Have you actually seen a newish 18 wheeler, RV or UPS truck without them? They make so much sense to professionals (and well heeled but insane RV drivers) that this has pretty much already happened.
Personally, I can't imagine driving a pickup truck sized vehicle without one. It's been game changer 4 wheeling - you know exactly where that cliff is....
Not really. You can source these things from Amazon for $100 fully built or $25 for component parts. I really don't think it's going to cost folks that much. This is really low tech stuff.
No,they're not required. That's the funny part. There are primates which do a wonderful job of going from fertilized egg to organism without the viral DNA. It's just that the viral DNA is very active in a class of stem cells and not active in other cells. It was thought that all of this 'junk DNA' - which includes most of the incorporated retrovirus DNA - didn't do anything.
Now they know it does something. Only in stem cells. That's weird. And fun. But it's not clear that this is useful or will cure cancer or allow you to get a date.
As usual, it's interesting science hyped beyond measure.
Yep, I just did. I live on the side of a 3500 foot mountain at an elevation of about 200 feet. No traditional floods are likely short of a Noah-level deluge, but national flood insurance does cover mass wastings (like the recent disaster in Washington state) as long as damage is from water or mud, not debris or trees (and the damage encompasses more than one acre but less than 20,000 acres). But it only cost $300 a year, so I think it's worth it.
But the flood insurance program in general is just batshit insane, like most US government policies.
Lying is also a useful social construct, no matter what we might think about it's moral implications. So people who find lying easy are often more successful (think you're average sociopathic CEO or politician).
You realize that 'normal' people invariably have symptoms or findings found in syndromes or diseases. The discovery of which prompts the 'second year medical student syndrome'. At least in the US, the second year of medical school is when you start studying the pathology of disease and learn about all of these funny named syndromes and problems. Invariably at least one or two resonates with the reader and they feel instantly afflicted. This prompts further study (which is good) and further worry (which isn't).
What you described is pretty much everyone who doesn't go on to be a used car salesman or a politician. Figuring out the ins and outs of social contact is hard for most humans. People afflicted with autism / aspbergers are really hard stopped to the edge of human contact. Yes, at a molecular level, some of us who don't deal with the social graces as well as others probably have some similarities, but pretty much all of health and disease lies along a continuum, We often make fairly arbitrary distinctions because it helps pigeon hole things and humans like to do that... But it's not always representative of the issue.
I wish we could edit posts. Speak about updating.... (No, I'm NOT looking at you beta).
It isn't even clear that Primum non nocere (first, do no harm) was actually coined by Hippocrates (see the Wikipedia article). He certainly alludes to it, however ("to abstain from doing harm")./medical history nazi
"First do no harm" there is no room in the Hippocratic oath for "greater good" style thinking.
But there is room in the Oath for praying to Apollo, not letting women practice medicine and not having sex with slaves. The Hippocratic Oath is not particularly inclusive or exclusive. It's really kinda freaky. It has a couple of worthwhile sentences but it could use a bit of updating.
What about folks in the high lattitudes? Here in Alaska we're doing +4 - 5 minutes a day. That's 30 minutes a week. In the winter it's the inverse. It's hard to change your habits that rapidly.
Yes, and the problem with this analysis is that these folks were probably ** going ** to have a heart attack soon - perhaps next week, this is just one big jolt that, as you note, happens at the same time so pops up out of the noise.
Even if you let everybody sleep on the same scale, you're not really going to change the rate of MI's all that much by killing DST. If you let Americans sleep MORE on the average, then you might see the rate drop. But then they would live longer and cost more, so you don't necessarily want to do that....
At the risk of seeming pretentious, the entire article is a crock. Y. pestis is a bacterium, not a virus. As has been mentioned, this is a well known hypothesis and the new information might expand that, but there is not way to determine that from TFA.
Note to editors: The International Business Times is a poor source for scientific news.
Somehow, I don't think I'm going to ever trust my neighbor's foray into printing car tires. If he gets so organized and skilled that he can make a tire that competes with a Chinese manufacturer then he probably is going to sell them at a store or perhaps on line. No different from the way I get things now.
Even in the moderate term, 3D printing will be evolutionary, not revolutionary. It will fit certain applications, it will not be a good fit for many others. I doubt it will create any fundamental change in the economy. We're NOT talking about Star Trek replicators here.
In the greater LA area, it's rather likely that 50 people are displaced from their homes on a daily basis from water mains leaks, fires, termites and Bog Knows what else. Call FEMA (and me) when you ramp it up by a couple of orders of magnitude.
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Gee, I feel better already.....
Well, you're in luck. Just sign up for the F-35 program and get fitted for one of these bad boys.
This can be summed up briefly:
Murphy's Law.
Have you actually seen a newish 18 wheeler, RV or UPS truck without them? They make so much sense to professionals (and well heeled but insane RV drivers) that this has pretty much already happened.
Personally, I can't imagine driving a pickup truck sized vehicle without one. It's been game changer 4 wheeling - you know exactly where that cliff is....
