"Tim Wu, a law professor at the Colombia University"
Pretty sure Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia University, not "Colombia" university. "Columbia" is the personification of the New World, while "Colombia" is a country in South America.
...and I'll add: while I'm concerned, I still use a cell phone and have wi-fi at home, so I must not be *that* concerned. I do try to be sensible, however, about placement of wi-fi base stations so they're not right next to beds, for instance.
Despite having studied physics (inverse-square law) and electrical engineering (though I wasn't the best student), I am concerned by how readily and glibly folks dismiss concerns about possible health effects of EMFs. The fact is, there's a lot we don't know about our own biology, and heating effects and ionizing radiation aren't necessarily the only possible modes by which EMFs could harm us.
This documentary, while suffering from some poor production values, presents the hypothesis of some researchers (whose CVs I have not examined) that round-the-clock EMF exposure reduces the body's natural production of melatonin, a potent anti-oxidant and regulatory hormone, since the body doesn't distinguish between visible light and RF radiation. This reduced melatonin production allegedly can lead to a reduction in the body's ability to fight cancer growth.
Time will tell but, as you say, we're performing a large-scale experiment on ourselves.
Congratulations to my college classmate, Rebecca Oppenheimer, co-author of the paper, and researcher at the American Museum of Natural History. Here's the AMNH announcement: http://www.amnh.org/explore/ne...
You make good points, cusco. I'm not in a position to state anything authoritatively on the topic. I'm merely passing on what I had read. The article which I couldn't find had quotes, however, from medical professionals on the ground in Africa expressing their dismay with the effects of Gates' philanthropy in their own countries. I'm willing to beleive that Gates genuinely wants to help and truly believes that private systems work better than public ones, but I wouldn't doubt that he'd take the opportunity to profit as well.
Given my recent experiences with the U.S. private health care system, though, I wouldn't wish it upon anybody else.
The 2010 Gates Foundation announcement of $1.5 billion for maternal health in developing countries over five years was welcomed, but it came heavily leveraged. Gates launched the Health in Africa Fund, through the International Finance Corporation (IFC), to establish new mechanisms to invest world health funding and national health budgets in private-sector healthcare facilities in Africa. The Gates Foundation's funding category for Global Maternal Health includes research and development in the US of technology and treatments, and also advocacy in vulnerable African nations for government policies. Since Gates believes sustainable health systems must be privately profitable, he leverages his "maternal health" funding to effectively divert investment of available in-country funds, as well as NGO funding, into private ventures that he favors, instead of into national health plans.
If folks want evidence in support of this claim, refer to this http://newint.org/features/2012/04/01/bill-gates-charitable-giving-ethics/
I can't find it now, but there was another article about how Gates' agenda of pushing private health care is undermining public health care systems in Africa.
I've wondered myself if there was some cosmic significance to my eye condition (is it called "amblyopia" or "strabismus", I never took the time to learn the technical term?). It's pretty "woo-woo", but I wonder if learning to see "correctly" might fix some defects in my personality.
I've been a half-way decent basketball player without stereo vision since a basketball is fairly large and I could judge depth by the relative size of the rim of the basket. However, I never could hit a baseball with any consistency. Maybe it was just lack of practice, but it seemed like it was difficulty judging distance.
"A university committee yesterday evening confirmed accusations, first aired last May, of plagiarism in Schavan’s ethical-philosophical dissertation entitled ‘People and conscience — studies on the conditions, necessity and requirements for formation of conscience today’."
I never really enjoyed listening to jazz until the first time (and one of the only times) I got drunk, freshman year in college. We ended up at a cafe with a live jazz trio and the music sounded and felt great.
No doubt, jazz has its intellectual appeal to those in the know, but it can also be viscerally thrilling to somebody in a receptive state (chemically-induced or otherwise).
Mod parent up (AC or not). From what others have said, it looks like this drug might not be a bad thing to have. Even if it wasn't necessary, almost half a billion is peanuts next to what's been spent on a war of dubious merit since 9/11.
No, it actually makes it look more like an accident.
Cut me some slack. When I saw that the story was only 23 minutes old, I almost peed my pants and rushed to submit it to Slashdot. I had to think of *something* to say along with the headline and URL, and that was the best I could do. Apparently it was good enough.
It's been years since I'd even bothered to submit anything (and, as you can gather from TFS, none of my previous submissions were accepted). The fact that I'm strutting around right now as if I'd won the Superbowl must give you a sense of how rich and full my life is.
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Ha ha ha ha!! That's rich. Thanks for introducing me to that law. :)
Crap! Wasn't signed-in again.
Dang! Wasn't signed in, so I don't get credit for this (my first comment it quite a while).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Tim Wu, a law professor at the Colombia University"
Pretty sure Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia University, not "Colombia" university. "Columbia" is the personification of the New World, while "Colombia" is a country in South America.
No doubt many files loaded on iPods were pirated, but many were also from CDs ripped by their owners. Back then, people actually bought CDs.
