People with XX chromosomes can have normal male genitalia, including testicles. So your classification comes down to producing viable sperm. The male infertility rate in the US is around 9%. Since you argue there are only two sexes, those people are female?
I'm not sure you know what science is. Which wouldn't be terribly uncommon on the Internet.
Science definitely does not say that. Science says it's complicated. Genetically we associate maleness with having a y chromosome, but there are XX people who are male by pretty much any other measure, and XY people who are female. Embryology tells us that sexual characteristics are strongly influenced by the hormonal environment in the womb, which is in turn influenced by all sorts of things. If you expand to other species, there's pretty good evidence that at least some cat mothers can influence the sex of their unborn kittens, and do so based on environmental stress. In other species sex might be assigned by things like the temperature. Some species, famously, can switch, even in adulthood.
In humans there was an idea that every fetus starts out female, then some develop male characteristics. Not surprisingly, it's more complicated than that. Every fetus basically has both sets of sex organs, and it seems that a complicated orchestra of hormones and signalling proteins is required to fully develop either set of organs (and suppress the other).
And that's physical sex. Science supports the idea that gender is, if anything, even more complicated, and equally "real."
"The only real downside is that for people who are used to sex-segregated toilets the idea feels... well, wrong."
Which has always seemed odd to me. Most of us don't have sex segregated toilets at home, and we also don't pee elbow to elbow with family members. Yet in public we insist that men should line up at the trough with their junk out, but heaven forbid they wash their hands next to a woman.
One of the oddest experiences I ever had was in a US national park... Yellowstone I think, where the "urinal" was literally a trough. A double sided one.
Yes, evolution probably regards some misfolded proteins that have a chance of causing you to be demented forty years after you've passed on your genes to be worthwhile collateral damage for a robust inflammatory response that keeps you from dying of cholera as a child or young adult.
This is true. Oddly however, science is not done in a vacuum. There's also evidence that the protein involved in Parkinson's can crawl along nerves, including from the gut to the brain. Several lines of evidence suggest a possible causal relationship. Of course, none of it is conclusive, and gut involvement in Parkinson's is still an emerging idea. As the *summary* says, don't get your appendix removed yet.
"People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals." If you're tired of hearing people jump to conclusions perhaps you should avoid the Internet?
"Modern medicine" has only existed since the late 80s when the idea that a randomized clinical trial, including blinding and (gasp) involving statisticians, was a good idea. Modern medicine has a big backlog of medieval superstition to get around to.
There was a recent study that suggested even in the case of acute appendicitis, antibiotics were just as effective as removal.
Mmm. Except for the "detail obsessed part" that description fits pretty well with most theology. Particularly if you regard Jesus as deific propaganda.
Evolution doesn't really care about Parkinson's or Alzheimer's. The protein's involved in both are misfolded versions that have important uses in their normally folded state. Having those proteins around at a small risk of late life dementia is most likely very beneficial.
There's evidence that the misfolded version of the protein involved in Parkinson's can crawl up nerves, including crossing synapses. That would make it conceivable that it could make its way up from the gut to the brain. There's also speculation that inflammation in the gut might be responsible for increasing the chances of misfolding, and migration, so the idea that pathogens could be involved hasn't been ignored.
Astronomers? They would prefer a thirty meter telescope in space, where there's less atmospheric distortion. A square kilometre optical interferometer in space would be heavenly.
Yeah, good luck with that. James Webb is pretty revolutionary with its unfolding mirror, and that's turning out to be way more of a challenge than anyone expected. And it's 6.5 m.
For Hawaii? Degrades the environment and biodiversity. Expect unintended consequences.
Bull. The TMT is being built on top of a volcano. It's a mostly frozen desert up there, and looks a bit like Mars. It's also right next to a bunch of other telescopes, on land that was set aside for that purpose sixty years ago. It's also one building, with very, very few people coming and going. Pic: https://goo.gl/images/Mg24mh
For the inhabitants? I doubt you'd want a 200' skyscraper obscuring your primary view, either.
