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Geoffrey J Graham

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Fame has passed me by, but I can afford a non-blue-chip blue check. Props to Elon Musk.

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I think that: 1. We may soon be able to rejuvenate human tissues and perhaps whole humans. Our own bodies can provide much of the needed cellular machinery. 2. New technology can enable people to escape the evils of our current economy, especially if doing so becomes national
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@HilzFuld Most of this "antisemitism" in the USA is simply a concern for Palestinian rights. (I don't know much about the situation in Europe.) Since 1948, the Palestinians have been relentlessly hounded, dispossessed of their land, and slaughtered. Often, they protested peacefully; other
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@R_S_Russo I enjoy being alive and dying would interfere with that. I dislike irreversible changes that might well be changes for the worse.
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@bethanyshondark The best way to save your friend, and to avoid a great many other evils, is to arrange for a ceasefire. If you're an American, contact your Representative and Senators.
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@TuckerCarlson A big part of the problem is that the USA's elites are doing well personally and aren't concerned with the welfare of everyone else. Avenging the attack on Israel is much more important to them than it is to Americans struggling to buy food.
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@InternetH0F I'm not ready to multiply.
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@SanaSaeed This is very unfortunate. I suspect that wealthy USC alumni forced this decision. Universities have become money sinks of enormous size, and their dependence on $$$ is interfering with their core mission. There is hardly any current issue more important than Gaza or more worthy
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@robrousseau Fortunately for us, the line between "hate" and "righteous indignation" is always clear. That's why banning "hate" makes so much sense; there's no real chance that the authorities will get it wrong.
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@noemiemakesmaps Can you make a logical case that this diagram is realistic and necessary? Why do we have to murder tens of thousands of Gazans to save a bunch of other people? Why is there anyone on the "D" track? Why are Palestinian lives dispensable when the lives of other people are not?
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@Channel4News My God. Ceasefire!
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@michael_jaffe Many people who have no reason to side with either Israel or Palestine are shocked by the severity and duration of the Israeli response to October 7. Most of the Hamas invaders have already been killed. Now, it's women and, especially, children. We need a permanent ceasefire.
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@newstart_2024 The summer of 2020 was also a period of massive political demonstrations. As I remember, we were told that church gatherings and other public events were irresponsible flouting of rules designed to protect public health, but that for thousands of people to gather closely in the
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@engineers_feed Back scratcher.
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@SaulStaniforth God Bless that young man!!
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@newstart_2024 The problem with this is that propertyless-ness is also powerlessness. The average American has too little economic power already; we certainly don't need to reduce that power even further. Another political movement shares some of the goals of the World Economic Forum (e.g.,
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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Toothbrushes and sewers. Neither has much glamor, but both have made enormous contributions to human health.
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@engineers_feed Yes. There are several things we can do. First, arrange for durable goods to be as durable as possible, as easy to repair as possible, and manufactured so that they can be upgraded. I recently discarded a washing machine in which two simple parts (including a small gasket)
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@alon_mizrahi I feel a deep sense of loss involving my own country, the USA. What is happening in Gaza is clear for all the world to see. There is no justification for what we are doing.
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@joncoopertweets Not a good idea. I certainly don't want Trump back, but unless he is convicted of an insurrection-related crime, he should not be barred from running again. Partisan subversion of public institutions that should be impartial is an even bigger problem in contemporary America than
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@DanielMillerEsq The President of the USA is responsible for American foreign policy. Without our weapons, financial support, and diplomatic support, Netanyahu could not do what he is doing in Gaza. How is it "bad faith" to point this out?
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@HenMazzig @Variety It is possible to condemn the genocide in Gaza without being anti-Jewish or even anti-Israel. But, genocide is the worst crime that people can commit and the USA is complicit in this one. We need a permanent ceasefire.
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@DrTedros It surprises me greatly that we have not put more effort into developing a truly reliable and durable face mask. A mask that can stop one COVID variant could probably stop them all, and masks are relatively cheap.
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@MarylewisMcrae They say the Druids are gone and left few traces on modern Britain, but it is hard to completely extinguish the spirit of a people.
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@AmbJohnBolton 1. We probably don' t know what exactly what happened in Venezuela 2. It's not our business 3. Most of the world is getting tired of America's sanctions: on Russia, on Cuba, on Iran, on Syria, on North Korea and many other countries. Other nations ask themselves why America's
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@bungarsargon OK, but testimony about atrocities is sometimes false. In 1990, Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ, the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador, testified before Congress that after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators in a Kuwaiti hospital,
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@newstart_2024 The European Union is also reducing the amount of land devoted to agriculture in order to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, even though a predicted consequence of climate change is future food scarcity. However, the same elites that insist on these changes are perfectly happy to
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@c0nc0rdance Experimenters are most likely to stop an experiment when they think they know what the results are. If a person claimed to have flipped a coin 10,000 times and to have gotten 5,000 heads and 5,000 tails we would have reason to be suspicious of the results. However, if the
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@McFaul We need a negotiated settlement. We are losing, escalating, and veering toward a nuclear war. If even ONE nuclear weapon is used in this war, we will see how unimportant our Ukraine aims are in comparison. And if one is used, probably hundreds will be used, and the world will
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@GazaMartyrs I am very sorry for your loss. There has to be a way to stop this.
