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Biochemistry by a long shot. MedGen, how did you take biochem without organic chemistry? At my university, organic chem 1&2 are prerequisites for biochemistry -- and if I recall correctly they were used in biochemistry. Biochemistry made organic chemistry look like child's play

You and I both can imagine scenarios in which this is clearly not the case. If I'm attacked, should I have to risk my life to defend myself?

SkepticLance, To each his own, I guess. The rate of property crime in Canada and the US is about equal, but the rate of violent crime is much higher in the US. Stop generalizing. It makes you come off as a pompous asshat.

Therefore I, as a responsible citizen, should not be allowed to possess one? I don't see where you're going here. Statistic #2 follows from statistic #3. If suicide is more successful with handguns, then of course homes in which suicides happen are more likely to have handguns at the scene. It is interesting that the success rate is only 34% for jumping off a high place. I don't see how you could mess that up, unless you weren't really serious and jumped from a water bridge or the 2nd story window. Given that handguns have such a high success rate, people chose who use handguns to commit suicide are much more likely to be successful in any method they chose, because they're obviously serious about suicide. Pills are kind of the soft way out -- I think a lot of people who aren't quite sure they want to kill themselves but definitely want to cause a stir use pills. If handguns were removed as an option, we might see the success rate of other methods increase. (There's gotta be some data on this out there somewhere, I just don't have the time to chase it down).

Remember that in the rest frame of the mass, the speed of light is always c. So you wouldn't be running into any photons in front of you. You can't ever "catch up" to them.

It's basically a duodenaljejunal bypass (form of gastric bypass). They haven't completely worked out the mechanism of action, but it's hypothesized that it may have to do with glucagon-like peptide or glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (both are incretins). Below is a paper published on the animal model, but there's actually a clinical trial going on now at SUNY. They've enrolled about fifty non-obese type-2 diabetics to do duodenojejunal bypasses. In the animal model the control of type-2 diabetes doesn't appear to be a secondary outcome of treating the obesity, but instead appears to be a primary effect of the bypass itself. Looks interesting, and may hold some promise, but there's a lot of hurdles to overcome before this surgery would ever become mainstream. Effect of Duodenal-Jejunal Exclusion in a Non-Obese Animal Model of Type 2 Diabetes: A New Perspective for an Old Disease The demonstration that surgery can directly influence T2D as opposed to being a secondary effect of the treatment of obesity is not a mere intellectual exercise; it has, instead, important implications. One is that it implies the new concept of "diabetes surgery" as an independent new surgical discipline for which surgeons need to develop specific knowledge and competence. Indeed, clinical studies with diabetes-specific endpoints are now justified to define whether or not surgical treatment of type 2 diabetes should be extended also to moderately obese or overweight patients as well as which surgical technique has the best risk/benefit ratio and whether there are specific indications and contraindications for surgical treatment of type 2 diabetes.

Why can't a Christian ask for a prenup? Did he give you any reasoning?

Heh. I've often wondered if we should move to a donation only system. It doesn't cost much to keep us running. I hate ads as much as the next guy, which is why they're limited to up top. Block them if that's your thing.

This is full of win.

I was thinking about upgrading my PC and picking up Age of Conan. I decided to wait though, heard there's lots of bugs to be worked out.

Why do you bother? You're presenting a physics-related concept to a graduate physics student. He, like most other physicists, is going to ask you for the math. If that's too much to ask you're dabbling in the wrong discipline. I hardly think he should be called a self opiniated [sic] asshole for demanding a high standard of evidence. Consider that your warning.

Looks good. My only criticism would be the red rollover on the blue background. Other than that, good job. Was this for a project or what?

I will poop blood.

Awesome work ecoli! I'll read over the paper as well.

"A little over a year ago, the Fermilab Office of Public Affairs received a curious letter in code (image here). It has been sitting in our files all that time and we haven't had much of a chance to look into breaking the code, nor are we particularly expert at this!" Part of the letter was decoded about 2 days after Fermilab put it up on the internet. The first stanza decodes to "FRANK SHOEMAKER WOULD CALL THIS NOISE", and the second stanza decodes to "EMPLOYEE NUMBER BASSE SIXTEEN". If I'm reading correctly, there's still part of the letter that has yet to be decoded. Now people are trying to figure out what it means. Frank Shoemaker is a physicist who worked on the main ring at Fermilab. There are questions about an odd break between "FRANK SHOEMAKER WOULD" and "CALL THIS NOISE". People are also suggesting that "Basse" was deliberately misspelled and is some sort of clue One slashdot user pointed out that Wilson Hall on the Fermilab campus is 16 stories and was inspired by a cathedral once occupied by the Basse Oeuvre. Apparently you need an employee ID card to enter the 16th floor. Another person notes that if you drop the extra "S" in "Base", and convert to base 16, you get employee number 252. Employee number 252 is Pierre Piroue, who teaches classes combining physics and music. It was suggested that the second stanza should be converted to music -- somehow. Still another user found a "Frank Shoemaker" on Amazon.com who has a book in his wishlist titled "The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century". An intriguing little puzzle if you ask me. There's a lot of brains working on this one. You can follow the story here: http://www.gmilburn.ca/2008/05/17/fermilabs-strange-letter-progress/

Jesus, George. I mean, really! Leave me out of this!

Cap'n actually got me with the logo. I saw it yesterday morning and though "well damn, no one's changed the christmas logo since...christmas".

At least no one got rickrolled. Seems like every site is doing it today, even youtube.

Bahahahaha

http://www.google.com/virgle/error.html

Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris

Even the best drugs we have don't work on everyone either. You've used the words "unethical" and "immoral", but you haven't told us why they are unethical or immoral. Because it would be selling "nothing" and claiming it is "something"? Is that the only reason? I'm not taking a position here, I just want you to elaborate.

Cap'n FTW. We should redirect blogs.scienceforums.net to that page.