You can't transmit information with quantum entanglement.
It's like this - you have one very long coin which stretches between one place and another. At some point you toss it, and it lands either heads up or down. At the other location you try to toss it, but it's already landed, so you see the result.
You don't know at which point in time the other end has been tossed, just that the two results are the same in the end, so it can't be used for communication.
Why is the shin - the area of the body the most likely to get bashed into things - not protected by a fat pad? And why does it have such a poor blood supply? Why do hips - which bear the weight of the whole body - have a 90 degree bend in them? What's with the appendix? Why have testis outside the body, where they can be bashed easily Why do the ovaries not have a complete covering? (deadly ectopic pregnancies) Why is the appendix there at all?
That's just a few working bottom up. I could go on.
Hang on a moment... TFA isn't talking about vaporizing - turning water to steam. It's talking about ionizing, which is clearly going to require a much bigger quantity of energy.
For actual vaporization, making a very rough calculation - 60kg person, 2,270 kJ/kg latent heat of vaporization of water = 136 MJ, Sure there's specific heat to add in there too, but the vaporization of water is the dominant term, so it's at least out by an order of magnitude.
Lesson learned - don't try and be 'all sciency' and use the wrong jargon!
By the time you've had amniocentesis to diagnose the disorder, the damage is already done.
Development has largely happened by the 12-14 weeks at which point amniocentesis is viable, from there on it's really just growing with a few bits of finishing off.
Unfortunately the only 'cure' for downs is to terminate the pregnancy when it's detected. In fact a considerable percentage of affected pregnancies end in miscarriage anyhow.
Sure the old drugs are great, but there's plenty of new ones that are great too.
Take statins for example - relatively new class of medication that have dramatically changed the treatment of high cholesterol - which leads to the number one killer of heart disease. Another example - artemisinin - great treatment for malaria, relatively recent invention.
Not to mention the survivorship bias http://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias/ - there's heaps of old drugs that just aren't used anymore because frankly they were no good and had a ton of side effects. You don't hear about those ones much simply because they aren't used. This gives the perception that 'the old drugs are better' when in truth they were just as bad or worse, and only the good ones have stood the test of time.
But even if it were true - should we then give up drug discovery? Give up the chance to find the next great drug just because the low hanging fruit are already taken? What exactly is the solution to this?
There will be still some ability for the officer to turn it off however - think about what happens when they go to the bathroom for example. I'm not sure they'd be too keen on having that filmed.
For best use case the camera would send the video footage over the phone network in real-time, along with a GPS and time-stamp information in every frame.
That there almost guarantees a clean police force on the beat.
I dig a hole in the ground, out comes oil. I then vaporize it to extract the components, react it with several other naturally occurring materials, and get plastic.
Shouldn't be too hard to measure. The wavelength is long, and tide gauges are built so short wavelength stuff (sea waves) doesn't change them. They are basically long tube with the bottom down fairly deep. The wavelength of tsunami are in the km.
The thing I found odd was all the other measurements in this article are in metric, then a sudden switch to imperial units. That's odd.
I was there too. I tried to see the eclipse back In 1999 (or was it 2000?) in southern England. It was cloudy the whole time except for a short glimpse of partial.
This mornings display was amazing. The clods cleared about 5 mins prior to totality and stayed away. defiantly worth the effort to see if only once!
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1. The major forms of transmission for hepatitis b are anal sex and iv drug use.
Incorrect, the most common form of transmission worldwide is vertical transmission, from mother to child at birth. Vaccines prevent this. Furthermore the vertical transmission of hep-b causes the worst damage, with the highest likleyhood of ending up in cirrhosis, and early death from liver cancer. So while the incidence near birth is low in the west, the consequences are higher making vaccination more worthwhile. Secondly, there will reach a point where your son could experiment with IV drugs or even homosexual encounters, don't you want him to be protected in that instance?
If you are alergic to bakers yeast then you will likely be alergic to the hepatitis b vaccine.
You cannot have an allergy at birth to anything. It takes at least one contact with the allergen to build up an immune response.
