The answer to that question can come in many forms, and allows a person to reveal themselves in much more detail than the more straightforward yes/no question. For example, you might answer that you accept all of the aspects of evolution except for common descent of man. This is a radically different position than answering that you don't understand the differences between these aspects, but are sure that your particular religious text got it right.
Exactly. Which is why most Christian scientists, who believe that YES evolution does occur, would not dispute that evolution occurs. However, some, including me, would argue more about the ORIGIN of life (if you consider a creator creating everything as speculation, then abiogenesis IS ALSO speculation). Will you argue against ID by use of the common descent argument? Then, in reply, I can say- how can you distinguish between COMMON DESCENT and COMMON DESIGN?
my 2 cents (yes I am a chemist)
"(essentially stripping the whitespace, which might actually be a bad thing; one of the reasons DNA is durable is entron regions, DNA that can be damaged or mutate without affecting the organism)."
Surely you meant introns instead of entrons? Introns are those portions of DNA inside genes between exons - its the exons which are transcribed and spliced together to form the proteins. However, introns/exons only exist in eukaryotes, NOT prokaryotes )bacteria are prokaryotes). Thus this DNA they are removing out would affect the organism-the organism may be losing genes that would affect its ability to survive in the wild (eg genes for lactose metabolism such as beta-galactosidase is not ESSENTIAL for bacteria-however, without the gene they cannot metabolise lactose).
"The sad thing is, if you actually compare the data for most diseases for which children are vaccinated, the extreme negative side effects (caused by the drugs / shots, even if only in a small percentage of children) are so, so much worse than if the kid contracts the disease in the first place. Plus, vaccinations produce immunity that is not passed on to your offspring (by mothers), so vaccinations eff with nature's own process of protecting our offspring. Instead, if a child fights an illness naturally, their body will build a natural immunity and their immune system in general will be much better at doing what it's supposed to do - keep the kid healthy."
ROFLMAO. I started laughing at the point you said 'so much worse than if the kid contracts the disease in the first place'. Now, what is the rate of autism? 1 in 100. From vaccination, we have wiped out smallpox, polio, diptheria from Australia. Do you have any clue of the rates of getting diptheria/polio are in other countries? India, one of the remaining countries still trying to complete a immunisation program against the disease has DISABLED 20 million people in the country. Polio by itself has had a greater than 1% rate in the population there.
Imagine what life would be like without immunisation having eradicated smallpox. The estimate of the number of people who died from smallpox in the 20th century was 300-500 million people. You go and live in your dream world of no immunisation-I imagine that you'd find the world a lot less pleasant than the current one. The rest of us would far rather live in a world where EVERYBODY is immunised, so that such diseases will eventually be eradicated.
HIV is the virus which affects the immune system (by infecting the T-helper lymphocytes). AIDS is what happens after enough time has passed for the HIV virus to put a sufficient enough dent in the immune system - that's why its called Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome after all.
So I think its more correct to say that it's HIV to fight HIV-using a HIV modified virus to stimulate the immune system against HIV.
What he's basically explaining comes down to the essential differences between embryonic and adult stem cells. Embyronic stem cells are what are known as 'totipotent' - they can differentiate into any kind of cell in the human body. Adult stem cells are 'pleuripotent' - they can differentiate into a limited number of cell types (or even just one kind).This difference is due to the fact that these pleuripotent cells are already somewhat down the differentiation process.
However there is also another major difference between embryonic and adult stem cells: The division of these totipotent embryonic cells yields 2 totipotent stem cells. When these divide, they produce 4. And so on-hence the exponential growth/accelerated growth/cancer tendency etc.
Pleuripotent (adult) stem cells, on the other hand, when they divide, produce one daughter pleuripotent (adult) stem cell, and one cell that is NOT a stem cell. Hence adult stem cells are much less likely to cause cancer/uncontrolled growth since the NUMBER OF ADULT STEM CELLS DOES NOT INCREASE, unlike embryonic stem cells.
Hope that helped.
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erm, it said 12.99pounds for TWO-which then is similar to 12 dollars each.
1 watt = 1 joule/sec. 1 Gigawatt = 1 billion joules/sec. 1eV = 1.60x10^-19J. So 200000eV = 3.20x10^-14J. For 1Gigawatt of power, we need the 200000eV to be released in a timeframe of 3.20x10^-14J divided by 1.00x10^9J/sec = 3.20x10^-23seconds, or 32.0 yoctoseconds. That's pretty damn short!
Oops sorry-forgot to change it to html formatted. Anyway, here is the fixed link. I didnt believe this illusion the first time I saw it (I had to go check it in paint).
They succeeded in making a fermion condensate in January 2004 so they've been created for more than a while now.
