Piloting a plane while talking is very different than talking when driving. For the specific reason you point out - you are trained to engage in specific conversations with specific people using a specific language. When things get difficult, you shut up if at all possible.
Same with Police, Fire, Ambulance drivers - you have a limited, scripted set of tasks.
It's not the random babble with bog-knows-what that constitutes random phone conversation.
Appropriate, but for school? I certainly read SF at home, probably didn't reach much of anything else until college, but in school? Not so sure of that. Teach real science in school, Heinlein is for night time with the covers over your head and a flashlight (or whatever is the current equivalent, I wouldn't even want to hazard a guess).
The alcohol tastes better than the boiling.,, Also, IIRC pasteurization of beer was relatively recent while the aseptic qualities of alcohol tinctured liquids was known for several thousand years. Could be recalling it incorrectly. Happens every 20 minutes or so.
OK, now that I actually read the TFA I'm not terribly surprised - other than the fact that this study apparently hasn't been done before.
Researchers tracked human pathogenic viruses in a city sewage system. The concentration of the little critters varies as waves of infection go back and forth amongst the humans and other creatures whose waste is collected in the system.
The then track the appearance of viruses in a deep well under the sewage lines and find that about six weeks later, the same virus shows up in the presumably sterile well water with roughly the same kinetics (peak and ebb). So they are able to posit (but not prove) that the viruses came from the sewage system (as opposed to skinnying down the pipe itself or just magically appearing).
So, you have unmapped connections through the supposedly sealed off clay cap that lies between the sewage systems and the aquifer. Doesn't surprise me. One small earthquake 100000 years ago could have done it.
But it is a cautionary tale that deserves some additional testing to see how widespread the issue is.
In the UK, the wait times for care are often extremely long. The five year outcomes for someone diagnosed with a serious illness are significantly worse in the UK than in the US.
Wait times for elective procedures may be long. OTOH medically related bankruptcy is very infrequent. I'd like to see some data on your attestation that serious illness outcomes are worse in the UK. Overall (and there likely are exceptions to everything), the UK and Europe have much better long term survivals for everything except some odd cancers and when you look at that data, the differences are in months, not years, indicating the US system flogs nearly dead patients for longer - not necessarily a 'better' outcome.
Increasingly it does (minus the artsy chick, some fantasies never die). Very few current articles in biology have been written by one or two people. Even those articles have a long list of people that the researchers relied on for technical and intellectual support. It's not Charles Darwin walking down the road any more.
While there may be great insights developed by single 'intuitive' biologists, the intellectual foundations of those insights are going to come from thousands of disparate people. DNA chemistry and sequencing is an example here - how many biologists understand the chemistry of the analyzers? How many chemists understand the software?
I don't think H.O. is really correct though. At the complexity level that biologists are working at 'intuitive' thinking isn't going to help much. Working the numbers will.
I'd rather train a mathematician to be a biologist than the other way around.
I blame the users. If they bothered to learn even a little about how things work, they wouldn't give up their freedom so easily. The complacency is staggering. Even people whose job depends on being able to efficiently work with computers often perform repetitive tasks manually instead of learning how to use more of the program they're working with. Of course, with users like that, who refuse to learn how to use what capabilities are already at their disposal, there's a market for the simplest automation performed as a service.
OK, so the Eternal Mainframe meets the Eternal Summer?
Yes. I just downloaded a Kobe book - so far, half way into it, I'm finding it a much better experience. Every. Single.Amazon.Book. that I've purchased has numerous, obvious typos. Every single Amazon book that I've purchased has crap for illustrations. They're horribly compressed like they were planning on sending them through a 300 baud modem. Trying to read a history book with crap for maps is unpleasant and unnecessary.
The illustrations in the Kobe book are pleasant, readable, zoomable. The reader is even nicer. Color me impressed so far.
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Piloting a plane while talking is very different than talking when driving. For the specific reason you point out - you are trained to engage in specific conversations with specific people using a specific language. When things get difficult, you shut up if at all possible.
Same with Police, Fire, Ambulance drivers - you have a limited, scripted set of tasks.
It's not the random babble with bog-knows-what that constitutes random phone conversation.
You're supposed to yell "Pull up! Pull up!"
Oh, wait, wrong movie.
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Pick a genetic disease. Explain the symptoms, the mechanisms, and how is it genetically inherited. Unspoken is "Try to outdo your classmates."
What could possibly go wrong?
And never prouder than the day she had to go to the emergency room for blowing up the lab! Epic!
Answered my question, you did. Did they have to get the CDC involved?
Congrats.
Appropriate, but for school? I certainly read SF at home, probably didn't reach much of anything else until college, but in school? Not so sure of that. Teach real science in school, Heinlein is for night time with the covers over your head and a flashlight (or whatever is the current equivalent, I wouldn't even want to hazard a guess).
