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901.
by pcrh 12y ago
In that vein, sometimes one can over-interpret normal behaviors as more negative than they actually are. The book "Feeling Good" [1] covers this, and ways to deal with it in a very accessible and straightforward way. [1] http:&#x2
902.
by pcrh 12y ago
Looks like he's going to have to learn how to break out of jail...
903.
by pcrh 12y ago
I would certainly be in favor of terraforming Mars, and then seeing what could be done. One might (or might not...) want to wait until we have clear evidence that it is indeed sterile. In either case the first thing to do would be to seed
904.
by pcrh 12y ago
A quick search lead me to this: >it was quite clear before it became law that there was no real commercial interest in mining or oil exploration in Antarctica for the foreseeable future. [1] Of course, a vein of pure gold would be worth
905.
by pcrh 12y ago
If economic exploitation of Antarctica, which is only a few hours away from "civilization", has water literally everywhere, and where the air is perfectly breathable is currently not viable, I can't imagine what it would take
906.
by pcrh 12y ago
"Geopolitical influence" covers control of both purely economic assets (e.g. oil, markets), as well as territory. Economic competition has frequently been the underlying motivator for military action.
907.
by pcrh 12y ago
It might be more accurate to say that there are no existential threats to the US. The US certainly has competitors for geopolitcal influence (~enemies), as does any other nation.
908.
by pcrh 12y ago
>They don't understand that their arguments could be levied against any scientific theory, including ones that they accept. That they can do this means they don't understand how science works. Exactly, which is why epistemologi
909.
by pcrh 12y ago
Stressing the term "theory" by creationists attacking evolution is a rhetorical device intended to imply that " even scientists don't know". Obviously, scientists, and other educated people, know that this attack i
910.
by pcrh 12y ago
OK, I searched a bit and found an article from 2011, which appears to be the original source (free access [1]). It appears that aluminum is the most common material from which local pots were made. [1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.
911.
by pcrh 12y ago
Yes, but what do they use?
912.
by pcrh 12y ago
What do they use then?
913.
by pcrh 12y ago
What are the local cooking pots made of? Steel and cast iron would be the cheapest, and I assume leach iron into the food. I also imagine that the surface area of the pot is much larger than that of this "lucky fish". A quick sea
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by pcrh 12y ago
This is literally semantics. The vast majority of people know what an "accepted fact" is, and they also know what a "proposed model of reality" is (even if they don't use such phrases). The opposition to evolutionar
915.
by pcrh 12y ago
Some are uncannily similar to Celtic knots.
916.
by pcrh 12y ago
Douglas Prasher now has a job in the Tsien Lab at UCSD http://www.tsienlab.ucsd.edu/People.htm
917.
by pcrh 12y ago
You have to stop graduating useless PhDs. Graduate students, and often postdocs (though more justifiably), are recruited primarily in the expectation that they will provide work for their advisors/Profs. If Profs could no longer benef
918.
by pcrh 12y ago
Perhaps it isn't that science is unprofitable, it just isn't immediately profitable. Pretty much the entire modern economy, i.e. those parts that don't depend primarily on manual labor, politicking or usury, is founded on t
919.
by pcrh 12y ago
Where are you located? If you're in one of the "hubs", i.e. Bay Area, San Diego, Boston, Cambridge (UK), etc, identify the local networking organizations and get exposure to what others are doing, both in industry and academi
920.
by pcrh 12y ago
>most professors are blissfully or even deliberately ignorant of the time and effort necessary to prepare grant proposals for research funding. I can assure you that this is not true. Any "deliberate" ignorance is likely an att
921.
by pcrh 12y ago
>It costs considerably less for the state to support a child than an elderly person. I would like to see the numbers on this... In today's world, a young person is supported for at least 20 years, sometimes more. Life expectancy in
922.
by pcrh 12y ago
I would like to see a list and calculation of the advantages of a declining population. In today's economy, white collar workers are not productive for almost 25 years, whereas 50 years ago most people were in partial paid employment b
923.
by pcrh 12y ago
Without having read the article too closely, teixobactin appears to be binding the lipids of the bacterial cell wall. It might be hard to evolve simple resistance to this (and the authors support this by experiment) as this would require
924.
by pcrh 12y ago
Here are the pertinent bits regarding resistance, in summary it implies that spontaneous resistance will be difficult, But... "life has a way": >We were unable to obtain mutants of S. aureus or M. tuberculosis resistant to te
925.
by pcrh 12y ago
You're correct, I'll correct my post.
926.
by pcrh 12y ago
That device is a smart and clever approach! It will undoubtedly get used for many other applications.
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by pcrh 12y ago
From the Nature article, the claim that resistance to teixobactin is hard is based on an attempt by the authors to induce resistance by culturing S. aureus or M. tuberculosis in the presence of sub-lethal concentrations of teixobactin f
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by pcrh 12y ago
Luciferin is converted to a reactive intermediate by the enzyme luciferase in a reaction that uses ATP (produced by mitochondria), this intermediate reacts with O2 to produce light.
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by pcrh 12y ago
Even more, "having visas available" implies that they are at his disposition, which is extremely unlikely.
930.
by pcrh 12y ago
To support your point, the Netherlands is the world's second largest exporter of agricultural produce [1], and, to draw a direct parallel with the article under discussion, the worlds largest exporter of tomatoes [2]. There is no way t

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