Soundtrack to "The Social Network" film.
...and I'll add: while I'm concerned, I still use a cell phone and have wi-fi at home, so I must not be *that* concerned. I do try to be sensible, however, about placement of wi-fi base stations so they're not right next to beds, for instance.
Thanks for raising these concerns.
Despite having studied physics (inverse-square law) and electrical engineering (though I wasn't the best student), I am concerned by how readily and glibly folks dismiss concerns about possible health effects of EMFs. The fact is, there's a lot we don't know about our own biology, and heating effects and ionizing radiation aren't necessarily the only possible modes by which EMFs could harm us.
This documentary, while suffering from some poor production values, presents the hypothesis of some researchers (whose CVs I have not examined) that round-the-clock EMF exposure reduces the body's natural production of melatonin, a potent anti-oxidant and regulatory hormone, since the body doesn't distinguish between visible light and RF radiation. This reduced melatonin production allegedly can lead to a reduction in the body's ability to fight cancer growth.
Time will tell but, as you say, we're performing a large-scale experiment on ourselves.
Congratulations to my college classmate, Rebecca Oppenheimer, co-author of the paper, and researcher at the American Museum of Natural History. Here's the AMNH announcement:
http://www.amnh.org/explore/ne...
I know it's very mundane, but hopefully, it'll save her some unnecessary grief down the road.
Remind her to make frequent, automated backups of her data and to periodically check those backups manually.
You make good points, cusco. I'm not in a position to state anything authoritatively on the topic. I'm merely passing on what I had read. The article which I couldn't find had quotes, however, from medical professionals on the ground in Africa expressing their dismay with the effects of Gates' philanthropy in their own countries. I'm willing to beleive that Gates genuinely wants to help and truly believes that private systems work better than public ones, but I wouldn't doubt that he'd take the opportunity to profit as well.
Given my recent experiences with the U.S. private health care system, though, I wouldn't wish it upon anybody else.
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/07/the_gates_foundations_leverage.html
The 2010 Gates Foundation announcement of $1.5 billion for maternal health in developing countries over five years was welcomed, but it came heavily leveraged. Gates launched the Health in Africa Fund, through the International Finance Corporation (IFC), to establish new mechanisms to invest world health funding and national health budgets in private-sector healthcare facilities in Africa. The Gates Foundation's funding category for Global Maternal Health includes research and development in the US of technology and treatments, and also advocacy in vulnerable African nations for government policies. Since Gates believes sustainable health systems must be privately profitable, he leverages his "maternal health" funding to effectively divert investment of available in-country funds, as well as NGO funding, into private ventures that he favors, instead of into national health plans.
If folks want evidence in support of this claim, refer to this
http://newint.org/features/2012/04/01/bill-gates-charitable-giving-ethics/
I can't find it now, but there was another article about how Gates' agenda of pushing private health care is undermining public health care systems in Africa.
Thanks for the informative reply. That makes sense!
I wonder how this'll affect older PCs? Aren't SSL communications with larger keys more processor-intensive than when using a smaller key?
I've wondered myself if there was some cosmic significance to my eye condition (is it called "amblyopia" or "strabismus", I never took the time to learn the technical term?). It's pretty "woo-woo", but I wonder if learning to see "correctly" might fix some defects in my personality.
I've been a half-way decent basketball player without stereo vision since a basketball is fairly large and I could judge depth by the relative size of the rim of the basket. However, I never could hit a baseball with any consistency. Maybe it was just lack of practice, but it seemed like it was difficulty judging distance.
Thanks for the tips! I'll have to try some of them. I've long suspected that there must be a way to overcome this (though I've adapted fairly well).
"A university committee yesterday evening confirmed accusations, first aired last May, of plagiarism in Schavan’s ethical-philosophical dissertation entitled ‘People and conscience — studies on the conditions, necessity and requirements for formation of conscience today’."
Naturally!!
I never really enjoyed listening to jazz until the first time (and one of the only times) I got drunk, freshman year in college. We ended up at a cafe with a live jazz trio and the music sounded and felt great.
No doubt, jazz has its intellectual appeal to those in the know, but it can also be viscerally thrilling to somebody in a receptive state (chemically-induced or otherwise).
Mod parent up (AC or not). From what others have said, it looks like this drug might not be a bad thing to have. Even if it wasn't necessary, almost half a billion is peanuts next to what's been spent on a war of dubious merit since 9/11.
No, it actually makes it look more like an accident.
Cut me some slack. When I saw that the story was only 23 minutes old, I almost peed my pants and rushed to submit it to Slashdot. I had to think of *something* to say along with the headline and URL, and that was the best I could do. Apparently it was good enough.
It's been years since I'd even bothered to submit anything (and, as you can gather from TFS, none of my previous submissions were accepted). The fact that I'm strutting around right now as if I'd won the Superbowl must give you a sense of how rich and full my life is.
Well, exqueeze me!! How about the wings? Didn't TFA mention something about wings? Don't *they* have a cooling effect?