Why should I stress my son's immune system out
Your son's immune system is 'stressed out' by the new contact with the world outside the womb. Adding any number of vaccines is a tiny drop in the ocean compared to all those new antigens.
I also went back to (med) school six years ago. My experience is pretty similar to the above, although I do have some more to add:
At first in med school I used to take my laptop, and annotate the (provided) powerpoint slides in onenote. Over time this dropped off, I still attended every lecture, but by the end of the first two years I wasn't taking any notes at all. I found that note taking wasn't really required for me to learn things, so I switched to just reading the textbook prior to lectures, and then attending the lectures and letting it soak in.
I did find onenote quite a good program when I was taking notes. My laptop was an early tablet with pen input, which I thought would be useful when I got it but in the end I just switched back to typing because I can do that without looking at my hands or the screen.
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You can't transmit information with quantum entanglement.
It's like this - you have one very long coin which stretches between one place and another.
At some point you toss it, and it lands either heads up or down. At the other location you try to toss it, but it's already landed, so you see the result.
You don't know at which point in time the other end has been tossed, just that the two results are the same in the end, so it can't be used for communication.
That's interesting.
Now how about some research on actually persuading your child to have a nap, rather than a protracted battle of wills that gets everyone on edge.
Naps are great when they happen, but all parties must be willing
Deorbit delta V is zero if you wait a while.
Why is the shin - the area of the body the most likely to get bashed into things - not protected by a fat pad? And why does it have such a poor blood supply?
Why do hips - which bear the weight of the whole body - have a 90 degree bend in them?
What's with the appendix?
Why have testis outside the body, where they can be bashed easily
Why do the ovaries not have a complete covering? (deadly ectopic pregnancies)
Why is the appendix there at all?
That's just a few working bottom up. I could go on.
JAMA seems to be an aggressive organization that sometimes promotes financial success for doctors against the interests of the public.
The JAMA is the journal of the AMA, the doctor's union.
It exists to promote doctor's interests. If it wasn't doing so it would be doing the wrong thing.
More to the point - head and neck cancer is very rare. Heart disease kills one in three.
So reduce a very rare risk in order to increase a very common risk, plus suffer tooth decay as well? Seems like a pretty poor trade to me.
Hang on a moment... TFA isn't talking about vaporizing - turning water to steam. It's talking about ionizing, which is clearly going to require a much bigger quantity of energy.
For actual vaporization, making a very rough calculation - 60kg person, 2,270 kJ/kg latent heat of vaporization of water = 136 MJ,
Sure there's specific heat to add in there too, but the vaporization of water is the dominant term, so it's at least out by an order of magnitude.
Lesson learned - don't try and be 'all sciency' and use the wrong jargon!
By the time you've had amniocentesis to diagnose the disorder, the damage is already done.
Development has largely happened by the 12-14 weeks at which point amniocentesis is viable, from there on it's really just growing with a few bits of finishing off.
Unfortunately the only 'cure' for downs is to terminate the pregnancy when it's detected. In fact a considerable percentage of affected pregnancies end in miscarriage anyhow.
I used to work in Geophysics programming geology models. It's really fascinating work, very enjoyable. Lots of maths of course.
There is also good money in it, if you work for a mining company. I don't know if that satisfies your social conscience issues.
In the end I got out of programming, partially due to the reasons you stated. I'm now a doctor.
But what could me more metaphorically obvious, than your circles using glass for mining from the stream?
C'mon, we all know the real reason why Japan wants it!
Godzilla is still wandering around the bottom of the pacific plotting his revenge against Tokyo.
When they build this thing they can subject a centipede to the high radioactive flux, creating MEGA-CENTI-PEDE!
Yes, One hundred million goddamn legs! With at least one hundred friggin' lasers attached to the head.
Take THAT Godzilla!
So what?
Sure the old drugs are great, but there's plenty of new ones that are great too.
Take statins for example - relatively new class of medication that have dramatically changed the treatment of high cholesterol - which leads to the number one killer of heart disease. Another example - artemisinin - great treatment for malaria, relatively recent invention.
