A woman has developed a nose-like growth eight years after a stem cell treatment to cure her paralysis failed.
At the Hospital de Egas Moniz in Lisbon, Portugal, the unnamed woman, a U.S. citizen, had tissue from her nose implanted in her spine.
Doctors hoped the cells would develop into neural cells and help repair the nerve damage to the woman's spine.
But the treatment failed.
However, last year, eight years after the stem cell operation, the woman, then 28, complained of increasing pain in the area.
Doctors discovered a three-centimetre-long growth, which was found to be mainly nasal tissue, as well as bits of bone and nerve branches that had not connected with the spinal nerves.
Drugs, other chemicals, and different forms of abuse have been investigated by the CIA as interrogation tools in the frame of Project MKUltra. Compared to those, Analiza looks like a mildly annoying joke.
Analiza is an AI the same way that Babbage's analytical engine is an iphone. It probably just made the subject get mad and proclaim "I hate interrogators!"
It's funny that you made an almost identical answer a couple of posts above this one. Why don't you just cut-and-paste, like any normal person would do?
11:32 am
It produces a poison in the same sense that chocolate and grapes are poisonous (don't feed those to your dog). The Bt protein has a very specific mode of action in certain insect pests, and does not impact humans. It is not a health concern, and has been used in organic food production for decades before suddenly becoming controversial once genetic engineering got involved.
Also, that a plant produces a poison is not an alarming thing. In fact, it is ubiquitous. Chemical defenses are found throughout the plant kingdom, including in crop plants. Things like solanine in potatoes, or glucosinolates in broccoli, or even caffeine in coffee and tea (note that they are produced respectively in the seeds and leaves, two things a plant might want to defend...that humans like them for it is kind of an evolutionary plot twist) all have insecticidal properties. Anti-GMO groups love to be alarmist over the fact that some GMOs produce an additional insecticide (yes, one more, even non-GMO corn is going to have things like maysin in it) but in and of itself is not alarming. It's just preying on the ignorance of those who do now know just how many natural pesticides we consume daily.
10:54 am
It produces Bt, which is toxic to certain orders of insects, not to humans. And before someone comes along and says that it is still toxic, remember that gapes and chocolate are toxic to dogs, and dogs are a lot more closely related to humans than lepidopterans.
Oh, and every plant produces insecticides anyway. It's only alarming if you don't know much about plant biochemistry. Give something that can't swat back at the trillions of things out there trying to eat them a few hundred million years to come up with defenses and they develop things chemical defenses, like caffeine (yep, it has insecticidal properties, ever wonder why coffee evolved to have it right in it's seeds?), piperine (a yummy insecticide, turns out black pepper's original plan was to not have things eat its offspring), maysin (found even in your non-GMO corn) solanine (tomatoes and potatoes, don't eat this) and falcarinol (found in carrot a neurotoxin in high enough quantities).
Actually, it's not necessarily true that making a device smaller will reduce the current/power consumption. It will indeed reduce the power used for switching the CMOS, but you might have to deal with higher leakage currents. That's why the industry is working with new materials (High-k dielectrics, metal gates, III-V), with new structures (Fully Depleted SOI, FinFETs, Nanowires for logic, VNAND for memory), and with 2.5D/3D integration scheme.
You're right when we say that "basic silicon technology is hitting the limits" but the real question is: will it be economically viable to go beyond the basic silicon technology?
They should have limited it to 17 characters. Since in Japanese each character of the two phonetic alphabets corresponds to a syllable, it would have been perfect for Haikus!
Although football is a still late in the numbers race compared to some other sports, it is rapidly catching up. For a nice view of the power of numbers in football, and what makes football unique as a sport, I strongly recommend reading The Numbers Game .
You don't have to look hard to find instances where the government is creating wealth: infrastructures, education, defense,... A road creates wealth as it allows better communication and transportation and goods; schools create wealth by educating individuals who will turn to be more productive than their non-educated fellows; soldiers create wealth by defending our territory and defending our interests abroad.
