I guess that would be great.... for about 10 minutes until anyone with any intelligence realizes all the technology they rely on comes from Asia, a lot of the raw materials for manufacture come from across the globe, and the countries on list 2 call in the US's 8.5 TRILLION dollar debt, leaving the country with such high inflation it spirals into a third world country.
Ok, after some searching I've found out the average arm length of a male is around 75cm and a pitchers arm can go about 7200 degrees per second (20 revolutions per second) so if we go 3.14 X 1.5 X 20 we get a speed of 94 meters/second or ~340km/h (~211mph).
So... these calculations are probably off but do we win or what?
The article is: "Biomechanics: Deadly strike mechanism of a mantis shrimp" in Nature 428, 819-820 (22 April 2004). They say the max speed was 23m/s which comes out to 83km/hour. This isn't quite as fast as these ants I guess.
What is the fastest a part of the human body can move? A pitcher can throw up to 103mph (165 km/h) and obviously? the tip of their hand must have the same velocity. Is that the fastest human movement? Can a snapping finger go faster than that? Seems like we rank right up there for fastest.
You know just enough to ask questions, but not enough to answer them yourself. If they are looking for the HIV antigens to be expressed in the body for a period of time they might inject bacteria which are producing that protein and putting it out into the body to recognize. Also, if you are making a transgenic vaccine of this kind you want the expression from those cells to be stable, thus they will have DNA copies of the gene, not just RNA.
I'm sure they know what they are doing.
The short answer is this: "selfish" DNA like transposons invade a genome, they replicate and produce many copies, some preferentially insert near genes. These transposons over time degenerate but their ability to create mutations, including using their own proteins to control expression of some genes leads to diversity = better ability to cope to environmental pressures. This leads to a better capacity for evolution than waiting for single base mutations from cosmic radiation and the like. When a transposon has gone from genomic invader to a productive member of the gene pool it is said to be domesticated. Over long periods of time (hundreds of millions of years) a lot of the copies of the transposons, which are not necessary, and therefore not selected for, are allowed to mutate, degenerate and appear to be "junk".
The placement of histones on DNA is something I learned about 10 years ago in my genetics textbooks. This is merely a slight addition to our current knowledge of which sequences histones are likely to bind.
At 11 months of age we took our twins to a petting zoo. They had a couple of snakes there and the kids had a lot of fun touching and squeezing them. The fear of snakes is not instinctual, it is a learned behavior. Same goes for spiders, and many other "creepy crawlies" that the vast majority of people who haven't been exposed to have learned from TV and movies to be afraid of but in reality are quite benign. Large carnivorous animals, yes, that is an instinctual fear. The kids knew without any prior exposure that a big dog running around them was something to be wary of (they haven't learned yet that these animals, while dangerous, have been domesticated).
Wow, your poor parents, they must have been really dumb to have you then.
I teach molecular biology at a University, and I'll have you know that the proportion of professors with multiple children to those with none that I work with, or know of is about 8 or 9 to 1. Very smart people have multiple children, it is not the dumb, but the selfish who have none. I've met a number of people who say they are never going to have kids, and do you know what the unifying personality trait is? They are selfish and conceited. It is cowardly to think "I'm not going to have kids because I don't know what kind of world I'll be bringing them up in."
My wife and I have 3 kids under 2, and are planning on 2 more. I know that I can't buy toys like I used to, I was the first of my friends to have a dvd player, digital camera, GPS, MP3 player, PDA and you know what? Those things only bring happiness at the shallowest of levels, while watching my twins crawl around chasing each other and laughing hysterically - that is a joy that goes right to your soul.
The thing they don't want leaked out is that the insciption actually says " (c)80 B.C. Piltar the gearmaker, all rights reserved". How he KNEW it was 80B.C. is anyones guess, what did they think they were counting down to?
an estimate of its age being 65 B.C. +/- 15 years, so 80 B.C. is actually the youngest it is estimated it could be
Years B.C. are essentially negative numbers, so 80BC was 2086 years ago and 50BC was 2056 years ago. So their estimate is really the oldest it could be.
The much more important factor than 10 deaths, is how many thousands of hours of lost productivity are there? What are the ramifications on the society, are the kids growing up addicted to game play going to be as well adjusted as kids who go outside? Are they going to be as effective in the workplace? This is a real problem.
If you look at this picture the display actually looks quite readable with quite a few lines of text. I imagine in a few years they will double the pixels, increase the contrast and use font smoothing to make it all the better.
And I too have read ebooks on a smaller 320x240 display and found it easy enough to keep using 5 hours+ in a row during reading sessions.
Why is the building so darn yellow inside? Is it important for the process, the workers, the ability to keep the environment clean? It's just so yellow, I think I'd get a huge headache working there.
Q - Why do we need so many licenses, aren't the ones we have enough already?