For the lawyers? Yes, they're a lot richer and happier now, thank you.
There aren't any inhabitants up there. Even the telescopes are mostly robotic. Where there are inhabitants, you can't see the top of Mauna Kea.
They already had all the approvals necessary. This is about a court case challenging the already issued permits. So since it's been struck down, the project should be free to proceed.
They do. Scanners normally come with zero boil off systems standard now.
The story in the summary sounds pretty fishy. The story on Reddit is sort of similar but with a lot of "it might have been this but I don't know."
Helium manufacturers take the vents very seriously because if the magnet quenches *all* the helium is going to very quickly boil. 120 L (comes in a can about the size of a BBQ propane canister) boiled off through a leak and dispersed doesn't sound likely to damage anything. The concentration would be very low, and helium floats.
The papers on MEMs and helium do say there's an effect, but they test in pure, pressurized helium atmospheres (inside a pressure vessel) and report slow drift.
Carrying a phone through the magnetic field of a scanner could kill it. During ramping people might have found excuses to wander by and watch.
I have no idea. I assumed it was to make fasting easier. If you sleep in an extra hour in the morning you've got one hour less of sunlight. Except I think the change was in the other direction.
Meh. Morocco changes their clocks for Ramadan if it occurs in the summer. They're used to confusion. When I was there nobody was sure if the time was going to change until the morning it did change. I had a plane to catch.
It seems it's hard to filter out 10 nm particles. You can do it, but it's hard (expensive) to do at industrial scales. Industrial scales like water treatment for farms and cities.
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I think what you meant by "man bag" and what my brain assumed when it read the subject are two slightly different things.
You're the one insisting there are only two sexes. Maintaining that position quickly dissolves into nonsense, which you've quite ably demonstrated.
People with XX chromosomes can have normal male genitalia, including testicles. So your classification comes down to producing viable sperm. The male infertility rate in the US is around 9%. Since you argue there are only two sexes, those people are female?
I'm not sure you know what science is. Which wouldn't be terribly uncommon on the Internet.
It actually says no person shall be discriminated against on the basis of sex. Hard to discriminate if you don't even know.
Science definitely does not say that. Science says it's complicated. Genetically we associate maleness with having a y chromosome, but there are XX people who are male by pretty much any other measure, and XY people who are female. Embryology tells us that sexual characteristics are strongly influenced by the hormonal environment in the womb, which is in turn influenced by all sorts of things. If you expand to other species, there's pretty good evidence that at least some cat mothers can influence the sex of their unborn kittens, and do so based on environmental stress. In other species sex might be assigned by things like the temperature. Some species, famously, can switch, even in adulthood.
In humans there was an idea that every fetus starts out female, then some develop male characteristics. Not surprisingly, it's more complicated than that. Every fetus basically has both sets of sex organs, and it seems that a complicated orchestra of hormones and signalling proteins is required to fully develop either set of organs (and suppress the other).
And that's physical sex. Science supports the idea that gender is, if anything, even more complicated, and equally "real."
A better question might be, why do you want to put it on the form at all?
Sounds suspiciously binary.... ;)
"The only real downside is that for people who are used to sex-segregated toilets the idea feels... well, wrong."
Which has always seemed odd to me. Most of us don't have sex segregated toilets at home, and we also don't pee elbow to elbow with family members. Yet in public we insist that men should line up at the trough with their junk out, but heaven forbid they wash their hands next to a woman.
One of the oddest experiences I ever had was in a US national park... Yellowstone I think, where the "urinal" was literally a trough. A double sided one.
The FUD is strong this week. Is Apple stock up or something?
Yes, evolution probably regards some misfolded proteins that have a chance of causing you to be demented forty years after you've passed on your genes to be worthwhile collateral damage for a robust inflammatory response that keeps you from dying of cholera as a child or young adult.
