What it really all comes down to is another reason why stemcell research should not only be leagal, but highly funded.
The genes that cause diabetes are pretty well known at this point. It really isn't beyond our capabilities to extract some stem cells from a diabetics bone marrow fix the genes and culture the cells to grow a new pancreas that could be reimplanted in the patient with out any fear of rejection.
But I suppose it won't ever happen because it's somehow immoral....
We need to think outside of a box of engineers:
Who says that "individuals with high working-memory capacity" are smart? I know a lot of people that can memorize just about anything, it doesn't mean they can apply that knowledge (unlike a good engineer).
People who can easily memorize aren't necessarily any smarter than those that can't. Most physicists I know would rather derive everything than memorize it - that's true intelligence!
How come noone has mentioned OGM as a container format?? Last I checked it was the best cross platform format out there. It's completely compatible with Mpg4 and Xvid and the documentation on how to use it seems adequate.
When using the flash demo, I found that because zoom centered on where I would move the mouse pointer, the click and drag to move one's view was actually counter-intuitive. It would of made sense if the document acted as an invisible scroll bar and the direction I pushed the mouse with the left button down was the direction I wanted to go in. This would also minimize the amount of mouse movement, as I wouldn't have to reset the mouse upon re-zooming in. Did anyone else fell this way?
Having worked in Pharma for quite some time, I can safely say Africa is by no mean revenue generator for large drug companies. Most manufactures supply drugs to these countries at a loss because the FDA puts a tremendous amount of pressure for "ethical" pricing and distribution. The FDA has a lot of power in that it decides which drugs to "fast track" and which to "study more closely". It can take a VERY long time to bring a drug to market, all the while, that amount of time a company has left on patent of the drug that was submitted is slowly eroding. The FDA submission process is a well-known and documented bottleneck. It is so effective in persuading drug companies that in 2001 the cost of medicine supplied to Africa was 1-10% of the cost of the product in the US.
We are the richest country in the world, hence we are the ones holding the burden of most drug development. Granted, I agree that things are becoming disproportional with regard to what other countries of similar statue to the US pay for drugs and vaccines, and a lot of it is based on drug company profits, but the price of drugs that are sent to African nations is not part of the problem. Most US drug makers would love if conditions in Africa were cleaned up so they wouldn't have to worry about "ethical pricing" any more. Even if the drugs were made by a generic company (which would likely compromise quality), the overall cost of treatment of something like AIDS wouldn't change signifigantly.
To me, it was always the complex math required to do Physics that made it geeky and "unphun".
What kid hasn't heard of Black holes, quasars, neutrinos, quarks, radioactivity? I can't even count how many cartoons make some mention or other about these things, and it's almost always played off as cool. I don't know many kids that don't have some sort of interest learning about what they are or how they work.
What really needs to happen in order to produce more physicists is a greater interest in mathematics. The extent of what most kids know about math is that "it's hard." The few kids do like math only really are interested in studying it because it's something else everyone else seemingly can't. Kids who aren't doing well in math (and even those that are) need to be shown why math is "cool" so that they will have the desire to learn the skills needed to study physics.
It's difficult to process radioactivity and make it non-hazardous. CO2 on the other hand is much easier to handle and doesn't need to be buried as deep. CO2 is also utilized in photosynthesis and can be changed into sugars and Oxygen. A processing plant of photosynthetic bacteria or plants could easily be built if the amount of waste starts becoming a problem.
I can not say what would be best or in the best interest of your student, so I can only speak from my own experiences....
Sports: doesn't work - I played all my life and even if you are the best on the team (as often happened to me in rec-leagues since I would just miss the school team), if people have already made up your mind about you, the only talking people are going to do to you is to say "give me the ball".
Intellectual Clubs: (Chess Club, Math Club, GNU/Linux Club ect.) Here he may have a better shot as people will recognize his abilities and may want to learn form him - but once again if he's just too strange or people already have premonitions about him, it will be a painfully slow process.
Theater: Provided that your student isn't shy, or that he pretend not to be shy when asked to act so, this probably would be his healthiest bet. Most of the time until I joined a drama club I was very quiet, but if I did speak, I was often pegged as weird - either because it was, or because I had over analyzed something to the point where no one could draw a connection to the subject being discussed. The theater people seemed to catch on to obscure references a little bit better and occasionally everyone would actually understand me or at least one person that could actually explain it. Further the creative atmosphere in witch actors work leaves little room for criticism on ones odd behaviors, leaving one of the most open minded communities one can find with out the use of drugs.
