while listening to "science friday" on NPR a few years back, there was discussion that telomere shortening was one of the causes of aging that scientists hope to be able to reverse. Do you suppose that would be through the use of stem-cells. (I got out of my truck and didn't hear the end of the program)
I know that bush did not end stem cell research, but limited it to the existing stem cell lines. I am curious, are these lines sufficient? My impression is that they are not. One of the problems I have heard mentioned is that as cells are reproduced over and over again, transcription errors can occur, yielding inferior cell lines, and thus introducing increase error variance into experiments. Does anyone know if this is true?
twilight is often a combination of valium and versed. the fun thing is when people are coming out and they are conscious, they are unable to form long-term memories, and thus ask things like, "what time is it? when i am i going in for the procedure?" and then ask the same thing 12 seconds later.
So, assuming it exits your body the same way most things that we ingest leave our bodies, do the feet and legs simply fold under the pressure of the rectum and anus on the way out? If not, "squeezing one out" might not be the way to go for elimination. Nothing quite so satisfying as pooping a metal centipede.
The real metallica has been missing since 1991? I believe your date s are mistaken, as they went missing after Master of Puppets sometime around 1985... CLIFF LIVES! (wow, I feel like I am in Junior High again!)
I am a psychologist who works for a school district. I cannot speak for all of my peers, but I can address my experiences/observations. Some children are signficantly less attentive and more active than their same-age, same-gender classmates in the same situation. The causal factors are of course hotly debated, but I think it is silly to debate the existence of ADHD. IMO it is not frequently overdiagnosed, but I do believe that it is often over-medicated. To some degree, we need to appreciate that some kids function in this manner, and they need to learn compensatory and adaptive skills to cope with it so that they can function in the "real world." Despite this difficulty.
Would anyone be able to recommend a text, or other means by which I could learn to use Linux? I too am tired of windows but am limited by my background as a social (not computer) scientist.
does anyone know where i might purchase tinfoil in sheets wide enough to wrap my house? it only has to be wide enough for the walls, you see the roof is covered with solar collecters so that i am not supporting the evil-power-conspiracy.
probably the most common bio-feedback that can change quickly and be monitored crudely and quickly is galvanic skin response (GSR). this is a measure of the conductivity of your skin, and is measured pretty easily with two electrodes to assess resistance. i bet that might be "malleable" enough and respond quickly enough. good thought
there is actually a neurochemical inhibitor that stops motor-activity while dreaming, but the associated areas of the motor-cortex continue to be active
as a psychologist - I have seen software that is designed to train people to elicit a certain type of brain wave pattern (e.g., beta, alpha). These devices use fairly crude caps. I suppose the wheelchair-makers may be using broad patterns such as these, rather than very neuroanatomically localized patterns, which I believe would be more subject to increased artifact as a function of movement.
when the user dreams they are moving? Similar neural areas may become active, and thus activate the wheelchair. If so, could an add-on be used to detect REM activity and incapacitate the device when the user is sleeping?
and PRAY-tell, what make Roman Catholicism more credible than a religion a make up next weekend while writing science-fiction stories a la L.Ron Hubbard. Religion is based on conjecture and faith, as such there is nothing to validate. If there were, we would call it science, not religion.
I concur, I also take excpetion to a methodology that uses a single case study design (Population and N = 1) for comparison with one member of a population of millions. Talk about error rate increasing from unequal n-size... Sheesh!
to sneak a gadget into a meeting to get me away from self-important blowhards is cool by me. It may take an entire meeting to input my daily schedule, but at least my previously wasted time is no longer a complete write-off.
i am not tech savvy (psychologist by trade, and we are a notoriously anachronistic lot) but i have to say, i have never been fooled by one of these ads. if one gets sucked in by an ad of this sort, i almost think that it is sort of a good "net-learning experience."
To paraphrase oliver wendell holmes, once you understand a new idea, it is very hard to go back to your original way of thinking. we can only hope that fundamentalists will see the light of day and begin to understand things such as reason and data, but that is unlikely. until they do, they are going to continue killing people because god/allah/jahweh told 'em to. even though i am a bleeding heart agnostic/humanist, i understand their rationale on an emotional level. there are many times i wish we could wipe out people with such a strong need for a dogmatic basis for living. but, then again, they feel the same way about me. too bad only one of the two sides recognizes that it is okay to live and let live.
We are already tracked five ways to friday, DARPA would simply add a visual image to the infrequent portions of our day where we aren't already tracked (and often already visually recorded). My location can be tracked through work schedules, the archaic phonebook, and credit-card/debit purchases. My purchases are tracked through store "discount" cards and my credit cards to create a profile of my spending habits for market research. If my wife/boss bothers to do so, they can track my internet usage, and the NSA could get it's hands on my internet tracks unless i go to what i consider extreme lengths to cover them. I am on film whenever I walk into a commercial establishment and on the sidewalks in between via atm's etc. Unless I want to ride a bike, shave myself bald, wrap myself in 100% cotton (no dye, less traceable) bedsheets, and pay for my purchases in less-traceable-than-paper-or-credit gold, I am not going to have anonymity. We lost that years ago. McCarthy just started formalizing the process a few years back, and now we have the technology to back it up. Time and time again, a signficant portion of our society displays their inability to manage their own lives. Maybe they need someone to step in and track them so that we can help them learn to function/weed them out.