What this article is talking about is the discovery of superfluidity in a fermi gas-ie, flow without resistance. More information can be found about it from physicsweb
The thing is, bad advertising is almost as effective as good advertising. Why, and how? Well, if you see an advertisement, be it good or bad, you'll remember it. Especially if it annoys you. However, a few months down the track you won't remember that it was bad; all you remember is the name and brand.
Then if you walk down a shop, and see different brands-which are you more likely to buy? One which was advertised, and so you've heard of before-even if it was bad advertising.
Nope-you're wrong there. China has a physics nobel laureate, who incidentally recently got married again at the age of 82 to a 28 year old graduate, and a literature laureate
Just an interesting anecdote... in the passage the Hebrew word for 'line' is used for the circumference, however the word has an added character. As in Hebrew letters correspond to numbers, the ratio of the two words is 111/106.
Taking the 'false' value of pi as 3, then 3x111/106=333/106=3.14150943 which gives an error of 0.000026%. Coincidence? It could be, it might not be.
While in Galileos model the planets made perfect cycles around the sun, Copernicus corrected that by noticing that they are eclipses, and postulating the various laws around that.
Ellipses, not eclipses - in any case you've got the wrong person. In the Copernicus model, the planets move in a circle around the sun - It was Kepler who showed that the planets moved in ellipses. Galileo had agreed with Copernicus model, which was his "crime". However, the traditional spin is usually grossly misinterpreted - Galileo was a friend of the 2 popes that reigned in his lifetime, and the book that was condemned in the inquisition, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World had actually received official approval of the church. However, when the book was released the pope was under pressure, being accused of being slack on heretics.
Check your facts first please. But hey, this is slashdot...
What's even more interesting is the prices people pay. People mainly pay in "nice" numbers of dollars-Eg, 5,10,15. Notice that even numbers dominate odd numbers, and few people pay 9 or 13.
What about superconductors? Superconductors can store electricity (SMES: Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage). Since superconductors have zero resistance, electricity can circle through a ring indefinitely.
Sponges do not only reproduce asexually; most sponges are also hermaphrodites, meaning that each individual functions as both male and female in sexual reproduction by producing sperm and eggs.
Sponges can also reproduce asexually by use of extensive regeneration; they reproduce asexually from fragments broken off the parent sponge.
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The answer to that question can come in many forms, and allows a person to reveal themselves in much more detail than the more straightforward yes/no question. For example, you might answer that you accept all of the aspects of evolution except for common descent of man. This is a radically different position than answering that you don't understand the differences between these aspects, but are sure that your particular religious text got it right. Exactly. Which is why most Christian scientists, who believe that YES evolution does occur, would not dispute that evolution occurs. However, some, including me, would argue more about the ORIGIN of life (if you consider a creator creating everything as speculation, then abiogenesis IS ALSO speculation). Will you argue against ID by use of the common descent argument? Then, in reply, I can say- how can you distinguish between COMMON DESCENT and COMMON DESIGN? my 2 cents (yes I am a chemist)
Surely you meant introns instead of entrons? Introns are those portions of DNA inside genes between exons - its the exons which are transcribed and spliced together to form the proteins. However, introns/exons only exist in eukaryotes, NOT prokaryotes )bacteria are prokaryotes). Thus this DNA they are removing out would affect the organism-the organism may be losing genes that would affect its ability to survive in the wild (eg genes for lactose metabolism such as beta-galactosidase is not ESSENTIAL for bacteria-however, without the gene they cannot metabolise lactose).
"The sad thing is, if you actually compare the data for most diseases for which children are vaccinated, the extreme negative side effects (caused by the drugs / shots, even if only in a small percentage of children) are so, so much worse than if the kid contracts the disease in the first place. Plus, vaccinations produce immunity that is not passed on to your offspring (by mothers), so vaccinations eff with nature's own process of protecting our offspring. Instead, if a child fights an illness naturally, their body will build a natural immunity and their immune system in general will be much better at doing what it's supposed to do - keep the kid healthy."
ROFLMAO. I started laughing at the point you said 'so much worse than if the kid contracts the disease in the first place'. Now, what is the rate of autism? 1 in 100. From vaccination, we have wiped out smallpox, polio, diptheria from Australia. Do you have any clue of the rates of getting diptheria/polio are in other countries? India, one of the remaining countries still trying to complete a immunisation program against the disease has DISABLED 20 million people in the country. Polio by itself has had a greater than 1% rate in the population there.
Imagine what life would be like without immunisation having eradicated smallpox. The estimate of the number of people who died from smallpox in the 20th century was 300-500 million people.
You go and live in your dream world of no immunisation-I imagine that you'd find the world a lot less pleasant than the current one. The rest of us would far rather live in a world where EVERYBODY is immunised, so that such diseases will eventually be eradicated.
