Why not? He's not the janitor, he's in charge, and paid lots of money and prestige for it. Boycott away. When he's removed, or apologizes, or whatever is desired, stop boycotting.
"The Bible says that homosexuality is a sin period."
The bible actually says that wearing wool and linen at the same time is a sin, period. It says some wishy washy stuff that can be interpreted as homosexuality (only the male kind) being a sin, maybe, if you choose to interpret it that way.
I believe one of the main characters in the bible has something to say about casting stones that might be apropos though.
A private individual or company has the right to suggest boycotting a company led by someone they feel has pushed a harmful agenda. It's called freedom of speech.
I think you've got it backwards. The weaker creationist/intelligent designers claim that microevolution happens but "types" can never change into other "types". Swapping genetic material between widely separated branches is one way that could happen.
Read your link more carefully. True multicellular organisms have differentiated cells and must somehow figure out how to create more of themselves, as an organism. That's where pluripotent stem cells come in. The very early forms of "multicellular" life, like those cyanobacteria, are more like colonies of cooperating individuals.
Not billions. Complex multicellular life likely formed around 600 million years ago. Before that it was all unicellular. It would be a nice story if a virus combining with a eukaryotic cell sparked multicellular life, as prokaryotic cells combined to produce eukaryotic cells.
If you don't like it, vote for somebody who will increase science spending. Currently, a bright 16 year old has a choice between
Moving virtual little green pieces of paper around: making ridiculous amounts of money
Curing cancer: being poorly paid until hitting middle age, then almost certainly hitting a career dead end and having to retrain to get coffee for someone who moves little green pieces of paper around.
The article mentions the military obliquely in the snappy opening patter ("Seeing the infrared spectrum has a number of applications that go beyond the nighttime war games glamorized in adventure flicks").
The only other mention (besides the picture) is near the end: "commando units wouldn’t be the only ones to wear souped up POV computers or contact lenses". I imagine commando units would quite like to have simple, portable mid-IR gear. Militaries seem to like sticking FLIR pods on everything they can. Yup turns out they would.
I'm not an expert, but I believe most military night vision uses primarily amplified ambient light with the option to use IR floodlights if needed. Shining big IR spotlights around is probably not much better than shining big regular spotlights around now that everyone has IR cameras. I'm sure the journalist just looked up a cool stock photo of night vision goggles.
You're aware the topic is autism spectrum disorder, right? Clear cut clinical autism seems to be an organic disease (although it could still be exacerbated by things like television), but the squishier kinds aren't as certain. Watching too much television, particularly alone, has been shown to cause changes in brain development that have academic, economic and societal impact throughout life.
Broadcast and cable television might be, but portable TVs have infiltrated cars and (as the OP pointed out) even strollers. The little kids don't play social games on tablets, they watch kids shows. The older ones watch YouTube.
Actual clinical depression is a serious disorder and of course has existed throughout history. However, currently about a quarter of women in the US between 40 and 50 are on antidepressant drugs at any one time, and about 10% of all Americans over 12. These people aren't all suffering from major depressive disorder. Many of them don't meet any of the key criteria for a clinical depression diagnosis.
Homosexuality is prevalent in many species. The answer to the GPs rhetorical question is probably that homosexual organisms support their families, causing homosexual traits to be passed on. Allowing your mother and father to have more babies is just as good as having them yourself. Letting your siblings have more is half as good as doing it yourself.
That could apply to autistics as well. A hypothetical autistic person who makes a lot of money and supports his or her non-autistic parents or siblings so they can raise more kids would be encouraging the proliferation of his genes.
More likely though is that some autism spectrum traits are becoming beneficial while full on not-talking-to-anyone autism is detrimental. Like carrying a single sickle cell anemia gene protects from malaria while carrying two gives you a debilitating disease.
Take off the tinfoil hat. Sony once sold a camcorder with an IR mode that there was some brief controversy about, but that's about it. Lots of hobbyists modify cameras to see IR. Lots of cheaper cameras have crappy filters and pick up quite a bit without modification. Canon specifically sells (or sold, it's quite old now) a version of one of their SLRs without an IR filter. You can buy one for $25 to hook up to your Raspberry Pi.
IR contact lenses have a lot bigger problems than just how do you turn it off. Press a button to go back to normal vision. Any contact lens application would require a screen integrated into the lens (which we can't do yet anyway). Adding a button to turn it off is trivial in comparison.
And some of us actually travel more than a few hundred kilometres from our birth places and can make large adjustments without complaining about it every time. My biggest was twelve hours, after which I went surfing.
Your built in clock doesn't match the day/night cycle either. Kept in an artificially lit (or dark) environment, humans will follow sleep cycles that are longer than 25 hours (the actual period seems to vary with a lot of things, including age). Both the sun and clocks are external time sources that the body will sync to.
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Why not? He's not the janitor, he's in charge, and paid lots of money and prestige for it. Boycott away. When he's removed, or apologizes, or whatever is desired, stop boycotting.
"The Bible says that homosexuality is a sin period."
The bible actually says that wearing wool and linen at the same time is a sin, period. It says some wishy washy stuff that can be interpreted as homosexuality (only the male kind) being a sin, maybe, if you choose to interpret it that way.
I believe one of the main characters in the bible has something to say about casting stones that might be apropos though.