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Death takes a side gig.
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@DavidM_Friedman Genocide is underway in Gaza. Not everyone who objects hates Jews or Israel. But genocide is too much to be complicit in.
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@AcademicChatter 1) When one person plans an experiment and another person carries it out, there's an automatic drop of 20-30 IQ points, like the drop of voltage across a resistor. (This is one reason that Principal Investigators see themselves as smarter than their subordinates.) So, if you
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@ramzpaul Peace. Both wars should stop.
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@Joe_Roberts01 The same is true of Palestinians. Show some sympathy for a people who are in the same situation that you have endured in the past.
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The amazing story of Katalin Karikó, a scientist who made mRNA vaccines possible. She bounced back from several defeats that would have ended the careers of most scientists:
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@HenMazzig @richimedhurst It is important that facts about Gaza be reported to the public. If those facts embarrass Israel, so be it. Israel has plenty of opportunities to tell its side of the conflict.
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@CaptainRandom10 No, but it's possible to misplace one bottle behind a bunch of cans or something, and buy another bottle, thinking that the first bottle has disappeared forever.
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One tired elephant.
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It finally happened!
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@nolanwpeterson If world history (WW1) is a good guide, this conflict could expand into an all-out holocaust where nuclear weapons would be used. In the meantime, the war is killing or wounding hundreds of thousands, is pouring CO2 into the atmosphere, and is increasing hunger around the world.
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@Caroline_Bartma Lab meetings are usually a waste of time.
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@SecBlinken We can stop this genocide any time we decide to.
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@DrTedros I am old enough to remember the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and how it turned out. This is horrible. We need much more caution from the US government, as well as more willingness to wait for facts and more willingness to listen to the grievances and aspirations of all parties
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@ClimatePsych My own method of coping is to imagine solutions to global warming that have not yet been tried, and then to post them on obscure websites that no one ever visits. I think that: 1. The elites that run the Western world are trying to impose solutions which will not hurt them, but
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@il0venostalgia 12 or 18, depending on which rule is being followed.
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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Homosexuality. In 1965, a man who wanted to marry another man was viewed about the way a man who wanted to marry his dog would be viewed today.
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@PeterDiamandis Remote medical technology that would enable a doctor, technician, or machine to monitor a patient's health.
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@cenkuygur Unless Turkey becomes the 51st state in the next 363 days, you're going to have a tough time taking office. Get Ana Kasparian to run.
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@AuthorCDavis Looks good!
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@RadioFreeTom Gaza isn't a fake catastrophe. Neither are the war in Ukraine, the exorbitant cost of medical care, nor (soon enough) global warming.
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@uusaint But then, a strong wind came...
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@ohwowcrazy There is also the question of whether the huge slaughter in Ukraine is/was really necessary. A better president would have at least tried to negotiate a peace. Biden vetoed a peace deal very early in the invasion.
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@nathaliejacoby1 No, not unless he is convicted of a crime directly related to insurrection. Trump will be gone from American politics soon enough, but our problem of politicized public institutions is bad enough already and should not be made worse. The bar for depriving anyone of his or her
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Researchers use quantum effects (fermion-boson transitions) to drive a piston. They provide a proof of principle, with no practical uses quite yet, but definitely extremely cool in both meanings of the word
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Discovery of a dismembered dinosaur in the space where the stomach should be of a 100-million-year-old crocodile fossil. Welcome to the (mostly) new technology of neutron scattering analysis
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What the world needs...
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@uusaint I drove my chevy to the levy but the levy wasn't dry.
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@thephysicsgirl I wish you all the best. Few people are liked and respected across the entire Internet, but you are one of them. Keep fighting!
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Even if this thread is true, we should not be complicit in what is happening in Gaza. And it may not be true; the Israeli economy and military depend greatly on US support.
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An open letter to the "Genocide Joe" crowd: Biden is not the President of Israel or CiC of the IDF. He doesn't control Israeli foreign policy nor its military. The man who does, Bibi Netanyahu, is a far-right fascist actively hurting Biden and trying to elect Donald Trump. 1/
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@gunsnrosesgirl3 The trilobites went extinct 252 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period. I've often wondered whether trilobite soup would be any good. On the other hand, I'd hate to go back that far, discover that I was stuck there, and that trilobite soup was awful.
