That award has pretty much 0 to do with real achievement. It is a political power play. Up until Obama got the peace prize I though otherwise.
Really? You didn't notice anything odd about Henry Kissinger getting the Peace Prize for Vietnam?
Or Arafat etc for bringing peace to Palestine?
Yes, and far more people die every in the US from being beaten to death by killers using fists and blunt instruments than have died by killers using rifles of any kind,
He said guns, not rifles.
But that raises a good point - like Ebola, assault rifles get disproportionate fear and media attention.
Sure they are both bad, and need to be contained, but influenza and handguns are the much bigger threats overall.
Bird flue has killed fewer then 200 and is contained. Ebola has killed more then 3000 and is not.
Math is hard.
Swine flu has killed hundreds of thousands in the current global epidemic (not contained), and at least 50 million the previous time (1918).
Ebola has a lot of catching up to do.
suggests that intelligence is just a part, maybe even a small part, of achievement.
In life, perhaps. But this study is looking specifically at school achievement, where intelligence is by far the biggest factor.
They were also looking at other less important but less studied heritable traits, which is the interesting part.
Its a troll because it was worded as if the Vatican was doing it, not some local church in Africa. Good lies often have a seed of truth.
- the world got by just fine before our species even existed, and likely will again when it's gone.
How can the world get by, when noone is there to anthropomorphise it?
Extremely low density of vending machines in the US. Now, Japan...
Never mind wifi. Japan could build a bluetooth network with 80% coverage from their vending machines.
Or it could be just a promotional stunt for the new movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy" part IV.
It simply proves that God is right-handed.
You don't get it. This is not a scientific achievement, but an engineering one.
It cost a few cents per Indian - I think they can afford that. Congratulations India!
As a tweeter asks..when was the last time we saw women scientists celebrating a space mission?
India does have female scientist and engineers, but the women in that photo are not them.
It would be like a photo of NASA engineers wearing hoodies.
Ubuntu doesn't even install finger client by default!
But OS-X still has it, oddly.
Chloride? Fortunately not everywhere. In western Europe most countries use hydrogen peroxide, because afterward you can still drink the water and don't need expensive water in bottles.
No, chlorine, not -ide. Widely used for municipal water supplies. Not sure what you are talking about.
Not so simple.
Botswana has ten times the income, 85% literacy, and decent medical facilities, but just about the highest HIV rate in Africa.
People are still struggling to prove various explanations. Epidemeology is really hard.
Rampant corruption and poverty is only part of the problem.
Botswana is widely considered the least corrupt country in Africa, and the most prosperous sub-Saharan country.
But they have been completely unable to control the AIDS epidemic, with up to a quarter of the country infected.
Botswana has gone from having one of the highest sub-Saharan life expectancies to one of the lowest.
Unhealthy habits can be very hard to change, even in a relatively prosperous and well-governed country.
Given the sad history of AIDS in Africa, it is hard to be optimistic about ebola control.
BASIC is the Computer Science equivalent of `Scientific Creationism'.
