Being born in Central Europe, I was vaccinated against TB as infant - I have an quarter-sized scar on my shoulder. That's where the bug remains alive and produces my immunity. (Aquired immunity against TB is short-lived, so persisting live pathogen is needed for keeping the immune response. Weakened pathogen is injected into skin for the vaccination and the idea is that it would not spread but remain alive there).
In US, there is no vaccination so my imunity became a problem when I took the TB skin test to get my medical for the green card. Even after a negative chest X-ray, the doctors insisted I must take 6-month combination therapy of two tuberculostatics. I was trying to explain to them that all it would do to me (apart from a 5% chance of getting cirrhosis) would be "curing" my inoculation, killing the helpful bugs in my shoulder. I ended up refusing to pay the medical bill until they gave me negative X-ray result for INS.
Btw: until very recently TB was practicaly eradicated in central Europe - because of the culling of infected cattle and mandatory vaccination + forced treatment of TB pacients since 50s. By early 90s, it was rare even to get a single TB pacient in a lung clinic to be shown to medical students. Now it has changed because of immigrants from former USSR.
Even if the efficiency of vaccination is only 90%, it is useful thing to do.
Alane: I work with LiAlH4 frequently. This solid has to be kept very dry - or sparks will fly. This is definitely unsafe fuel in a manned flight. And it is a very expensive material to burn. As a rule, custom synthesis chemical companies do not like to work with LiAlH4 on kilo scale - they prefer safer alternatives for large-scale reductions. If they use it, they charge hefty premium because of the safety risks involved.(Unstabilized alane does not even need moisture - it self-ignites on air).
Wall thickness (weight) of the oxidizer tank (for nitrous oxide) can be reduced with moderate refrigeration, -20C for example, which cheap to do and well above the boiling point of N2O (so the engine would still work without need for a turbopump). Nitrous could be stored separately and filled in before flight, refrigerated. Tank would need a safety valve to prevent over-pressure.
They *can* dope diamond - both P and N - doped version have been produced already. (Boron-doped diamonds are beatifuly blue). The problem is that there is no good method for growing large diamond monocrystals. Apollo Diamonds has been developing flat diamond growth by chemical vapor deposition exactly for this purpose but their largest pieces are only few mm wide.
The footage of the lab is cool. But the reporter is dumb ("How do you measure your success", etc). I can't see why he is so hostile to these guys. He must have played Half-Life or something
Having lived under late communism (= impoverished police-state socialism) I do remember some similar pieces of "wisdom":
1) Government pretends paying us while we pretend working 2) Who doesn't steal from government steals from his own family 3) Overachievers endanger everyone 4) Good deeds are punished in the end 5) There are people for work and people for breed and those two classes can never meet
I have sympathy for the frustrated french girl but I don't think nihilism is helpful in the end. (If she decides to slack up for her family, it is a different thing). Instead of bitching I would propose her a different job or a different country. Ireland is hiring qualified people right now.
Careful with the name-dropping: A jewish philosophy professor Sidney Morgenbesser was hauled to precint for assaulting officer with a crude expletive. A policeman in NY subway ordered Morgenbesser to get rid of his cigarette. "I am not smoking and I will lit the cigarette after leaving the station which will be in about 10 seconds so your point is moot already." said the prof. "I cannot let you", said the policeman, "because I would have to let everybody do the same". "Why?, asked Morgenbesser, "Are you Kant?"
Curved surfaces to cater warped tastes. (By chance - would it be possible to use a large stuffed plush hamster for the projection of my childhood videos?)
1. Vanadium and tungsten are not poisonous - vanadium compounds are actualy in clinical trials as drug candidates for treatment of diabetes.
2. H2S (sulfane) makes farts smelling like farts. Sulfane is not contained in acid rain. (Sulfuric acid is).
3."Cancelling" the unpleasant yellowish tint through complementary color will probably make the glass looking nicely brown. Corporate characters would not mind.
1) Your missionary position is gross and unnatural. 2) Some acts cannot be sanctioned because freedom ends where somebody else's freedom begins: Practicing post-mortem cannibalism is very disruptive for the necrophilic cross-generation incests of the rest of us.
1) I did have the time - I did not have a job 2) Stephenson could benefit from a better editor. The bloated writing style and self-indulgence of the autor is the turnoff. So it the pretense of profundity and real-history based story when the book turns out to be just a lousily-plotted Indiana-Jones-like adventure
I was interested in the story of WII cryptographers. I kept reading even though I grew more annoyed because I already spent so much time on it and I wanted to know the end of the story. It was not worth it.
what separates alchemy is its lack of scientific method.
It is not a problem that some original asumption turned out wrong. This happens in science all the time. But alchemists believed all kinds of traditional stuff and did not know how to separate ideas that worked from those that did not. Mysticism goes against scepticism - the basis of critical reasoning.
Newton was writing the stuff throughout several decades (and without any hope of any profit from it). Stephenson produced his two autoerotic tomes - Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver - in 3 years.
