99.95% correct still leaves tremendous room for unknowns. It's that last 0.05% where all the interest lies - where we fail to predict accurately because we are wrong about whatever is occuring.
Check out the Wiki article on it - yes there were a few people behind it - a few percent of the atmospheric scientists, but it never had the overwhelming support like global warming does.
Was probably cardiac tamponade. The heart has a little baggy/sack around it called the pericardium. With penetrating injuries to the heart, sime blood leaks out with each beat and gets into the bag, thusdepriving the heart of room to expand. The heart is then basically "choked", and it can't pump blood, unless someone withdraws the fluid from the sack and plugs the hole. The pericardium only holds about 40 cc of fluid or so - not much.
I got into med school at 28, finished training @39
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And I couldn't be happier, even after 4 years med school, 5 years residency and 2 years fellowship. I certainly don't regret the time I spent working in research(Human genome proj) for several years before I got into med school. Usually the people who start something when they're older have made a more rational, wise choice then the people who went straight thru the mill.
If you want to stop your life and start a new phase of it, then probably you really want to do it and therefore you should. Just don't do anything half assed -if you're going to do it, then go all the way - be dedicated. What you get out of life is what you put into it.
How could this be misplaced! This is arguably one of the greatest human accomplishments ever!
P.S. Let the flame wars begin! PPS The Armstong moon walk is proably my earliet memory,and I remember watching it with my great Grandma who was born before the first auto and airplane.
A common misconception of the bing bang is that it was like a fircracker going off at one point. It was rather like a wholeauditorium exploding at once.
make a hose that can stiffen and hold its bent/curved shape when under pressure? That way you could use existing building structural components to "brace" the hose
Many people want to talk about their problems - hard to do that and get reassurance from a machine. Bedside manner counts for a lot! Some people needs gentle reassurance, some need stern reinforcing, some need to be yelled at. This all helps a person to be motivated to become better, and push themselves in therapy, etc. I'm a surgeon - and a lot of what I and my colleagues do is from a "gut" instinct. Something just doesn't add up - the patient "looks" sick, even though all the tests look O.K., etc.
I've been reading about how computer programs will make the diagnostician/clinician obsolete for 15 years now, haven't seen anything useful as of yet. Maybe in the far, far future, when we have friggin' magic robots, there will be fewer MDs, but not a lot fewer.
Spoke with one of my esteemed colleagues re this. There are still certain things that the CT virtual scan is not good at detecting - Not all polyps are pedunculated (like a tree) - some are broad and flat (sessile), some vascular lesions can not be appreciated with the CT, etc. So what to do if you find a polyp? - get an actual colonoscopy of course, so that they can snip it off. While most people don't look foward to having this done, it's still probably the best way to have your colon checked out. Everyone over 50 NEEDS to have this done. Missed colon cancer can lead to a colostomy - yeeecch! - or worse. So put up with the distastefulness of it and get it done, or convince your parents to get theirs.
I played Eve and found it incredibly boring
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Watched one battle....ok not too bad second battle...yaaaaawwwwnnnnnn..
This is seriously boring, and I don't think it'll be around too long.
Since there are a fixed amount of cards in the deck, and since there is nothing to prevent one person, or a group of friends using teamspeak, then it's realatively easy to figure out what cards are being played, and thus swing the odds.
I recall some programs available that would do this for you. Only idiots would do this and not expect to lose money.
Now unless your numbers were in Kilometer/hour, I'm doubting you. Why? cause the fastest I've gone on a steep paved hilly road around a ski resort was 51.5 MPH on my bikes computer. My friend hit 53.5 on some mountain road where they give out stickers that say your car was able to make it up the mountain.
Anything over 50MPH on a road bike is scary, besides not being able to pedal any faster after 45.
Anyone else with any reasonable bike numbers out there for confirmation?
Is anyone else getting a little freaked out at how much Google is attempting to do on the web? It does stuff well, and a free market indicates that it is doing well, but I worry about a monopoly eventually. Papers and radios have limitations on how much of the audience that their company can reach, so as to prevent a monopolistic control over the information that people receive. The internet should be no different. How to enforce that though? - Make Google break up like Ma Bell did in the 70's? And at what point? Not yet I think, but the time will come soone I think.
At what point do you stop that argument? Is is ok to sacrifice a fetus - 8 months before birth? - what about 8 minutes? What about 8 minutes after? How about orphans - no family or home there either. This will always be a problematic area, because one persons ok point is waaay past someone elses moral boundary. What about the guy who has no kids and is a rotten person, maybe a pretty criminal - does he get right to this embryo. What if the embryo was to be the next Stephan Hawking? After all, he has a horrible genetic mutation and his embryo could have saved some mediocre lawyer at the RIAA who had 2.3 kids and a cute puppy, who needed heart stem cells.