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Myelin is a fatty substance that insulates nerve fibers, in the central and peripheral nervous systems. It is critical for brain communication. Now, it is reported that human distance runners lose much of their myelin after a long race, but get it back by 2 weeks post-race:
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@DefNotPalo MAGA Republicans, like them or not, are not fascists either, in the way that supporters of Hitler and Mussolini were. There is plenty to criticize about Trump and the MAGA movement, but they have not perpetrated an American equivalent of Kristallnacht or anything close. The
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@FromPhDtoLife Research in many labs is sharply limited by lack of funds. People work with broken equipment, can't buy reagents they need, etc. University bureaucracies can make a researcher's life miserable, and sometimes do. Grant writing is a major hassle. Also, radioisotopes and
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@AvivaKlompas A ceasefire might have prevented this.
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Ancient stars and ultra-heavy elements. Ancient stars are thought to have produced chemical elements that were heavier than any currently present on Earth. Production of these elements depended on the mysterious "r-process" of neutron capture and transformation to protons.
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@__RhoBoats A nude mouse, used in scientific research.
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This little woman birthed these two enormous hulks. Happy Mother's Day, everyone!
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@engineers_feed Appliance insurance, like an extended warranty for a washing machine. I thought that it was a good way to keep costs under control, because I live in a rich neighborhood (although I'm not rich myself) and I thought that I might be taken advantage of by a greedy repair mechanic.
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@ATinyGreenCell Purines are more popular than pyrimidines. Who knew?
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To my author friends...
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@ukrainiansquad Before another half-million Ukrainians die in battle and before the war goes nuclear and we all die, we should negotiate a peace settlement.
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@PeterDiamandis Medical diagnostic equipment that can communicate with remote centers and warn of impending strokes, heart attacks, etc. Prevention and early diagnosis of disease will be emphasized much more than now.
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DNA computers start to show promise. They are slow, but extremely energy-efficient. They also resist loss of information--unlike quantum computers. DNA computers are best suited to massively parallel computing:
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@PhD_Genie I'm overqualified to teach high school.
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@EpochTimes The most serious danger we face is that one of our current wars (Ukraine, Gaza, Red Sea) or near-future wars (Taiwan, Guyana-Venezuela) will expand into a nuclear war. Of all the candidates for President in either party, Haley seems most likely to let this happen.
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@JDCUSA1 @ShaykhSulaiman This is horrible. Genocide is occurring in Gaza and genocide is never OK.
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In an emergency, animals can absorb oxygen through their intestines--at least under some conditions. This might help some people in respiratory distress:
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Two of Saturn's moons, in separate orbits, trade orbits every four years. This is the only known example of such behavior:
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We badly need a ceasefire in Gaza and for humanitarian aid to begin flowing in.
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Only one week after he took this photo, photojournalist Abdallah El Haj, who works for UNRWA, was traced by Israel's military and targeted. Abdallah's nephew was killed in the strike and both his legs were amputated and he is now in critical condition.
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Does the book title “The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger” mean anything to you? Rather than being the title of a real book, it’s a fictional book title and the final line in Chinua Achebe’s famous novel “Things Fall Apart.” The novel describes life in
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@AcademicChatter Working with broken equipment. My favorite example is the hydroxyapatite chromatography experiment where the hot water hose broke loose from the glass column right at the end of the run and sprayed me with 95 C water across the chest, leaving me with a red welt that lasted a
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A (mostly) optimistic prediction of the world in 2050: nanotech brain-computer interfaces 3D printing of large structures cancer cures self-driving cars hyperloop transportation renewable energy Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion space exploration and colonization artificial
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@Resist_05 Although the idea of dismantling NATO is a bit extreme, NATO has become an enormous source of insecurity, rather than security, for its members. It badly needs a change in its founding treaty to prevent military adventures outside the territory of its member states.
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@AZ_Beau Our most serious danger is that one of our proxy wars (Ukraine, Gaza, the Red Sea, and [soon] Taiwan and Guyana-Venezuela) may expand into a nuclear conflict. Haley is the candidate most likely to let that happen, so picking her is a poor choice. Also, she has called for an end
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@LexiAlex I suspect that the default narrative in Western countries is that people protesting the Gaza genocide have the same motives and intentions as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State; ergo, Western public officials act accordingly. If they learn more about the actual history of Palestine,
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@johnastoehr For all of Biden's supposed disdain for White Supremacy, he has done nothing to stop a terrible war in Eastern Europe that matters only to a handful of white-dominated countries. Yet, the whole world bears the risk of nuclear war and the burden of an enormous CO2 discharge into
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@StartedNatalia Merry Christmas to all.
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