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Indeed. The usual 11am silent moment was probably observed too. But it just seems to be a big deal within the commonwealth countries.
For something that's kinda sweet (hope in humanity?) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...et/7717336.stm
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2008-11-10, 21:58 | Link #982 |
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NASA Mars Phoenix mission finally dead (or not quite dead, undead maybe).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7721032.stm Many months past its original expected-to-live date, the Phoenix operations finally officially shut down but they'll check on it periodically to see if its still beeping.
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2008-11-10, 22:55 | Link #984 |
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DiCaprio is Producing Akira, Ninja Scroll, Not Acting in Them
Self-professed "big fan of anime" says final Akira script draft is being written |
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2008-11-11, 00:57 | Link #986 |
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http://www.counton2.com/cbd/news/sci...ulation/16655/
It seems as though somebody has been reading too much Thomas Robert's population theory. |
2008-11-11, 01:48 | Link #987 | |
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*nods slowly* Ok... now i've heard it all the rabid fox one was funny, my friend from AZ linked me that one As for Hollywood leeching of more anime series to make movies with, Dicaprio's all like 'We won't accept the script until it's fully shaped, we know there are die hard fans out there...' Well the script could be awesome. The direction, acting and casting could be total crap, and that's what conerns me rather. How much of the US audience are they gonna pertain to, while directing, cause Akira and ninja scroll...well mass bloodbath and mindf^%k anyone?
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2008-11-11, 22:33 | Link #988 |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/science/11gene.html
This is likely the largest news since the discovery of DNA itself, and the ultimate impact may be even larger. What will it be used for first? One of the first concentrated efforts will be attempts at identification of lost Hebrew descendants. It likely won't make the news until it has a very definite success in doing so, but it is a very important field for some of the people who make things happen in this field, and it's a small but lucrative business even in our now-former understanding of DNA.
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2008-11-12, 22:05 | Link #989 |
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Epigenetics may be new enough to not be included in text books (I'm not sure, maybe it is) but it's taught at the graduate level with at least some level of understanding. It's an additional layer of complexity, but I don't know that I'd call it something that major. It has allowed for us to explain certain disease models.
Or did I miss the main idea of the article? I read the first page, thought "epigenetics" before they used the term (comes up on the second page), and sort of started skimming from there...
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2008-11-12, 22:22 | Link #990 |
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I didn't see anything terribly new in the article (but then we have a subscription to Nature at our house thanks to #2 son) but it was a nice summation article for the educated layperson on "stuff thats happened since long ago year of biology class". Nice catch by Kyuusai - I like finding articles like this for "here, read this and get back to me" moments to stop stupid debates in their tracks.
So much has happened in biology in the last 20 years that it is kind of painful trying to have ethics, social, or political discourse with people who are using mid-20th Century fuzzy ideas.
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2008-11-13, 01:32 | Link #993 | |
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On that count, science advancement in the last half-century has been really fast compared to previous eras. I mean: Most of us keep saying that we live in a fast-paced world, but I doubt only the elderly would fully appreciate that statement, especially in regards to science and technology. It is easy for the young to accept new stuff and take them for granted, but the older generation do have difficulty in trying to integrate all this, especially for those who are not well-educated.
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2008-11-13, 01:42 | Link #994 |
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I knew there was something iffy with my high school bio class' lecture on DNA, considering I never quite grasped the full picture of what the hell it is no matter how hard I tried. Now it's a little clearer that that's to no fault of my own nor my biology teacher's but rather because we simply don't really know the full picture of it. Comforting.
It might be old news to some, especially to those who are in the discipline itself and up-to-date on the latest advances, but to reconsider these "exceptions" as the norm or makes some sense of it all can be a big deal to some of us laypeople. We of the popular culture takes bits and pieces of what the scientists painstakingly attempted to explain to us in simple terms and put these knowledge into the repertoire of popular knowledge -- and just as commonly popular misconceptions. I consider it encouraging news though: once upon a time physicists declared their discipline dead, and then it was all turned upside down on them, and now biologists are exploring massive new continents of knowledge with just a flashlight, a hypotheses, and an old map to guide them. Science is alive and well. |
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2008-11-13, 04:49 | Link #997 |
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Well, not all scientific breakthroughs gets translated into technology. Besides, technology is not the only life-changing stuff. It is the commercialisation of technology, the process of making it affordable to many people, that is the key. Your jetpack is already available. it's just not commercialised so that everyone can have one.
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On the issue of AMA... I really don't find those figures surprising at all. Not only does it sound like a process most people would be willing to go through, but I can't think of any legal process which the general public is sufficiently educated about in any country, so I don't imagine that something like this would be well understood by the populace. On the other hand, I really have to wonder what could have caused confusion such as people mistaking it for a euthanasia. I can't imagine how a person could confuse being able to die naturally with being euthanized. Surely there must have been some misinformation being spread?
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2008-11-14, 02:27 | Link #999 |
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Jean-David Levitte, Sarkozy's chief diplomatic adviser, reported the exchange in a magazine today ahead of an EU-Russia summit in Nice Friday chaired by the French leader and President Medvedev.
With Russian tanks only 30 miles from Tbilisi on Aug. 12, Sarkozy told Putin that the world would not accept the overthrow of Georgia, Levitte said. "I am going to hang Saakashvili BY THE BALLS," Putin replied. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle5147422.ece |
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Russian communist, the last defenders of Russian Democracy
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