Which leads me to: DRUGS: I'm sure this has been said at least a few times before in this post (and probably will be some more before I can finish typing this). If you can get him to do them with some other open-minded people, they'll likely see him for who he is and befriend him. It's hard to write someone extremely intelligent off when you're trippin'. I prefer Acid and Ecstasy my self and really hate POT as most people I know who do it are less motivated (likely as a direct result of the effects of using the drug), however any drug should due as it's a life-alerting experience. If you want to keep it semi-legal have him drink take about 5 times the normal dose of maximum strength robotussin, then drag him into a rave and let the candy kids do their thing (they'll talk to any one - especially the ones just learning how to use their light sticks as they want to perform for anyone who will let them).
"Drugs are good, because when you do them people think that you are cool" -NOFX
If you paid attention in either of your HS Chemistry or Physics classes, you'd know that liquids (and even solids) are indeed compressible. The difference is each is successively orders of magnitude harder to compress.
Would this mean that I should expect more apps for my ol' skool classic the HP OmniGo? Or should I give up and retire it to the box of usless electronics that I swear to make work again someday?
Yes, but in NYC, you don't need a car.
- who sez you need one in Boston? it is after all "America's Walking City" because it is the easiest to get around by foot. Further the subway (T) is extremely easy to navigate when compared to NYC - my girlfriend is a physicist and won't even try to figure out NYC's rail system (I'm in Newark).
I've driven in both cities. There's really no difference.
- I almost agree - the drivers are consistently aggressive in Boston, NYC has probably the same average aggressiveness - but is extremely inconsistent and therefore more stressful as the outliers on both ends drive me nuts.
Proof? Crime is in fact very low through most of NYC ('cept south Bronx). Last time I was in NYC, I stayed in a hotel in Harlem. Felt perfectly safe, even coming back to my hotel after midnight.
- I'd have to disagree, when was the last time you heard about some one getting shot in Boston, or having a major building targeted by terrorists?? I rest my case.
hen again, I hate Logan Airport. I'd much rather deal with Laguardia or JFK.
- yer right - externally - traffic wise - Logan (at least there's a rail to it - though I guess one did just open up to JFK this month... so that might be interesting) internally - I believe I like JFK because it seems more up to date.
>Boston/eastern MA is the birthplace of the revolution. 30 minutes out from Boston is Concord, MA- the first major battle in the revolution.
This has to do with... If you really want to push a patriotic angle, well, Statue of Liberty, WTC site. Also where the Federalist Papers were published, and the site of the first presidential innauguration.
- yea - if any thing I would stated it was the birthplace of the "Open Source/GNU revolution" being that Stallman went to MIT and all.
There are plenty of charming places: Little Italy, Chinatown, etc.
- The difference is pretty every place in Boston because it's smaller so it doesn't have room for dirt.
Our subway costs HALF yours. The system may be dirty+unpredictable, but did I mention it costs half?
Like you said, it's dirty and unpredictable. You get what you pay for.
- hunh? I guess I don't use public transportation enough - but the only thing I found unpredictable in Boston is which GREEN LINE train would actually take me where I want to go, as oppose to any color rail in NYC.
And every police department beats up minorities.
- Have you ever visited Boston? There aren't any minorities to beat on....
But, NYC isn't for everyone. you have to have a certain toughness and attitude. As my fave t-shirt says, "New York: where the weak are killed and eaten."
- Agreed - Boston is more like a town than a city. Public transportation stops running at 1 am, bars and clubs must close at 2 am, there is nowhere you can buy alcohol after to drink at home after 10 PM or on a Sunday. NYC is a real city. - The one single reason I like NYC better than Boston is that if you decide you wanna go out and do something at midnight, there's actually still things you can do by the time your ready.
I'd love to buy CDs as I find the sound quality to be better and I get sick of making up cover art to distinguish between my cds. My issue is that CDs are highly overpriced and I only download as a a protest to the RIAAs price fixing
- compare the price of a CD to a DVD vs the contents and cost of production and the cost of the resources (media) and it's obvious that you are getting screwed when you buy a CD.
and what would have been wrong with registering a domain with godaddy? - I own one... if you read the top of the page you would have noticed the large text that said "comming soon emarketers.org"
Well at least that was the slogan of nearaly all the freshmen at my school who took any form of calculus, as we all had to learn (or try and figure out how to ge the TA to do it for us) Maple. Now that I'm a little more familar with programming it's not so bad, however back then Matlab would have been without a doubt more prefered, as it was much more intuitve. However, the school was getting a big pay off from Maple (one of the founders or key programmers wrote the damn thing) to teach it. Finally my senior year the Matlab people came to campus and got a huge petition together. Both softwear apps are now available on campus, but I'm not sure if they are both taught...
