Located 1350 results from search term 'evolution'
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Commented in Adblocking People and Non-adblocking People Experience a Totally Different Web
Here it's Arch and Manjaro, both with KDE Plasma.
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Commented in Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
In my city (Ghent) there are already over 1400 charging points, which is pretty okay considering the fact that politics in my country (Belgium) did (and still does) everything to withhold any progress or evolution towards renewables. Good thing it is becoming economically really viable, otherwise there would be no change at all.
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Commented in Food futurology: What will we be eating 10 years from now?
I sincerely doubt this will happen since we have the short intestines and small cecum of a carnaviior/omnivorous being . Also,on average.1 in 12 us us have IBS and one in 100 have IBD and such a diet is not going to fly with us.
In a nutshell,there is not a "protein craze." Humans have always eaten this way. There is a vegan craze with a relentless pushing of the vegan religion on all comers.
Remember how insects were pushed as a food source and how well that worked out? I believe those who refuse to get in lock step with a small,but vocal minority will be vindicated.
People who write such pieces presume incorrectly that because they eat no meat means everyone should do the same,ignoring science,anatomy, evolution,everyone being different and some having medical problems precluding such a diet. The long term consequences of removing fat/meat from the human diet are only recently being investigated. What seed oils do to humans is not a fun ride, but I digress.
Add to that, even those without gi problems are not going to eat this way because we need meat and-animal fat to function normally. Some people will,of course. Not much research has been done on the consequences of eating such a diet,but I feel more will be learned as time goes on.
In my history,you can find lots of links dealing with this subject and I'd just as soon not add more. . Unless our intestines are impressively altered so we become hind gut ferminters and unless our microbiome changes to allow us to process veg matter like rabbits do,humans will continue to eat what we evolved to eat. And vegans will continue to demand we stop.
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Commented in Spider silk is five times stronger than steel—now, scientists know why
Spider silk is not stronger than steel. In a review of studies on spider silk properties the strongest reported value was 1652 MPa ultimate tensile strength [1]. If you have a block of knives in your kitchen you own steel that is stronger than the strongest spider silk ever reported. In fact, the strongest steel that I am aware of was reported as 6350 MPa [2]. The study that reported that high strength value for steel was not even an attempt to set a record, but a study on the effect of different annealing treatments on high strength steel wire. They got the steel from a commercial supplier. However, articles for the public about steel being super strong are not as sexy as talking about spider silk.
[1] Agnarsson, Ingi, Matjaž Kuntner, and Todd A. Blackledge. “Bioprospecting finds the toughest biological material: extraordinary silk from a giant riverine orb spider.” PloS one 5, no. 9 (2010): e11234.
[2] Li, Y. J., P. Choi, S. Goto, C. Borchers, D. Raabe, and R. Kirchheim. “Evolution of strength and microstructure during annealing of heavily cold-drawn 6.3 GPa hypereutectoid pearlitic steel wire.” Acta Materialia 60, no. 9 (2012): 4005-4016.
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Commented in Google deletes accounts with ties to Iran on YouTube, other sites
By your advice I have started using it (Qwant) and took it for a testdrive. It is fun to see a design that is intuitive as that can be: easy access to all parts, clear instructions when new and it seems to run faster than other search engines, including Google. I always think that is because it is new and not so full with information, but then again, I am a painter, a simple man with a damaged personality due to an evolution gone awry. Or so. Back to Qwant! I do reverse image search a lot, because I want to approach the people behind the images that inspire me. :-) Also, when doing a reference study it is so much easier by uploading an image or pointing to it than to gamble with aforementioned brain capacity. :-) So, there, I agree with you.
I never knew that about DuckduckGo. Hmmmz. And I was thinking, all the time, that I was an Übermensch by using that and somehow feeling open-sourcy. Yeah. But now I am disappointed. Bing. Seriously? I am laughing at the moment, by realising how easy it is to fool people on the internet. Give it a logo, a fancy or geeky name, add some spicy servers to the mix and some clever Python-codes and off you go! :-) -
Commented in Some Bacteria Are Becoming 'More Tolerant' Of Hand Sanitizers, Study Finds
What did they think was going to happen? This is just evolution in action.
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Commented in Opinion | The War on Drugs Breeds Crafty Traffickers
Literally evolution.
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Commented in Walmart has hinted that it's building crop-pollinating robot bees
I don't know how to feel about this. I mean, on on side I feel wow, how cool, I love technology evolution and the good cause, but on the other side I'm feeling pretty sad thinking at the actual living bees that are struggling with survival...