I was able to finish "Cryptonomicon" from sheer curiosity (to see if the rest of it is as dreadfull as the first half.) It took some determination.
polyethylene or polypropylene are also possible fuels here.
(ButI would rather try building the engine in opposite way - having tank with liquified ethane as a fuel and use solid magnesium perchlorate as solid oxidizer. It would be much lighter combo than rubber+N2O.)
Higgs is supposed to be naturaly occuring so you cannot patent its creation/invention. But even though you cannot patent Higgs as such, you can patent "novel and non-obvious" uses of Higgs boson (which could be defined rather broadly in your patent and can seem obvious to anyone except lawyers). But if your want your "use" patent to be worth anything, you should provide several ilustrative practical examples of such application. Otherwise you run high risk of your patent being butted into by somebody who later has a good practical example and claims that his case has some unexpected novel qualities which deserve separate patents)
The safest intellectual property is to create and patent something that has never existed before - then you own the thing and whoever wants to use it or files additional patents on its uses has to be dependent on you as long as your patent lasts
In California, there is a law which states that the employer does not own intelectual property created by the emploee if was created outside the company's paid time + without using company's resources and/or intelectual property.
The way the companies usualy try to go around is to make you to sign a promise that you would immediately disclose them any (business) activity which could potencialy create some conflict with your employment with them. And some companies have the non-competition clause for at least 1 year after you quit. The wording is intentionaly vague here so that they could later sue you for not disclosing your private work or for competing against them. Also, if the your private work is within your profession (as it usualy is), they can later claim that you were inspired by the company's technology.
this engine speed can be easily regulated by voltage applied on the induction coils. You can use a puls sequence too (for a "beat") or put it in reverse. The battery pack that has to be worn outside can include regulator.
Some artificial hearts include a small implanted re-chargeable battery supplied by a induction coil implanted in abdomen. You stil have to wear the pack for must of the day but you can take it off briefly (to take shower) and you have no wire sticking out of your abdomen.
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Being born in Central Europe, I was vaccinated against TB as infant - I have an quarter-sized scar on my shoulder. That's where the bug remains alive and produces my immunity. (Aquired immunity against TB is short-lived, so persisting live pathogen is needed for keeping the immune response. Weakened pathogen is injected into skin for the vaccination and the idea is that it would not spread but remain alive there).
In US, there is no vaccination so my imunity became a problem when I took the TB skin test to get my medical for the green card. Even after a negative chest X-ray, the doctors insisted I must take 6-month combination therapy of two tuberculostatics. I was trying to explain to them that all it would do to me (apart from a 5% chance of getting cirrhosis) would be "curing" my inoculation, killing the helpful bugs in my shoulder. I ended up refusing to pay the medical bill until they gave me negative X-ray result for INS.
Btw: until very recently TB was practicaly eradicated in central Europe - because of the culling of infected cattle and mandatory vaccination + forced treatment of TB pacients since 50s. By early 90s, it was rare even to get a single TB pacient in a lung clinic to be shown to medical students. Now it has changed because of immigrants from former USSR.
Even if the efficiency of vaccination is only 90%, it is useful thing to do.
Alane: I work with LiAlH4 frequently. This solid has to be kept very dry - or sparks will fly. This is definitely unsafe fuel in a manned flight. And it is a very expensive material to burn.
As a rule, custom synthesis chemical companies do not like to work with LiAlH4 on kilo scale - they prefer safer alternatives for large-scale reductions. If they use it, they charge hefty premium because of the safety risks involved.(Unstabilized alane does not even need moisture - it self-ignites on air).
Wall thickness (weight) of the oxidizer tank (for nitrous oxide) can be reduced with moderate refrigeration, -20C for example, which cheap to do and well above the boiling point of N2O (so the engine would still work without need for a turbopump). Nitrous could be stored separately and filled in before flight, refrigerated. Tank would need a safety valve to prevent over-pressure.
I would be more concerned with iron fillings and nails acumulating in her cleavage...
They *can* dope diamond - both P and N - doped version have been produced already. (Boron-doped diamonds are beatifuly blue). The problem is that there is no good method for growing large diamond monocrystals. Apollo Diamonds has been developing flat diamond growth by chemical vapor deposition exactly for this purpose but their largest pieces are only few mm wide.
The footage of the lab is cool. But the reporter is dumb ("How do you measure your success", etc). I can't see why he is so hostile to these guys. He must have played Half-Life or something
Having lived under late communism (= impoverished police-state socialism) I do remember some similar pieces of "wisdom":
1) Government pretends paying us while we pretend working
2) Who doesn't steal from government steals from his own family
3) Overachievers endanger everyone
4) Good deeds are punished in the end
5) There are people for work and people for breed and those two classes can never meet
I have sympathy for the frustrated french girl but I don't think nihilism is helpful in the end. (If she decides to slack up for her family, it is a different thing). Instead of bitching I would propose her a different job or a different country. Ireland is hiring qualified people right now.
