and European wild boars have all been observed wallowing when it's hot out. So do cattle and elephants.
Martin Gardner was one of the best. Keen intellect, gentle wit, vast knowledge and warm heart. I only met him once, but it was memorable.
He will be missed.
If he had known the date and hour of his death he would have had a handful of interesting facts tying together all of the numbers. And he would have published it as a puzzle for his readers.
Goodbye Mr. Gardner. We will not see your like again soon.
This isn't about "teaching them both sides" or "balance". It's about pushing religion into science class because of a religious culture which is hostile to the very idea of science. Creationism, Scientific Creationism, Intelligent Design or whatever they're calling it today is not science. It is dogma which borrows a few scientific words. At best it's cargo-cult science. Mostly it's a fraud.
We might as well teach "the other side" in Astronomy and invite in the Flat-Earthers and geoncentricists. It would make just as much sense to say that there's a "controversy" about Pasteur and say that since the germ theory is "just a theory" we need to let students make up their own minds and give equal time to vitalism, the four humors and spontaneous generation.
The Royal Society stepped on its collective tallywhacker making this guy a spokesman. Let's see if they shoot themselves in the foot with their response.
It was kitchen table science done by himself with no budget, no grant and no assistants. You aren't supposed to be able to do Real Science(tm) like that anymore. So how did the kid do it?
He thought a of a simple problem that hadn't been solved
He investigated the obvious avenues first
He used the resources at his disposal instead of trying
He chose something where success and failure would both be easy to demonstrate
This was really good science. If he keeps it up look for his name with the words "Full Professor" in front and a list of patents afterwards some time soon.
Civil liberties, resistance to the surveillance/police state, privacy, being willing to stand up for citizens against the corporate looters, a decent stand on the RKBA. Those are all very important. Unfortunately, Senator Clinton is only on the right side of one of these what with her DLC-"triangulation" strategy. Give me a real Democrat or even a Barry Goldwater Republican.
The current models work with soft stuff. When they get better with metals and ceramics we can kiss any sort of gun control goodbye. Likewise proprietary parts and trademarked designs. Oh Brave New World that has no enforceable patents in it!
Sorry, no cylindrical tobacco object. I don't use any extensions. Every time I close down Firefox there's another huge chunk of RAM taken up. Do it three or four times and there are "insufficient system resources" to do things like open the command line. It's not quite as bad under Linux, but darned close.
The DeBeers company sold its stake in Anglo-American years ago. The careful "11 Harrow House" style control over the market has more or less collapsed with Namibia, Angola, Russia, the Congo and similar wildcatting their stones.
When Planet of the Apes first came out it was revolutionary. It took the Lords of Creation - White men - and put them in a situation where they were the oppressed, the minority. Someone else was in charge and no worse, perhaps better, than the astronauts. The movie asked questions and had a discussion of race in America that would have been unthinkable without the fig-leaf of science fiction.
So yes, it was appropriate. Those who are offended never looked deeper than the skin. Which is sort of the problem.
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Iran has been at war with Israel since the fall of the Shah. It supplies, arms, trains and to some degree directs Israel's most effective enemy Hamas/Hezbollah. A targeted electronic weapon which slows down the progress of the Persian nuclear program is mild compared to Jerusalem's other alternatives.
...as if a million bat-scat crazy homeopaths and refused to be silenced.
Who would have thought the Vatican's pet astronomer was such a fanboy?
But the lawsuits will continue!
1) Renters insurance 2) A solid core door, preferably steel-clad 3) A German Shepherd or other large protective breed of dog 4) A shotgun
According to Conservative/Libtardian dogma ANY regulation of any sort is a government "taking".
The article talks about a protein which has been coopted into egg production in birds. It doesn't deal with the sensational headline at all. The first creature which we could call a chicken came from an egg. Its bird ancestors hatched from eggs. The reptiles from which they derived laid eggs long before the protein in question made its way into eggs.
Ballmer "The Other White Steve" wants to know how it's done.
Wild swine like warthogs, bush pigs, Visayan warty pigs and European wild boars have all been observed wallowing when it's hot out. So do cattle and elephants.
The hog enjoys the wrestling, not the mud
Making a silk purse out of a sow's ear
Casting pearls before swine
Never wrassle with a hog. You get muddy and the hog enjoys it
But then I realize the comparisons are insulting to the pigs
Martin Gardner was one of the best. Keen intellect, gentle wit, vast knowledge and warm heart. I only met him once, but it was memorable. He will be missed. If he had known the date and hour of his death he would have had a handful of interesting facts tying together all of the numbers. And he would have published it as a puzzle for his readers. Goodbye Mr. Gardner. We will not see your like again soon.
Dr. Hawking can at least have the satisfaction of knowing that he took as many of their secrets as any man in history.
This isn't about "teaching them both sides" or "balance". It's about pushing religion into science class because of a religious culture which is hostile to the very idea of science. Creationism, Scientific Creationism, Intelligent Design or whatever they're calling it today is not science. It is dogma which borrows a few scientific words. At best it's cargo-cult science. Mostly it's a fraud. We might as well teach "the other side" in Astronomy and invite in the Flat-Earthers and geoncentricists. It would make just as much sense to say that there's a "controversy" about Pasteur and say that since the germ theory is "just a theory" we need to let students make up their own minds and give equal time to vitalism, the four humors and spontaneous generation. The Royal Society stepped on its collective tallywhacker making this guy a spokesman. Let's see if they shoot themselves in the foot with their response.
- He thought a of a simple problem that hadn't been solved
- He investigated the obvious avenues first
- He used the resources at his disposal instead of trying
- He chose something where success and failure would both be easy to demonstrate
This was really good science. If he keeps it up look for his name with the words "Full Professor" in front and a list of patents afterwards some time soon.Who says there's no pr0n on Slashdot?
Samson slew the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass.
Hans Reiser has done himself in with the same weapon.
Civil liberties, resistance to the surveillance/police state, privacy, being willing to stand up for citizens against the corporate looters, a decent stand on the RKBA. Those are all very important. Unfortunately, Senator Clinton is only on the right side of one of these what with her DLC-"triangulation" strategy. Give me a real Democrat or even a Barry Goldwater Republican.
True. You're absolutely right. And a new AR-15 has always been a zipgun away.
I'm thinking of factory or near-factory quality ones that aren't as dangerous to you as to the guy on the other end.
The current models work with soft stuff. When they get better with metals and ceramics we can kiss any sort of gun control goodbye. Likewise proprietary parts and trademarked designs. Oh Brave New World that has no enforceable patents in it!
Wow. Mozilla is borrowing from Microsoft's playbook. "Problems? Reinstall the OS"
Sorry, no cylindrical tobacco object. I don't use any extensions. Every time I close down Firefox there's another huge chunk of RAM taken up. Do it three or four times and there are "insufficient system resources" to do things like open the command line. It's not quite as bad under Linux, but darned close.
Why didn't you fix Firefox's single huge glaring flaw, the memory leak that makes it practically unusable?
The DeBeers company sold its stake in Anglo-American years ago. The careful "11 Harrow House" style control over the market has more or less collapsed with Namibia, Angola, Russia, the Congo and similar wildcatting their stones.
When Planet of the Apes first came out it was revolutionary. It took the Lords of Creation - White men - and put them in a situation where they were the oppressed, the minority. Someone else was in charge and no worse, perhaps better, than the astronauts. The movie asked questions and had a discussion of race in America that would have been unthinkable without the fig-leaf of science fiction.
So yes, it was appropriate. Those who are offended never looked deeper than the skin. Which is sort of the problem.