I guess if you want more people to be able to go back and manuipluate yer data, I'd use Matlab...
Computer code, genetic code, and biological targets need to be "open source" if we are ever to progress at any significant rate. The current patent situation in biotech as well as the computer industry is a joke. Personally I'd like to see all patents revised so that maybe a small fixed (~1%) royalty fee is given to the major source on with the product is based on. This way there will be no significant advantage to patenting information and ideas that need development to be useful. Further potential improvements on this work wouldn't be hindered by possible legal/financial issues and it will force any one that is looking to commercialize some product, to take the time to optimize it and make it the best it can possibly be in the first place. Thus the world would be running OS X (that runs windows programs because Mac took windows and revamped it without any legal repercussions) instead of windows, and things such as Prilosec being tweaked into Nexium, would have been done much sooner.
-Jason
I don't know what the big deal is because I CAN'T READ THE ARTICLE!!! However, my current Optical 5 button wheel USB/PS2 mouse is fully rechargeable and has a docking station and retailed at $25 at CompUSA....
Thanks for your comment, and I congragulate you for not being an anonomus courd like the rest, my respect for you opinions is enhanced by it.
Because, yes I do belive that if there were NO OTHER fesiable alternative (I admitt many of the posts that score 5 suggest much bettet alternitives), I would take a mans life. My freedom and those of my friends would be worth my deth or life in jail.
This isn't just another law, it's a war on freedoms, and by allowing it and others such as the patriot act, we are having our freedoms plucked from us, and I'm prepared to go to war if nessary to get them back.
I'm sorry for the flagrence of my post, but that's how strongly I feel about the issue. I was born in NH and fully back the state's motto of "Live free or Die" and as a NH citizen have been given the constitutional right to revolt against my goverment.
If you are still of a difference of opinon, I would much appricieate hearing it.
-Jason
some one needs to take out BayTSP, or at least a couple people over there. Take one for the rest of us. I'd be willing, but I don't know where it is. When it comes right down to it any one who has to hide their location and whereabouts from the public (just as BinLadin) is the real terrorists. If Ishikawa had any belief in what he was doing, he'd make his were abouts know and deal with the inevitable harassment he'd get.
Mean while, and one wanna try a DOS attack on BayTSP?
-Jason
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I though the idea behind current stemcell research was regeneration with out having to "graft" any thing on, such as spinalcord regenaration. I wouldn't think it would be practical to try to graft a whole arm on, unless you sample the patients DNA and encode the stemcells with it to oppose rejection problems.
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What it really all comes down to is another reason why stemcell research should not only be leagal, but highly funded. The genes that cause diabetes are pretty well known at this point. It really isn't beyond our capabilities to extract some stem cells from a diabetics bone marrow fix the genes and culture the cells to grow a new pancreas that could be reimplanted in the patient with out any fear of rejection. But I suppose it won't ever happen because it's somehow immoral....
We need to think outside of a box of engineers: Who says that "individuals with high working-memory capacity" are smart? I know a lot of people that can memorize just about anything, it doesn't mean they can apply that knowledge (unlike a good engineer). People who can easily memorize aren't necessarily any smarter than those that can't. Most physicists I know would rather derive everything than memorize it - that's true intelligence!
How come noone has mentioned OGM as a container format?? Last I checked it was the best cross platform format out there. It's completely compatible with Mpg4 and Xvid and the documentation on how to use it seems adequate.
When using the flash demo, I found that because zoom centered on where I would move the mouse pointer, the click and drag to move one's view was actually counter-intuitive. It would of made sense if the document acted as an invisible scroll bar and the direction I pushed the mouse with the left button down was the direction I wanted to go in. This would also minimize the amount of mouse movement, as I wouldn't have to reset the mouse upon re-zooming in.
Did anyone else fell this way?
We are the richest country in the world, hence we are the ones holding the burden of most drug development. Granted, I agree that things are becoming disproportional with regard to what other countries of similar statue to the US pay for drugs and vaccines, and a lot of it is based on drug company profits, but the price of drugs that are sent to African nations is not part of the problem. Most US drug makers would love if conditions in Africa were cleaned up so they wouldn't have to worry about "ethical pricing" any more. Even if the drugs were made by a generic company (which would likely compromise quality), the overall cost of treatment of something like AIDS wouldn't change signifigantly.
To me, it was always the complex math required to do Physics that made it geeky and "unphun".