Levels of gene expression can be measured, it is just very slow and tricky (=expensive). And you need a sample of the actual living tissue for it.
Maybe they would be able to find some good surrogate marker - increased amount of some protein in blood serum, for example.
The alternative - requiring urine, blood AND muscle sample is not pretty.
a soccer player genome will be next
Careful with the name-dropping: A jewish philosophy professor Sidney Morgenbesser was hauled to precint for assaulting officer with a crude expletive. A policeman in NY subway ordered Morgenbesser to get rid of his cigarette. "I am not smoking and I will lit the cigarette after leaving the station which will be in about 10 seconds so your point is moot already." said the prof. "I cannot let you", said the policeman, "because I would have to let everybody do the same". "Why?, asked Morgenbesser, "Are you Kant?"
Curved surfaces to cater warped tastes. (By chance - would it be possible to use a large stuffed plush hamster for the projection of my childhood videos?)
1. Vanadium and tungsten are not poisonous - vanadium compounds are actualy in clinical trials as drug candidates for treatment of diabetes.
2. H2S (sulfane) makes farts smelling like farts. Sulfane is not contained in acid rain. (Sulfuric acid is).
3."Cancelling" the unpleasant yellowish tint through complementary color will probably make the glass looking nicely brown. Corporate characters would not mind.
1) Your missionary position is gross and unnatural. 2) Some acts cannot be sanctioned because freedom ends where somebody else's freedom begins: Practicing post-mortem cannibalism is very disruptive for the necrophilic cross-generation incests of the rest of us.
This will allow some impresive pop-ups. (The pest control ads will crowl at you from the monitor).
1) I did have the time - I did not have a job
2) Stephenson could benefit from a better editor.
The bloated writing style and self-indulgence of the autor is the turnoff. So it the pretense of profundity and real-history based story when the book turns out to be just a lousily-plotted Indiana-Jones-like adventure
I was interested in the story of WII cryptographers. I kept reading even though I grew more annoyed because I already spent so much time on it and I wanted to know the end of the story. It was not worth it.
what separates alchemy is its lack of scientific method.
It is not a problem that some original asumption turned out wrong. This happens in science all the time. But alchemists believed all kinds of traditional stuff and did not know how to separate ideas that worked from those that did not. Mysticism goes against scepticism - the basis of critical reasoning.
Newton was writing the stuff throughout several decades (and without any hope of any profit from it). Stephenson produced his two autoerotic tomes - Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver - in 3 years.
I was able to finish "Cryptonomicon" from sheer curiosity (to see if the rest of it is as dreadfull as the first half.) It took some determination.
polyethylene or polypropylene are also possible fuels here. (ButI would rather try building the engine in opposite way - having tank with liquified ethane as a fuel and use solid magnesium perchlorate as solid oxidizer. It would be much lighter combo than rubber+N2O.)
the revolutionary combined mousespeaker will allow the users to turn off the mickey tunes in single click
Higgs is supposed to be naturaly occuring so you cannot patent its creation/invention. But even though you cannot patent Higgs as such, you can patent "novel and non-obvious" uses of Higgs boson (which could be defined rather broadly in your patent and can seem obvious to anyone except lawyers). But if your want your "use" patent to be worth anything, you should provide several ilustrative practical examples of such application. Otherwise you run high risk of your patent being butted into by somebody who later has a good practical example and claims that his case has some unexpected novel qualities which deserve separate patents)
The safest intellectual property is to create and patent something that has never existed before - then you own the thing and whoever wants to use it or files additional patents on its uses has to be dependent on you as long as your patent lasts
In Soviet Russia, no genes are private. And their owners are always found (whether they have patents or not)
"The titan arum is in the same plant family as familiar house plants such as Dieffenbachia, Philodendrons, and Anthuriums."
I wonder if this would be a good gift for my mother in law...
In California, there is a law which states that the employer does not own intelectual property created by the emploee if was created outside the company's paid time + without using company's resources and /or intelectual property.
The way the companies usualy try to go around is to make you to sign a promise that you would immediately disclose them any (business) activity which could potencialy create some conflict with your employment with them. And some companies have the non-competition clause for at least 1 year after you quit. The wording is intentionaly vague here so that they could later sue you for not disclosing your private work or for competing against them. Also, if the your private work is within your profession (as it usualy is), they can later claim that you were inspired by the company's technology.
some of his pancreatic cels were...
surgery success does not guarantee a cure. Cure means staying 5+ years without remission.
this engine speed can be easily regulated by voltage applied on the induction coils. You can use a puls sequence too (for a "beat") or put it in reverse. The battery pack that has to be worn outside can include regulator. Some artificial hearts include a small implanted re-chargeable battery supplied by a induction coil implanted in abdomen. You stil have to wear the pack for must of the day but you can take it off briefly (to take shower) and you have no wire sticking out of your abdomen.