Not really. You can source these things from Amazon for $100 fully built or $25 for component parts. I really don't think it's going to cost folks that much. This is really low tech stuff.
Except that I just stuck one on my truck, built out of component parts found on Amazon for ~$25. One off prices. This stuff is cheap these days.
It really won't raise vehicle prices by much.
No,they're not required. That's the funny part. There are primates which do a wonderful job of going from fertilized egg to organism without the viral DNA. It's just that the viral DNA is very active in a class of stem cells and not active in other cells. It was thought that all of this 'junk DNA' - which includes most of the incorporated retrovirus DNA - didn't do anything.
Now they know it does something. Only in stem cells. That's weird. And fun. But it's not clear that this is useful or will cure cancer or allow you to get a date.
As usual, it's interesting science hyped beyond measure.
Yep, I just did. I live on the side of a 3500 foot mountain at an elevation of about 200 feet. No traditional floods are likely short of a Noah-level deluge, but national flood insurance does cover mass wastings (like the recent disaster in Washington state) as long as damage is from water or mud, not debris or trees (and the damage encompasses more than one acre but less than 20,000 acres). But it only cost $300 a year, so I think it's worth it.
But the flood insurance program in general is just batshit insane, like most US government policies.
Lying is also a useful social construct, no matter what we might think about it's moral implications. So people who find lying easy are often more successful (think you're average sociopathic CEO or politician).
You realize that 'normal' people invariably have symptoms or findings found in syndromes or diseases. The discovery of which prompts the 'second year medical student syndrome'. At least in the US, the second year of medical school is when you start studying the pathology of disease and learn about all of these funny named syndromes and problems. Invariably at least one or two resonates with the reader and they feel instantly afflicted. This prompts further study (which is good) and further worry (which isn't).
What you described is pretty much everyone who doesn't go on to be a used car salesman or a politician. Figuring out the ins and outs of social contact is hard for most humans. People afflicted with autism / aspbergers are really hard stopped to the edge of human contact. Yes, at a molecular level, some of us who don't deal with the social graces as well as others probably have some similarities, but pretty much all of health and disease lies along a continuum, We often make fairly arbitrary distinctions because it helps pigeon hole things and humans like to do that... But it's not always representative of the issue.
I wish we could edit posts. Speak about updating .... (No, I'm NOT looking at you beta).
It isn't even clear that Primum non nocere (first, do no harm) was actually coined by Hippocrates (see the Wikipedia article). He certainly alludes to it, however ("to abstain from doing harm"). /medical history nazi
"First do no harm" there is no room in the Hippocratic oath for "greater good" style thinking.
But there is room in the Oath for praying to Apollo, not letting women practice medicine and not having sex with slaves. The Hippocratic Oath is not particularly inclusive or exclusive. It's really kinda freaky. It has a couple of worthwhile sentences but it could use a bit of updating.
Remember folks, the US does allow whaling. Alaska native tribes are still allowed a subsistence hunt for bowhead whales.
I'm not sure where you are going with that.
Easy, just dope the whales with some radioactive materials. Not enough to harm the whales but enough so the japanese will be too scared to eat them.
You're too late. The Japanese already thought of that idea.
What about folks in the high lattitudes? Here in Alaska we're doing +4 - 5 minutes a day. That's 30 minutes a week. In the winter it's the inverse. It's hard to change your habits that rapidly.
Yes, and the problem with this analysis is that these folks were probably ** going ** to have a heart attack soon - perhaps next week, this is just one big jolt that, as you note, happens at the same time so pops up out of the noise.
Even if you let everybody sleep on the same scale, you're not really going to change the rate of MI's all that much by killing DST. If you let Americans sleep MORE on the average, then you might see the rate drop. But then they would live longer and cost more, so you don't necessarily want to do that....
I just love all of the optimism here on Slashdot. It is truly heartwarming.
Think "Facebook meets Second Life with better-than-1998-graphics".
Then, feel free to throw up.
Now that's just crazy talk.
At the risk of seeming pretentious, the entire article is a crock. Y. pestis is a bacterium, not a virus. As has been mentioned, this is a well known hypothesis and the new information might expand that, but there is not way to determine that from TFA.
Note to editors: The International Business Times is a poor source for scientific news.
Better living through chemistry.
You should try it sometime. Reality won't seem quite so scary.
Somehow, I don't think I'm going to ever trust my neighbor's foray into printing car tires. If he gets so organized and skilled that he can make a tire that competes with a Chinese manufacturer then he probably is going to sell them at a store or perhaps on line. No different from the way I get things now.
Even in the moderate term, 3D printing will be evolutionary, not revolutionary. It will fit certain applications, it will not be a good fit for many others. I doubt it will create any fundamental change in the economy. We're NOT talking about Star Trek replicators here.
In the greater LA area, it's rather likely that 50 people are displaced from their homes on a daily basis from water mains leaks, fires, termites and Bog Knows what else. Call FEMA (and me) when you ramp it up by a couple of orders of magnitude.
And aliens.