Actually I am a cancer researcher who has published in all the areas you just rattled off so yeah...idiot. You did help me with one thing, I've used this website since the beginning and it is now dominated by uncivil discourse. Got better things to do. Goodbye forever/.
The science job system is broken. The main problem is the federal subsidy of Graduate Student Stipends and Postdoctoral Fellowship salaries from grants. This has led to the situation of an oversupply of bright people in what amount to full time jobs with no benefits with little chance to achieve a rare faculty post. The fix is to stop the subsidy. Institutions need to take on fewer graduate students, pay them more and train them fully. Bolster the Master's degree for the less committed. The Postdoc should be eliminated and replaced with the term Contract Researcher which should be treated like a job. These people should be paid market rates so they can move to whomever is smart enough to get a grant. For the kids out there, the current system is a sort of feudal concoction built to maximize imperious egos and is fundamentally exploitive. Advise: go into science if you have the desire. Go to a good undergraduate school but if you do not get into one of the best institutions for grad school DO NOT GO. It's that bad out there and it's winner take all. Science is a rewarding profession but the hardest thing to understand is that even if you do everything right your career can still fail so you have to be brave. You also have to have GENERAL/VERSATILE knowledge to adapt with the times. The parent article is predicated on the assumption that Science equates with dollars for science. Once basic science in an area is well formed it becomes technology and society has no compelling reason to keep paying for it. Tenured faculty who continue to burn out grad students working on subjects "understood" decades ago are part of the problem here. Finally: biology is a vast frontier but the NIH wants cures. You don't have to fully understand cancer to kill it.
And learn to haggle in some language not your own. In my set of engineers scientists lawyers and physicians do you know who has his own jet? The dumb one who took Mandarin and set up a business importing Jeans. And also it is a real problem in France not to have mastery of the world's second language.
Hey Apple produce something of value. Remove drudgery: 1) Fold Laundry 2) Clean Dishes 3) Vacuum and dust well (sorry Roomba) etc... You think the consumer really needs something to play a record for them?
Nobody reads. The combo of conferences and the lecture circuit is how impactful science is circulated. The journal article provides the details to the interested. The ONLY purpose of a journal is to assure that someone reviewed the work.
This story is probably relevant to/. because I've known many coders who suck down sugar soda or Aspartame soda like no tomorrow. Having followed the dementia research I put it to ya'll that a nice hot cup of tea most probably the best way to a slake thirst and keep those neurons chugging away. A bit of cream or sugar is just fine. There is a growing body of evidence correlating Alzheimers/Dementia to diabetes and metabolic imbalance and our choice of drinks is likely to be a contributing factor. Plus it is so civilized.
...and it is not a golden age. It is an age of moves made on a computer with a cheap reliance on phony computer special effects. Modern movies look totally phake.
I was going to comment what you said but then I looked into the numbers From NASA data: ISS astronaut 6 months 160 mSv --> 0.66 mSv/day Apollo Mission 14 astronaut 9 day 11.4 mSv --> 1.26 mSv/day NASA Career exposure limits at age 35 would allow 2.5 Sv or in low earth orbit 0.5 Sv/year --> 2.7 mSv/day. Maybe the ISS could be relatively safe in lunar orbit, as long as it is used for short term missions. And one could argue that adding a radiation shielded module might moderate radiation levels. The ISS does not look like it should be adapted for a Mars Mission however as the long term radiation exposure would be too high.
"You didn't use the right technique" is the first excuse used by researchers when their results don't hold up. In Bio science this reproducibility problem is, at heart, a problem with having an experimental system that is under control, well defined and "stable". There are plenty of very precise measurements made that are not accurate because there is something about the experiment that is not under control. In biology, even if you do your best to account for statistical variation, it can often be the case that your results are bunk because there are things going on beyond your ken. This is a real problem, people are now taking it seriously. It has impacted on my life in science on numerous occasions. I don't start something based on others' work unless I've tested the underlying rationale.
Rogue Amoeba makes a nice program Airfoill that allows my Apple OSX to play nice with the Google Chromecast. Casting audio to my old Stereo is now a cinch. Why Google and Apple don't seem to get along is no mystery.
