Land Bridge was caused by the Ice Age. It's been gone for 11,000 years. The Eve female, if she existed, is linked to us all on the matrilineal path, and lived in Africa 50,000 to 250,000 years ago.
Aren't there any Native American persons with any ancestors who lived in the Americas in the time when the article claims our ancestors were all in the other hemisphere? There are no verified stories of mating of Old World and New World people for about 10,000 years up until 1492. So how can all our ancestors have been in the Old World at any time during that period?
I'd use the paragraph as the key to composition. Engineers resent micromanagement and may not respond well to an emphasis on the low-level details of grammar and sentences. Instead, teach how to write, place, and support a good topic sentence within each paragraph, and how to express and connect ideas both within and between paragraphs.
To teach the activity of writing, teach that very few can write well spontaneously, that effective writers rewrite everything that they write for others, even short memos of a single sentence. Both successful writers and successful programmers spend 80% of their time rewriting. Readers of the blithe multitudes who do not will spend 80% of their time re-reading, trying to coax value from a defective product.
CRT's give off RF. The amount of time spent in front of a CRT correlates positively with depression. Don't blame the RF; blame the weight gain, lack of exercise, loss of friends, displacement of sexual activities, and less frequent bowling.
... and also shut down organized crime pretty well, too. Just outlaw cash. I'll predict that some countries start doing that before 2020. It's quite a price to pay, but to take a huge bite out of crime and terrorism, maybe worth it.
This is one of the ways that they are trying to put BB King's glucometer out of business. His requires a drop of blood. That's about a billion drops of blood and test strips each week in the US alone. Test strips cost about seventy-five cents each retail when bought by the hundred. If you could just shine some light through the skin or into the retina and see how much glucose was in the blood, you eliminate the need for test strips for millions. But there are just too many things in the blood besides sugar, and no one has figured out how to optically measure sugar concentration. Too many signals crowding the spectrum. Crack this problem = profit!!!
That's an awful big number for the number of patients getting home health and hospice from a hospital system that's just one of several competing in two piddly states. If there were 365,000, there must have been many in there more than once. Not to mention that many of the hospice patients are now metabolically different.
Phil Farnsworth, boy inventor of television, later worked on the Farnsworth Fuser, which was a small fusion machine. It didn't produce more energy than it used, but it did fusion and was still a good idea for some stuff that otherwise would have stretched the limits of science as it was known back in those golden days. So, fifty, sixty years later, maybe we got another. My advice, better to invent television again. It was better back then, too.
There's enough evidence from diverse places to support a guess that human cannibilism has persistently been more than an occasional or incidental vice -- evidence like human proteins found in petrified human feces. It's now clear that many of those pictures of early men and beasts found on cave walls were actually fast-food menus.
PDF is the most miserable format to have to read the way that most of us do most of our reading -- on a computer. I've got lousy (ie over-50) eyes, so I magnify everything with that zoom magnifier so that the text fills the screen horizontally. What happens when I scroll down? Because pdf is for paper, and paper has different right and left margins depending on whether you're on a right or left page, the next page won't have its print filling my screen, it's off to the left or right. Play with the horizontal scroll bar every page. Thanks, pdf. Then, because it thinks the printed page is everything, Ctrl-A doesn't select 'All' text, just all text on the current page. And don't get me started on documents presented newspaper style, where I've gotta keep scrolling up and down, left and right. And page down gives the next page of text (according to the hypothetical paper), not the next screen of text according to the actual viewing device. That's so close to useless, you'd think MS invented it. The objective in software is to achieve device independence. The PDF viewer manages to achieve device dependence on a device that isn't even in use (paper). Paper is going to be an exception. A printable e-book would be nice, but if I want a paper book, I don't need a computer. To make the computer subservient to the dead tree is upside-down design.
"Blue Tango" is a splendid Leroy Anderson musical composition, and although few know the name of the song, many would recognize the melody. As an appellation for this technology, the name resounds with postmodern irony.
They bought the rights to two fine series of cartoons done much more imaginatively than whatever they have been pumping out -- Rocky and Bullwinkle and Betty Boop. They make a little revenue from them, but they keep the characters shackled so as not to compete with the mouse or Ted Koppel.
Thanks for agreeing with me. Given the number of experiments done nowadays, we'd have hundreds of experiments significant at the 11% level every day even if there were no effects at all. Nothing to see here until it is confirmed by theory.
Was this term defined before the data were collected? With multiple levels of trust (0/4/8/12), it's pretty easy find an effect if you decide what's an effect after you are looking at the data. Why is it significant that more "invested highly"? Did fewer also "invest lowly"?
Agree. I'm guessing that 6 is just about 1 std deviation below the mean and 13 is just about 1 std deviation above the mean. Not a compelling result at all, particularly if this is a two-tailed test.
Best nerd movie is "Born Yesterday" with Judy Canova and Broderick Crawford. Second best is "Creation of the Humanoids", ripped off by Woody Allen in "Sleeper".
It did seem longer. But I always figured it was the commercials. It was on the tube every year for numerous years, so you didn't have to stay awake through it all in one sitting.
Fact is, they almost cut that rainbow song to tighten it up a little.
But it did help sustain the popularity of the Oz books, which are better than the movie and most wonderful for getting kids reading.
