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Comment genetic contributor - not parent (Score 1) 146

It really should be not a parent but a genetic information contributor. If it is parent they have an extra target for child support.

However if they do make it parent then I want my probiotic yogurt maker listed as my parent and years of support payments. I am linking the bacteria are a large part of our component body to this notion that a supplier of genetic materials becomes financially liable for care.

Comment "death" or curable condition (Score 1) 104

OK so the markers indicate a state that normally leads to death. Now we can detect it. Does that mean we can now do fix for the detectable condition and those deaths now become avoidable?

I suppose this is some sort of organ failure early warning system. What it definitly is not is some sort of quantum state indicating that the body is about to undergo soul removal.

Comment I see it now (Score 4, Insightful) 500

Ask Person #1 "Do you consent to a search?"
Violent arrest takedown for "Obstruction" of Person #1
Ask Person #2 "Do you consent to a search?"
Violent arrest takedown for "Obstruction" of Person #2
Ask Person #3 "Do you consent to a search?"
"Sure, don't tase me bro"

"In this case, one person objected to the search and was arrested followed by the police returning and receiving the consent of the remaining occupant. "

Comment We are a colony organism (Score 4, Insightful) 162

We are 90% bacteria. It is time we stopped viewing ourselves as a monlithic organism and started viewing ourselves as some sort of managed colony.
http://www.npr.org/templates/s...

"We think that there are 10 times more microbial cells on and in our bodies than there are human cells. That means that we're 90 percent microbial and 10 percent human. There's also an estimated 100 times more microbial genes than the genes in our human genome. So we're really a compendium [and] an amalgamation of human and microbial parts."

Comment Re:Hold `on`... (Score 1) 625

Bad wording "study of celestial bodies' purported influence on human behavior"

Specifically horoscopes are crap.

But human behavior is influenced by the stars and the moon.

We work during the day. We sleep at night. The position of the sun is major determination of human behavior. So the premis that humans are not influenced by the celestial bodies is easily disproven.

Fishing boats work to the tides generated by the moon.

Comment Literacy, Numeracy, Sciency (Score 1) 625

a) literacy - some people may just see "study of the sky", they know about NASA and don't differentiate Astrology from Astronomy
b) Numeracy - basic education, if astrology is accurate and those are "lucky numbers" then why is the astrologist working for $50 a reading and not sitting pretty somewhere with the powerball jackpot.
c) Sciency - (a) and (b) and just general education.

d) all of the above. Education. See yesterdays story about not teaching evolution.

America the world is laughing at your middle ages ideology.

Comment Re:Unknown species (Score 4, Insightful) 108

The fossil record is mainly a few specific locations, each location being a small time window of that location.
Without visiting the Gallapagos islands all those distinct species would never have been observed.

The fossil record is like looking through a tiny peephole at the crowd of life.

There can also be a lot of confusion between juviniles and adults of species. Are they distinct species or not? Sometimes the body size and skeletal formation can be quite different between the young and the old.

Comment Re:Which Creation? (Score 1) 665

Actually this is more like teaching non-euclidian geometry to 4th graders.

There are only
a) counting numbers {1,2,3,4,....}
b) whole numbers {0,1,2,3,4,....}
c) integers {...,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,....}
d) rational numbers
e) irrational numbers
f) complex numbers
g) conservative fields
h) .........

They should teach simple evolution in public schools and leave the more complex alternatives to be explored by higher education.

Comment Next week rage on falling STEM ranking (Score 3, Informative) 665

How Does the U.S. Compare to Other Countries in STEM Education?

        The World Economic Forum ranks the United States 52nd in the quality of mathematics and science education, and 5th (and declining) in overall global competitiveness
        The United States ranks 27th in developed nations in the proportion of college students receiving undergraduate degrees in science or engineering
        There are more foreign students studying in U.S. graduate schools than the number of U.S. students [vii] and over 2/3 of the engineers who receive Ph.D.’s from United States universities are not United States citizens

And the government will wonder why?

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