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Comment On call from hell (Score 2) 277

I had an "on-call" week from hell before Christmas last year. Didn't get more than 3 hours of contiguous sleep that week. I caught strep throat and was sick my entire Christmas vacation (both days). No, I didn't RTFA, but I think their study must have not taken into account sleep interrupted by external stimuli. I need at least 8 hours in my bed. Asleep or otherwise :D

Comment Re:Seems reasonable.. (Score 1) 1271

How did you know your son was allergic to eggs when he wasn't able to eat eggs? My wife is allergic to eggs and cannot have flu shots, yet our infant daughter has had all of her scheduled vaccine shots to date.

Our pediatrician said that it would be very unusual for an egg allergy to present itself in an infant.

Also, I don't think I could bear the thought of my baby girl dieing of whooping cough because I was scared she might have an allergic reaction to the vaccination.

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Massively Parallel Computer Built From Single Layer of Molecules 46

djeps sends in this excerpt from the Physics arXiv Blog: "Japanese scientists have built a cellular automaton from individual molecules that carries out huge numbers of calculations in parallel. ... At the heart of their experiment is a ring-like molecule called 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-p-benzoquinone, or DDQ. This has an unusual property: it can exist in four different conducting states, depending on the location of trapped electrons around the ring. What's more, it's possible to switch the molecule from one to state to another by zapping it with voltages of various different strengths using the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope. It's even possible to bias the possible states that can form by placing the molecule in an electric field. Place two DDQ molecules next to each other and it's possible to make them connect. ... When one molecule changes its state, the change in configuration ripples from one molecule to the next, forming and reforming circuits as it travels."

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