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Commented in Experts may have found a long lost Viking settlement in North America
I remember that time. My longtime penpal was a cousin (my father and his are twins). Still an email once in a while nowadays, mostly short messages. "evolution"
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Commented in Beleaguered gun maker Remington files for bankruptcy
Oops, that's it. The word 'debate' has just lost whatever last mote of meaning there may've still been left in it. You know, what with the abortion debate, the evolution debate, the hygiene debate... From here on in, if you use 'debate' in this sense you do so knowing fully well that you may's well've used that great other euphemism for resolute, defiant stupidity, "The Controversy." There's not even a gun debate among Democrats. The giveaway? The pinnacle of Congressional Democratic grandstanding on this, which leaderership right on down the line fought for all the way to staging civilly disobedient protests by members on the floor of the House, was no-guns-for-anyone-on-the-civil-liberties-waking-nightmare-called-The-No-Fly-List. This position was not meant to highlight the gross malfeasance of duty that is the No Fly List. It was because there's no such thing as a gun debate. Kinda like there's no silverware debate, no matter what blasphemy that is to God's plan for fingers.
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Commented in Bitcoin, the virtual currency, has become a massive energy hog
I would have to agree. Crypto currency is essentially an evolution on money, and it will continue to evolve and improve as it matures in the market. Lots of hit pieces lately.
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Commented in Michigan couple to face trial for not getting baby treatment for jaundice symptoms
This is often the case with natural selection. In fact, when you think about it, evolution by natural selection is the cruelest possible way to produce intelligent beings. This is but one of the pieces of evidence against an all-good, all-knowing, all-powerful god.
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Commented in One in five Indonesian students support Islamic caliphate: survey
Ok, that sucks.
However, that's not very different from the percentage of Americans that think the Sun revolves around the Earth, or believe in angels, or believe that vaccines cause autism, or don't believe in global warming, or evolution.
Humans are stupid enough that you can always find a sizable group that believes any crazy shit you want. It doesn't matter which country they're in.
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Commented in A Rare Element From The Edge of The Periodic Table Is Breaking Quantum Mechanics
I don't want to be a party pooper, but it gets a bit old when all the "science" articles claim that someone cured cancer, or proved quantum mechanics is wrong, or completely overturned everything we know about evolution, or built a quantum computer, etc. I'm going to copy the abstract of the paper here in case someone can explain how this "breaks quantum mechanics":
The reaction of 249Bk(OH)4 with iodate under hydrothermal conditions results in the formation of Bk(IO3)3 as the major product with trace amounts of Bk(IO3)4 also crystallizing from the reaction mixture. The structure of Bk(IO3)3 consists of nine-coordinate BkIII cations that are bridged by iodate anions to yield layers that are isomorphous with those found for AmIII, CfIII, and with lanthanides that possess similar ionic radii. Bk(IO3)4 was expected to adopt the same structure as M(IO3)4 (M = Ce, Np, Pu), but instead parallels the structural chemistry of the smaller ZrIV cation. BkIII–O and BkIV–O bond lengths are shorter than anticipated and provide further support for a postcurium break in the actinide series. Photoluminescence and absorption spectra collected from single crystals of Bk(IO3)4 show evidence for doping with BkIII in these crystals. In addition to luminescence from BkIII in the Bk(IO3)4 crystals, a broad-band absorption feature is initially present that is similar to features observed in systems with intervalence charge transfer. However, the high-specific activity of 249Bk (t1/2 = 320 d) causes oxidation of BkIII and only BkIV is present after a few days with concomitant loss of both the BkIII luminescence and the broadband feature. The electronic structure of Bk(IO3)3 and Bk(IO3)4 were examined using a range of computational methods that include density functional theory both on clusters and on periodic structures, relativistic ab initio wave function calculations that incorporate spin–orbit coupling (CASSCF), and by a full-model Hamiltonian with spin–orbit coupling and Slater–Condon parameters (CONDON). Some of these methods provide evidence for an asymmetric ground state present in BkIV that does not strictly adhere to Russel–Saunders coupling and Hund’s Rule even though it possesses a half-filled 5f 7 shell. Multiple factors contribute to the asymmetry that include 5f electrons being present in microstates that are not solely spin up, spin–orbit coupling induced mixing of low-lying excited states with the ground state, and covalency in the BkIV–O bonds that distributes the 5f electrons onto the ligands. These factors are absent or diminished in other f7 ions such as GdIII or CmIII.
