Ohhhh...so that's what that song is about. And here I am thinking it's a commentary about America's perpetual war against terrorism ever since September 11.
Though the article makes a brief reference to insects' mating vocalizations, it really doesn't capture the image of a male fruit fly running after a female with his wings out as he frantically "sings" to her. In doing a quick search for the genes responsible for producing the correct song in D. melanogaster I stumbled across this appropriately named gene.
Most of the research takes a lot of time and effort and referees just read the papers.
I'm afraid to say that from what I've seen, even the reading stage isn't all that thorough. I know several professors who are so busy with their own research, teaching, and other administrative duties that they cram in 15-20 grant reviews into one evening. I also recently learned that frequently you can request that certain researchers are not the ones to review your paper. As a second year graduate student in bioinformatics (one of those dangerous "hot fields") I have become alarmed at some of the research I have seen.
When I saw the title of this submission I wanted to be skeptical, but I'm afraid there is actually a disturbing amount of bad research getting published these days.
When I first saw this I thought there really was some guy dressed as a chicken in front of a webcam. Upon seeing that the site is STILL up a year later, I realized it is probably just some clever automated text parsing linked to a database of video clips. I was sad to have this confirmed by Snopes. Still a pretty clever viral marketing tactic though. The Snopes article indicates only 20 or so friends of the ad execs were initially told about it.
I agree 100%. That comment is about as ontopic as you can get. I noticed the "bonus" devil as well, and was going to mention it if nobody else did. So, is there any other explanation for that moving speck?
The first paragraph in ChoicePoint's Fraud Prevention Solutions page contains this amusing excerpt:
"ChoicePoint's primary goal is to help speed and ease the research process and provide resources... in order to prevent fraud..."
It's amazing how removing just one word from this sentence yields their ACTUAL business practice.
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Instead of viewing area 51 in google maps by entering its coordinates, you can simply search for Area 51 and it pops right up.
Ohhhh...so that's what that song is about. And here I am thinking it's a commentary about America's perpetual war against terrorism ever since September 11.
Though the article makes a brief reference to insects' mating vocalizations, it really doesn't capture the image of a male fruit fly running after a female with his wings out as he frantically "sings" to her. In doing a quick search for the genes responsible for producing the correct song in D. melanogaster I stumbled across this appropriately named gene.
In Soviet Russia, your heros choose you!
Ah well, 1 offtopic post as a new user already hosed my karma, this post probably won't be seen by anyone anyway.
Google: 750 degrees fahrenheit in degrees celsius
I'm afraid to say that from what I've seen, even the reading stage isn't all that thorough. I know several professors who are so busy with their own research, teaching, and other administrative duties that they cram in 15-20 grant reviews into one evening. I also recently learned that frequently you can request that certain researchers are not the ones to review your paper. As a second year graduate student in bioinformatics (one of those dangerous "hot fields") I have become alarmed at some of the research I have seen. When I saw the title of this submission I wanted to be skeptical, but I'm afraid there is actually a disturbing amount of bad research getting published these days.
Oops! Window Open!
When I first saw this I thought there really was some guy dressed as a chicken in front of a webcam. Upon seeing that the site is STILL up a year later, I realized it is probably just some clever automated text parsing linked to a database of video clips. I was sad to have this confirmed by Snopes. Still a pretty clever viral marketing tactic though. The Snopes article indicates only 20 or so friends of the ad execs were initially told about it.
The Burger King sponsored subservient chicken is much more responsive.
But if desktop fabricators get rolling there will be torrents for all kinds of physical objects.
I agree 100%. That comment is about as ontopic as you can get. I noticed the "bonus" devil as well, and was going to mention it if nobody else did. So, is there any other explanation for that moving speck?
The first paragraph in ChoicePoint's Fraud Prevention Solutions page contains this amusing excerpt: "ChoicePoint's primary goal is to help speed and ease the research process and provide resources ... in order to prevent fraud..."
It's amazing how removing just one word from this sentence yields their ACTUAL business practice.