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Not just fringe BS like homeopathy, but fairly-mainstream dietary supplements industry is full of dubious remedies. See for example, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/02/how-supple...
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The other problem with SBIRs is that products and sales are usually not deliverables for the money that the government gives via SBIR grants. So it is hard to scale up without other investment.
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Minneapolis-St. Paul, which is as sprawl-y as it gets has done a pretty good job of connecting most of the area with paved bike-only paths. I am not sure how bad the situation in Bay Area is, but it is not easy to get too many people to bik
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Prakrit is not one language. I was careful to use it as 'Prakrits'. Given the formality of Sanskrit, I seriously doubt Prakrits can be considered its dialects. In fact, the relationship probably goes the other way- Sanskrit is a f
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The common people spoke 'Prakrit's and Dravidian languages, basically ancestors of modern languages. The word 'sanskrit' itself comes from the same root as 'samskara'. One of the meanings of 'samskara&#x27
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> Do you see the same thing happening in India, or are they managing to preserve local tradition alongside the mainstream? It is complex! Some dialects are dying out, but the regions seem to be clustering around the 22 'scheduled la
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Unripe jackfruit is totally like pork in texture - pulled or cubed. Only, as is typical of plant-based food, it is not as juicy. You can use it in all the ways that you can use pork - stews, jambalayas, with rice - except in a sandwich. I&#
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This is such a great autobiographical account that manages to do two incredible things at once. It chronicles the discovery of a very interesting historical possibility. While doing so, it also explores the interplay between the personal an
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> Not that this actually matters but out of morbid curiosity - did he actually assemble a clock kit or did he simply disassemble a regular nightstand clock and put it into a little carry case? Either way, he is 14. Like the saying goes,
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Put yourself in a 14-year old's shoes. If you had a passion for electronics and invention and were snubbed this badly for building something cool and taking it to school, how would you feel? I, for one would have been devastated. At be
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GM manufactures their cars in their own factories. Electronics is largely made by fab foundries and electronics assemblers like Foxconn. The entirety of a Chevy Cruze is assembled by GM from parts sourced from other companies and GM itself.
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You pulled a fast one there by linking to student body data and claiming admin and teachers are non-white. It is quite likely that the school district administration and teachers are mostly white. Multiple reasons for this, 1. Brown people
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Trigger warnings are actually detrimental to mental health as enunciated in this Atlantic article: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-codd... Anxiety, for instance can be alleviated
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I think you are overstating the importance of languages. As a counter example, one has to only look at large European companies, like Seimens, Airbus, Philips, Volkswagen, etc. Their multinational spread transcends language barriers. Why wo
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This theme appears in a recent New York Times article: www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/opinion/sunday/allison-arieff-the-internet-of-way-too-many-things
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Nitpicking - Thyagaraja was born in the 18th century and lived well into the 19th century. To put it in perspective, this is at least 100 years after the Johann Sebastian Bach.
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On the contrary, there is perhaps only one use case where iPad Pro could be a boon for users: industrial, graphic, and sundry designers, visual artists, etc. As I see it today, iPad Pro is a niche product, not a mass-market pro tablet lik
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Even taking usability into account, an argument can be made that iPad Pro is neither here nor there. Consider a simple use case: let's say iPad Pro is the sole enterprise device handed out to employees at a company. AFAIK, even a simpl
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The podcast, This American Life had a great episode on modern segregation and the failure of attempts at desegregation: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/t... Missouri has a particula
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E. T. Bell [1], a 20th century historian of science writes about the different strains of ancient/medieval mathematics in his book 'Development of Mathematics'. Greek approach to science is roughly represented by Plato and Py
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In addition to the biases, there is another flaw in this analysis- they assume that quality is a linear function of critic scores. So, jumping from 30 metacritic score to 50 metacritic score is considered the same as jumping from 60 to 80.
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Doesn't matter too much. Only problem is that it exists only so long as the mall developer is making a profit on the space. This is hardly true with say, the cultural districts of cities, where taxpayers foot the bill, and where there
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Few places in the world are as poor in terms of lack of public spaces as the US. Roadside cafes, town squares, etc. are the norm in Europe. In the US, very few cities have such features. They are increasingly common these days in the form o
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It looks a bit like Circular, which has also been adopted by Alphabet (see the page source for abc.xyz), Google's parent company. Circular has been quite popular of late with many companies adapting and adopting it for their identity.
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Fully in agreement. I think the answer to the PhD/postdoc glut should be more institutes. We still need the universities for teaching, and they are doing an outstanding job at that. I think of all the university systems in the world, A
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Apple and touchscreens is a bit of an outlier here. History remembers the following guys, but few know who made billions putting it into stuff: 1. Jack Kirby and IC 2. Bardeen, Shockley,and Brattain and semiconductors 3. Akasaki, Amano, and
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I am not accusing you of lying. These are hardly facts to lie about and involve a lot of supposition. For instance, the chair may have made an offhand remark, but the faculty (especially if tenured) may or may not be beholden to the chair.
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I call bullshit. Given how little a department actually spends on employees that report to PIs, it would be interesting to know how this happened! Further, H1B is not a zero-cost or low cost proposition for universities and departments, esp
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Wow! In Kannada, a South Indian language, we have the saying, "devaru vara kotru poojari vara kodlilla." Translation: "even though the god granted your wishes, the priest didn't pass it on." It alludes to the stereo
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Seems like a re-phrasing of truisms cautioning against 'perfectionism' like, "perfect is the enemy of good." The idea behind these things is that perfectionists tend to overestimate how much actually needs to be done to

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