A - Should at 16 year old be allowed to drive a bus or semi after showing they can parallel park, of course not. Same goes here, different licenses suit different needs, now quit yer bitching.
Yeah, and you probably think a Martini only contains Gin, Vermouth and an olive. Damn purists, not letting the rest of us destroy their favorite concoctions by bastardizing the name with any ingredients we wish. Next you'll tell me This stuff isn't butter, but there it is, right in the name you fascist!
The whole ad was real, nothing was faked. People usually have a problem with the wheels rolling uphill, but they are real wheels just with top weights in them so lowering the center of gravity makes the wheels go uphill slightly.
At first, I thought "Wow! That's like blazing fast speed!" And then I thought "Well, that sure beats having a couple PS3 cell processors hooked up together" And then i read the article... and was promptly disappointed. The 10GHz speed is how fast it can turn electrons into photons, but the chip is still primarily electron-based, so what is the real performance gain? They don't tell you because it probably isn't any yet.
How come when a DVD or game gets leaked on the net people manage to get away with it but this poor chap not associated with the BBC gets tracked down and fired? Is he just really stupid, bad at covering his tracks, or someone they could blame?
After reading the actual Nature paper, it looks like they have tried to address any possible explanations I could come up with as a geneticist. I am however reminded of cases of papers which get withdrawn when another lab can not replicate their results or even withdrawn when the primary researcher finds out his grad student falsified data. I am not saying that either of these may be the case, but I think the thousands or more similar crosses done each year by researchers on arabidopsis alone would have turned this phenomenon up earlier if it were in any way general to this weed, and if it were applicable in any but the most rare of circumstances to animals it would have definitely been found earlier.
Mendel, Darwin, stop spinning in your graves, the majority of the genetics community still thinks you were right.
leeches, squirmy and icky, taking blood from hapless victims are good for you too! Sometimes a doctor will put one on you if they've reattached a body part (poor John Wayne Bobbit).
Hmmm... I think that you will change your mind on that if: (1) You ever meet a girl who doesn't run from the sight of you
(2) She lets you "mate" with her as you geeks say.
(3) She becomes pregnant with YOUR "parasite", which although not alive by your standards can recognize your voice from the womb and evidences that by kicking your hand as you speak to them.
Almost forgot one last thing.. (4) You actually become a mature adult.
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I guess that would be great.... for about 10 minutes until anyone with any intelligence realizes all the technology they rely on comes from Asia, a lot of the raw materials for manufacture come from across the globe, and the countries on list 2 call in the US's 8.5 TRILLION dollar debt, leaving the country with such high inflation it spirals into a third world country.
Yeah... that would be great!
Ok, after some searching I've found out the average arm length of a male is around 75cm and a pitchers arm can go about 7200 degrees per second (20 revolutions per second) so if we go 3.14 X 1.5 X 20 we get a speed of 94 meters/second or ~340km/h (~211mph).
So... these calculations are probably off but do we win or what?
The article is: "Biomechanics: Deadly strike mechanism of a mantis shrimp" in Nature 428, 819-820 (22 April 2004). They say the max speed was 23m/s which comes out to 83km/hour. This isn't quite as fast as these ants I guess.
What is the fastest a part of the human body can move? A pitcher can throw up to 103mph (165 km/h) and obviously? the tip of their hand must have the same velocity. Is that the fastest human movement? Can a snapping finger go faster than that? Seems like we rank right up there for fastest.
You know just enough to ask questions, but not enough to answer them yourself. If they are looking for the HIV antigens to be expressed in the body for a period of time they might inject bacteria which are producing that protein and putting it out into the body to recognize. Also, if you are making a transgenic vaccine of this kind you want the expression from those cells to be stable, thus they will have DNA copies of the gene, not just RNA. I'm sure they know what they are doing.
And here I thought it was the black hat wife exploit, guess I'm not gettin' any from the missus tonight!
The short answer is this: "selfish" DNA like transposons invade a genome, they replicate and produce many copies, some preferentially insert near genes. These transposons over time degenerate but their ability to create mutations, including using their own proteins to control expression of some genes leads to diversity = better ability to cope to environmental pressures. This leads to a better capacity for evolution than waiting for single base mutations from cosmic radiation and the like. When a transposon has gone from genomic invader to a productive member of the gene pool it is said to be domesticated. Over long periods of time (hundreds of millions of years) a lot of the copies of the transposons, which are not necessary, and therefore not selected for, are allowed to mutate, degenerate and appear to be "junk".
The placement of histones on DNA is something I learned about 10 years ago in my genetics textbooks. This is merely a slight addition to our current knowledge of which sequences histones are likely to bind.
