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No genetic mutations necessary.
It will contaminate your solution with hexavalent chromium as it corrodes.
This is the report introducing the controversial amendment: https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/118th-congress...
The amendment is the last item in the report, under this heading:
> 6. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Turner of Ohio or His Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes
This is the transcript of the session where the amendment was discussed and voted on: https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-170/iss...
You can find the discussion within the text using this search term:
> Amendment No. 6 Offered by Mr. Turner
Where else could it possibly go?
This was exciting research in the 90s, but now gene sequencing is routine and the results just get added to the pile. It's scientific chum.
This book's authors, the review author, and the editors at Nature who decided this review was worth publishing and under what headline, would like to coordinate a shift away from this kind of low-impact publication.
To make significant contribution, you can't just identify a marker for cancer or dinosaurism: you need to actually attempt to cure cancer or turn people into dinosaurs.
Imagine a magenta, glitter-covered pony hoof stamping on a human face, forever.
"You have an awful lot of media, and I only want to read a single page of text content."
The site admin replied, "5m."
5m? What kind of content-length is that?
That's how long your access token will remain valid. You can receive as many bytes as you like, once you've completed our captcha. But you can only load visible content, and 5m is all you get. Our javascript will follow along as you scroll and load the content progressively.
He solved the captcha and began scrolling. It was good content. He knew he had to reach the end, but he paused here and there to consider the implications. He even scrolled up to reread an early paragraph, thinking this passage would inspire a fine bon mot in some future conversation.
At the three minute mark he started becoming nervous, observing that he was less than halfway down the page. He kept a looser focus on the text and tried to devour it as a flattened procession of scenes and story elements to be interrogated for meaning later.
Four and a half minutes- he began to skim. Now it was just a string of nouns and verbs, representing hardly more to him than its underlying utf-8 byte stream.
He scrolled wildly onto the half-occluded final line of text, but it was too late: the token's time to live had already fallen below the round-trip latency to the server.
Or had it? There was still a request in progress, and it had already reached the server milliseconds before expiration. Status 200: the response arrived successfully!
As the final line was revealed, the page footer approached the view region and triggered a final refresh. The full page of content was invalidated before his eyes reached the end of the line, and now his browser displayed only a 404 message. This final response delivered no content at all-- only a header, 651 bytes long.
You filter by category: Automobiles. You still need to scroll through 15 pages of miscategorized vinyl wraps and seat covers, but eventually you see a few actual car listings.
One has lots of good reviews, but the reviews seem to be praising a completely different product, like a phone charger.
You shrug and click buy. Two days later, you receive a rebadged Geely Panda delivered from commingled inventory by a seller called JGLEWYU.
You fill out the return form and drop it off at the nearest Whole Foods parking lot.
I think that's worth my attention even if I'm not the intended customer.
Suppose there were another drug developed in secret, an anti-vioxx. It reduces your risk of all-causes mortality by a fraction of a percent. But it has these side effects:
1. Chronic pain. It's with you as long as you're taking your anti-vioxx and lets you know it's working.
2. Joint stiffness, often debilitating and sometimes leaving you practically chair-bound.
Would you take it? Should everyone take it? Should everyone be legally mandated to take it?
> "The beauty of Telescript," says Andy, "is that now, instead of just having a device to program, we now have the entire Cloud out there, where a single program can go and travel to many different sources of information and create sort of a virtual service. No one had conceived that before.
Here's a radiograph of the primary visual cortex created in 1982 by projecting a pattern onto a macaque's retina: https://web.archive.org/web/20100814085656im_/http://hubel.m...
An injection of radioactive sugar lets you see where the neurons were firing away and metabolizing the sugar.
UNIX: not an acronym, but all-caps anyway
iOS: inverted titlecase helps us stand out
Microsoft® Windows™: these are our brand names! no trespassing!
Even protein subunits are getting brand names now.
I guess clinical research into 'klotho' attracts more funding than, say, 7-9-beta-ortho-sonichedgehog-muscarintransferase