umberway

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by umberway 10y ago
>These articles repeating the same hyped up fear Yes! Antibiotics (as an issue) are now associated with guilt and hubris. I trust CRISPR technologies will yield new weapons to fight infections and other diseases.
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by umberway 10y ago
My thought is that 'nerds' collaborate better despite poorer than average understanding of fellow humans. It's because their work and its success or failure are more objectively defined which makes organising and delegation
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by umberway 10y ago
There may be a lot of antibiotics present in the soil which haven't been exploited yet because it's hard to grow in the lab the organisms which produce them. However techniques are being developed to circumvent this problem and he
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by umberway 10y ago
Isn't the best approach to 'fake physics' simply to publicly criticise the ideas, or, if that's too exhausting, to point to a previous criticism?
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by umberway 10y ago
These reports have an empiricist slant to them and there's usually no attempt to explain the result. No doubt there's truth to be found here, but note that mere act of sitting cannot be bad for health, otherwise seated meditation
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by umberway 10y ago
I don't wish to imply that getting a job is the only meaningful thing a teen could be doing. However there are plenty of teens who would love to get paid jobs as say, programmers. They are denied because of old laws intended to preve
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by umberway 10y ago
'Idle' adults do the same, and it's worth pointing out that young teenagers aren't permitted to contribute to society in other meaningful ways e.g. by getting a job if they can and prefer to.
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by umberway 10y ago
I would agree that the medical field is plagued with empiricism which consists of asking a naive question (rather than working from a deeper theory) and then doing a study to 'measure' the thing in question. Third parties then n
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by umberway 10y ago
My heart often tells me when something is amiss. For example, if I'm about to buy excessive amounts of junk food and alcohol I sometimes feel a twinge emanating from the chest region. I acknowledge and interpret this as my brain's
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by umberway 10y ago
It's pretty sad that the question "Why are western women, particularly American women, so miserable?" is now a political question. (And therefore resists attempts to discuss it, which I don't recommend btw.)