Known as the car actor Paul Walker was riding in when he died, there is no suggestion anyone else other than the driver of the vehicle was to blame for Walker's crash
What have you done this week besides bitching on Slashdot? If it isn't scientific progress, get over your bad-assed self and stop treating it all like it's been done before.
Hey, that's my line!
I was mocking GGP for insisting it was "completely dark" despite the use of "active illumination," which, to be technically correct (the best kind of correct) is an oxymoron.
those who are susceptible to disease those who are infected those who recover, return to the population and are no longer susceptible.
What about the ones who die?
To clarify:
1. Individuals not yet infected with the disease, or those susceptible to the disease 2. Individuals who have been infected with the disease and are capable of spreading the disease to those in the susceptible category 3. Those individuals who have been infected and then removed from the disease, due to either immunization or death
Intelligence seems to be one of those acquired characteristics. Why wouldn't Lamarckism be a mechanism for the Flynn effect?
First, the Flynn Effect doesn't really hint at anything to do with direct inheritance - it's measured across whole generations of populations, not from parent to child. Secondly, intelligence as measured by an IQ test is not solely - quite possibly not even mainly - an inherent property of an organism determined by genetic or epigenetic make up. There are far more likely ways for an organism to pass it on - by education and imitation, for example, and not just from the parents.
One presumes that in this new study they've ruled out any kind of learning by isolating the children from the parents (and they've also studied the children's genes to measure the increased response of the gene in question). Not so easily done in the real world, and there's no need or reason to invoke Lamarckism to explain it.
If a parent (including adoptive ones) loves crosswords and sudoku, their kids - at least before they become sullen teenagers who hate you and never asked to be born! - might well pick up the habit, which might* well put them at an advantage over Cleatus's kids when it comes to the IQ test.
Just to clarify, that is what the research is claiming:
They showed a section of DNA responsible for sensitivity to the cherry blossom scent was made more active in the mice's sperm.
Both the mice's offspring, and their offspring, were "extremely sensitive" to cherry blossom and would avoid the scent, despite never having experiencing it in their lives.
The more we use our brain, the smarter our offspring get.
That's not a logical conclusion to draw. The Flynn Effect is a broadly average trend in populations, not a simple case of individual children being more intelligent than their specific parents. It's more memetics than genetics.
Pretty much everyone's general understanding of, say, the laws of the universe is much better today than it was 100 years ago, but that's no reason to conclude it got passed down in sperm and eggs.
As opposed to what? Bemoaning the fact that we used to be so happy in our ignorance?
You do understand that this finding makes biology as a science much harder?
Yes, well, unfortunately the truth doesn't care how easy you'd like life to be. Science is the pursuit of truth. Yes, the road ahead now looks a little more rubble-strewn, but when there's only one road, stopping to complain isn't going to speed the journey.
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The backlighting can be solved just like the backlit eink Nook and Kindles.
Kindles are front lit, aren't they?
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correct, if people want to burn jews, they should be free to want to do so.
That's not what GP said and you know it.
Also Apple patents, probably.
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He totally gets it. He just didn't want you to feel bad.
The ancients liked to keep everything shiny too.
You realize you're wrong, right?
As awesome as this is, I'd love to see a time-lapse series of an exoplanet orbiting its star. I think that'd really drive home what we're looking at.
Is GWU Econ Prof. Nick Szabo Satoshi Nakamoto?
Is GWU Econ Prof. Nick Szabo Satoshi Nakamoto what? Apart from of mixed Hungarian and Japanese descent...
It would be irony if he were only "Fast and Furious actor," but he was also a racing enthusiast which makes it somewhat less so.
He drove dangerous cars and died doing it.
From the passenger seat, no less. That's just reckless.
It also takes submillimeter scans of any children in the neighbourhood and uploads them to PirateBay.
Known as the car actor Paul Walker was riding in when he died, there is no suggestion anyone else other than the driver of the vehicle was to blame for Walker's crash
What have you done this week besides bitching on Slashdot? If it isn't scientific progress, get over your bad-assed self and stop treating it all like it's been done before.
Hey, that's my line!
I was mocking GGP for insisting it was "completely dark" despite the use of "active illumination," which, to be technically correct (the best kind of correct) is an oxymoron.
those who are susceptible to disease
those who are infected
those who recover, return to the population and are no longer susceptible.
What about the ones who die?
To clarify:
1. Individuals not yet infected with the disease, or those susceptible to the disease
2. Individuals who have been infected with the disease and are capable of spreading the disease to those in the susceptible category
3. Those individuals who have been infected and then removed from the disease, due to either immunization or death
Even if you file a counter-notice, it is still taken down... if you counter-notice it remains up until the matter is resolved
Did you mean down?
He's a straight-laced by-the-book detective straight out of the academy.
He's a grizzled fisherman from the wrong side of the docks.
Freshwater and Salty - Wednesday at 7, 8 central, on CBS.
No, it can be completely dark because the camera uses active ilumination ("low ilumination" but still active).
Big deal then. Cameras with flashes have been taking photos in the dark for years, and they're way better than these.
Intelligence seems to be one of those acquired characteristics. Why wouldn't Lamarckism be a mechanism for the Flynn effect?
First, the Flynn Effect doesn't really hint at anything to do with direct inheritance - it's measured across whole generations of populations, not from parent to child. Secondly, intelligence as measured by an IQ test is not solely - quite possibly not even mainly - an inherent property of an organism determined by genetic or epigenetic make up. There are far more likely ways for an organism to pass it on - by education and imitation, for example, and not just from the parents.
One presumes that in this new study they've ruled out any kind of learning by isolating the children from the parents (and they've also studied the children's genes to measure the increased response of the gene in question). Not so easily done in the real world, and there's no need or reason to invoke Lamarckism to explain it.
If a parent (including adoptive ones) loves crosswords and sudoku, their kids - at least before they become sullen teenagers who hate you and never asked to be born! - might well pick up the habit, which might* well put them at an advantage over Cleatus's kids when it comes to the IQ test.
*couldn't hurt.
Can't you be Ceres for just one minute? I think we should Nix this now before I have to come over there and Makemake you apologise.
Just to clarify, that is what the research is claiming:
They showed a section of DNA responsible for sensitivity to the cherry blossom scent was made more active in the mice's sperm.
Both the mice's offspring, and their offspring, were "extremely sensitive" to cherry blossom and would avoid the scent, despite never having experiencing it in their lives.
So why are IQ scores getting higher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect)?
Didn't get as far as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Proposed_explanations , then? Hint: Lamarckian inheritance is not required to explain the Flynn Effect.
The more we use our brain, the smarter our offspring get.
That's not a logical conclusion to draw. The Flynn Effect is a broadly average trend in populations, not a simple case of individual children being more intelligent than their specific parents. It's more memetics than genetics.
Pretty much everyone's general understanding of, say, the laws of the universe is much better today than it was 100 years ago, but that's no reason to conclude it got passed down in sperm and eggs.
Celebrating?
As opposed to what? Bemoaning the fact that we used to be so happy in our ignorance?
You do understand that this finding makes biology as a science much harder?
Yes, well, unfortunately the truth doesn't care how easy you'd like life to be. Science is the pursuit of truth. Yes, the road ahead now looks a little more rubble-strewn, but when there's only one road, stopping to complain isn't going to speed the journey.
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