HIV is the virus which affects the immune system (by infecting the T-helper lymphocytes). AIDS is what happens after enough time has passed for the HIV virus to put a sufficient enough dent in the immune system - that's why its called Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome after all.
So I think its more correct to say that it's HIV to fight HIV-using a HIV modified virus to stimulate the immune system against HIV.
What he's basically explaining comes down to the essential differences between embryonic and adult stem cells. Embyronic stem cells are what are known as 'totipotent' - they can differentiate into any kind of cell in the human body. Adult stem cells are 'pleuripotent' - they can differentiate into a limited number of cell types (or even just one kind).This difference is due to the fact that these pleuripotent cells are already somewhat down the differentiation process. However there is also another major difference between embryonic and adult stem cells: The division of these totipotent embryonic cells yields 2 totipotent stem cells. When these divide, they produce 4. And so on-hence the exponential growth/accelerated growth/cancer tendency etc. Pleuripotent (adult) stem cells, on the other hand, when they divide, produce one daughter pleuripotent (adult) stem cell, and one cell that is NOT a stem cell. Hence adult stem cells are much less likely to cause cancer/uncontrolled growth since the NUMBER OF ADULT STEM CELLS DOES NOT INCREASE, unlike embryonic stem cells. Hope that helped.
erm, it said 12.99pounds for TWO-which then is similar to 12 dollars each.
And 43.75% of Slashdot posts are made up =)
1 watt = 1 joule/sec. 1 Gigawatt = 1 billion joules/sec.
1eV = 1.60x10^-19J. So 200000eV = 3.20x10^-14J.
For 1Gigawatt of power, we need the 200000eV to be released in a timeframe of 3.20x10^-14J divided by 1.00x10^9J/sec = 3.20x10^-23seconds, or 32.0 yoctoseconds. That's pretty damn short!
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Oops sorry-forgot to change it to html formatted. Anyway, here is the fixed link. I didnt believe this illusion the first time I saw it (I had to go check it in paint).
On a related note, check out this
As the light enters our eyes and into our brain, our brain automatically processes the information (in this example, if we see an object in a shadow we automatically assume that it must be lighter than it appears). What's happening in this example is probably similar to the low-hanging moon illusion.
What this article is talking about is the discovery of superfluidity in a fermi gas-ie, flow without resistance. More information can be found about it from physicsweb
I'm shocked! Absolutely shocked!
The thing is, bad advertising is almost as effective as good advertising. Why, and how? Well, if you see an advertisement, be it good or bad, you'll remember it. Especially if it annoys you. However, a few months down the track you won't remember that it was bad; all you remember is the name and brand.
Then if you walk down a shop, and see different brands-which are you more likely to buy? One which was advertised, and so you've heard of before-even if it was bad advertising.
Nope-you're wrong there. China has a physics nobel laureate, who incidentally recently got married again at the age of 82 to a 28 year old graduate, and a literature laureate
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That's what Google's search appliance is for. It has a limit of 15 million documents.
Just an interesting anecdote... in the passage the Hebrew word for 'line' is used for the circumference, however the word has an added character. As in Hebrew letters correspond to numbers, the ratio of the two words is 111/106.
Taking the 'false' value of pi as 3, then 3x111/106=333/106=3.14150943 which gives an error of 0.000026%. Coincidence? It could be, it might not be.
Reference http://www.yfiles.com/pi.html/
While in Galileos model the planets made perfect cycles around the sun, Copernicus corrected that by noticing that they are eclipses, and postulating the various laws around that. Ellipses, not eclipses - in any case you've got the wrong person. In the Copernicus model, the planets move in a circle around the sun - It was Kepler who showed that the planets moved in ellipses. Galileo had agreed with Copernicus model, which was his "crime". However, the traditional spin is usually grossly misinterpreted - Galileo was a friend of the 2 popes that reigned in his lifetime, and the book that was condemned in the inquisition, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World had actually received official approval of the church. However, when the book was released the pope was under pressure, being accused of being slack on heretics. Check your facts first please. But hey, this is slashdot...
What's the fuss all about? If you don't like the idea of MS selling AV software, then don't buy it. Nothing to see here, let's move on.
What's even more interesting is the prices people pay. People mainly pay in "nice" numbers of dollars-Eg, 5,10,15. Notice that even numbers dominate odd numbers, and few people pay 9 or 13.
She's actually equal 10th based on ratings. Just check good old www.fide.com
What about superconductors? Superconductors can store electricity (SMES: Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage). Since superconductors have zero resistance, electricity can circle through a ring indefinitely.
Sponges can also reproduce asexually by use of extensive regeneration; they reproduce asexually from fragments broken off the parent sponge.
A quintillion is 10^18. A sextillion is 10^21. Their number is 7 x 10^22, thus 70 sextillion.