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Holy crap! I am behind this study 100%. I have all kinds of personal stories related to this. I was always in a -lot- of pain at the dentist. My families teeth are as hard as rocks, thank G-d, but if I did manage to get a cavity it was a devestating affair. The shot would hurt, the novacaine would take a long time to start working, and it -still- hurt like a mother.
Fast forward a couple of years. I slice my hand open and need to get stitches at the emergency room. The tech gives me a shot of lidocaine and leaves for ten minutes. Comes back and starts to clean the wound with iodine, and I wince because it is killing me. He's -stunned- that I can feel anything. He gives me another shot and rubs my hand hand "to get it dispersed". Comes back in another ten minutes and marvels as I cringe through the stitches. He said, "You are processing the anesthetic very quickly--you should advise your doctor of this in the future."
Since then, it's been a nice conversation point, but no it seems to have a little backing. I feel somewhat vindicated.
The stuff you get today will provoke less of a reaction from your geiger counter than the dust bunnies under your bed
Huh? The half-life of U-238 is 4.5 billion years. If the plate was "hot" in the 50's, it is "hot" today.
If it's not setting off your Geiger counter it's because Geiger counters are poor alpha detectors. Unless the sensor has an extremely thin sleeve, the alphas will never make it to the avalanche plates.
Actually, your skin is thick enough to stop alpha particles. Barring ingestion, inhalation, or puncture wounds, pure alpha particle radiation poses almost no risk to your health. That said, if you do inhale some, it is far more damaging than beta or gamma.
The lab I used to work in used Fiestaware (the orange U-238 containing type) to test our detectors. Fiestaware is relatively safe, the only worry being if you scratched the surface with your fork or knife and ingested some of the slivers.
If you just want nuclide information and decay chains, I have to recommend this site.
Marc Liyanage's one-click postgreSQL comes with some html docs for ODBC setup and config. Use the defaults and they're dropped in
/usr/local/pgsql/doc/html/
Hey, I liked Triumph of the Nerds as much as the next guy, but this column is just not good, and I don't think it deserves front-page space on./. The fact that one of foci of the column and the blurb about it is that last week's column was good is an indicator of maybe not the most scintillating read ever. I think he phoned it in, and I called/. on giving it such credence. Screw Cringley and his access--the only industry leaders he talked to this week were the folks penning him emails.
Isn't your "Group Three" every other baby not involved in this study? A natural control? Also, your proposal studies something already thoroughly studied--that active interaction with parents improves cognition and development.
Mittens YES vs. Mittens NO limits the confounding variables, but they have to allot for time spent on mitten-interaction, hence their caveat.
I read this article, and I gotta tell ya, I feel like I just wasted a little chunk of time. This is basically a blog of some tech writer that thinks he's a lot smarter than everyone else (don't we all), and gets a chunk of pbs.org websapce to convince everyone. Maybe someone really likes his show, but please, his "insights" into emails is pretty tired by now.
I realize everyone in/. is crapping themselves over the DMCA, but does every two paragraph article about need to be front page material?
If you want to learn more about the real enforcement, read here.
A model of the creature features in the exhibition and shows it to have the fur of a wombat, the nose of a koala and claws like meat cleavers.
When I found out this creature coexisted with humans,
I demanded to know more--they sent me a picture of the beast! (sorry bout the iDisk thing--waaaay behind a closed FTP port here)
I'm going to open a store that, um, loans video cassettes to people, and ALSO rents the equipment to copy said cassettes, assuming they would NEVER do anything nefarious like COPY that material and maybe give it to friends. I'm ~sure~ I'll get away with that one.
Oh wait. Isn't that what Blockbuster does? Why is this a problem again?
This is the part I can't get over. Apple isn't "showing a lot of gratitude" towards the behemoth that seems to endlessly conspire to keep their margins high and their products crappy. I also appreciate that this was said by someone "who wished to remain anonymous". Let's hope he didn't communicate this via email.
I maintain, and I know I'm not alone, that the USB port on the PC came out at least as early if not earlier than it did on Apple hardware. I know that all my older Pentium socket 7 motherboards had the USB header on them long before Windows 98 came out. Even my oldest Pentium 166 motherboard has a USB header
Isn't that because INTEL came up with USB? There it sat, an obviously superior bus when compared to PS2, languishing on motherboards (without cables, fer crying out loud) until Apple noticed it, said, "This is better," and incorporated it.
Something Windows knows a lot about--surprised they didn't do it first.
Some of the stories mentioned at that link are lame tales of guitar majors wowing friends with digital soundboards, but some of them are really pretty interesting and of value to scientific commmunities. Apple is making a huge push in this realm, and OS X is what's getting them there. Cornell has a protein crystallography group that uses Cocoa apps to help out (impressive screenshot here.