Slashdot readers are technical people but are usually trained in the computer and engineering sciences. I'm a biochemist and I've been here since the beginning but I certainly do not come here for biological quality. I perused the paper. It is in a good journal and it looks like some good work. Single application question: how does phagocytosis of silicon nanowires differ in any significant way from good old run of the mill asbestos? Answer: for those dreaming of a bioelectric interface I put forward that these silicon nanowires will cause cancer. The authors do not address this and do not provide any experiment that would overcome this hurdle.
...and there is already simultaneous availability of small independent films at home. The recent Werner Herzog film "Lo and behold..." for example was available for download while in the theater. It could be a good economic thing to do to take advantage of the money being spent on advertising a film in its theater run to also make it available at home. Now the Studios are always trying to stick it to the theater owners so I can see that this is the way things are going. But the movie going experience is best done in a dark theater where, unlike at home, you can immerse yourself.
I too get sick of endless troll wars but can quickly sift through it. Thanks vikingpower for the submit to the interesting paper. As this kind of science is above my job description does this theoretical treatment amend itself to testable confirmation?
...and pass close to other stars. Furthermore the Sun probably evolved in a densely packed globular cluster. The solar system is therefore susceptible to random and drastic gravitational chaos. No need to invoke the presence of giant invisible constant companion planets. Rather consider a periodic drive by shooting wreaking mayhem and havoc in the Oort cloud.
I hate laptops. I have a monitor, keyboard mouse everywhere I need to work so I tote my mac-mini around. It has always been under powered and unexpandible however the form factor and durability of this machine is nice and wins out for doing actual work. Doubles as a means to stream/play movies. When it wears out no worries, I can get peripherals anywhere. Hope they continue to support it...
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Actually I am a cancer researcher who has published in all the areas you just rattled off so yeah...idiot. /.
You did help me with one thing, I've used this website since the beginning and it is now dominated by uncivil discourse.
Got better things to do.
Goodbye forever
The science job system is broken. The main problem is the federal subsidy of Graduate Student Stipends and Postdoctoral Fellowship salaries from grants. This has led to the situation of an oversupply of bright people in what amount to full time jobs with no benefits with little chance to achieve a rare faculty post. The fix is to stop the subsidy. Institutions need to take on fewer graduate students, pay them more and train them fully. Bolster the Master's degree for the less committed. The Postdoc should be eliminated and replaced with the term Contract Researcher which should be treated like a job. These people should be paid market rates so they can move to whomever is smart enough to get a grant.
For the kids out there, the current system is a sort of feudal concoction built to maximize imperious egos and is fundamentally exploitive.
Advise: go into science if you have the desire. Go to a good undergraduate school but if you do not get into one of the best institutions for grad school DO NOT GO.
It's that bad out there and it's winner take all.
Science is a rewarding profession but the hardest thing to understand is that even if you do everything right your career can still fail so you have to be brave. You also have to have GENERAL/VERSATILE knowledge to adapt with the times.
The parent article is predicated on the assumption that Science equates with dollars for science. Once basic science in an area is well formed it becomes technology and society has no compelling reason to keep paying for it. Tenured faculty who continue to burn out grad students working on subjects "understood" decades ago are part of the problem here.
Finally: biology is a vast frontier but the NIH wants cures. You don't have to fully understand cancer to kill it.
We are all DEVO.
And learn to haggle in some language not your own. In my set of engineers scientists lawyers and physicians do you know who has his own jet? The dumb one who took Mandarin and set up a business importing Jeans.
And also it is a real problem in France not to have mastery of the world's second language.
...and the United States is ruled by attorneys whose sole purpose in this world is to pollute it with paper.
This one for example.
Starshade
Like there is not enough branding at a Major League Game?
Like Ad revenue isn't way way off.
Falcon 9 runs on Linux kernal. Not sure if it's Ubuntu or Red Hat tho.l
Troy Roberts,
This rather nice documentary deals nicely with grid batteries.
Hey Apple produce something of value.
Remove drudgery:
1) Fold Laundry
2) Clean Dishes
3) Vacuum and dust well (sorry Roomba)
etc...
You think the consumer really needs something to play a record for them?
Nobody reads.