Not to mention the survivorship bias http://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias/ - there's heaps of old drugs that just aren't used anymore because frankly they were no good and had a ton of side effects. You don't hear about those ones much simply because they aren't used. This gives the perception that 'the old drugs are better' when in truth they were just as bad or worse, and only the good ones have stood the test of time.
But even if it were true - should we then give up drug discovery? Give up the chance to find the next great drug just because the low hanging fruit are already taken? What exactly is the solution to this?
it was 'always on' of course.
There will be still some ability for the officer to turn it off however - think about what happens when they go to the bathroom for example. I'm not sure they'd be too keen on having that filmed.
For best use case the camera would send the video footage over the phone network in real-time, along with a GPS and time-stamp information in every frame.
That there almost guarantees a clean police force on the beat.
I dig a hole in the ground, out comes oil. I then vaporize it to extract the components, react it with several other naturally occurring materials, and get plastic.
Hey-hey! Plastic is natural!
If only the rich would get malaria. That's killed more people in history than any other cause, and there's very little research.
You're statistically more likely to shoot a member of your own family than an intruder if you own a gun.
Perfect strategy in video poker is not to play.
Shouldn't be too hard to measure. The wavelength is long, and tide gauges are built so short wavelength stuff (sea waves) doesn't change them. They are basically long tube with the bottom down fairly deep. The wavelength of tsunami are in the km.
The thing I found odd was all the other measurements in this article are in metric, then a sudden switch to imperial units. That's odd.
I was there too. I tried to see the eclipse back In 1999 (or was it 2000?) in southern England. It was cloudy the whole time except for a short glimpse of partial.
This mornings display was amazing. The clods cleared about 5 mins prior to totality and stayed away. defiantly worth the effort to see if only once!
Solar eclipsed viewed. Gain XP 50000. Advance one geek level. Gain power of hidden sun!!!
A self-driving car doesn't have to pay much attention to the fragility of the human form when it doesn't have any on board.
Accelerate at 50g? no problem just add extra bracing.
I have actually.
I've had a hydrogen balloon explode about maybe a meter from my head. No harm done! Sure it's a loud bang, but it's not actually that dangerous.
If you mix the balloon with air (oxygen) the explosion is more dramatic, I'd probably plan on standing a couple of meters back from that one!
completely safe and ridiculously easy to program
1. Program to kill
2. Program 1 conflicts with first law of robotics
3. Robot explodes, killing anyhow
4. Goto 2
1. The major forms of transmission for hepatitis b are anal sex and iv drug use.
Incorrect, the most common form of transmission worldwide is vertical transmission, from mother to child at birth. Vaccines prevent this. Furthermore the vertical transmission of hep-b causes the worst damage, with the highest likleyhood of ending up in cirrhosis, and early death from liver cancer. So while the incidence near birth is low in the west, the consequences are higher making vaccination more worthwhile.
Secondly, there will reach a point where your son could experiment with IV drugs or even homosexual encounters, don't you want him to be protected in that instance?
If you are alergic to bakers yeast then you will likely be alergic to the hepatitis b vaccine.
You cannot have an allergy at birth to anything. It takes at least one contact with the allergen to build up an immune response.
Why should I stress my son's immune system out
Your son's immune system is 'stressed out' by the new contact with the world outside the womb. Adding any number of vaccines is a tiny drop in the ocean compared to all those new antigens.
More importantly, what's the conversion between Blurays and Blue Whales?
I also went back to (med) school six years ago. My experience is pretty similar to the above, although I do have some more to add:
At first in med school I used to take my laptop, and annotate the (provided) powerpoint slides in onenote. Over time this dropped off, I still attended every lecture, but by the end of the first two years I wasn't taking any notes at all. I found that note taking wasn't really required for me to learn things, so I switched to just reading the textbook prior to lectures, and then attending the lectures and letting it soak in.
I did find onenote quite a good program when I was taking notes. My laptop was an early tablet with pen input, which I thought would be useful when I got it but in the end I just switched back to typing because I can do that without looking at my hands or the screen.