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Comment Re:H1b visas and the job market (Score 1) 618

by MikeySquid on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @05:43PM (#32583830) Attached to: The Real Science Gap

Not to rain on your parade or anything, but the way I 'learnt' it, (one of) the big reason(s) the north was able to industrialize was a whole lot of freakin big rivers to run their industry off of that the South kinda sorta didn't have.

Comment Re:H1b visas and the job market (Score 1) 618

by MikeySquid on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @05:37PM (#32583776) Attached to: The Real Science Gap

I knew one person with a Ph.D in molecular Biology. He was an anatomy teacher as a Junior College because that was the only job he was able to get.

That says it all. I don't know if H1b visas had anything to do with it or not. In the end, does it matter?

Comment Re:Not so simple (Score 2, Insightful) 599

by MikeySquid on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @04:24PM (#31175222) Attached to: "Logan's Run" Syndrome In Programming

Simpler than you think.

Those other older programmers who didn't get promoted to management are the biggest threat to the security of the ones who did.
It's much better for the new managers to have a slew of 20 somethings around who don't really know how the world works yet than a few older jockeys who could take his place fairly easily. The new managers damn well know the value of those other older programmers and that's why they get replaced.

It's very simple.

Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality 380

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 11, 2010 @05:30PM from the applied-psychology dept.

the3stars writes "'Removing part of the brain can induce inner peace, according to researchers from Italy. Their study provides the strongest evidence to date that spiritual thinking arises in, or is limited by, specific brain areas. This raises a number of interesting issues about spirituality, among them whether or not people can be born with a strong propensity towards spirituality and also whether it can be acquired through head trauma." One critic's quoted response: "It's important to recognize that the whole study is based on changes in one self-report measure, which is a coarse measure that includes some strange items."

Dying Man Shares Unseen Challenger Video 266

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @12:27PM from the new-perspective-on-an-old-tragedy dept.

longacre writes "An amateur video of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion has been made public for the first time. The Florida man who filmed it from his front yard on his new Betamax camcorder turned the tape over to an educational organization a week before he died this past December. The Space Exploration Archive has since published the video into the public domain in time for the 24th anniversary of the catastrophe. Despite being shot from about 70 miles from Cape Canaveral, the shuttle and the explosion can be seen quite clearly. It is unclear why he never shared the footage with NASA or the media. NASA officials say they were not aware of the video, but are interested in examining it now that it has been made available."

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