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by toufka 10y ago
Physics. More specifically, 'conditions'. More specifically, the environment in which the ingredients are produced determines how the ingredients assemble. The analogy to the ingredients list is a decent one, but it is also a t
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yes, actually :)
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What? This is so very wrongheaded. We learned quickly that 'cancer' is to the twentieth century 'the fevers'. We learned there are many reasons and causes for the catch-all, 'cancer'. Some we now know how to
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by toufka 10y ago
Exactly. Imagine being a student given a tome of knowledge called something like, 'Principia Mathematica'. Upon receipt of the book you say, "I will soon be able to make engines efficient, structures solid, understand the p
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by toufka 10y ago
The name of the paper: 'Acoustic behavior associated with cooperative task success in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)' The location of a place that has the paper: https://sci-hub.bz/
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by toufka 11y ago
You're sure in for a surprise then.
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We do know that smaller (shorter lived) mammals at least have significantly shorter telomeres than humans. Here's a paper comparing max life span (MLS) against body temperature, body mass, and telomere length. [1] [1] http:/&#x2F
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by toufka 11y ago
Absolutely. You have 'rogue' cells that go on independent replication programs all the time. But there are a few checkpoints which are no-go if a cell passes them - they are immediately forced to die. These include, short telom
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by toufka 11y ago
The first stage of rockets launched from the US end up over the Atlantic. Unless you want to launch many percentage points more of fuel to propel it farther than it would otherwise go, you're going to have to catch it in the ocean. Th
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by toufka 11y ago
It's also not really a science advisory board and more of a medical/clinical board. This would be great for making sure the tech is working in the hands of its clients, but that seems to me to be putting the cart before the hor
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by toufka 11y ago
New fragrances & colors (L'Oreal), new materials (Bolt Threads), new sensors, new foods (Impossible Foods), and further, all the infrastructure required to nurture these kinds of companies. A Google-X-Style project designed to buil
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The trouble is that there is some (new) biological science that takes the old massive and powerful tool and applies them to low-hanging fruit that were (until recently), not worth the effort. I've been waiting for some of these moon
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Exactly. The government is the only institution which reliably doles out full-sized grants (free money) for projects with horizons on the order of years. And institutional grants on the order of decades.
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You'd be hard pressed to beat biological evolution... A liter of e. coli can have upwards of 100s of billions of cells. Which can double every 90 minutes. Try to run that many instances of a full environmental simulation in software.
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by toufka 11y ago
It's curious that the smaller phone is not a 'pro' device. I just want it to be smaller, not less powerful or even less expensive. There are of course size which limitations which dictate that smaller devices cannot cram all
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by toufka 11y ago
Here are some excerpts from the new bill authored by assembly members Jim Cooper & James Gallagher [1] and state senators Patricia Bates & Isadore Hall III [2]. Findings: > (t) Technology-facilitated sex trafficking networks rely
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California Proposed Bill AB-1681 – Smartphones(leginfo.legislature.ca.gov)
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There are many of us here who are not in the field.
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This is good advice worth more than us here might expect. A bit of chatter about a paper is worth a whole lot. In a specialized field, getting 2 or 3 comments back after publication is 'a lot'. Doubling that to 5 or 6 interesti
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by toufka 11y ago
What about when via #2, the government covertly works its way up to obtaining the 3rd party's key? With a 3-party system you now have targets for the biggest party to go after. If the US gov gets BigTechSoft's key, then the whole
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by toufka 11y ago
They incorporate tylenol to help prevent addiction and overdose. Too much tylenol makes you sick - very unpleasantly. Too much opiods and you feel great, until you die. The tylenol is designed to provide an edge to taking too much so that t
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by toufka 11y ago
Rainbow-bars [NO SIGNAL] right when stage 1 was landing on the barge... So suspenseful! The last frame before video cut out http://i.imgur.com/3HCnn7c.png Edit - looks like stage 1 did not survive landing (this time). ht
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by toufka 11y ago
>if the NSA had that data, they'd share it with the FBI No they would not. Different government agencies are tasked with different resources, different objectives, and different guiding laws. What is legal for some agencies is bla
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by toufka 11y ago
As Snowden stated, the data on nearly everyone alive's habits is kept 'safe and secret' by policy alone, and not by any technical or legal controls. There are few if any technical or legal limits to what the United States go
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Not the fun ones. Most of the small molecules are derivative indicators anyway. Any cancer indicators, many hormones, and other interesting molecules are proteins - and thus not statistically replicable in these tiny samples.
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reddit has some pretty good sci-fi writers' subs. I've seen people submit and ask others to review their work plenty of times. See what they think. https://www.reddit.com/r/sciencefiction/ [check the s
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by toufka 11y ago
Yep. It's just too easy to hijack a post on accident. One solid and accurate comment that is only tangentially related to the post can turn the entire comment section away from the topic at hand. Even if you want to say something a
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by toufka 11y ago
Bento Bio looks pretty cool. But it also produces nothing tangible or fun. Much of molecular biology is so abstract - the mixing of particular amounts of clear liquids to get a band to show up on a gel. It's difficult to ground those
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by toufka 11y ago
It's called a refrigerator. Or, more precisely, a kitchen. If you have yogurt, or beer, or bread, or cheese you have such a product. And if you've ever let any food in your kitchen go bad/moldy/rotten, you have, &#x27
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An interesting statement from the UC President, former head of the Department of Homeland Security: [1] > "While we have absolutely no interest in the content of any individual's emails or browsing history, we must accept that

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