As for the higher efficiency of private enterprise, it is in true only as far as there is a healthy competition, and there are lots of instances (such as this ULA case) where this is questionable
Not exactly, it depends on the number of siblings you have:
- if both members of a couple are single children, they are allowed to have two kids.
- if at least one of them is not a single child, they are not allowed to have more than one kid.
There is also the possibility to pay for the "right" to have additional children, and I think that you then also have to pay for their education and medical expenses (whereas those are free for the 1st child).
Actually, if you look at the demographics of China, the success of the one-child policy results in a quick aging of the population which forces them to revise this policy.
Source: My Chinese ex-girlfriend, when we were talking to have kids together....
In the book 1491, Charles Mann tries to summarize the current knowledge on Pre-columbian Americas. Based on demographics and epidemiologic studies, he comes with a mortality rate for american Indians after encounter with European in the 90-95% range, which means that America before Columbus would have been very densely populated.
Although there is a high uncertainty in this number due to the scarcity of data, the 80% of this study definitely supports the pre-Columbian values, especially if we consider the differences in access to medicine.
And yeah, this is grim stuff.
AFAIK the Waage study did not map the respective habitats of zebras and flies; that is what is actually new in this study, and it supports the Waage hypothesis.
According to the original paper, "the global warming potential of PFTBA over a 100âyear time horizon to be 7100".
That's still lower than SF6: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas.
It seems that there is an involuntary irony in Laxori666's post and his criticism of government action, considering that Sweden has one of the most interventionist government, as illustrated by the level of welfare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_in_Sweden).
I guess that you have the government that you deserve...
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You seem to want to support racist publications.
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A woman has developed a nose-like growth eight years after a stem cell treatment to cure her paralysis failed. At the Hospital de Egas Moniz in Lisbon, Portugal, the unnamed woman, a U.S. citizen, had tissue from her nose implanted in her spine. Doctors hoped the cells would develop into neural cells and help repair the nerve damage to the woman's spine. But the treatment failed. However, last year, eight years after the stem cell operation, the woman, then 28, complained of increasing pain in the area. Doctors discovered a three-centimetre-long growth, which was found to be mainly nasal tissue, as well as bits of bone and nerve branches that had not connected with the spinal nerves.
Drugs, other chemicals, and different forms of abuse have been investigated by the CIA as interrogation tools in the frame of Project MKUltra. Compared to those, Analiza looks like a mildly annoying joke.
Analiza is an AI the same way that Babbage's analytical engine is an iphone. It probably just made the subject get mad and proclaim "I hate interrogators!"
Isn't that the point of interrogation?
That's basically all is needed for an autonomous vehicle.
11:32 am
It produces a poison in the same sense that chocolate and grapes are poisonous (don't feed those to your dog). The Bt protein has a very specific mode of action in certain insect pests, and does not impact humans. It is not a health concern, and has been used in organic food production for decades before suddenly becoming controversial once genetic engineering got involved. Also, that a plant produces a poison is not an alarming thing. In fact, it is ubiquitous. Chemical defenses are found throughout the plant kingdom, including in crop plants. Things like solanine in potatoes, or glucosinolates in broccoli, or even caffeine in coffee and tea (note that they are produced respectively in the seeds and leaves, two things a plant might want to defend...that humans like them for it is kind of an evolutionary plot twist) all have insecticidal properties. Anti-GMO groups love to be alarmist over the fact that some GMOs produce an additional insecticide (yes, one more, even non-GMO corn is going to have things like maysin in it) but in and of itself is not alarming. It's just preying on the ignorance of those who do now know just how many natural pesticides we consume daily.
