... offensive that cut off the Nazi supply lines and cost the Nazi's the most battle hardened and experienced divisions in the Nazi army.
I think your reference of the German armed forces as the "Nazi army" is misleading at best, predjudiced at worst. Most WWII historians/enthusiasts prefer Wehrmacht or the German army. Many of them were not Nazis.
WebM and Chrome are both open sourced under public licenses.
Isn't this the best thing about open source under public license. If anyone dislikes the way Chrome is going to go with video formats, fork it and create your own browser?
The medical math behind vaccinations is actually pretty simple. I had a discussion about this some time ago with a friend of mine who was at med school. The details are hazy but basically all the things you consider are
-Number of people affected without vaccination
-Number of people affected due to vaccination
-Severity of affection without vaccination
-Severity of affection with vaccination
Then apply conditional propabilities and factor in the costs & human factors for each case. Simple, really. The health care officials will easily kill 5 people with vaccinations if it prevents 5 000 000 people to get sick with a 0.1% chance of dying. What makes it more complicated is the herd immunity factor and human nature. It's easy to game the system by not getting vaccinated and relying on the herd immunity. I'm not a doctor so I can't judge the pros and cons of chicken pox vaccination but I do believe that the system is not foolproof, people actually make mistakes and companies try to make profits with vaccines. Also, parent hysteria is a factor that must be considered.
What if a parent used the vaccine schedule of Denmark, Norway, Japan or Finland -- countries that give one-third the shots we do (12 shots vs. 36 in the U.S.)?
I'm disgusted that the name of my country is used by her in this context. That being said, we have an ongoing public debate considering the swine flu vaccination in Finland. The whole thing seemed really suspicious to me, and I am by no means against vaccination. I want to make this absolutely clear, I strongly support vaccinating children.
After people were vaccinated in Finland there were many cases of narcolepsy. The doctors and authorities have confirmed that there exists a connection on the times when narcolepsy became more common and the vaccinations began. No correlation other than the dates has been found. However, there are interesting connections between the pharmaceutical companies and health authorities. The people that have recommended the vaccination program are also being paid by the pharma companies to do research. I find this extremely interesting considering that the vaccinations were rushed to the public with a schedule that is much faster than in normal vaccination programs. I myself did not get the vaccination. I really don't want to give ammunition to the antivaxxers but I still wonder if corruption and incompeteness prevailed in the vaccination program.
A link found from The Oil Drum: "Top Kill" Has Failed
Dear Iceland,
We said "send HASH".
Yours sincerely,
The Netherlands
Apologies for commenting on my own post. Just a random pick from the list, an experiment done back in the day, Zeolite Crystal Growth (ZCG).
Some exerpts:
Zeolites, which are mineral crystals of aluminosilicates, have a rigid crystalline structure with a network of interconnected tunnels and cages that is similar to a honeycomb. A sort of mineral sponge, zeolites have the ability to absorb and release liquids and gases such as petroleum or hydrogen while remaining as hard as rock.
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Results from the samples mixed on ISS suggest that the Lewis acid catalytic sites are altered in microgravity, as indicated by lower catalytic activity in the MPV probe reaction compared to Earth-grown zeolite. This further suggests that the control of fluid dynamics during crystallization may be important in making better industrial catalysts. Although space-grown zeolites had the same particle morphology and identical surface framework as zeolites grown on Earth, the average zeolite size of the space-grown crystals was 10% larger than crystals grown on Earth (Akata et al. 2004).
Larger zeolite crystals allow researchers to better define the structure and understand how they work, with a goal of producing improved crystals on Earth. Improved zeolites may have applications in storing hydrogen fuel, reduction of hazardous byproducts from chemical processing, and more efficient techniques for petroleum processing.
So just tacking a random pick of the huge experiment list, something called ZCG, I found that there are substantial results. These people just need to get the public interested with this stuff by communicating it more efficiently. "The science we do might lower gas prices and also contribute to hydrogen car research".
The ISS is the most amazing laboratory ever built. Vast amounts of awesome science is done on it. Thing is, NASA is so completely inept at communicating this to the public that even space geeks, like myself, have no idea what the hell they do up there.
Your post got me wondering.. I had no idea either. A little google search gave me this interesting list.
It didn't take that long.
I distinctly remember hearing about this in a lecture back in 2006 in Kiruna space campus. They have investigated stuff like this for a while there and remarked that spacecraft launches 'also' cause them. Shuttles were not specifically mentioned.
The clouds that are not man-made were said to dissolve ozone, but not in big quantities, they are completely "natural".
Hmmm.. I think being impaled to the ceiling by a blazing hot radioactive metal rod is the thing that "could possibly go wrong".
Magnificent book. I got a copy when I was under 10 years old and read it, changed my life. I heard a great quote concerning it: "It is one of the most bought, least read books in the world that every owner claims to understand". I truly hope he pulls through.
P.S. I understood the book.
"Pi string in the article is pretty cool in a nerdy sort of way."
First thought: Ah, they have some kind of string representation of pi instead of just using a double. Excuse me, I'll kill myself now.
Get hold of portable property. -- Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations"
