You get the bends from high levels of nitrogen dissolved in blood plasma under pressure. If you move to low pressure regions near the water's surface too fast, the nitrogen is able to separate out into bubbles that get stuck in tissues and blood vessels.

These things are "round" like gas bubbles, but they're more like some sort of fake dummy cells, with a fluid interior surrounded by something that looks like a lipid bilayer made of soap-like molecules that bind together by van der Waals forces and have charged tips that interface with the surrounding water. There is no gas.

It's a badly written article- "oooh bubbles!" People should try not to write stupid shit like this, especially about vaccines. I'm already blue in the face screaming at thick skulled idiots on #CDCwhistleblowers who post crap about how vaccines cause autism because Big Pharma stuffs them with disgusting crap like dihydrogen monoxide.

Killing off hope now, instead of just characters. Well played, sir, well played.

Typically the homeowners and business owners own the land, the government demands a right of way through it or above it (for pole-hung services), then leases that right-of-way to too few companies.

It is completely different. When a common whore provides services to her client, the client does not use the results of those services to invade anyone's privacy. Stop insulting whores.

They did that with MySQL because they had an obvious vested interest in letting it stagnate and die. But what reason do they have to do the same to VirtualBox? Does Oracle have any reason to choke off VirtualBox development?

Resource consumption is not proportional to affluence. Singapore is more affluent than America, but consumes far fewer resources per person. Urbanization decreases resource consumption more than poverty. A reasonably affluent person living in an apartment in a dense city, without a personal car, likely consumes far fewer resources than a poor slash-and-burn subsistence farmer.

Algasol's photobioreactor technology requires less than 1/10th the land of other biofuel technologies and, in fact, it requires no land at all, preferring to be located on saline water. The largest photobioreactor, the 250m^2 Alga6, sells for $3,375 retail. When the numbers are all run, Alga6 biocrude is competitive with $40/bbl oil -- and that includes all costs including the cost of insuring the photobioreactors against hail, the power cost of centrifugal separation, the power to drive the wave mixing when natural wind is too low, etc. Right now the market emphasis is on algal biomass for fish feed, simply because the signal to noise level in the biofuels industry is so low that (combined with recent declines in crude price) no one can be bothered to sit down and do the arithmetic for Alga6 biocrude.

... and even that is far less of a problem than it used to be. The number of people living in extreme poverty (less than $1.25/day) has been cut in half in the last 15 years. Within another decade, just projecting current trends, we should be able to mostly eliminate hunger outside of war zones, and there are also a lot fewer war zones than there used to be. There are a lot of "virtuous cycles" happening in poor countries: as health and education improve, people become more productive, feed their families, and electrify their villages. The better childhood nutrition leads to higher IQ, and electrification means lights so people can read and study, and fewer smokey indoor candles and kerosene lanterns that cause respiratory diseases. Better education means people learn how malaria, AIDS, and hookworms are transmitted. Cellphone banking is helping the poorest accumulate savings. Cheaper solar panels are allowing villages to electrify locally, bypassing corrupt national providers.

Actually, there is a better option: Do nothing. Just let the waste continue to accumulate in the cooling ponds at each individual plant.

The cooling ponds have sufficient capacity. Security is adequate. The waste is becoming less radioactive as it sits there. So there is no harm in waiting. A few decades from now we will have more knowledge about geology, radiation, engineering, etc., and be in a better position to make a long term decision. It is quite possible that by then we will have power plants that can burn the "waste" as fuel. Even if not, we will have much better robots and other technology that will make processing the material far cheaper than if we did it today. Sometimes procrastination is the best policy.

Which is a shame, because they were a good idea. Rather than demonizing "terminator" seeds, it would have made more sense for the GMOphobes to demand that they be mandatory.

There could be, if the poison displaces a chemical pesticide that is more harmful. Bt corn is an example.

I see what you did there.

No, I mean CO2. From Wikipedia:In concentrations up to 1% (10,000 ppm), it will make some people feel drowsy. Concentrations of 7% to 10% may cause suffocation, even in the presence of sufficient oxygen, manifesting as dizziness, headache, visual and hearing dysfunction, and unconsciousness within a few minutes to an hour. The physiological effects of acute carbon dioxide exposure are grouped together under the term hypercapnia, a subset of asphyxiation.

There are many different species of mosquitoes. Only some of them are disease vectors. The Anopheles mosquito, which carries malaria, used to be common in Southern Europe and parts of America. When they were exterminated, they were displaced by less harmful species, with no known detrimental effect (other than allowing human populations to grow).