No, it's not an indication of any such thing.

Bottom line is that some radiation exposure is inevitable and that some more probably isn't going to kill you, the reality is that ionizing radiation is ionizing radiation and that you shouldn't just assume that you can add more just because you haven't been killed by the radiation in bananas.

What's more, it makes a huge difference if you're prepared for the exposure versus not expecting it. It's normal when working in a nuclear plant to be taking potassium iodide on a regular basis, which isn't something that the general populace is likely to be doing. It's also not typical for the general populace to be wearing protective gear either.

And lastly, it makes a huge difference what kind of radiation you're dealing with and what the duration of exposure is.

Options are a poor way of compensating employees. Just ask all the MS employees whose options are effectively worthless because the strike price is inappropriate for what the stock price will ever be. A better strategy would be to just do proper profit sharing or give them actual shares in the company.

That's more or less my thought. This is one of the few industries where the boss is expected to directly provide the snacks during the day.

As much as I am in favor of the employer taking care of the employees, that isn't what's going on here. And as you mention, in the long run it tends to exact a toll on the body. If the industry wants better work, it might make more sense to provide things that improve the work life balance and make it easier to stay for the long term.

Perhaps IT shouldn't be at college, it should be a vocational program the way that being an electrician or a plumber is a vocational matter rather than one that's taught at college.

But, it's not the level of the degree that determines that, it's whether it's focused on vocational training or on understanding things in a more broad way. Every time the topic comes up there's a bunch of luddites that comes to bash college because it's not laser focused on the job. Well, guess what, that's what college is. If a person wants the focus, then they should go with a technical certification. For those that want the context and some increased ability to move into other areas if need be, that's what college is for.

I meant a school that actually values education. I went to an in state college and I didn't have to deal with any of that crap. For the most part, the homework barely came into the equation at all. I can't recall the last time that homework accounted for more than 20% of the grade, if even that. Sure, in those cases you couldn't afford to completely ignore it, but in practice it wasn't ever a crushing workload.

I'm aware of that, I'm also aware that learning math to be better at art is complete and total rot.

Art is art, and while you might use some math and science in it, the reality is that it's not typically much and it's not worthwhile to spend years studying math in case it might actually be of some benefit artistically. You generally get better at art by studying and by practicing it. Math isn't really something which naturally fits with art. And in most cases trying to bring mathematics to solving artistic problems isn't going to work.

That was one of my thoughts, nothing in the article would lead a professor to change his or her practices as there's nothing in the article at all to go by. The students that do well in these MOOCs are probably already doing so well in normal classes that they don't really need a professor. The students that the professors are supposed to worry about are the lower achievers and the middle of the class. Those are the ones where the professor is likely to be able to make a difference.

I'm extremely skeptical that people in general can learn at that sort of rate, there may be a few savants out there that can, but most people can't integrate knowledge that quickly and as a result, I would love to see how much of this they've actually retained after a period of time. My suspicion is that they won't have retained anywhere near as much of it as they would have had they spent more time going through the material and letting it sit.

Don't get me wrong, I think it would be wonderful if it were possible for everybody, or even a significant minority, to learn this fast, I just have a lot of doubts about it.

Traditional college doesn't need to change. Most of the things people complain about are the result of the changes and reforms put into place over the last hundred years.

Things which are generally better at trade/tech schools are usually taught there for a reason. One of the big problems is that people don't seem to understand the difference between vocational certification and a college degree. The former is supposed to set you up for a specific job and the latter is supposed to set you up to think in an area of inquiry. They're both valuable, but if you go to the wrong one and don't know it, you're likely to be greatly disappointing.

I'd recommend going to a better school if that's your view of it. Because the better schools aren't like that.

The article itself is extremely light on the details and doesn't even cite anybody that thinks that it's somehow superior. What's more, I don't see anything in the article that professors can learn from that hasn't been known for decades.

And none of that is of much value apart from niches that are niches for a reason.

Don't get me wrong, I love math and science as well as the arts, but you're just fooling yourself if you think that math plays a significant role in the creation of art. Sure, you can make art that's surrounded by math and there's tons of things like paint drying that you can study, but in terms of composition, the education you get in math is going to be completely worthless.

What's more, math classes are generally not aimed at the people that are likely to be good at art. The extremely linear approach that's usually required by the undergraduate classes are not likely to go over well for creative folks.

Nobody is being forced to buy the most expensive insurance policies. They're being forced to buy a policy or to pay into the system. Assuming that they don't qualify for one of the numerous exemptions written into the law.

Had the GOP been voted in, it would have meant that nobody would have health insurance because the rates would continue to climb at 12-20% and more as they chose not to handle the crisis.

That's not true. Bush got over 5 years before the media stopped kissing his ass after 9/11. Clinton spent most of his Presidency explaining as the press dug into things which weren't reasonable related to Presidency.

Face it, the media sucks up to the GOP because if they don't, the GOP cries about the "liberal" media, never mind that the media itself is already right of center.

You make it sound like the IRS violated some law, they were issued a warrant that allowed them to image the drive on that computer, and there happened to be medical records on there. Just because there are medical records on the machine does not mean that the IRS has no right to the other data on there, but because they imaged the drive they got all of it.

What you're suggesting is tantamount to the police searching a house for allegedly doing cockfights in the basement and being required to ignore anything else they see while on the premises.

This isn't necessarily over the line.

The article doesn't state it, but it looks like they probably imaged the entire HDD, which is normal, and that resulted in them having copies of all those medical records. And because the records themselves were not properly stored the IRS now has access to them.

Sounds to me more like the firm is concerned with covering their own asses for not having properly secured the data in the first place. Laptops have a tendency to be stolen or otherwise walk off, and if they lost the records that easily, I'd want to change insurers.

That's unlikely, President Obama was born in 1961, by the time he was 18, the Vietnam conflict was already over.

I'm curious where you got the evidence that he was palling around with terrorists when he was still in grade school.