The alcohol tastes better than the boiling.,, Also, IIRC pasteurization of beer was relatively recent while the aseptic qualities of alcohol tinctured liquids was known for several thousand years. Could be recalling it incorrectly. Happens every 20 minutes or so.
Doesn't much matter. That's what the alcohol is for. Biological warfare!
OK, now that I actually read the TFA I'm not terribly surprised - other than the fact that this study apparently hasn't been done before.
Researchers tracked human pathogenic viruses in a city sewage system. The concentration of the little critters varies as waves of infection go back and forth amongst the humans and other creatures whose waste is collected in the system.
The then track the appearance of viruses in a deep well under the sewage lines and find that about six weeks later, the same virus shows up in the presumably sterile well water with roughly the same kinetics (peak and ebb). So they are able to posit (but not prove) that the viruses came from the sewage system (as opposed to skinnying down the pipe itself or just magically appearing).
So, you have unmapped connections through the supposedly sealed off clay cap that lies between the sewage systems and the aquifer. Doesn't surprise me. One small earthquake 100000 years ago could have done it.
But it is a cautionary tale that deserves some additional testing to see how widespread the issue is.
It's a biosphere, everything is connected.
Pesky things.
Well damn. If Ubuntu was a real Linux distribution then you would have at least needed to edit some configuration file by hand.
World's going to hell in a handbasket, it is.
That only works in the US.
If you are putting Reddit up to the same (low) standards as the New York Post, you've already lost.
They're pros at this sort of thing. You have to have a reputation to lose it.
But regardless of whether he is declared an enemy combatant, he will receive any medical care he may need.
That's so we can execute him later. Makes perfect sense, really it does.
Congratulations on not having a clue how health care works.
In the UK, the wait times for care are often extremely long. The five year outcomes for someone diagnosed with a serious illness are significantly worse in the UK than in the US.
Wait times for elective procedures may be long. OTOH medically related bankruptcy is very infrequent. I'd like to see some data on your attestation that serious illness outcomes are worse in the UK. Overall (and there likely are exceptions to everything), the UK and Europe have much better long term survivals for everything except some odd cancers and when you look at that data, the differences are in months, not years, indicating the US system flogs nearly dead patients for longer - not necessarily a 'better' outcome.
Irony doesn't suit you much, Roman.
Roman, at least your old UID indicated you are an established nutcase. We're much more tolerant of established nutcases than new ones.
You've lost the war on taxes, old son. If you want a tax free haven, make one yourself. And good luck with that.
I can see a cell tower. I'm pretty sure that . *(U()*U$Ejhhjjhkljhsdf ws is monito89984ryu5 but I'm not worr*()*43jknlkjdbzzzt.
Increasingly it does (minus the artsy chick, some fantasies never die). Very few current articles in biology have been written by one or two people. Even those articles have a long list of people that the researchers relied on for technical and intellectual support. It's not Charles Darwin walking down the road any more.
While there may be great insights developed by single 'intuitive' biologists, the intellectual foundations of those insights are going to come from thousands of disparate people. DNA chemistry and sequencing is an example here - how many biologists understand the chemistry of the analyzers? How many chemists understand the software?
I don't think H.O. is really correct though. At the complexity level that biologists are working at 'intuitive' thinking isn't going to help much. Working the numbers will.
I'd rather train a mathematician to be a biologist than the other way around.
I do, in general, have more faith in Disney than in George Lucas for coming up with a quality film.
This, ladies and gentleman, is a classic example of 'damning with faint praise'.
I blame the users. If they bothered to learn even a little about how things work, they wouldn't give up their freedom so easily. The complacency is staggering. Even people whose job depends on being able to efficiently work with computers often perform repetitive tasks manually instead of learning how to use more of the program they're working with. Of course, with users like that, who refuse to learn how to use what capabilities are already at their disposal, there's a market for the simplest automation performed as a service.
OK, so the Eternal Mainframe meets the Eternal Summer?
I disagree. The iPad box is perfect for that application.
You must be a socialist.
If it's a win for the next quarter, it's a win for Wall Street.
If it's a win for Wall Street, it's a win for the USA.
USA! USA! USA!
(I'll bet you voted for Obama.)
Yes. I just downloaded a Kobe book - so far, half way into it, I'm finding it a much better experience. Every. Single.Amazon.Book. that I've purchased has numerous, obvious typos. Every single Amazon book that I've purchased has crap for illustrations. They're horribly compressed like they were planning on sending them through a 300 baud modem. Trying to read a history book with crap for maps is unpleasant and unnecessary.
The illustrations in the Kobe book are pleasant, readable, zoomable. The reader is even nicer. Color me impressed so far.
All right smarty pants, you figure it out.
We're waiting.