Plenty of examples you can experience for yourself. One of my favorite examples of evolution through the application of natural selection that you can actually *taste* is beer. When I brew beer, I put a bunch of yeast in a liquid rich in sugars. The little yeasty beasties consume the sugar and one of the byproducts of this process is alcohol. However, all of these yeast organisms are not created equally with respect to the amount of alcohol they can handle in their environment. As the alcohol content of the pre-beer rises, less stalwart individuals die off and the ones that are left (i.e. the ones that can handle their liquor) are fruitful and multiply. Their descendants inherit the tolerance of the alcohol-rich environment, and as the generations go by the tolerance of the population gets higher and higher since the less tolerant lines die out and leave only the most robust. Natural selection and beer. Elegant and delicious.
An example of "artificial" selection that also illustrates the principle are the Heike samurai crabs, and no one tells this story more passionately than Dr. Carl Sagan:
This ciliate (like the Paramecium people look at in school)...
I didn't know there were Paramecium people, let alone that they looked at ciliates in school. Did anyone else parse it that way, or is it just me? Score one for dangling prepositions!
In the Seattle / Bellevue area, Fry's is a good bet, but for just about every misc part you can dream of, the winner is Vetco. You owe it to yourself to visit this place. They have a parrot that runs around the store among the oscilliscopes (and talks to them), a dog that looks like a doormat and probably knows more about electronics than you do, and they sell speaker wire by the kilometer.
The name of the school in the article is certainly wrong. Pope John XIII was not a pope of note, while Pope John XXIII was one of the giants of the Catholic Papacy. School website bears out the latter: http://www.popejohn.org/
Nibblonian 1: "It's a genetic abnormality which resulted when you went back in time and performed certain actions which made you your own grandfather."
Fry: "I did do the nasty in the pasty!"
Nibblonian 2: "Verily. And that past nastification is what shields you from the brains. You are the last hope of the universe."
Fry: "So, I really am important? How I feel when I'm drunk is correct?"
Nibblonian 1: "Yes. Except the Dave Matthews Band doesn't rock."
True, it was very good quality for analog projection, but the fact that there were no notices or warnings concering the horked state of their digital projector smacks of false advertising and slimy management. There is no excuse. I was actually able to get a full refund for all four tickets I had purchased. They claimed at first that they couldn't reverse credit card charges over the phone, but I pointed out that since they accepted a charge over the phone, they damned well better be able to reverse it in the same way. They acquiesced rather quickly after that.:) I would suggest calling them and getting your money back, if you paid with a CC.
Just a small note to warn fellow Slashdotters in Seattle. I had the disappointing experience of getting up at 6:30 a.m. on Sunday to catch the 8:00 digital showing of Episode II downtown at the Cinerama, only to find that it wasn't digital. Funny, because it's on the list. Don't waste your money on this theatre expecting digital. (Sad that we don't have any other digital theatres here.)
There is actually a NESticle movie of this (remember NESticle?) on Zophar's Domain, recorded by Scott Conrad way back in 1999. So dust off NESticle and your Zelda 1 ROM and get the movie from Zophar's NSM page.
Pretty wild.
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Plenty of examples you can experience for yourself. One of my favorite examples of evolution through the application of natural selection that you can actually *taste* is beer. When I brew beer, I put a bunch of yeast in a liquid rich in sugars. The little yeasty beasties consume the sugar and one of the byproducts of this process is alcohol. However, all of these yeast organisms are not created equally with respect to the amount of alcohol they can handle in their environment. As the alcohol content of the pre-beer rises, less stalwart individuals die off and the ones that are left (i.e. the ones that can handle their liquor) are fruitful and multiply. Their descendants inherit the tolerance of the alcohol-rich environment, and as the generations go by the tolerance of the population gets higher and higher since the less tolerant lines die out and leave only the most robust. Natural selection and beer. Elegant and delicious.
An example of "artificial" selection that also illustrates the principle are the Heike samurai crabs, and no one tells this story more passionately than Dr. Carl Sagan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiNKt6gcEM8
http://cis.poly.edu/~mleung/CS4744/f03/ch06/SamuraiCrabs.htm
Cheers!
This ciliate (like the Paramecium people look at in school)...
I didn't know there were Paramecium people, let alone that they looked at ciliates in school. Did anyone else parse it that way, or is it just me? Score one for dangling prepositions!
Great advice on getting your inbox near zero and keeping it there:
http://www.43folders.com/2006/03/13/inbox-zero/
Beach Boys.
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http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/beachboys.h
Good song.
In the Seattle / Bellevue area, Fry's is a good bet, but for just about every misc part you can dream of, the winner is Vetco. You owe it to yourself to visit this place. They have a parrot that runs around the store among the oscilliscopes (and talks to them), a dog that looks like a doormat and probably knows more about electronics than you do, and they sell speaker wire by the kilometer.
Cecil is always timely source of insight.
The name of the school in the article is certainly wrong. Pope John XIII was not a pope of note, while Pope John XXIII was one of the giants of the Catholic Papacy. School website bears out the latter: http://www.popejohn.org/
Sounds as if you just have to corrupt a CSE and you're golden.
Nibblonian 1: "It's a genetic abnormality which resulted when you went back in time and performed certain actions which made you your own grandfather."
Fry: "I did do the nasty in the pasty!"
Nibblonian 2: "Verily. And that past nastification is what shields you from the brains. You are the last hope of the universe."
Fry: "So, I really am important? How I feel when I'm drunk is correct?"
Nibblonian 1: "Yes. Except the Dave Matthews Band doesn't rock."
From http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSound s/4ACV10/.
True, it was very good quality for analog projection, but the fact that there were no notices or warnings concering the horked state of their digital projector smacks of false advertising and slimy management. There is no excuse. I was actually able to get a full refund for all four tickets I had purchased. They claimed at first that they couldn't reverse credit card charges over the phone, but I pointed out that since they accepted a charge over the phone, they damned well better be able to reverse it in the same way. They acquiesced rather quickly after that. :) I would suggest calling them and getting your money back, if you paid with a CC.
Cheers!
Just a small note to warn fellow Slashdotters in Seattle. I had the disappointing experience of getting up at 6:30 a.m. on Sunday to catch the 8:00 digital showing of Episode II downtown at the Cinerama, only to find that it wasn't digital. Funny, because it's on the list. Don't waste your money on this theatre expecting digital. (Sad that we don't have any other digital theatres here.)
Cheers!
There is actually a NESticle movie of this (remember NESticle?) on Zophar's Domain, recorded by Scott Conrad way back in 1999. So dust off NESticle and your Zelda 1 ROM and get the movie from Zophar's NSM page. Pretty wild.