But this way is carbon neutral. Every CO2 molecule you pump out, started out as a CO2 molecule you took from the air. There is no reason to dislike fossil fuels, if they no longer come from fossils. It's the releasing of carbon from millions of years ago that's creating the excess.
This is a pretty basic chemistry question, but I thought someone her might be able to give a simple explanation why it seems most of these amazing catalysts are always made from precious metals. Why is it that super expensive things like gold and silver and platinum are always the backbone of these catalysts?
I want to know too. I would like to buy some shares, put them in a box and save them for my grandchildren. Seems the very definition of a long play to me.
I love Friday and just reread it last weekend. Often I think that Elon Musk believes he is a character in a Heinlein novel. Tesla is Shipstone, the cars are just a mechanism to build better batteries. SpaceX, that's just DD Harriman from the man who sold the moon/sail beyond the sunset. The Boring company is how you build Luna City ala The moon is a harsh mistress. Or maybe a space catapult. Or maybe, I'm just hoping for Heinleinian hero.
The democrats told us they wanted to get rid of carbon based fuels. This is what that looks like. There is no way to get to that without going through this.
Telomeres get a lot of press, but they are only one Hallmark of aging. Other possible related hallmarks I see in this include stem cell exhaustion, epigenetic disregulation, genomic instability and altered cell signaling. Note I have not read the paper and they may have identified other novel mechanisms. If this is a topic you find interesting, I recommend you Google hallmarks of aging. Morgan Levine also has a new book out that gives a nice overview of all the different ways the body messes up as it ages.
I have to disagree with you on that. There are a great many mechanisms we evolved, most long before we were human, that appear to be
anticancer mechanisms. Off the top of my head senescence, apoptosis, and telomeres. The fact we don't all die of cancer earlier is a result of this.
Your skin turns read and feels hot, like a sunburn. It's the number one side effect of high dose niacin. There are some prescription extended release prescription niacins to reduce that effect, but it still happens. It's very uncomfortable, which is a real problem for something you take daily.
> The only reason it's not a total nightmare here is I'm sure the police are so underfunded that they couldn't take advantage of all this bullsh!t, even if they wanted to.
This actually makes it worse because this means it will selectively be used against "enemies" of the establishment. That and for select and well-publicized chilling effects.
It could also simply be time. To me this is obviously a small study that should be followed up (quickly) with a double blind, randomized trial. Until then, I'd be hesitant to put a bunch of ppl on anticoagulants.
Exactly this. I have a PHD in CS and am a world class expert in multi-omic data integration and analysis. I'm happy to throw my weight around in that area, but I'd never point to my PhD to pontificate on Neural nets or systems or queuing theory or 99 percent of CS. If getting a PhD doesn't teach you how much you don't know and how hard it is to develop real expertise in any area, I think you wasted your PhD. Note, my PhD isn't on the value of PhDs so take it as you will.
I believe the enforcement is federal (ATF). I'd imagine until the fed legalizes it, the process will be messy. You would have to recreate the ATF in each state. ATF also has some pretty sweeping powers that may be tough to replicate (legally) on a state by state basis.
I like this idea. Makes me think of nondeterministic v deterministic Turing Machines. It is easy to confirm that the magician is correct, but hard to see how they were able to get there.
My least favorite example of this is statistical "significance" which gives the impression of importance. I can't think of a word that has caused more trouble in science than that.
I believe it is always cheaper to feed cows grass. The grain is more expensive, but fattens the cow up and produces better marbling, and most would say better taste. That is why it is done.
I think the attraction to the Turing story is that it is a classical tragedy. If what happened to him happened to any gay man, it would be wrong. But since it happened to one of the greatest geniuses of the 20th century, who may have had other breakthroughs that could have pushed mankind forward, it is a tragedy. A tragedy for all mankind. Mankind suffered a huge loss due to its own moral failures.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....
- Noam Chomsky, The Common Good
> Herd immunity is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that can occur with some diseases when a sufficient percentage of a population has become immune to an infection, whether through vaccination or previous infections, thereby reducing the likelihood of infection for individuals who lack immunity.
> CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said recent studies had shown that those vaccinated individuals who do become infected with Covid have just as much viral load as the unvaccinated, making it possible for them to spread the virus to others.
This is why the CDC started recommending masks again.
Only the vaccinated will preferentially evolve variants that are resistant to the vaccine. The vaccines are leaky, as evidenced by the recent outbreak in the Northeast. A saner strategy with leaky vaccines is to vaccinate the small population that is vulnerable and let the rest of the population of develop a natural herd immunity. Otherwise you are creating a fitness advantage to resistant strains.
Yeah. I did a lot of work with blood measures and every disease had some characteristic spike in n immune function. I worked in a lab with a ton of immunologists and we never knew what was going on. All we could say was activation of complement or strong TNF response or something else descriptive but not really helpful. Just too much dark matter in the immune system. My big hope is that the silver lining of COVID will be a much deeper understanding of the immune system. Certainly a ton of money is being poured into it. Fingers crossed, we could be entering a golden age for immuno-therapeutics.
That's crazy. Governments always return the freedoms the take once emergencies are over. I'd find a citation but I am almost to the front of the line and need to remove my shoes.
You've just invented the Republic. At least that's the way it is supposed to work. My opinion is that the House should be increased by a factor of 100. Hard to bribe that many people.