I know my wife's lab is all Macs for CellQuest flow cytometry software, and with BLAST, folding@home, Mathematica's new build and other initiatives, Apple is making strides in scientfic fileds--they have every right to be gassy about it.
Genes are nice, they certainly ~do~ indicate predilictions towards diseases, behaviors etc, but proteisn are the actual workhorses of the body and the actual CAUSE of the diseases etc. The more we understand about proteins, the closer we are to understanding, well, just about everything about us. Read here for a nice intro.
And folding is the real stinker. We can get the gene that codes for a protein. We can see the little ribosomes chug along and make the protein. And then the protein folds up and that's why it works. If it folds like ~this~ it's normal, all friendly. If it folds like ~that~ it's a prion that convinces other normal proteins to fold up just like it and you die of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease.
Finding some alien radio transmitter sure would be nice, but finding out why folks die from cystic fibrosis might be a better way to spend downtime.
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Fast forward a couple of years. I slice my hand open and need to get stitches at the emergency room. The tech gives me a shot of lidocaine and leaves for ten minutes. Comes back and starts to clean the wound with iodine, and I wince because it is killing me. He's -stunned- that I can feel anything. He gives me another shot and rubs my hand hand "to get it dispersed". Comes back in another ten minutes and marvels as I cringe through the stitches. He said, "You are processing the anesthetic very quickly--you should advise your doctor of this in the future."
Since then, it's been a nice conversation point, but no it seems to have a little backing. I feel somewhat vindicated.
No guarantees, I haven't even tried this, and /. may kill it, but try here. Google cached it here.
If it's not setting off your Geiger counter it's because Geiger counters are poor alpha detectors. Unless the sensor has an extremely thin sleeve, the alphas will never make it to the avalanche plates.
Fiestaware is an extremely popular collectible. The color you want is burnt orange. Happy hunting.
I thought you were talking about Nemesis. Our sun's DEATH COMPANION STARRRARARRARRARAAIIIEEEE!
The lab I used to work in used Fiestaware (the orange U-238 containing type) to test our detectors. Fiestaware is relatively safe, the only worry being if you scratched the surface with your fork or knife and ingested some of the slivers.
If you just want nuclide information and decay chains, I have to recommend this site.
news.google.com dodges the login as well. Try this.
Marc Liyanage's one-click postgreSQL comes with some html docs for ODBC setup and config. Use the defaults and they're dropped in
/usr/local/pgsql/doc/html/
What a superhot collectible that item will be! eBay here I come!
Oh really? You think so?
Hey, I liked Triumph of the Nerds as much as the next guy, but this column is just not good, and I don't think it deserves front-page space on ./. The fact that one of foci of the column and the blurb about it is that last week's column was good is an indicator of maybe not the most scintillating read ever. I think he phoned it in, and I called /. on giving it such credence. Screw Cringley and his access--the only industry leaders he talked to this week were the folks penning him emails.
Mittens YES vs. Mittens NO limits the confounding variables, but they have to allot for time spent on mitten-interaction, hence their caveat.
I realize everyone in /. is crapping themselves over the DMCA, but does every two paragraph article about need to be front page material?
If you want to learn more about the real enforcement, read here.
1 ?"10:30"
Commodore64's rock.
That's a small girlish gorilla. Who's the real threat?
(sorry bout the iDisk thing--waaaay behind a closed FTP port here)
Here's a link to the MacCentral Story from Yahoo.
Oh wait. Isn't that what Blockbuster does? Why is this a problem again?
This is the part I can't get over. Apple isn't "showing a lot of gratitude" towards the behemoth that seems to endlessly conspire to keep their margins high and their products crappy. I also appreciate that this was said by someone "who wished to remain anonymous". Let's hope he didn't communicate this via email.
I know my wife's lab is all Macs for CellQuest flow cytometry software, and with BLAST, folding@home, Mathematica's new build and other initiatives, Apple is making strides in scientfic fileds--they have every right to be gassy about it.
Part I.
Part II.
Genes are nice, they certainly ~do~ indicate predilictions towards diseases, behaviors etc, but proteisn are the actual workhorses of the body and the actual CAUSE of the diseases etc. The more we understand about proteins, the closer we are to understanding, well, just about everything about us. Read here for a nice intro.
And folding is the real stinker. We can get the gene that codes for a protein. We can see the little ribosomes chug along and make the protein. And then the protein folds up and that's why it works. If it folds like ~this~ it's normal, all friendly. If it folds like ~that~ it's a prion that convinces other normal proteins to fold up just like it and you die of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease.
Finding some alien radio transmitter sure would be nice, but finding out why folks die from cystic fibrosis might be a better way to spend downtime.