BTW Berkellium is not on the "edge of the periodic table". I'm guessing the last time the writer of this article saw a periodic table was in the mid 90's.
If we stopped trying to make science as sensational as the series from Bravo TV, maybe there would be fewer stupid people claiming that science is a conspiracy by the evil illuminati. Then again, maybe not :/
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Commented in White supremacists taking DNA tests sad to discover they’re not 100% white
I want to take a DNA test. I think it will be so cool discover African, Middle Eastern, or whatever heritage! These morons need to stop with nonsense and do something more useful with their lives. Obviously they forgot that we are all humans. It's very hard for me to understand the people who, instead of reading more, contribute to the community they're in, help the planet becoming more livable (regarding pollution and wastes), are more concerned with unimportant things that do harm and slow human evolution because they multiply and transmit foolishness and ignorance to their children.
“My advice is to trust your own family tree geneaology research and what your grandparents have told you, before trusting a DNA test,” one user wrote on the forum after receiving what the study describes as “bad news.” Wtf??
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Commented in Octopus research shows that consciousness isn’t what makes humans special
This is a very nice article (and videos). Thanks for posting!
As to what makes humans special, I think it's clear that consciousness is not it. I'd say our special traits are our limitless greed and capacity for evil.
I think at some point during evolution extreme selfishness and disregard for the gratuitous suffering of other beings became the dominant traits, but evolution doesn't care about us, and it operates at all time scales. We are the dominant species now, but the traits that got us here are also the ones that will destroy us.
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Commented in Engineer grows ice pyramids to create a sustainable water source in the Himalayas
It makes me so happy when I read about evolution of technology and science and everything that comes up with great ideas for resolving humanity problems :) And on the other side we have culture-less communities who believe in flat earth...
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Commented in What’s happening in your body during acupuncture?
Let’s see: on the one hand there’s a medical tradition reaching right from now back countless thousands of years, and on the other we have your admittedly charming, but cynical, reductive, scientific materialism that says unless you already understand, it can’t possibly exist. Hmm. Perhaps time will be the best judge of merit.
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Commented in Evolution Will No Longer Be Taught in Turkish Schools
debatable, controversial, and too complicated for students
I'm guessing the students in Turkey are particularly stupid. Evolution can be explained in very simple terms, there's nothing confusing about it.
More likely though is that the politicians are too stupid to understand it. It doesn't involve getting bribed or getting more power, so it's too difficult for them to comprehend.
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Commented in L.A.'s crisis: High rents, low pay, homelessness rising and $2,000 doesn't buy much
Evolution is survival of the fittest. Capitalism is survival of the greediest.
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Commented in Scientists slam Donald Trump's environment chief over climate denial: 'It's like disputing gravity'
You have to admit it's pretty bold the way that the religious right denies things like evolution, climate change, global warming, and the like. These are all things that are out there for anyone to learn about and check for themselves, and there are very simple ways to properly disprove them if you want to do it. But they just go and scream that these are lies promoted by a conspiracy of evil scientists who want to sabotage our awesome American way of life, and claim that these things can be disproven by 6-th grade biology (without saying how). And that's all they need. Hell, there are people out there who seriously believe that Earth is flat. I can see how it's not too hard to make arguments about tobacco causing cancer, because in epidemiology it is a lot harder to make hard claims. But having a large segment of the population that denies that the planet is getting warmer or that it is round is just proof that humankind deserves to go extinct.
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Commented in The Strange Inevitability of Evolution
I actually thought it would be ironic if it turns out that genes follow the rules of statistical mechanics and evolution is a consequence of the second law, precisely because the creationists like to argue that it is contrary to it :)
I must point out, however, that the second law applies to both closed and open systems, you just write the equations differently for each. This is not unique to the second law, any balance equation (be it for mass, energy, entropy, momentum, whatever) is written differently for closed and open systems, but reflects the same underlying principle.
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Commented in The Strange Inevitability of Evolution
The second law of thermodynamics has to do with closed systems, something you can't say about nature. Creationist nutjobs have tried to argue it somehow disproves evolution. However, I think you're absolutely right.
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Commented in The Strange Inevitability of Evolution
I'm wondering whether this can be connected to statistical mechanics. It looks very similar to how groups of molecules explore phase space: the size of the set of possible configurations is vastly larger than the set of configurations actually visited by the system, but it is easy for the system to jump from one of the possible ones to another. It might be that evolution is a direct consequence of the second law of thermodynamics.
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Commented in John Kasich's dire warning for the Republican Party: EVOLVE OR DIE
WTF is evolution?