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while listening to "science friday" on NPR a few years back, there was discussion that telomere shortening was one of the causes of aging that scientists hope to be able to reverse. Do you suppose that would be through the use of stem-cells. (I got out of my truck and didn't hear the end of the program)
I know that bush did not end stem cell research, but limited it to the existing stem cell lines. I am curious, are these lines sufficient? My impression is that they are not. One of the problems I have heard mentioned is that as cells are reproduced over and over again, transcription errors can occur, yielding inferior cell lines, and thus introducing increase error variance into experiments. Does anyone know if this is true?
yes - but the explosions on spaceships make great, fearful noises. while lasers make that cool "pew-pew" noise. duh, everyone knows that. ur stoopid.
in defense of kerry, it would be hard for him to present facts regarding what he has been able to do as president, as he has not YET been president.
twilight is often a combination of valium and versed. the fun thing is when people are coming out and they are conscious, they are unable to form long-term memories, and thus ask things like, "what time is it? when i am i going in for the procedure?" and then ask the same thing 12 seconds later.
So, assuming it exits your body the same way most things that we ingest leave our bodies, do the feet and legs simply fold under the pressure of the rectum and anus on the way out? If not, "squeezing one out" might not be the way to go for elimination. Nothing quite so satisfying as pooping a metal centipede.
The real metallica has been missing since 1991? I believe your date s are mistaken, as they went missing after Master of Puppets sometime around 1985... CLIFF LIVES! (wow, I feel like I am in Junior High again!)
maybe it is a Cage composition....
I am a psychologist who works for a school district. I cannot speak for all of my peers, but I can address my experiences/observations. Some children are signficantly less attentive and more active than their same-age, same-gender classmates in the same situation. The causal factors are of course hotly debated, but I think it is silly to debate the existence of ADHD. IMO it is not frequently overdiagnosed, but I do believe that it is often over-medicated. To some degree, we need to appreciate that some kids function in this manner, and they need to learn compensatory and adaptive skills to cope with it so that they can function in the "real world." Despite this difficulty.
Would anyone be able to recommend a text, or other means by which I could learn to use Linux? I too am tired of windows but am limited by my background as a social (not computer) scientist.
does anyone know where i might purchase tinfoil in sheets wide enough to wrap my house? it only has to be wide enough for the walls, you see the roof is covered with solar collecters so that i am not supporting the evil-power-conspiracy.
you know it is mighty "big" of you guys to admit your errors. something that would be "hard" to achieve, were either of you impotent.
probably the most common bio-feedback that can change quickly and be monitored crudely and quickly is galvanic skin response (GSR). this is a measure of the conductivity of your skin, and is measured pretty easily with two electrodes to assess resistance. i bet that might be "malleable" enough and respond quickly enough. good thought
there is actually a neurochemical inhibitor that stops motor-activity while dreaming, but the associated areas of the motor-cortex continue to be active
as a psychologist - I have seen software that is designed to train people to elicit a certain type of brain wave pattern (e.g., beta, alpha). These devices use fairly crude caps. I suppose the wheelchair-makers may be using broad patterns such as these, rather than very neuroanatomically localized patterns, which I believe would be more subject to increased artifact as a function of movement.
when the user dreams they are moving? Similar neural areas may become active, and thus activate the wheelchair. If so, could an add-on be used to detect REM activity and incapacitate the device when the user is sleeping?
and PRAY-tell, what make Roman Catholicism more credible than a religion a make up next weekend while writing science-fiction stories a la L.Ron Hubbard. Religion is based on conjecture and faith, as such there is nothing to validate. If there were, we would call it science, not religion.
I concur, I also take excpetion to a methodology that uses a single case study design (Population and N = 1) for comparison with one member of a population of millions. Talk about error rate increasing from unequal n-size... Sheesh!
i liked my arm-abacus, but like my etch-a-sketch-pda, every time i moved my arm, my data got screwed up.
to sneak a gadget into a meeting to get me away from self-important blowhards is cool by me. It may take an entire meeting to input my daily schedule, but at least my previously wasted time is no longer a complete write-off.
i am not tech savvy (psychologist by trade, and we are a notoriously anachronistic lot) but i have to say, i have never been fooled by one of these ads. if one gets sucked in by an ad of this sort, i almost think that it is sort of a good "net-learning experience."
To paraphrase oliver wendell holmes, once you understand a new idea, it is very hard to go back to your original way of thinking. we can only hope that fundamentalists will see the light of day and begin to understand things such as reason and data, but that is unlikely. until they do, they are going to continue killing people because god/allah/jahweh told 'em to. even though i am a bleeding heart agnostic/humanist, i understand their rationale on an emotional level. there are many times i wish we could wipe out people with such a strong need for a dogmatic basis for living. but, then again, they feel the same way about me. too bad only one of the two sides recognizes that it is okay to live and let live.
Careful of this guy in the kitchen - "Would you please pass the Na metal, my soup needs sal...(KERBLAM!)"
We are already tracked five ways to friday, DARPA would simply add a visual image to the infrequent portions of our day where we aren't already tracked (and often already visually recorded). My location can be tracked through work schedules, the archaic phonebook, and credit-card/debit purchases. My purchases are tracked through store "discount" cards and my credit cards to create a profile of my spending habits for market research. If my wife/boss bothers to do so, they can track my internet usage, and the NSA could get it's hands on my internet tracks unless i go to what i consider extreme lengths to cover them. I am on film whenever I walk into a commercial establishment and on the sidewalks in between via atm's etc. Unless I want to ride a bike, shave myself bald, wrap myself in 100% cotton (no dye, less traceable) bedsheets, and pay for my purchases in less-traceable-than-paper-or-credit gold, I am not going to have anonymity. We lost that years ago. McCarthy just started formalizing the process a few years back, and now we have the technology to back it up. Time and time again, a signficant portion of our society displays their inability to manage their own lives. Maybe they need someone to step in and track them so that we can help them learn to function/weed them out.
i'm just going to paint my car to look like a cat - they'll never find it, no matter how hard they look!