Not really. If you read the wiki article carefully, you will see that SQUIDS are used in "microtesla" MRI. This is not the normal MRI. If you go to a hospital you will probably get a 1.5 Tesla scan. If you volunteer as a research subject you might get a 3 T scan or rarely a 7 T scan.

SQUIDS are used for MEG though. If you are being prepped for brain surgery for epilepsy you might get one of those, although most places still just use EEG, which is an order of magnitude (or 2) cheaper.

Zamboni has had electrics for a long time.

I've been watching US College hockey for a long time. Most rinks have a Zamboni. They last a long time. I've seen a few new ones and usually the go electric because the propane ones generate CO2 and that's not good indoors. I've seen rinks add a 2nd Zamboni for faster resurfacing between periods too.

Zamboni isn't the only maker of ice resurfacers. I bet most rinks in the US are Zamboni though. I remember Union College in Schenectedy had another brand.

FWIW Clarkson University gave Mr Zamboni and honorary degree in 1988 in recognition of his engineering achivement in creating the ice resurfacer.

I must deal with more up to date creationists than you. They believe in natural selection, but evolution requires speciation events, which they don't believe in. Good thing that several of those have been documented (one was just published last week or so...).

Lies was a great book, BTW.

I always wondered, would a laser be defeated if you gave the missile a mirror paint coat?

If you can create a perfect mirror, which can also stand temperatures of reentry into atmosphere without losing reflective quality, then yes. But we live in a real world and mirrors are not perfect and are not that tough. They don't deflect 100% of light. High power laser beam will melt mirror. Mirror might reflect laser for some really short period of time. Once mirror starts melting, it will stop deflecting laser.

gotcha, thanks.

Unless I'm misreading, I take it to mean the opposite: they're going to assess the factors that impact the efficiency and speed of deployment, such as weather conditions. It would be difficult to assess the deployment to northern areas without testing deployment to northern areas. I suspect if you can gather support from your community, you might have a chance.

Unfortunately, I won't, as they specify it's only for Americans.

Actually, the best way to fight piracy is to make a product pirates aren't interested in.

Yes, but if you can't communicate your results, what good are they to the rest of us?

I voted for communication because the state of science journalism compelled me to.

Ah. Yeah, I understand you now. Sort of like the old wives’ tricks for telling whether you’re going to have a boy or a girl... people will swear by them, but in fact they’re bound to be correct 50% of the time, and people don’t remember the times they were wrong.

You mean like clicking "quote parent"?

Power7 is also 130W+. IBM couldn't deliver a power-efficient mobile chip that was on par with Intel's offerings both in performance and power consumption, so Apple cut it. You can only false-advertise so much before people realize what BS backdrop commercials are.

Lynnfields TDP at ~65W and most of the time less, yet offers performance on low thread-counts (1-4) similar to higher end server processors. That's saying something.

Seems odd, and just a tad self serving, for Unforgiven to have an explanation for a cheesy writer's ploy designed to keep the good guy's body as intact as his halo.

Nobody -- nobody -- in that film wore a halo, and the sheriff quoted above was not the good guy.

Of course, neither was the protagonist...

Its my theory that thinking "correlation is not causation" causes a person to study statistics.

Actually, that is pretty good advice on dealing with the door prize. The first time won it I tried to dodge out into the road and got the edge of the door all down my right side - the bruise took months to fully heal. The second time I turned into the V, hit my front brakes and rolled up over my handlebars and onto the roof of the car. I haven't won since that time, but that's my intended response now.

So you don't believe innocent until proven guilty is part of a healthy democracy and legal system then?

Of course.

However, by becoming a politician, they are no longer "innocent". Everyone should be wary of people who actively seek to hold power over them.