.. in people?! Hmm. I think there's actually a condition where people are completely trusting and they don't pick up on when to be afraid of other people. I'll have to dig up that link some other day... :)
It's clear that this guy doesn't own this house.. but he's laid claim to it -- and if all the right conditions align, he could very well end up owning the house. Unfortunately, he probably drew too much negative attention to himself and there may be plenty of neighbors motivated to evict him in any way they can.
But there's still an outside chance that this guy could actually get the house -- or maybe there's a similar case that isn't getting as much attention.... and some squatters will profit nicely in a few years.
Bigger is not necessarily better! I'm sure there are mammals with larger brains than ours, but that doesn't mean those mammals are more intelligent... And some birds are supposedly smarter than some larger animals, but bird brains aren't exactly huge.
Thankfully, though, it seems that living things are generally highly-adapted for their specific environments -- so petroleum-eating microbes don't survive that well deep underground where most of the oil remains...
not sure about plastic-eating microbes, but we should probably be more afraid of "green goo" than "grey goo"...
That guy's apt reminds me of a library.. and he has to be really organized and clutter-free. And hopefully, he doesn't frequently need something that he's stored in a "back layer" of his apt...
I vaguely remember an article that said more graduate-level education programs were studying "how to be an effective teacher" over churning out more and more educators with master's degrees... but it wasn't clear if there really was a good way to teach teachers to be effective.
That was several years ago... and I'm pretty sure there's still no conclusion on how to teach teachers.
But we should start somewhere -- and a scientific approach to developing better educational programs could bear fruit someday....
Hmm. That's a digital theremin... but I was thinking more of a theremin that used a video camera instead of capacitors -- like a Xbox Kinect version of a theremin.
Well, it's not even clear that sunshine was the only factor that they controlled for -- the sunshine group was in Australia and the indoor group was in Singapore. Maybe Singapore emits myopia-causing radiation...? :P
I'm just skeptical that there mechanism for the development of myopia hasn't really been explained. The correlation could, as you point out, mean that people with better exercise habits have better vision -- and it might not have anything to do with the amount of sunlight necessarily....
Considering the fact that a "small" space elevator isn't quite feasible, I'd have to say building a bigger one on top of something that isn't possible must be even more impossible.. :P
In any case, I think a "small" space elevator would suffice -- we'd just have to be patient and send small things up, one at a time, that could be assembled once they broke free from the top... but maybe there's still feasibility problems with that?
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But there's still an outside chance that this guy could actually get the house -- or maybe there's a similar case that isn't getting as much attention.... and some squatters will profit nicely in a few years.
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not sure about plastic-eating microbes, but we should probably be more afraid of "green goo" than "grey goo"...
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That was several years ago... and I'm pretty sure there's still no conclusion on how to teach teachers.
But we should start somewhere -- and a scientific approach to developing better educational programs could bear fruit someday....
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That's an interesting idea... natural metamaterials would be a pretty cool discovery.
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It seems that making practical versions of "proof of concept" demonstrations is really really hard sometimes!
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I'm just skeptical that there mechanism for the development of myopia hasn't really been explained. The correlation could, as you point out, mean that people with better exercise habits have better vision -- and it might not have anything to do with the amount of sunlight necessarily....
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In any case, I think a "small" space elevator would suffice -- we'd just have to be patient and send small things up, one at a time, that could be assembled once they broke free from the top... but maybe there's still feasibility problems with that?
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Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel!
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