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Land Bridge was caused by the Ice Age. It's been gone for 11,000 years. The Eve female, if she existed, is linked to us all on the matrilineal path, and lived in Africa 50,000 to 250,000 years ago.
Aren't there any Native American persons with any ancestors who lived in the Americas in the time when the article claims our ancestors were all in the other hemisphere? There are no verified stories of mating of Old World and New World people for about 10,000 years up until 1492. So how can all our ancestors have been in the Old World at any time during that period?
To teach the activity of writing, teach that very few can write well spontaneously, that effective writers rewrite everything that they write for others, even short memos of a single sentence. Both successful writers and successful programmers spend 80% of their time rewriting. Readers of the blithe multitudes who do not will spend 80% of their time re-reading, trying to coax value from a defective product.
CRT's give off RF. The amount of time spent in front of a CRT correlates positively with depression. Don't blame the RF; blame the weight gain, lack of exercise, loss of friends, displacement of sexual activities, and less frequent bowling.
... and also shut down organized crime pretty well, too. Just outlaw cash. I'll predict that some countries start doing that before 2020. It's quite a price to pay, but to take a huge bite out of crime and terrorism, maybe worth it.
This is one of the ways that they are trying to put BB King's glucometer out of business. His requires a drop of blood. That's about a billion drops of blood and test strips each week in the US alone. Test strips cost about seventy-five cents each retail when bought by the hundred. If you could just shine some light through the skin or into the retina and see how much glucose was in the blood, you eliminate the need for test strips for millions. But there are just too many things in the blood besides sugar, and no one has figured out how to optically measure sugar concentration. Too many signals crowding the spectrum. Crack this problem = profit!!!
Maybe "You've been running around with my wife and bringing her home late STOP"
He said it as a put-down to his rival Hooke, who was of little physical height and notable shortness.
That's an awful big number for the number of patients getting home health and hospice from a hospital system that's just one of several competing in two piddly states. If there were 365,000, there must have been many in there more than once. Not to mention that many of the hospice patients are now metabolically different.
Phil Farnsworth, boy inventor of television, later worked on the Farnsworth Fuser, which was a small fusion machine. It didn't produce more energy than it used, but it did fusion and was still a good idea for some stuff that otherwise would have stretched the limits of science as it was known back in those golden days. So, fifty, sixty years later, maybe we got another. My advice, better to invent television again. It was better back then, too.
Every school that discovers tabletop fusion has a Division 1 football team.
There's enough evidence from diverse places to support a guess that human cannibilism has persistently been more than an occasional or incidental vice -- evidence like human proteins found in petrified human feces. It's now clear that many of those pictures of early men and beasts found on cave walls were actually fast-food menus.
2. Lethal drone aircraft the size of insects.
PDF is the most miserable format to have to read the way that most of us do most of our reading -- on a computer. I've got lousy (ie over-50) eyes, so I magnify everything with that zoom magnifier so that the text fills the screen horizontally. What happens when I scroll down? Because pdf is for paper, and paper has different right and left margins depending on whether you're on a right or left page, the next page won't have its print filling my screen, it's off to the left or right. Play with the horizontal scroll bar every page. Thanks, pdf. Then, because it thinks the printed page is everything, Ctrl-A doesn't select 'All' text, just all text on the current page. And don't get me started on documents presented newspaper style, where I've gotta keep scrolling up and down, left and right. And page down gives the next page of text (according to the hypothetical paper), not the next screen of text according to the actual viewing device. That's so close to useless, you'd think MS invented it. The objective in software is to achieve device independence. The PDF viewer manages to achieve device dependence on a device that isn't even in use (paper). Paper is going to be an exception. A printable e-book would be nice, but if I want a paper book, I don't need a computer. To make the computer subservient to the dead tree is upside-down design.
Most of the smarty-pants students at Harvard are girls and about 90% of the dumb-butts in the hoosegow are boys?
"Blue Tango" is a splendid Leroy Anderson musical composition, and although few know the name of the song, many would recognize the melody. As an appellation for this technology, the name resounds with postmodern irony.
They bought the rights to two fine series of cartoons done much more imaginatively than whatever they have been pumping out -- Rocky and Bullwinkle and Betty Boop. They make a little revenue from them, but they keep the characters shackled so as not to compete with the mouse or Ted Koppel.
They have weekends on Mars? Bush can send us to Mars, but we've still got to do honeydo's on weekends? What's the use of being a geek?
Thanks for agreeing with me. Given the number of experiments done nowadays, we'd have hundreds of experiments significant at the 11% level every day even if there were no effects at all. Nothing to see here until it is confirmed by theory.
So many numbers, so little time.
Agree. I'm guessing that 6 is just about 1 std deviation below the mean and 13 is just about 1 std deviation above the mean. Not a compelling result at all, particularly if this is a two-tailed test.
Best nerd movie is "Born Yesterday" with Judy Canova and Broderick Crawford. Second best is "Creation of the Humanoids", ripped off by Woody Allen in "Sleeper".
Fact is, they almost cut that rainbow song to tighten it up a little.
But it did help sustain the popularity of the Oz books, which are better than the movie and most wonderful for getting kids reading.
"Birth of a Nation" "Jaws" "Deep Throat" "Thief of Baghdad" The U.S. Army Signal Corps production "Venereal Disease". and The Zapruder film.
I didn't know that Cary Grant was in that one. Did he play Nemo?