Great point. Heart disease, diabetes, etc. are not "news". New risks are news by definition, and that's why they are covered in "the news".
If you want to read about diabetes, read "the olds" (AKA archives), not "the news". Thus, in the ebola case, "the news" are mostly doing their jobs. If you don't want to see "the news", but "the olds" instead, then don't fricken read/watch the news.
Maybe The Olds need catchier theme songs or voicings to make them more appealing. "Important things you already know about, but for...got [dramatic pause]. We'll help you remember this very important old information. The Olds![TM] Get it now, or, die of the known! The choice is yours and yours alone! [cue intense music]"
I say go ahead and let it into the science textbooks. However, require that they present only scientific evidence, rather than "Holy Book X said so". The result will be blank page. Let them stare at their blank page. It may wake them up.
If they want to create a "criticism of natural selection" section, I'm perfectly okay with that also. Science involves criticism. But, it should be made clear that gaps in evidence for NS is not automatically evidence for C. "Unknown" is "unknown". The default to a mystery is "unknown", not NS nor C. This "default" issue is often addressed incorrectly as a false dichotomy.
For example, the relatively sudden appearance of so many phyla in the "Cambrian explosion" is a legitimate mystery. So many phyla appearing almost completely without any (established) fossil history is solid puzzle. However, I don't fill in the blank with "god-did-it", but rather a "?", as it should be.
But China is also getting all the bad sides of de-regulation: pollution, poor and unsafe working conditions, long work hours, growing inequality, and crony-capitalism. It's kind of like the USA during the late 1800's when the down-sides of unfettered big business started growing to extremes.
Let's just hope that the Chinese never find life on another planet, because the first thing they'll do is eat it!
LOL! If this remark doesn't end up +5, I'm gonna eat slashdot (please, no Dice-already-has jokes).
Seriously, Chinese are obsessed with food and cooking. It seems almost half their conversations are about food. (I took Chinese language courses once.)
Maybe that's a good thing. In the US we typically ignore food until we are really hungry, then grab a quick Greaseburger to satisfy our hunger. It's not working well. Planning may do us better.
Chicago Tribune link not working for me. I get an ad with darkened article in background, but when I click the close button, it goes to a different article.
Much of that height difference is probably due to better diet and healthcare, and not evolution. For example, N. Koreans are noticeably shorter than S. Koreans due to diet, medical, etc. despite being recently separated.
I've personally worked in a shop where they paid the H1B visa workers once every 6 months. They also didn't pay overtime, just the strait hour rate. (But at least it was the right total amount, overtime aside.)
The visa workers had no intention of complaining because they risked getting booted home if they did. (It was during a recession.)
It was at a big company that contracted through a smaller company so that the big company didn't inherent any legal risk of cheating. From the big co's perspective, they are merely paying the contracting company for hours. Where and how the workers were actually paid was legally the small contracting firm's responsibility. Thus, the big co got the benefits of cheating but not the risk. (And the small co. was probably a reshuffle-able front of some larger outfit.)
As intuitive as molasses. All these years the option was in the lower left somewhere. Now it's at the upper right, the complete opposite, and under your name. What's a name have to do with logging out? I'm not exiting my body. That may be intuitive for an exorcist.
Drawing hard lines in the sand is perhaps not possible. Neanderthals would share a vast majority of our DNA just by being hominids. There are clusterings of genetic patterns, but a cluster is not a clear-cut distinction.
Slashdot Mirror
Have...Scotty...beam...them...inside!
To make more browser security holes for anti-malware scanning software makers to get rich from. It's a symbiotic relationship.
Next question?
Oh sh8t, we are....Creationists!? See, there is a Creator, and we are him (or her).
Great point. Heart disease, diabetes, etc. are not "news". New risks are news by definition, and that's why they are covered in "the news".
If you want to read about diabetes, read "the olds" (AKA archives), not "the news". Thus, in the ebola case, "the news" are mostly doing their jobs. If you don't want to see "the news", but "the olds" instead, then don't fricken read/watch the news.
Maybe The Olds need catchier theme songs or voicings to make them more appealing. "Important things you already know about, but for...got [dramatic pause]. We'll help you remember this very important old information. The Olds![TM] Get it now, or, die of the known! The choice is yours and yours alone! [cue intense music]"
I say go ahead and let it into the science textbooks. However, require that they present only scientific evidence, rather than "Holy Book X said so". The result will be blank page. Let them stare at their blank page. It may wake them up.
If they want to create a "criticism of natural selection" section, I'm perfectly okay with that also. Science involves criticism. But, it should be made clear that gaps in evidence for NS is not automatically evidence for C. "Unknown" is "unknown". The default to a mystery is "unknown", not NS nor C. This "default" issue is often addressed incorrectly as a false dichotomy.
For example, the relatively sudden appearance of so many phyla in the "Cambrian explosion" is a legitimate mystery. So many phyla appearing almost completely without any (established) fossil history is solid puzzle. However, I don't fill in the blank with "god-did-it", but rather a "?", as it should be.
But China is also getting all the bad sides of de-regulation: pollution, poor and unsafe working conditions, long work hours, growing inequality, and crony-capitalism. It's kind of like the USA during the late 1800's when the down-sides of unfettered big business started growing to extremes.
LOL! If this remark doesn't end up +5, I'm gonna eat slashdot (please, no Dice-already-has jokes).
Seriously, Chinese are obsessed with food and cooking. It seems almost half their conversations are about food. (I took Chinese language courses once.)
Maybe that's a good thing. In the US we typically ignore food until we are really hungry, then grab a quick Greaseburger to satisfy our hunger. It's not working well. Planning may do us better.
and name a cable after it
I'm a Binksologist
Chicago Tribune link not working for me. I get an ad with darkened article in background, but when I click the close button, it goes to a different article.
Paper and land-line calls subject to fraud also. It's how Steve Jobs got started.
I guess this aint the kind of joke that works on Slashdot
Preparing for global warming near the coastline.
Perlers are so jealous right now; they need 2 lines.
By that criteria, neither is Microsoft of late.
But that doesn't rule out God incrementally fiddling with genes if there is change.
Much of that height difference is probably due to better diet and healthcare, and not evolution. For example, N. Koreans are noticeably shorter than S. Koreans due to diet, medical, etc. despite being recently separated.
If this lopsided penalty situation is not strong evidence that the USA is slipping into a plutocracy, I don't know what is.
I've personally worked in a shop where they paid the H1B visa workers once every 6 months. They also didn't pay overtime, just the strait hour rate. (But at least it was the right total amount, overtime aside.)
The visa workers had no intention of complaining because they risked getting booted home if they did. (It was during a recession.)
It was at a big company that contracted through a smaller company so that the big company didn't inherent any legal risk of cheating. From the big co's perspective, they are merely paying the contracting company for hours. Where and how the workers were actually paid was legally the small contracting firm's responsibility. Thus, the big co got the benefits of cheating but not the risk. (And the small co. was probably a reshuffle-able front of some larger outfit.)
As intuitive as molasses. All these years the option was in the lower left somewhere. Now it's at the upper right, the complete opposite, and under your name. What's a name have to do with logging out? I'm not exiting my body. That may be intuitive for an exorcist.
The Mars probe mishap still haunts everybody, especially when it comes to body parts.
Sorry, you can only subtract things, not add to them.
Voodoo doctors are salivating over the possibilities...
This seems like circular logic. First one has to define what a "Neanderthal" is before answering that question.
Drawing hard lines in the sand is perhaps not possible. Neanderthals would share a vast majority of our DNA just by being hominids. There are clusterings of genetic patterns, but a cluster is not a clear-cut distinction.