If you take commenters' word for it, though, that 0.3% goes way up to maybe 40 or 50% Maybe these scientists need to start combing the giz commentariat for subjects.
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I have to assume paper companies only plant trees at the replacement rate, so that while they would stop planting trees, they would also stop cutting down trees. Is there a problem with my math? Plus, it's a fact that not all paper/paper products come from such sustainably harvested plantation tree farms. Cutting…
I have to say I really, really like the idea here of using this for disposable cameras. The cereal box thing seems a little wasteful, but I'm now going to spend some time thinking about other cool uses for a short-life e-ink display.
Says the guy who only eats his home-grown produce and dairy from the yard out back, grown from seeds collected from the wild, miles away from any commercial farming interests, and has never purchased anything from a store.
I totally didn't know that about christmas trees. That's awesome! Fun fact!
The fact that you can't buy comparable seeds anywhere else in the market at similar prices. Essentially, it's too easy for farmers to get locked into a system with no feasible alternative.
Man, those tomatoes tasted so bad, I can't imagine their failure being due to anything ELSE.
GM foods are doing nothing to our genetics: that's not how genetics works. We have been eating cows for thousands of years and have yet to randomly incorporate a single nonfunctioning portion of a cow gene into our genomes. When you eat something, you destroy it. You break down its lipids, its proteins, its DNA, and…
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This may be an artifact of our country's broken patent system, as well. Also see: software patents.
I think the three of us should all be friends IRL.
That seems to be the case. It's been said (CITATION NEEDED) that if we used all of our arable land for totally "organic" farming, the way the adherents would prefer (sans chemical fertilzers and synthetic pesticides), we would not have enough food to feed even half of the current world population. That's not,…
This is a good point, but it's worth noting that genes are genes. Despite having the "icky" feeling of having fish genes in your tomatoes, a gene's only job (being simplistic here) is to make protein. Proteins are proteins, and your body is going to deal with them in the same way. If the protein isn't something…
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True, but there is also a growing body of evidence suggesting that earth could have been "seeded" by the precursors to life via asteroids as mentioned in the article. I wouldn't say that the two sides (terrestrial abiogenesis and "seeding") are on exactly even ground, but neither can be discounted. We know that…
And the slime molds are His spooge.
Oh man, I actually chuckled out loud at this. Well played sir, well played.
I get the distinct impression that this guy doesn't think life "formed" at all, but rather "was formed" by an outside agent. Except that presupposes an EVEN MORE COMPLEX outside agent, which itself would have had to have been formed by a yet more complex previous actor etc etc ad infinitum.
Are they doing the same for android tethering apps on rooted phones like the one included in cyanogenmod? I had heard that they were restricting downloads of tethering apps, but if you have them and use them will you suffer the same fate?