Comment RIP (Score 1) 1613
RIP
Artificial Blood Vessels Created On a 3D Printer 33
rallymatte writes "A team at Fraunhofer Institute in Germany has managed to create artificial blood vessels with a 3D printer that may come to be used for transplants of lab-created organs. From the article: 'To print something as small and complex as a blood vessel, the scientists combined the 3D printing technology with two-photon polymerisation — shining intense laser beams onto the material to stimulate the molecules in a very small focus point.'"
Comment Re:Call it what it is (Score 1) 362
Which is likely why it became 1-800-CALL-ATT. And Carrottop even spelled it out multiple times during the commercials so if you didn't have the capacity to spell those words they forced it into your long term memory through repetition...
Comment Re:What?! (Score 2, Informative) 440
I agree with your points mostly...
- Raising salaries: It won't work to appeal only to the rejects.
Actually, starting salaries for teachers are relatively good. Which is why (IMHO) a lot of liberal arts majors and other such degrees that don't lead directly to high paying jobs tend to be drawn to teaching. The salary problem is actually in the years following, as there's no incentive for a good teacher to stay put. Here is the salary schedule for my local school district. It takes over 10 years to earn 10% more than your starting salary.
- Firing for gross incompetence. As works with just about everyone else.
You can thank the union for that. There are no merit increases (only longevity) and, short of molesting some kids, it's almost impossible to get fired. Again, it's all about incentive. The only (financial) incentive for teachers is to be around for another year, not to teach well or make efforts to become a better teacher.
- Requiring a higher level of knowledge and teaching abilities.
I think if the first 2 points are enacted, this one would simply follow... But I do have to say that this is one of the few things that the "No Child Left Behind Act" got right. It requires teachers to be "highly qualified", which means that a teacher actually has to demonstrate competence and that they had formal education in the subject they are to teach.
Comment Re:eh? (Score 1) 473
And some may just not work correctly:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425586
Submission + - World population to pass 6,666,666,666 today (census.gov)
suso writes: ""The estimated population of the world will pass 6,666,666,666 today. No doubt an interesting number for people everywhere (not referring to any religion connotations). 5,555,555,555 was passed about 14 years ago. You may not realize that only a 80 years ago, the population of the Earth was only around 2 billion. This shows how the population of the world has increased at an alarming rate in recent times. Although the growth rate is almost half what it was at its peak in 1963, when it was 2.2%. Unrelated but also an interesting coincidence, the estimated number of available IPv4 addresses is getting very close to 666,666,666. It should cross over today as well.""
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