Getting sick isn't the point. In fact, it might be exposure to relatively harmless microbes that helps stave off auto-immune disorders. The problem is that antibacterials/antimicrobials kill everything, not just the bugs that pose a threat.
Nothing will make an intellectually non-curious person into an intellectual.
I didn't consider myself intellectually curious before I went to college. Exposure to the humanities as part of my lib ed requirements did, in fact, make me that way.
Interesting. I'm 35 and grew up just north of Salt Lake City. At the time, I didn't know a single, solitary person--not one--who believed in evolution. I was taught repeatedly that the stories in the Bible (Garden of Eden, Noah's Flood, David and Goliath, pillars of salt, the whole bit) were historical facts, and that if I couldn't accept that, I couldn't be a Mormon. I eventually left Mormonism for a host reasons, but the whole attitude towards reality sure didn't help. I'm glad others have had better experiences.
Slamming the BYU honor code is funny, but a little OT. Mormons are Biblical literalists who believe that the earth was created 6000 years ago. That makes this discovery, and the fact that BYU has such a large collection of fossils to begin with, deeply ironic.
This analysis reminds me of discussions taking place around 2000, when the prevailing wisdom was that it would not make one bit of difference who got elected. We were wrong then, and you are wrong now.
Diseases that are transmitted directly from host to host tend to evolve to be less deadly for the exact reasons you describe. Diseases that are transmitted through an intermediary (like insects) can afford to be much more aggressive against their final hosts. That said, this theory still sounds fishy to me. These diseases were so devastating that they managed to drive two orders of animals to total extinction?
Unpredictability has nothing to do with free will. I can be completely predictable and still be acting freely. Conversely, if my actions are random, how can I be said to have any control over them?
Just one quibble. Bush didn't surround himself with yes-men, he *is* a yes-man to Rove, Rumsfeld and (especially) Cheney. They ran roughshod over his presidency. Like Grant, Bush will be remembered as a weak president who allowed unscrupulous members of his administration to wreck havoc unchecked.
Who cares if it's a stunt? I think both stunts (pay-what-you-like and now the Creative Commons video) are pretty cool. Sure, it's just enlightened self-interest on their part. They're not open source acolytes, they're just after the publicity. Does that mean that this isn't a good thing? Or does it only count if you are also proclaiming to be one of the faithful?
Not for your address: your password. For addresses, they charge by the MB. If they have your password, the nefarious factor goes up, and so does the cost.
According to TFA, Venus's plate tectonics shut down when the last of its water boiled away. Can any of you geniuses explain to me why water is required for plate tectonics to function?
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Getting sick isn't the point. In fact, it might be exposure to relatively harmless microbes that helps stave off auto-immune disorders. The problem is that antibacterials/antimicrobials kill everything, not just the bugs that pose a threat.
Crap, when I left the Mormon church I didn't even get offered a T-shirt. Where the hell is my car???
Nothing will make an intellectually non-curious person into an intellectual.
I didn't consider myself intellectually curious before I went to college. Exposure to the humanities as part of my lib ed requirements did, in fact, make me that way.
However modded parent Troll completely missed the point.
It's dead, Jim.
Interesting. I'm 35 and grew up just north of Salt Lake City. At the time, I didn't know a single, solitary person--not one--who believed in evolution. I was taught repeatedly that the stories in the Bible (Garden of Eden, Noah's Flood, David and Goliath, pillars of salt, the whole bit) were historical facts, and that if I couldn't accept that, I couldn't be a Mormon. I eventually left Mormonism for a host reasons, but the whole attitude towards reality sure didn't help. I'm glad others have had better experiences.
If so, then it's changed quite a bit since I was a kid. My seminary teachers treated me like a Satanist because I accepted evolution without apology.
Slamming the BYU honor code is funny, but a little OT. Mormons are Biblical literalists who believe that the earth was created 6000 years ago. That makes this discovery, and the fact that BYU has such a large collection of fossils to begin with, deeply ironic.
This analysis reminds me of discussions taking place around 2000, when the prevailing wisdom was that it would not make one bit of difference who got elected. We were wrong then, and you are wrong now.
Diseases that are transmitted directly from host to host tend to evolve to be less deadly for the exact reasons you describe. Diseases that are transmitted through an intermediary (like insects) can afford to be much more aggressive against their final hosts. That said, this theory still sounds fishy to me. These diseases were so devastating that they managed to drive two orders of animals to total extinction?
He meant that the terabyte barrier (not the gigabyte barrier) was broken fifteen years ago, correct?
Unpredictability has nothing to do with free will. I can be completely predictable and still be acting freely. Conversely, if my actions are random, how can I be said to have any control over them?
Just one quibble. Bush didn't surround himself with yes-men, he *is* a yes-man to Rove, Rumsfeld and (especially) Cheney. They ran roughshod over his presidency. Like Grant, Bush will be remembered as a weak president who allowed unscrupulous members of his administration to wreck havoc unchecked.
I believe that's what AC was saying: if you're innocent when you go to jail, you won't be by the time you come out.
Who cares if it's a stunt? I think both stunts (pay-what-you-like and now the Creative Commons video) are pretty cool. Sure, it's just enlightened self-interest on their part. They're not open source acolytes, they're just after the publicity. Does that mean that this isn't a good thing? Or does it only count if you are also proclaiming to be one of the faithful?
Not for your address: your password. For addresses, they charge by the MB. If they have your password, the nefarious factor goes up, and so does the cost.
Not an oxymoron. Self-fulfilling prophecy, maybe.
According to TFA, Venus's plate tectonics shut down when the last of its water boiled away. Can any of you geniuses explain to me why water is required for plate tectonics to function?