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It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." - Thomas Jefferson, wise man The time has come to really put finger to keyboard academia-wise, so this'll be fast. Spent a couple of after-lunch periods poring over the WORLD magazines on the public reading racks, just so I don't get out of touch with more... conservative viewpoints (with extra intelligent design, homophobia and all-around Obama bashing... maybe that last one's deserved), while waiting for the stock of TIME to be refreshed. And oh, the new school term has seen CCfC reappear, after a brief vacation. Was beginning to miss them. A couple of SciAm/NatGeo articles caught my eye, the first of which was that human brain cells injected into mice makes them smarter (no, Mr. Ham's not getting an upgrade). I wouldn't even have thought that was possible, but I suppose Nature's pliable. Next, and slightly more closely related to my own field, is the finding that experts usually miss gorillas inserted into X-rays (an expansion on the psych classic)  Okay, that's not too bad (Source: nationalgeographic.com) Now, in their defence, the gorilla was inserted into only five frames of some 200-plus, which together constitute a 3D representation of the lung (each showing a slightly different depth), and the radiologists were focused on picking out small white cancer nodules, instead of King Kong. And, let's be honest, how many people even have the patience to look at hundreds of near-identical slides? They can't even grade from the introduction and conclusion, as is traditional for essays. While we're on medicine, there appears to be a trend for the more well-off to avoid vaccination. The first question should then be whether vaccines are necessary, and it's hard to argue against certain cases. It then gets complicated. Vaccines generally admit some upfront cost, in that a (tiny) percentage of complications are expected to arise, possibly even leading to death. Of course, this is at times an acceptable tradeoff, if the disease being guarded again is virulent enough. Some, however, also believe that there are hidden costs, such as the persistent rumour that the measles vaccine can cause autism. Others likely have done the math in more detail, but this seems a Prisoner's Dilemma-like (but not quite) situation. Basically, not vaccinating is smart... if enough other people vaccinate (and assuming human-to-human transmission being the major cause of spread) - one avoids any complications, while still being protected because there will be almost no infected people to pass the disease on to them. Of course, the trouble begins when enough of the others figure that out... Copy Suggestion Not sure if mentioned, but... From painful experience, copying lots (hundreds of thousands) of smallish files over the network takes much longer than the combined time taken for zipping all of them up into one huge file, transferring that, and unzipping them all on the other side (possible explanation: each file, no matter how tiny, incurs an overhead of its own) Which begs the question: should the operating system anticipate this eventuality, and automate the compression (they could call it "Preparing to Copy...") and decompression process, at least between compatible OS-es? It's Finally Back The sudden re-population of campus can only point to one thing - the Premier League has returned!  Handy fixture chart for Singaporean/same timezone followers [N.B. United fixtures highlighted - there's also this] (Source: The New Paper, 16 August 2013) Now, with the crazy price hikes going on, less scrupulous ne'er do wells could resort to alternatives of dubious legality like Wiziwig.tv or Myp2p.ec. A viewer could, entirely in theory only, mind, download a p2p program like AceStream, and perhaps go as far as to download a file that sets up a stream from, say, BloodZeed. The screen might, if all goes well, then show the desired football match in high definition for absolutely free (if a few minutes behind real-time), as compared to the S$59.90 a month that local providers are trying to rip customers off for. Not that we would do any of that, of course. For all the preseason worries and lack of new personnel, it turned out to be only too easy for United under Moyes, in his first competitive game in charge. Alright, Swansea had near 70% of the possession in the opening ten minutes or so, but who cares about seeing a lot of the ball when you've got the goalscoring machine popularly known as Robin van Persie (formerly of Arsenal, who crashed at Aston Villa)?  No midfield like that also can? Well, whatever works... (Source: Bleacher Report) The other early highlight was Wayne Rooney stewing on the bench, as his spot was filled in by a geriatric Ryan Giggs... who supplied that first assist (with slight deflection), and nearly continued his record of scoring in every Premier League season at first try. Oh, and Welback scored with the very type of refined lob that Rooney loves so much, after gifting Swansea a goal by trying to dribble his way out of defence (but hey, a clean sheet's so not United), in the process doubling his league tally for last season. And Rooney even got two assists, confounding confident pronouncements on an independent forum of the club's imminent decline. However, the real money's on Chelsea, and then City, to win the league, if Singapore Pools is to be believed, after the three were quoted equally at three to one for the market to sort it out (well, Liverpool are fifth favourites, so make what of the wisdom of crowds that you will) I'm also pleased to announce the third season of Man vs. Ham, with Mr. Ham getting a 75 seed headstart this time, and grabbing a quick lead by correctly calling both Fulham and Southampton to win. This gives him 292.5 seeds off a 100 seed bankroll (bonus not even factored in yet), to my current total of 157.5 seeds, going up to a maximum of 216.25 if Chelsea manage to beat Hull City by three or more goals. Game on! Collected Links
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