What kid hasn't heard of Black holes, quasars, neutrinos, quarks, radioactivity? I can't even count how many cartoons make some mention or other about these things, and it's almost always played off as cool. I don't know many kids that don't have some sort of interest learning about what they are or how they work.
What really needs to happen in order to produce more physicists is a greater interest in mathematics. The extent of what most kids know about math is that "it's hard." The few kids do like math only really are interested in studying it because it's something else everyone else seemingly can't. Kids who aren't doing well in math (and even those that are) need to be shown why math is "cool" so that they will have the desire to learn the skills needed to study physics.
It's difficult to process radioactivity and make it non-hazardous. CO2 on the other hand is much easier to handle and doesn't need to be buried as deep. CO2 is also utilized in photosynthesis and can be changed into sugars and Oxygen. A processing plant of photosynthetic bacteria or plants could easily be built if the amount of waste starts becoming a problem.
I can not say what would be best or in the best interest of your student, so I can only speak from my own experiences....
Sports: doesn't work - I played all my life and even if you are the best on the team (as often happened to me in rec-leagues since I would just miss the school team), if people have already made up your mind about you, the only talking people are going to do to you is to say "give me the ball".
Intellectual Clubs: (Chess Club, Math Club, GNU/Linux Club ect.) Here he may have a better shot as people will recognize his abilities and may want to learn form him - but once again if he's just too strange or people already have premonitions about him, it will be a painfully slow process.
Theater: Provided that your student isn't shy, or that he pretend not to be shy when asked to act so, this probably would be his healthiest bet. Most of the time until I joined a drama club I was very quiet, but if I did speak, I was often pegged as weird - either because it was, or because I had over analyzed something to the point where no one could draw a connection to the subject being discussed. The theater people seemed to catch on to obscure references a little bit better and occasionally everyone would actually understand me or at least one person that could actually explain it. Further the creative atmosphere in witch actors work leaves little room for criticism on ones odd behaviors, leaving one of the most open minded communities one can find with out the use of drugs.
Which leads me to:
DRUGS: I'm sure this has been said at least a few times before in this post (and probably will be some more before I can finish typing this). If you can get him to do them with some other open-minded people, they'll likely see him for who he is and befriend him. It's hard to write someone extremely intelligent off when you're trippin'. I prefer Acid and Ecstasy my self and really hate POT as most people I know who do it are less motivated (likely as a direct result of the effects of using the drug), however any drug should due as it's a life-alerting experience. If you want to keep it semi-legal have him drink take about 5 times the normal dose of maximum strength robotussin, then drag him into a rave and let the candy kids do their thing (they'll talk to any one - especially the ones just learning how to use their light sticks as they want to perform for anyone who will let them).
"Drugs are good, because when you do them people think that you are cool" -NOFX
If you paid attention in either of your HS Chemistry or Physics classes, you'd know that liquids (and even solids) are indeed compressible. The difference is each is successively orders of magnitude harder to compress.
The correct thing to say would have been that liquids are "near incompressible" and for the purposes of breaking, it is as earlier posters said the boiling point of the break fluid that is important.
Would this mean that I should expect more apps for my ol' skool classic the HP OmniGo? Or should I give up and retire it to the box of usless electronics that I swear to make work again someday?
Yes, but in NYC, you don't need a car. - who sez you need one in Boston? it is after all "America's Walking City" because it is the easiest to get around by foot. Further the subway (T) is extremely easy to navigate when compared to NYC - my girlfriend is a physicist and won't even try to figure out NYC's rail system (I'm in Newark). I've driven in both cities. There's really no difference. - I almost agree - the drivers are consistently aggressive in Boston, NYC has probably the same average aggressiveness - but is extremely inconsistent and therefore more stressful as the outliers on both ends drive me nuts. Proof? Crime is in fact very low through most of NYC ('cept south Bronx). Last time I was in NYC, I stayed in a hotel in Harlem. Felt perfectly safe, even coming back to my hotel after midnight. - I'd have to disagree, when was the last time you heard about some one getting shot in Boston, or having a major building targeted by terrorists?? I rest my case. hen again, I hate Logan Airport. I'd much rather deal with Laguardia or JFK. - yer right - externally - traffic wise - Logan (at least there's a rail to it - though I guess one did just open up to JFK this month... so that might be interesting) internally - I believe I like JFK because it seems more up to date. >Boston/eastern MA is the birthplace of the revolution. 30 minutes out from Boston is Concord, MA- the first major battle in the revolution. This has to do with... If you really want to push a patriotic angle, well, Statue of Liberty, WTC site. Also where the Federalist Papers were published, and the site of the first presidential innauguration. - yea - if any thing I would stated it was the birthplace of the "Open Source/GNU revolution" being that Stallman went to MIT and all. There are plenty of charming places: Little Italy, Chinatown, etc. - The difference is pretty every place in Boston because it's smaller so it doesn't have room for dirt. Our subway costs HALF yours. The system may be dirty+unpredictable, but did I mention it costs half? Like you said, it's dirty and unpredictable. You get what you pay for. - hunh? I guess I don't use public transportation enough - but the only thing I found unpredictable in Boston is which GREEN LINE train would actually take me where I want to go, as oppose to any color rail in NYC. And every police department beats up minorities. - Have you ever visited Boston? There aren't any minorities to beat on.... But, NYC isn't for everyone. you have to have a certain toughness and attitude. As my fave t-shirt says, "New York: where the weak are killed and eaten." - Agreed - Boston is more like a town than a city. Public transportation stops running at 1 am, bars and clubs must close at 2 am, there is nowhere you can buy alcohol after to drink at home after 10 PM or on a Sunday. NYC is a real city. - The one single reason I like NYC better than Boston is that if you decide you wanna go out and do something at midnight, there's actually still things you can do by the time your ready.