This is true. Oddly however, science is not done in a vacuum. There's also evidence that the protein involved in Parkinson's can crawl along nerves, including from the gut to the brain. Several lines of evidence suggest a possible causal relationship. Of course, none of it is conclusive, and gut involvement in Parkinson's is still an emerging idea. As the *summary* says, don't get your appendix removed yet.
"People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals." If you're tired of hearing people jump to conclusions perhaps you should avoid the Internet?
"Modern medicine" has only existed since the late 80s when the idea that a randomized clinical trial, including blinding and (gasp) involving statisticians, was a good idea. Modern medicine has a big backlog of medieval superstition to get around to.
There was a recent study that suggested even in the case of acute appendicitis, antibiotics were just as effective as removal.
Mmm. Except for the "detail obsessed part" that description fits pretty well with most theology. Particularly if you regard Jesus as deific propaganda.
The proposal was made in 2007:
https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.jt...
Evolution doesn't really care about Parkinson's or Alzheimer's. The protein's involved in both are misfolded versions that have important uses in their normally folded state. Having those proteins around at a small risk of late life dementia is most likely very beneficial.
There's evidence that the misfolded version of the protein involved in Parkinson's can crawl up nerves, including crossing synapses. That would make it conceivable that it could make its way up from the gut to the brain. There's also speculation that inflammation in the gut might be responsible for increasing the chances of misfolding, and migration, so the idea that pathogens could be involved hasn't been ignored.
Ah, you are a member of #allmicrobelivesmatter. Say no more.
For whom?
Astronomers? They would prefer a thirty meter telescope in space, where there's less atmospheric distortion. A square kilometre optical interferometer in space would be heavenly.
Yeah, good luck with that. James Webb is pretty revolutionary with its unfolding mirror, and that's turning out to be way more of a challenge than anyone expected. And it's 6.5 m.
For Hawaii? Degrades the environment and biodiversity. Expect unintended consequences.
Bull. The TMT is being built on top of a volcano. It's a mostly frozen desert up there, and looks a bit like Mars. It's also right next to a bunch of other telescopes, on land that was set aside for that purpose sixty years ago. It's also one building, with very, very few people coming and going. Pic: https://goo.gl/images/Mg24mh
For the inhabitants? I doubt you'd want a 200' skyscraper obscuring your primary view, either.
For the lawyers? Yes, they're a lot richer and happier now, thank you.
There aren't any inhabitants up there. Even the telescopes are mostly robotic. Where there are inhabitants, you can't see the top of Mauna Kea.
Why would he enlighten us when his position is that knowledge is not valuable? Embrace your ignorance, fool!
They already had all the approvals necessary. This is about a court case challenging the already issued permits. So since it's been struck down, the project should be free to proceed.
They do. Scanners normally come with zero boil off systems standard now.
The story in the summary sounds pretty fishy. The story on Reddit is sort of similar but with a lot of "it might have been this but I don't know."
Helium manufacturers take the vents very seriously because if the magnet quenches *all* the helium is going to very quickly boil. 120 L (comes in a can about the size of a BBQ propane canister) boiled off through a leak and dispersed doesn't sound likely to damage anything. The concentration would be very low, and helium floats.
The papers on MEMs and helium do say there's an effect, but they test in pure, pressurized helium atmospheres (inside a pressure vessel) and report slow drift.
Carrying a phone through the magnetic field of a scanner could kill it. During ramping people might have found excuses to wander by and watch.
They switch from DST to standard time.
I have no idea. I assumed it was to make fasting easier. If you sleep in an extra hour in the morning you've got one hour less of sunlight. Except I think the change was in the other direction.
News story from last year. No explanation though.
https://www.moroccoworldnews.c...
Meh. Morocco changes their clocks for Ramadan if it occurs in the summer. They're used to confusion. When I was there nobody was sure if the time was going to change until the morning it did change. I had a plane to catch.
It's hard to get an ethics committee to approve chopping up humans' brains after exposure to investigate mechanisms.
It seems it's hard to filter out 10 nm particles. You can do it, but it's hard (expensive) to do at industrial scales. Industrial scales like water treatment for farms and cities.