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by waserwill 7y ago
I would agree with you: there are interesting and appropriate uses of brutalist design. The issue I have is that many brutalist structures are "soulless glass and concrete," with inverse proportions!
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by waserwill 7y ago
Assuming that abiogenesis wouldn't happen very frequently (given the right set of conditions, a mean time to happen on the order of thousands to billions of years), a single life-forming event would have the same effect, no? After a fo
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by waserwill 7y ago
To suggest that modern imagination and the recursive thinking necessary for language evolved _after_ humans started making complex tools (which required hierarchical recursive processes to make) is, to me, dubious. The tool-creation/la
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by waserwill 7y ago
The important animals are other apes and primates, when considering the evolution of disease. If none of them have it but humans do, then it likely came about recently. This means that it has independently evolved in humans and other animal
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by waserwill 8y ago
This is a common set of colloquial definitions; nothing wrong with that. Philosophical writing, particularly with regards to theology, refers to atheism as the belief that there is no God [1]. As such, it is easy to interpret the article as
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by waserwill 8y ago
Oh, and a summary, based on their report to the press: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190204114641.h...
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The word order of languages predicts native speakers’ working memory(nature.com)
3 points by waserwill 8y ago|1 comments
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by waserwill 8y ago
Hey, I really enjoy the imperial system (besides fahrenhiet). It gets more fun when you get beyond yards and pounds and into stones, hundredweight, and imperial tons and rods, chords, and furlongs.
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by waserwill 8y ago
I was mostly talking about the concept of mitochondrial incompatibility, which is significantly more common than what is discussed in the paper, which is paternal inheritance. I made a note of it being doubly rare (female must survive to re
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by waserwill 8y ago
Invalidating conclusions: not particularly; these results suggest that under rare circumstances (in a few sorts of mitochondrial disease), mitochondria can be transmitted paternally. It makes the matrilineal model slightly less definitive,
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by waserwill 8y ago
Both used to refer to the same sound (the first sound of thing), which mutated into what we have today (as in the), in part due to surrounding sounds (note, for example, that words ending in th are soft/unvoiced). The presence of two d
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by waserwill 8y ago
When researchers look for a planet around a star, they only need to look at a small part of our sky. Not so for nearby objects. Plus, they can exploit the fact that stars with planets nearby will exhibit patterns of brightness, etc.,—if the
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Hubble Space Telescope Is In Safe Mode After Gyro Failure(nasawatch.com)
274 points by waserwill 8y ago|132 comments
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by waserwill 8y ago
Which is silly, since comparing two individuals is very quick; when you get a hit for a subset, you can just do a one-to-one comparison to check.
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by waserwill 8y ago
Since you've done the 23&me test, if you'd like, you can submit a copy of the raw 23&me data for free analysis at places like dna.land [NOTE: These are academics which may use your data in research. They claim that they wo
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by waserwill 8y ago
The difference is that while animals like mosquitoes have many offspring and are sexually reproducing, many of the microscopic parasites are not… The gene drive requires sexual reproduction to spread and produce sterile mosquitoes. Huh, may
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by waserwill 8y ago
This may lead to ecosystem crashes, but almost certainly not extinction. The gene drive, here, relies on two major features: high reproductive rate of mosquitoes, and the maintenance of the elements responsible for the drive. First of all,
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by waserwill 8y ago
First, note that you are conflating Kuhn's talk of theories with talk of disciplines. The introduction of quantum mechanics enhanced the explanatory power of physics; it also sent alternative theories, which proposed too many factors o
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by waserwill 8y ago
This is indeed a massive problem with GWA (genome-wide association), since the studies only see additive variation. Lot of interesting techniques around to look at non-additive variation. Had acquaintances working on drug-drug interactions
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by waserwill 8y ago
A cool find, but not necessarily surprising: all modern populations have some art in their culture, but modern populations diverged >70 kya. One might imagine that our common ancestors had similar behaviors to all living humans, at least
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by waserwill 8y ago
You cannot see the difference between two acquaintances exchanging goods and a merchant loading his pack, traveling long distances to make profit from trade? It is the same as between a spat and a war; gathering in a forest and farming. It
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by waserwill 8y ago
I mean trade as an institution, not just sporadic interpersonal bartering and sharing; more like merchants, trade routes, and the like. Exchange is not unique to man; trade, as such, is. Trade becomes more worthwhile when communities begin
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by waserwill 8y ago
Indeed, it is not a permanent settlement. Suggestions as to its usage generally agree that is was used for several months a year for centuries or millenia, with gatherings of several groups. The monuments of Stonehenge were built by pre-Cel
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by waserwill 8y ago
That depends a lot on which bronze age you're referring to! Different civilisations developed a little differently, particularly where writing is concerned. While in Egypt, writing developed out of central records, it likely developed
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by waserwill 8y ago
The assumption, as seen in the first set of bullet points, has been: agriculture -> sedentary lifestyle -> large monuments. The discovery of Gobekli Tepe suggests that (in at least some cases), large monuments came first. This is unex
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by waserwill 8y ago
The reviewer has interests which are superficially discussed in the book, and even those about which readers may often express interest. I believe the book would have been several times less interesting to me had I not looked into the philo
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by waserwill 9y ago
The encoding used by these sorts of projects avoids 'ATG' (start site), and possibly the Shine-Dalgarno Sequence (where ribosomes attach), if they do it right. The bacterial DNA can mutate, but the likelihood of that mutation crea
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by waserwill 10y ago
True, enzymes cannot change the ∆G. However, there are many cases where an increased binding strength and rate of reactions using the products of the original reaction allow for a shift in equilibrium. Though, it may possibly make the syste
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by waserwill 10y ago
Oh, I never said that bacteria won't go extinct. Many will. I implied that from the decreased biodiversity part, but I should've made it more clear. Thing is, that because of their population sizes, there will always be outliers i
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by waserwill 10y ago
Suffocation really isn't the big issue here. Phytoplankton generate energy via photosynthesis, so as the temperature of water – and this the concentration of gases that are dissolved inside – changes, so too will the organisms' bi

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