- compare the price of a CD to a DVD vs the contents and cost of production and the cost of the resources (media) and it's obvious that you are getting screwed when you buy a CD.
and what would have been wrong with registering a domain with godaddy? - I own one... if you read the top of the page you would have noticed the large text that said "comming soon emarketers.org"
Well at least that was the slogan of nearaly all the freshmen at my school who took any form of calculus, as we all had to learn (or try and figure out how to ge the TA to do it for us) Maple. Now that I'm a little more familar with programming it's not so bad, however back then Matlab would have been without a doubt more prefered, as it was much more intuitve. However, the school was getting a big pay off from Maple (one of the founders or key programmers wrote the damn thing) to teach it. Finally my senior year the Matlab people came to campus and got a huge petition together. Both softwear apps are now available on campus, but I'm not sure if they are both taught... I guess if you want more people to be able to go back and manuipluate yer data, I'd use Matlab...
Dude! - it's called PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
Computer code, genetic code, and biological targets need to be "open source" if we are ever to progress at any significant rate. The current patent situation in biotech as well as the computer industry is a joke. Personally I'd like to see all patents revised so that maybe a small fixed (~1%) royalty fee is given to the major source on with the product is based on. This way there will be no significant advantage to patenting information and ideas that need development to be useful. Further potential improvements on this work wouldn't be hindered by possible legal/financial issues and it will force any one that is looking to commercialize some product, to take the time to optimize it and make it the best it can possibly be in the first place. Thus the world would be running OS X (that runs windows programs because Mac took windows and revamped it without any legal repercussions) instead of windows, and things such as Prilosec being tweaked into Nexium, would have been done much sooner. -Jason
I don't know what the big deal is because I CAN'T READ THE ARTICLE!!! However, my current Optical 5 button wheel USB/PS2 mouse is fully rechargeable and has a docking station and retailed at $25 at CompUSA....
Thanks for your comment, and I congragulate you for not being an anonomus courd like the rest, my respect for you opinions is enhanced by it. Because, yes I do belive that if there were NO OTHER fesiable alternative (I admitt many of the posts that score 5 suggest much bettet alternitives), I would take a mans life. My freedom and those of my friends would be worth my deth or life in jail. This isn't just another law, it's a war on freedoms, and by allowing it and others such as the patriot act, we are having our freedoms plucked from us, and I'm prepared to go to war if nessary to get them back. I'm sorry for the flagrence of my post, but that's how strongly I feel about the issue. I was born in NH and fully back the state's motto of "Live free or Die" and as a NH citizen have been given the constitutional right to revolt against my goverment. If you are still of a difference of opinon, I would much appricieate hearing it. -Jason
some one needs to take out BayTSP, or at least a couple people over there. Take one for the rest of us. I'd be willing, but I don't know where it is. When it comes right down to it any one who has to hide their location and whereabouts from the public (just as BinLadin) is the real terrorists. If Ishikawa had any belief in what he was doing, he'd make his were abouts know and deal with the inevitable harassment he'd get. Mean while, and one wanna try a DOS attack on BayTSP? -Jason
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I though the idea behind current stemcell research was regeneration with out having to "graft" any thing on, such as spinalcord regenaration. I wouldn't think it would be practical to try to graft a whole arm on, unless you sample the patients DNA and encode the stemcells with it to oppose rejection problems.