10:54 am
It produces Bt, which is toxic to certain orders of insects, not to humans. And before someone comes along and says that it is still toxic, remember that gapes and chocolate are toxic to dogs, and dogs are a lot more closely related to humans than lepidopterans. Oh, and every plant produces insecticides anyway. It's only alarming if you don't know much about plant biochemistry. Give something that can't swat back at the trillions of things out there trying to eat them a few hundred million years to come up with defenses and they develop things chemical defenses, like caffeine (yep, it has insecticidal properties, ever wonder why coffee evolved to have it right in it's seeds?), piperine (a yummy insecticide, turns out black pepper's original plan was to not have things eat its offspring), maysin (found even in your non-GMO corn) solanine (tomatoes and potatoes, don't eat this) and falcarinol (found in carrot a neurotoxin in high enough quantities).
And it looked like a reversed question mark.
Of course, slashdot will not support it.
Actually, it's not necessarily true that making a device smaller will reduce the current/power consumption. It will indeed reduce the power used for switching the CMOS, but you might have to deal with higher leakage currents. That's why the industry is working with new materials (High-k dielectrics, metal gates, III-V), with new structures (Fully Depleted SOI, FinFETs, Nanowires for logic, VNAND for memory), and with 2.5D/3D integration scheme.
You're right when we say that "basic silicon technology is hitting the limits" but the real question is: will it be economically viable to go beyond the basic silicon technology?
They should have limited it to 17 characters. Since in Japanese each character of the two phonetic alphabets corresponds to a syllable, it would have been perfect for Haikus!
Although football is a still late in the numbers race compared to some other sports, it is rapidly catching up. For a nice view of the power of numbers in football, and what makes football unique as a sport, I strongly recommend reading The Numbers Game .
As for the higher efficiency of private enterprise, it is in true only as far as there is a healthy competition, and there are lots of instances (such as this ULA case) where this is questionable
Doesn't China still have a 1 child law.
Not exactly, it depends on the number of siblings you have:
- if both members of a couple are single children, they are allowed to have two kids.
- if at least one of them is not a single child, they are not allowed to have more than one kid.
There is also the possibility to pay for the "right" to have additional children, and I think that you then also have to pay for their education and medical expenses (whereas those are free for the 1st child).
Actually, if you look at the demographics of China, the success of the one-child policy results in a quick aging of the population which forces them to revise this policy.
Source: My Chinese ex-girlfriend, when we were talking to have kids together....
*ALL* Species, without exception, adapt to their environment or go extinct. That is how they survive or don't.
FTFY
FTFY
well, screens are even in metric countries still mostly measured in inch.
It depends on the countries. From the countries I have seen:
- UK, Japan: still using inches for TV screens
- France, Germany: using cm for as long as I remember
In the book 1491, Charles Mann tries to summarize the current knowledge on Pre-columbian Americas. Based on demographics and epidemiologic studies, he comes with a mortality rate for american Indians after encounter with European in the 90-95% range, which means that America before Columbus would have been very densely populated. Although there is a high uncertainty in this number due to the scarcity of data, the 80% of this study definitely supports the pre-Columbian values, especially if we consider the differences in access to medicine. And yeah, this is grim stuff.
Or a V6 sound out of a 3 cylinders 0.9 liter engine in the case of a renault clio
AFAIK the Waage study did not map the respective habitats of zebras and flies; that is what is actually new in this study, and it supports the Waage hypothesis.
via google translate: Le Monde
It should definitely be something more along those lines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Another good alternative in the same price range would be the Grace Bikes: http://www.grace-bikes.com/
I am also an espresso drinker, so I would not use it for coffee, but I see it could be useful for tea.
According to the original paper, "the global warming potential of PFTBA over a 100âyear time horizon to be 7100". That's still lower than SF6: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas.
I am not sure you know what it means: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
It seems that there is an involuntary irony in Laxori666's post and his criticism of government action, considering that Sweden has one of the most interventionist government, as illustrated by the level of welfare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_in_Sweden). I guess that you have the government that you deserve...
Fixed price on books apply only to new books. Walk along the Seine and you will find plenty of cheap second-hand books. And it is a lovely promenade.