Structurally, the liver is not that complex, and -- as previously mentioned -- has amazing regenerative capacity.
Physiologically and biochemically, yes, individual hepatocytes have a phenomenal array of activities and functions. However, once you get hepatocytes developing in the liver scaffold, the fact that each of them is a marvel of biology is a moot point.

The liver's function is currently not something we can reproduce, but developing tech to regrow compatible livers en toto would solve the problem without having to address the 500+ functions you mention. I imagine it's progressing nicely.

The kidney is the opposite. We can artificially accomplish most of the function of a kidney (though it's horribly expensive an inconvenient), but the structure is a bit more complex than the liver (more varieties of specialized epithelium, for example, and the glomerulus is currently impossible to build) with very poor regenerative properties. Losing some liver usually means the organ grows some extra to replace the lost bit, losing some kidney generally does not.

  Conveniently, by using scaffolding already built and seeding with cells that can differentiate into the appropriate types, we can sort of short-cut the necessity of trying to build either organ whole.

Go science!

I've read notes on me that said the same, but I'm also in a health profession, so I read the importance a little differently.

"Pleasant" indicates that the patient is not showing undue signs of stress, depression, altered mentation, or hostility. A "pleasant" person is more likely to follow medical advice (i.e. comply), and therefor more likely to actually get the treatment as prescribed by the doctor. Depression, altered mentation, or hostility indicate more care needs to be taken, or might indicate pain, injury, or drug effects.

"Young female". Age is already given, this just reiterates the doctor confirmed via their own impression what the signalment (age, sex, and often race) indicates. The patient should match the chart, and this is confirmed in the doctor's note.

IAAV. If you take your dog to the vet for a checkup, chances are your pet's record will have the letters "BAR" in the notes. This stands for "bright, alert, and responsive" which is an attitude assessment for animals for similar reasons. You might also see "immature", "adult", or "geriatric" as age descriptors despite the fact that records will have exact age written in them multiple times.

They could do the more specific test, but testing for germs may be the quickest and easiest way to distinguish the twins. Chances are high that the twins have at least one distinct critter in their respective childspore-slurry (all that raping, someone probably picked up something fun).
If they can find evidence of, say, a herpes virus that one twin has but the other does not (or has a different strain), they could crack the case for a fraction of the cost for the massive DNA run.

On the higher tech side, metagenomics might be a good solution. This would look at the genetic material of the viral and bacterial flora in the samples. It's a pretty common technique and could be done for less than a million. They'd have to run all the samples and see if there were a common non-human genome. It would have to be compared against each individual victim's flora as well.

Either way, letting a rapist (or pair of them) who has already raped 6 women (that they know of) go because it would cost too much to differentiate between the two suspects... seems like bad math at best and gross injustice at worst.

I wonder if an fMRI could distinguish conclusively between recognizing victims and a string of random faces. Another option of uncertain legal precedent.

The potentially cheapest solution is to charge them both with 6 counts of conspiracy to commit rape and 6 counts of obstructing justice. Or whatever the French equivalent would be.

Actually, what these data say is that Chinese students are just as good at scientific reasoning as Americans are, but they are significantly better at actually solving physics problems. Considering that the Chinese system is intended to teach students how to do problems, it seems like they are successful. On the other hand, considering that the American system is supposed to to emphasize scientific reasoning over being able to do the work, the question becomes "Why can't you do that better than the Chinese?"

Trying to spin this into China being bad at one thing and America at another is missing the fundamental point that they are both equal at one metric, but American students still perform poorer on the actual task of solving problems.

One could argue that being just similarly skilled in reasoning but stronger on solving the problems could be an advantage. It's just a hunch I have.

There is no gender division in equestrian events, and therefore no point in testing any of the competitors. Men, women, intersex, it doesn't matter: equestrian events are the only current Olympic sports where men and women compete against each other directly.

By the way, the reference in Wikipedia that you refer to has this in the citation: "This has often been reported as fact as early as 1977, but never verified by the Olympics authorities."

I'm going to consider it dubious at best.

I have no mod points, but I loled, and I thank you.

You have a /. account created today, comment history only on this thread, and no way to verify your rather outlandish claims. Very similar to the "other" person claiming to be a victim. Troll harder, dear, no one is buying what you are selling.

Interesting, thank you for the links. Sounds like she's a scammer.

I read the reddit post before I posted the first time, and it did not have a link to primary material. Therefor, it's a post on reddit not actual evidence.

Could she be a self-aggrandizing drama queen? Sure. Likely she is. She might also be lying about how things are going down with Kickstarter. We'd need some more data to figure that out.

Do we have a reason to believe that she posted the material quoted on reddit? Nope.

I'm pretty curious to know if Kickstarter will block projects that get spammed/stalked. Aren't you?

There is no proof that the comment was written by Malone. But we should attribute it to her anyway! Because!