A private individual or company has the right to suggest boycotting a company led by someone they feel has pushed a harmful agenda. It's called freedom of speech.
Depends on how you define a "type." You can make reasonable arguments for as few as 3. Or as many as you want.
I think you've got it backwards. The weaker creationist/intelligent designers claim that microevolution happens but "types" can never change into other "types". Swapping genetic material between widely separated branches is one way that could happen.
Read your link more carefully. True multicellular organisms have differentiated cells and must somehow figure out how to create more of themselves, as an organism. That's where pluripotent stem cells come in. The very early forms of "multicellular" life, like those cyanobacteria, are more like colonies of cooperating individuals.
Not billions. Complex multicellular life likely formed around 600 million years ago. Before that it was all unicellular. It would be a nice story if a virus combining with a eukaryotic cell sparked multicellular life, as prokaryotic cells combined to produce eukaryotic cells.
Because then we could have a movie called "Gone in 60 seconds."
If you don't like it, vote for somebody who will increase science spending. Currently, a bright 16 year old has a choice between
Moving virtual little green pieces of paper around: making ridiculous amounts of money
Curing cancer: being poorly paid until hitting middle age, then almost certainly hitting a career dead end and having to retrain to get coffee for someone who moves little green pieces of paper around.
The article mentions the military obliquely in the snappy opening patter ("Seeing the infrared spectrum has a number of applications that go beyond the nighttime war games glamorized in adventure flicks").
The only other mention (besides the picture) is near the end: "commando units wouldn’t be the only ones to wear souped up POV computers or contact lenses". I imagine commando units would quite like to have simple, portable mid-IR gear. Militaries seem to like sticking FLIR pods on everything they can. Yup turns out they would.
I'm not an expert, but I believe most military night vision uses primarily amplified ambient light with the option to use IR floodlights if needed. Shining big IR spotlights around is probably not much better than shining big regular spotlights around now that everyone has IR cameras. I'm sure the journalist just looked up a cool stock photo of night vision goggles.
You're aware the topic is autism spectrum disorder, right? Clear cut clinical autism seems to be an organic disease (although it could still be exacerbated by things like television), but the squishier kinds aren't as certain. Watching too much television, particularly alone, has been shown to cause changes in brain development that have academic, economic and societal impact throughout life.
Broadcast and cable television might be, but portable TVs have infiltrated cars and (as the OP pointed out) even strollers. The little kids don't play social games on tablets, they watch kids shows. The older ones watch YouTube.
Your post is correct, but the OP is making a valid (if inelegantly communicated) point. Depression is hugely over diagnosed and treated, particularly in the US.
Actual clinical depression is a serious disorder and of course has existed throughout history. However, currently about a quarter of women in the US between 40 and 50 are on antidepressant drugs at any one time, and about 10% of all Americans over 12. These people aren't all suffering from major depressive disorder. Many of them don't meet any of the key criteria for a clinical depression diagnosis.
Homosexuality is prevalent in many species. The answer to the GPs rhetorical question is probably that homosexual organisms support their families, causing homosexual traits to be passed on. Allowing your mother and father to have more babies is just as good as having them yourself. Letting your siblings have more is half as good as doing it yourself.
That could apply to autistics as well. A hypothetical autistic person who makes a lot of money and supports his or her non-autistic parents or siblings so they can raise more kids would be encouraging the proliferation of his genes.
More likely though is that some autism spectrum traits are becoming beneficial while full on not-talking-to-anyone autism is detrimental. Like carrying a single sickle cell anemia gene protects from malaria while carrying two gives you a debilitating disease.
FedEx and a turkey baster.
Take off the tinfoil hat. Sony once sold a camcorder with an IR mode that there was some brief controversy about, but that's about it. Lots of hobbyists modify cameras to see IR. Lots of cheaper cameras have crappy filters and pick up quite a bit without modification. Canon specifically sells (or sold, it's quite old now) a version of one of their SLRs without an IR filter. You can buy one for $25 to hook up to your Raspberry Pi.
The article specifies mid-IR. And since the whole thing talks about cooled sensors, it's pretty clear that's what they're talking about.
Lens removal would count as invasive surgery.
IR contact lenses have a lot bigger problems than just how do you turn it off. Press a button to go back to normal vision. Any contact lens application would require a screen integrated into the lens (which we can't do yet anyway). Adding a button to turn it off is trivial in comparison.
Oddly, your post immediately follows (follows, not a child of) a post where the poster is able to multiple 1.25 x 0.81 and correctly get 1.0.
And some of us actually travel more than a few hundred kilometres from our birth places and can make large adjustments without complaining about it every time. My biggest was twelve hours, after which I went surfing.
So don't sleep in an hour in the fall. Spend all winter getting up an hour earlier than you have to. In the spring, don't do anything.
I don't understand people who whine about daylight savings time.
Changing by half an hour a week isn't so bad. Getting an hour a night sleep during the summer will screw you up though.
It's not a problem with the analysis. The problem is with the interpretation that a lot of "DST is evil!" people will put on it.
Your built in clock doesn't match the day/night cycle either. Kept in an artificially lit (or dark) environment, humans will follow sleep cycles that are longer than 25 hours (the actual period seems to vary with a lot of things, including age). Both the sun and clocks are external time sources that the body will sync to.