At 11 months of age we took our twins to a petting zoo. They had a couple of snakes there and the kids had a lot of fun touching and squeezing them. The fear of snakes is not instinctual, it is a learned behavior. Same goes for spiders, and many other "creepy crawlies" that the vast majority of people who haven't been exposed to have learned from TV and movies to be afraid of but in reality are quite benign. Large carnivorous animals, yes, that is an instinctual fear. The kids knew without any prior exposure that a big dog running around them was something to be wary of (they haven't learned yet that these animals, while dangerous, have been domesticated).
Wow, your poor parents, they must have been really dumb to have you then.
I teach molecular biology at a University, and I'll have you know that the proportion of professors with multiple children to those with none that I work with, or know of is about 8 or 9 to 1. Very smart people have multiple children, it is not the dumb, but the selfish who have none. I've met a number of people who say they are never going to have kids, and do you know what the unifying personality trait is? They are selfish and conceited. It is cowardly to think "I'm not going to have kids because I don't know what kind of world I'll be bringing them up in."
My wife and I have 3 kids under 2, and are planning on 2 more. I know that I can't buy toys like I used to, I was the first of my friends to have a dvd player, digital camera, GPS, MP3 player, PDA and you know what? Those things only bring happiness at the shallowest of levels, while watching my twins crawl around chasing each other and laughing hysterically - that is a joy that goes right to your soul.
The thing they don't want leaked out is that the insciption actually says " (c)80 B.C. Piltar the gearmaker, all rights reserved". How he KNEW it was 80B.C. is anyones guess, what did they think they were counting down to?
Years B.C. are essentially negative numbers, so 80BC was 2086 years ago and 50BC was 2056 years ago. So their estimate is really the oldest it could be.
The much more important factor than 10 deaths, is how many thousands of hours of lost productivity are there? What are the ramifications on the society, are the kids growing up addicted to game play going to be as well adjusted as kids who go outside? Are they going to be as effective in the workplace? This is a real problem.
If you look at this picture the display actually looks quite readable with quite a few lines of text. I imagine in a few years they will double the pixels, increase the contrast and use font smoothing to make it all the better.
And I too have read ebooks on a smaller 320x240 display and found it easy enough to keep using 5 hours+ in a row during reading sessions.
I don't know how popular those pineapple suppositories are going to be.....
Why is the building so darn yellow inside? Is it important for the process, the workers, the ability to keep the environment clean? It's just so yellow, I think I'd get a huge headache working there.
I think you mean, The Wet'n'Wild Wookie Weekend! where we get to see what happens with wookies on Spring Break.
Q - Why do we need so many licenses, aren't the ones we have enough already?
A - Should at 16 year old be allowed to drive a bus or semi after showing they can parallel park, of course not. Same goes here, different licenses suit different needs, now quit yer bitching.
Yeah, and you probably think a Martini only contains Gin, Vermouth and an olive. Damn purists, not letting the rest of us destroy their favorite concoctions by bastardizing the name with any ingredients we wish. Next you'll tell me This stuff isn't butter, but there it is, right in the name you fascist!
The whole ad was real, nothing was faked. People usually have a problem with the wheels rolling uphill, but they are real wheels just with top weights in them so lowering the center of gravity makes the wheels go uphill slightly.
At first, I thought "Wow! That's like blazing fast speed!" And then I thought "Well, that sure beats having a couple PS3 cell processors hooked up together" And then i read the article... and was promptly disappointed. The 10GHz speed is how fast it can turn electrons into photons, but the chip is still primarily electron-based, so what is the real performance gain? They don't tell you because it probably isn't any yet.
How come when a DVD or game gets leaked on the net people manage to get away with it but this poor chap not associated with the BBC gets tracked down and fired? Is he just really stupid, bad at covering his tracks, or someone they could blame?
After reading the actual Nature paper, it looks like they have tried to address any possible explanations I could come up with as a geneticist. I am however reminded of cases of papers which get withdrawn when another lab can not replicate their results or even withdrawn when the primary researcher finds out his grad student falsified data. I am not saying that either of these may be the case, but I think the thousands or more similar crosses done each year by researchers on arabidopsis alone would have turned this phenomenon up earlier if it were in any way general to this weed, and if it were applicable in any but the most rare of circumstances to animals it would have definitely been found earlier.
Mendel, Darwin, stop spinning in your graves, the majority of the genetics community still thinks you were right.
An older article on the prevalence of scientific fraud.
leeches, squirmy and icky, taking blood from hapless victims are good for you too! Sometimes a doctor will put one on you if they've reattached a body part (poor John Wayne Bobbit).
Oh wait, that's old news, just like this story.
I didn't know Christians had a monopoly on all those things. Thanks for the insight A.C.
Hmmm... I think that you will change your mind on that if:
(1) You ever meet a girl who doesn't run from the sight of you
(2) She lets you "mate" with her as you geeks say.
(3) She becomes pregnant with YOUR "parasite", which although not alive by your standards can recognize your voice from the womb and evidences that by kicking your hand as you speak to them.
Almost forgot one last thing.. (4) You actually become a mature adult.