Increased rates of stomach cancer have nothing to do with the kimchee being spicy, and everything to do with it being fermented. This is well known and well documented. You find exactly the same thing in other Asian cultures that traditionally have high consumption of fermented (pickled) vegetables.
If spicy food caused stomach cancer, northern India would be a hotbed. It isn't.
Sorry if my numbers are off, I tried to Google the most current ones, but getting apples-to-apples is very tricky.
Aside from that, you don't feel that the current upheaval at RIM is honestly worrying?
Part of the reason for that is that 13% of Blackberry developers would fit inside a medium-sized fright elevator. (I kid, that's a little less 6,000 developers, assuming 1 developer per app. Actual number probably much less, considering successful developers often have several apps.)
Considering that the installed base for iOS is around 250 million users and growing, and the installed base for Blackberry is around 50 million users and rapidly shrinking... it's hardly difficult to see why people are choosing to put their efforts towards the best opportunity for future growth.
Seriously, though. A developer making a decision about where to invest time and resources has to look at not only current and former size of the market, but also growth trends. Anyone looking at the Blackberry market right now who isn't forecasting imminent doom simply isn't paying attention. Why put 6 months of time and resources into a platform made by company that looks like it's about to fold?
Similarly, there are more developers on iOS than Android right now simply because although the Android platform is showing excellent growth, the people in that market don't seem to be as willing to actually pay for apps as iOS users. Developers (unless it's just a hobby), tend to gravitate to where the money is.
I use a 600k scoville-rated ghost pepper sauce on a daily basis. I'm a "non-taster" on the old scale, so I require a lot of stimulation in my food to find it enjoyable. The endorphin rush is significant and pleasurable.
In soup for example, I use a few drops, which gives me the effect of adding a ton of some milder hot sauce. The advantage is that I get a tiny fraction of the sodium that I would from Tabasco or something similar--and sodium's something I'm trying very hard to keep a lid on.
The interesting thing is that after a month or two of this, my tolerance level went through the roof. The great thing is that now that the heat has died away somewhat for me, the complex and fruity flavors of the ghost pepper itself really shine through. Delicious stuff.
I think you're somehow assuming those things aren't available on the iPad? The dock connector will allow you to connect to stuff like that and a whole lot more, like HDMI output and composite.
OK, lets add this up.
Results of study appear to be conclusive and immensely counter-intuitive? Check.
Research is from a former Soviet bloc country? Check.
Study size is small? 16 people, so check.
No details on methodology? Check.
Study is published in popular press, not peer-reviewed journal? Nope, Behavioural Brain Research is peer-reviewed and appears pretty legit.
Well, if this is true and accurate, it could be completely ground-breaking in any number of fields. Fascinating if other teams are able to reproduce the results. Can you even imagine a world with reliable truth-telling machines? It's mind-boggling. The only reason that polygraphs haven't completely revolutionized our society is that they are completely BS, voodoo junk-science.
The way I see it, it's more of a way of embracing the inevitable and taking control of a process that you really don't have any control over.
20 years? I've personally been hearing it since the IBM PC was introduced, and that was '81... so 30 years?
Well, yeah. People relate to note-taking differently, it's a very personal choice. What does it for me is that usually when I used to take notes, I would then bring them back to my office and transcribe them into whatever format suited: spreadsheet, email, scheduling app etc.(or just searchable note-space) Now, I'm entering my notes directly into where-ever needs them, so I'm skipping a step. I don't take notes quite as quickly, but usually by the time a meeting is done I've already completed what would have taken me an additional 1/2 hour back at my desk, in the past.
I don't doubt that a handheld game market exists... I just wonder how small it's going to be.
I can't speak for everyone, and I know that there exist many
There's an old saying in photography that the best camera to use is the one you have with you. The same thing goes for personal electronics. A few years ago, I used to carry around a backpack with the following in it:
- Spiral bound note pad
- Paperback book
- 10" laptop
- hand-held GPS unit
- cell phone
- portable CD player
- CD wallet case
- Canon Elph camera
- assorted and sundry other stuff
- extra batteries and charging cables for the above
- (I never got into portable game players, my bag was full--and HEAVY)
Today, I have two options. Either I just carry my iPhone in my pocket, or I include a small bag just big enough for my iPad and an external battery pack which can be used by either device. (if I bring the bag, I also tuck in a bottle of Ghost Pepper sauce--sealed up super tightly--because it's awesome.)
The crazy thing is, I haven't really lost much if any functionality over my previous carry, and at the very worst, it weighs less than 1/4 what it used to. I've also added a ton of functionality: always-on internet access is a big one. Also video recording and conferencing. (And 650k scoville hot sauce, but I digress.)
The absolute last thing I want at this point is to add yet one more device I would have to keep charged and haul around. I don't care if the games are 50 times better, 90% of the time that I play games I'm waiting in line somewhere and don't want a deep gaming experience anyway in the 2 minutes I have.
You're misreading.
"The drug works by targeting a type of RNA produced only in cells that have been infected by viruses. “In theory, it should work against all viruses,” says Todd Rider."
So it's not targeting the virus itself, just the cell.
Golly, you make so many assumptions there I don't know where to start. I have no masters in marine biology, I've just lived by the ocean my whole life. I'm not thousands of miles away, either. One of the reasons that I wasn't overly surprised by this is that every 10-12 years something similar to this happens around here.
Last year it was millions of brown jellyfish all over the shore and in the water, in concentrations that none of the old-timers could ever remember having seen. It was bizarre, and shocking.
Once, back in the mid '80s, there was an unbelievable swarm of pelagic crabs--little red swimming guys about the size of a small crawfish. Nobody in the area had ever seen one before, but now they were covering the beaches up to the high tide mark--some live, some dead--for miles and miles up and down the coast. From a distance it was a thick band of crimson between the water and the rocks or dunes. They were thick in the water too. They've never come back.
Dont get me started on algae blooms.
These things happen. And yes, panicking about it is an overreaction.
They say that when they dry up, they turn powdery and blow away. So some blow onto the beach, dry into a powder, and blow around town, sticking to anything that's wet, including rain buckets.
You know, either that or they're really from outer space and this is chapter one of some sort of Robin Cook novel. All things considered, I'm gonna stick with the wind theory.
According to a ton of different reports on Google news, the substance was tested and found to be crustacean eggs of some type.
So crustaceans: crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. Considering the location and volume, I'm suspecting something like a huge krill spawn that was swept onto the shore by unusual currents, a storm system or the like. As for it being toxic, that's pretty laughable. Toxic crustaceans are very few and far between (one that hasn't been eating toxic algae, and considering these are eggs, they haven't been eating anything).
As far the natives not seeing anything like this before... well it's a big planet. Completely natural, explainable things happen all over the globe every day that haven't happened in that particular spot for hundreds if not thousands of years.
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