The combo of conferences and the lecture circuit is how impactful science is circulated.
The journal article provides the details to the interested.
The ONLY purpose of a journal is to assure that someone reviewed the work.
Nuff Said
This story is probably relevant to /. because I've known many coders who suck down sugar soda or Aspartame soda like no tomorrow. Having followed the dementia research I put it to ya'll that a nice hot cup of tea most probably the best way to a slake thirst and keep those neurons chugging away. A bit of cream or sugar is just fine. There is a growing body of evidence correlating Alzheimers/Dementia to diabetes and metabolic imbalance and our choice of drinks is likely to be a contributing factor. Plus it is so civilized.
...and it is not a golden age. It is an age of moves made on a computer with a cheap reliance on phony computer special effects. Modern movies look totally phake.
Google Scholar counts citations too and it is free.
I was going to comment what you said but then I looked into the numbers
From NASA data:
ISS astronaut 6 months 160 mSv --> 0.66 mSv/day
Apollo Mission 14 astronaut 9 day 11.4 mSv --> 1.26 mSv/day
NASA Career exposure limits at age 35 would allow 2.5 Sv or in low earth orbit 0.5 Sv/year --> 2.7 mSv/day.
Maybe the ISS could be relatively safe in lunar orbit, as long as it is used for short term missions.
And one could argue that adding a radiation shielded module might moderate radiation levels.
The ISS does not look like it should be adapted for a Mars Mission however as the long term radiation exposure would be too high.
"You didn't use the right technique" is the first excuse used by researchers when their results don't hold up.
In Bio science this reproducibility problem is, at heart, a problem with having an experimental system that is under control, well defined and "stable".
There are plenty of very precise measurements made that are not accurate because there is something about the experiment that is not under control.
In biology, even if you do your best to account for statistical variation, it can often be the case that your results are bunk because there are things going on beyond your ken.
This is a real problem, people are now taking it seriously. It has impacted on my life in science on numerous occasions. I don't start something based on others' work unless I've tested the underlying rationale.
Rogue Amoeba makes a nice program Airfoill that allows my Apple OSX to play nice with the Google Chromecast. Casting audio to my old Stereo is now a cinch. Why Google and Apple don't seem to get along is no mystery.
QED
Slashdot readers are technical people but are usually trained in the computer and engineering sciences. I'm a biochemist and I've been here since the beginning but I certainly do not come here for biological quality.
I perused the paper. It is in a good journal and it looks like some good work.
Single application question: how does phagocytosis of silicon nanowires differ in any significant way from good old run of the mill asbestos?
Answer: for those dreaming of a bioelectric interface I put forward that these silicon nanowires will cause cancer.
The authors do not address this and do not provide any experiment that would overcome this hurdle.
...and there is already simultaneous availability of small independent films at home. The recent Werner Herzog film "Lo and behold..." for example was available for download while in the theater.
It could be a good economic thing to do to take advantage of the money being spent on advertising a film in its theater run to also make it available at home.
Now the Studios are always trying to stick it to the theater owners so I can see that this is the way things are going.
But the movie going experience is best done in a dark theater where, unlike at home, you can immerse yourself.
She said, she said
'You don't know shit,
Because you've never been there'
She turned upon him,
Took him by the hair
Spun him round about,
Laughing as he fell about,
Sat down for a drink
In her father's favourite chair
Kill your Television
I too get sick of endless troll wars but can quickly sift through it.
Thanks vikingpower for the submit to the interesting paper.
As this kind of science is above my job description does this theoretical treatment amend itself to testable confirmation?
...and pass close to other stars. Furthermore the Sun probably evolved in a densely packed globular cluster. The solar system is therefore susceptible to random and drastic gravitational chaos. No need to invoke the presence of giant invisible constant companion planets. Rather consider a periodic drive by shooting wreaking mayhem and havoc in the Oort cloud.
I hate laptops. I have a monitor, keyboard mouse everywhere I need to work so I tote my mac-mini around. It has always been under powered and unexpandible however the form factor and durability of this machine is nice and wins out for doing actual work. Doubles as a means to stream/play movies. When it wears out no worries, I can get peripherals anywhere. Hope they continue to support it...