Here’s an analogy that came up this morning. Liberals (Democrats) are like new CS grads. Â They are excited about writing new code (laws) and disdainful of the negative predictions others make based on their hard-earned experience (believe in the perfectibility of people/software). Conservatives are like grim old maintenance programmers. Â They have seen fads and standards […]
People don’t die of peptic ulcers so often anymore. Â Here’s a nice picture: Relevant dates include 1982, which is when Marshall and Warren identified H. pylori. Â It gets a bit steeper after 1994, when the CDC starts promoting antibiotic treatment of peptic ulcer disease. Â By 2005, when Warren and Marshall receive the Nobel Prize, it’s […]
In the future, we will have roving autonomous self-assembling bioreactors which will take in cellulosic matter, and convert it to natural gas and bio-available nutrients including complex amino acid chains. Some units will allow on-line collection of liquid food product, which can either be transported as-is or condensed into various solid, more easily stored forms, […]
But hey, if school kids are a) seeing knife wielding bullies and b) getting told to “not get involved” and quasi-punished for intervening, then well, maybe there’s more reasons to homeschool than I think. Of course, this is Calgary. Links via Gawker
Looks like some dimwit opened Flood Control Dam #3
Most languages have a word for ‘tea’ derived from either ‘cha’ or ‘te’– a language map.
Hypocritically hating hypocrites.
Tagged hypocrites, jokesDon’t split tasks evenly, explains Noah Berlatsky, writing in Scientology puff-magazine the Atlantic: Â Housework isn’t a debt wives owe to husbands, nor one husbands owe to wives. It’s not a gift you give to make a slave. Rather, it’s the quotidian stuff of which the relationship is made. We’re married, so we help each other. […]
Part of an occasional series to help bozos program in C++.
Tagged c++forbozosArnold Kling, quoting John Holt on schooling: Bryan’s view is benign compared with John Holt. society demands of schools… that they be a place where… children or young people can be shut up and so got out of everyone else’s way…. They are a kind of day jail for kids. [elided much of this paragraph – […]