Use your head man, and think about the ramifications of your actions. Given the chance to abuse something, humans will gladly jump into the void and take advantage of it.
I am in favor of stem cell research, but to avoid problems like I mentioned, I think the only way to do this is by working on cell collections that lack the potential to become a human if given the chance. I.E. grow a "fetus" that has all of its brain cells "knocked out"(deleted from its DNA) or missing its heart and lungs, etc.
If you exist in one dimension, is the 2nd dimension neccessarilry width, or is it height? There are many other choices, but we tend to pick time because it is easily understood by us.
I worked at N.I.H (National Institutes of Health) in Washington, D.C. for 4 years doing research and let me tell you - scientists love cartoons! - everyones lab door had four or five cartoons on it (usually The Farside). They can also be pretty blunt and to the point. I'm pretty sure some of these cartoons will ruffle some feather quite a bit, which is what we need I guess. Unfortunatley, media portrayal of scientists is not always ideal, and may further serve to spread the barrier between rational thought and the great number of uneducated people who may be religious/creationists. I happen to be Catholic and couldn't be happier on the Vaticans stance that evolution is a valid scientific theory, and that the earth isn't 6,000 years old.
Please no flame wars about the old churches stance on celestial mechanics - we've all seen it before, no need to bring it up and get side tracked. We are talking about todays political climate.
And please let's not limit this discussion to evolution and creationists - there's been a great deal of interference on the topic of global warming. The old Republican party stance that it's not occurring has been disproven by the vast majority of atmospheric/climatologists scientists, and have shown it to be a fact. I hate that because Al Gore (A Democrat) is pro-environment, that many Republicans feel that they have to take an opposing viewpoint - what gives!? Yes, I'm sure the Dems do the same with other issues, but we are talking about science here, so let's keep our egos and passions aside and behave like rational thinkers.
A baby tablet of aspirin 81 mg taken once a day would have probably prevented the DVTs (blood clot in legs) in most of these people.
My wife and I both take it starting 3 days before we fly now.
Quick note of warning - DVTs in people younger than 18 years of age is almost unheard of. I bet that most of these people who died were probably older and smoked (many Koreans smoke from what I've read). Aspirin is not recommended for those less than 18 years of age, also because of Reyes syndrome.
I'm an orthopaedic surgeon and have always played video games. The only real advantage that I can perceive that they grant are 1) stress relief and 2) improved hand-eye coordination - useful for doing arthroscopy or interventional radiology. I'm pretty sure Quake II kept both me and my med-school housemate from gettinghigh-honors one semester.:-(
If I ever need an interventional radiologist, then I'm making sure that they play video games. Honest.
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99.95% correct still leaves tremendous room for unknowns. It's that last 0.05% where all the interest lies - where we fail to predict accurately because we are wrong about whatever is occuring.
Check out the Wiki article on it - yes there were a few people behind it - a few percent of the atmospheric scientists, but it never had the overwhelming support like global warming does.
You only have a one time pass.
Who else can we mis-cast
Louie Anderson as Thorin Oakenshield
And Bilbo of course played by James Gandolfini (Tony Soprano)
Any suggestions for Chuck Norris? -He has to have a part in this movie.
Was probably cardiac tamponade. The heart has a little baggy/sack around it called the pericardium. With penetrating injuries to the heart, sime blood leaks out with each beat and gets into the bag, thusdepriving the heart of room to expand. The heart is then basically "choked", and it can't pump blood, unless someone withdraws the fluid from the sack and plugs the hole. The pericardium only holds about 40 cc of fluid or so - not much.
And I couldn't be happier, even after 4 years med school, 5 years residency and 2 years fellowship. I certainly don't regret the time I spent working in research(Human genome proj) for several years before I got into med school. Usually the people who start something when they're older have made a more rational, wise choice then the people who went straight thru the mill.
If you want to stop your life and start a new phase of it, then probably you really want to do it and therefore you should.
Just don't do anything half assed -if you're going to do it, then go all the way - be dedicated. What you get out of life is what you put into it.
How could this be misplaced! This is arguably one of the greatest human accomplishments ever!
P.S. Let the flame wars begin!
PPS The Armstong moon walk is proably my earliet memory,and I remember watching it with my great Grandma who was born before the first auto and airplane.
So it's O.K. to pee on the black wire?
A common misconception of the bing bang is that it was like a fircracker going off at one point. It was rather like a wholeauditorium exploding at once.
make a hose that can stiffen and hold its bent/curved shape when under pressure? That way you could use existing building structural components to "brace" the hose
A laptop and a spare battery?
Complete mini system with speakers?
Regular old discman, and about 100 CDs
Many people want to talk about their problems - hard to do that and get reassurance from a machine.
Bedside manner counts for a lot! Some people needs gentle reassurance, some need stern reinforcing, some need to be yelled at. This all helps a person to be motivated to become better, and push themselves in therapy, etc.
I'm a surgeon - and a lot of what I and my colleagues do is from a "gut" instinct. Something just doesn't add up - the patient "looks" sick, even though all the tests look O.K., etc.
I've been reading about how computer programs will make the diagnostician/clinician obsolete for 15 years now, haven't seen anything useful as of yet. Maybe in the far, far future, when we have friggin' magic robots, there will be fewer MDs, but not a lot fewer.
Spoke with one of my esteemed colleagues re this. There are still certain things that the CT virtual scan is not good at detecting - Not all polyps are pedunculated (like a tree) - some are broad and flat (sessile), some vascular lesions can not be appreciated with the CT, etc.
So what to do if you find a polyp? - get an actual colonoscopy of course, so that they can snip it off.
While most people don't look foward to having this done, it's still probably the best way to have your colon checked out. Everyone over 50 NEEDS to have this done. Missed colon cancer can lead to a colostomy - yeeecch! - or worse. So put up with the distastefulness of it and get it done, or convince your parents to get theirs.
Watched one battle....ok not too bad
second battle...yaaaaawwwwnnnnnn..
This is seriously boring, and I don't think it'll be around too long.
I recall some programs available that would do this for you. Only idiots would do this and not expect to lose money.
Anything over 50MPH on a road bike is scary, besides not being able to pedal any faster after 45.
Anyone else with any reasonable bike numbers out there for confirmation?
Is anyone else getting a little freaked out at how much Google is attempting to do on the web? It does stuff well, and a free market indicates that it is doing well, but I worry about a monopoly eventually. Papers and radios have limitations on how much of the audience that their company can reach, so as to prevent a monopolistic control over the information that people receive. The internet should be no different. How to enforce that though? - Make Google break up like Ma Bell did in the 70's? And at what point? Not yet I think, but the time will come soone I think.
with all sorts of advertising tie ins.
The Vichy french government - a Nazi puppet gov of France was in that battle. I'm not sure how hard they "fought" in any of their actions.
How about orphans - no family or home there either. This will always be a problematic area, because one persons ok point is waaay past someone elses moral boundary. What about the guy who has no kids and is a rotten person, maybe a pretty criminal - does he get right to this embryo. What if the embryo was to be the next Stephan Hawking? After all, he has a horrible genetic mutation and his embryo could have saved some mediocre lawyer at the RIAA who had 2.3 kids and a cute puppy, who needed heart stem cells.
Use your head man, and think about the ramifications of your actions. Given the chance to abuse something, humans will gladly jump into the void and take advantage of it.
I am in favor of stem cell research, but to avoid problems like I mentioned, I think the only way to do this is by working on cell collections that lack the potential to become a human if given the chance. I.E. grow a "fetus" that has all of its brain cells "knocked out"(deleted from its DNA) or missing its heart and lungs, etc.
Yeah, I went there, and it's a reflex.
If you exist in one dimension, is the 2nd dimension neccessarilry width, or is it height? There are many other choices, but we tend to pick time because it is easily understood by us.
Please no flame wars about the old churches stance on celestial mechanics - we've all seen it before, no need to bring it up and get side tracked. We are talking about todays political climate.
And please let's not limit this discussion to evolution and creationists - there's been a great deal of interference on the topic of global warming. The old Republican party stance that it's not occurring has been disproven by the vast majority of atmospheric/climatologists scientists, and have shown it to be a fact. I hate that because Al Gore (A Democrat) is pro-environment, that many Republicans feel that they have to take an opposing viewpoint - what gives!? Yes, I'm sure the Dems do the same with other issues, but we are talking about science here, so let's keep our egos and passions aside and behave like rational thinkers.
My wife and I both take it starting 3 days before we fly now.
Quick note of warning - DVTs in people younger than 18 years of age is almost unheard of. I bet that most of these people who died were probably older and smoked (many Koreans smoke from what I've read). Aspirin is not recommended for those less than 18 years of age, also because of Reyes syndrome.
I'm an orthopaedic surgeon and have always played video games. The only real advantage that I can perceive that they grant are 1) stress relief and 2) improved hand-eye coordination - useful for doing arthroscopy or interventional radiology. I'm pretty sure Quake II kept both me and my med-school housemate from gettinghigh-honors one semester. :-(
If I ever need an interventional radiologist, then I'm making sure that they play video games. Honest.
Humans can't fly
Humans can't survive going more than 100 MPH
Can't transplant a heart
Maybe just a simple plastic coating will protect it. Saying something can't be done should mean nothing to most people.