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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from Peikko in Harvard (illegal alien) student won’t face deportation   
    Good for this kid. It shows education is more powerful than fighting about a political issue. Harvard, MIT, YALE, STANFORD, BROWN, CALTECH, etc...ivy league schools will fight for students if those students are far superior than anyone else. Whether he or she is an illegal immigrant or not.
    The reality is that people with superior aptitude are graduating faster in China, India, Japan, Isreal than the US. I visited many seminars and talks from IEEE about the issues of acquiring students with high aptitude in academia to maintain US education superiority.
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from La Souris in Harvard (illegal alien) student won’t face deportation   
    Good for this kid. It shows education is more powerful than fighting about a political issue. Harvard, MIT, YALE, STANFORD, BROWN, CALTECH, etc...ivy league schools will fight for students if those students are far superior than anyone else. Whether he or she is an illegal immigrant or not.
    The reality is that people with superior aptitude are graduating faster in China, India, Japan, Isreal than the US. I visited many seminars and talks from IEEE about the issues of acquiring students with high aptitude in academia to maintain US education superiority.
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from one...two...tree in Harvard (illegal alien) student won’t face deportation   
    Good for this kid. It shows education is more powerful than fighting about a political issue. Harvard, MIT, YALE, STANFORD, BROWN, CALTECH, etc...ivy league schools will fight for students if those students are far superior than anyone else. Whether he or she is an illegal immigrant or not.
    The reality is that people with superior aptitude are graduating faster in China, India, Japan, Isreal than the US. I visited many seminars and talks from IEEE about the issues of acquiring students with high aptitude in academia to maintain US education superiority.
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from one...two...tree in Researchers Use Science to Identify Soccer Stars   
    For the scientifically declined,
    This research will make database optimization better. For a layman who know little scientific principle, do not know the need for this. A computer science major may look at this scenario as an algorithm that would help in database searches, etc...
    Why is there a need to improve database searches? Simple. More and more data are being stored in the World Wide web. Soon, the time complexity of the searches increase. And, there needs to be a better way of sorting, searching, or indexing those data.
    There are so many other applications from this research as mentioned in the article.
    Abstraction is key to application.
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from Heracles in More families are homeless and on the streets   
    I blame the GOP.
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from Trumplestiltskin in Another Candidate for Mom of the Year   
    I agree.
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from Peikko in New Arizona bill would deny citizenship to children of illegal immigrants   
    find that the conservatives here are only worried of someone that may get ahead of them working in a farm
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from one...two...tree in New Arizona bill would deny citizenship to children of illegal immigrants   
    find that the conservatives here are only worried of someone that may get ahead of them working in a farm
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from one...two...tree in Undocumented Harvard Student Faces Deportation   
    Deprived? I doubt it. Deprived who? What about those professors or those students who were founded by the Dean of the College overseas? Aren't they depriving other legal residents in search of over-sea foreigners?
    Or, I have a better idea. Let the other country have him. I'm sure Saudi Arabia new technology University being built will want him.
    Heck, the US want smart people right? So, if the US is breeding dumb people and these people wants a chance, go for it. Let other country have the smart people.
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r in Quantum teleportation achieved over ten miles of free space   
    By Casey Johnston | Last updated about an hour ago
    Quantum teleportation has achieved a new milestone or, should we say, a new ten-milestone: scientists have recently had success teleporting information between photons over a free space distance of nearly ten miles, an unprecedented length. The researchers who have accomplished this feat note that this brings us closer to communicating information without needing a traditional signal, and that the ten miles they have reached could span the distance between the surface of the earth and space.
    As we've explained before, "quantum teleportation" is quite different from how many people imagine teleportation to work. Rather than picking one thing up and placing it somewhere else, quantum teleportation involves entangling two things, like photons or ions, and then moving the quantum state from one to the other.
    When one of the items is sent a distance away, entanglement ensures that changing the state of one causes the other to change as well, allowing the teleportation of information, if not matter. However, the distance particles can be from each other has been limited so far to a number of meters.
    Teleportation over distances of a few hundred meters has previously only been accomplished with the photons traveling in fiber channels to help preserve their state. In this particular experiment, researchers maximally entangled two photons using both spatial and polarization modes and sent the one with higher energy through a ten-mile-long free space channel. They found that the distant photon was still able to respond to changes in state of the photon they held onto even at this unprecedented distance.
    However, the long-distance teleportation of a photon is only a small step towards developing applications for the procedure. While photons are good at transmitting information, they are not as good as ions at allowing manipulation, an advancement we'd need for encryption. Researchers were also able to maintain the fidelity of the long-distance teleportation at 89 percent— decent enough for information, but still dangerous for the whole-body human teleportation that we're all looking forward to.
    Science, 2010. DOI: 10.1038/NPHOTON.2010.87 (About DOIs).
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from one...two...tree in Immigration law could hurt Arizona's tech industry, keep top foreign students from schools there   
    Pooky,
    You are supporting a bill that would simply do whatever it can to get rid of illegals while at the same time result in casualties as well?
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from LaL in Statistics with "documented sources"   
    I read the posts in that thread so many times over and over. Unless you're the victim, you will probably don't know what racism is like. It could be psychological. I didn't even know I could be offended until I read the comments.
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r in Statistics with "documented sources"   
    I read the posts in that thread so many times over and over. Unless you're the victim, you will probably don't know what racism is like. It could be psychological. I didn't even know I could be offended until I read the comments.
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from Peikko in Somebody explain this so even I can understand it...   
    To win the heart of the American people is hold an American flag. These protesters should have used a different method to convene that they were immigrants then received citizenship through the proper means instead of carrying a Mexican flag or other country flags and fighting for immigration reform.
    I remembered when I was naturalized I was sworn to uphold the law, if there's a war that I would take arms against the enemy of the US, etc...That is the allegiance, with the US flag.
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from Peikko in Statistics with "documented sources"   
    I read the posts in that thread so many times over and over. Unless you're the victim, you will probably don't know what racism is like. It could be psychological. I didn't even know I could be offended until I read the comments.
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from one...two...tree in canada did it   
    Whites are just as notorious because they blend better, right? You can't even tell a person who is white that is legal or not. It's not as easy to see as Asians because with Asians they're distinct due to their skin color to be associated. Whereas if you're white, the assumption of not being illegal is there. However, that is incorrect because they blend better since they're white.
    Fu*kin retarded for even not think that.
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r in canada did it   
    I'm not exempt. Neither is Paul and Vanessa.
    This thread needs to be taken down. I'm deeply offended by such outcasting of a group of people. Many posts here are already TOS violation.
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from Peikko in canada did it   
    I'm not exempt. Neither is Paul and Vanessa.
    This thread needs to be taken down. I'm deeply offended by such outcasting of a group of people. Many posts here are already TOS violation.
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from Peikko in canada did it   
    Whites are just as notorious because they blend better, right? You can't even tell a person who is white that is legal or not. It's not as easy to see as Asians because with Asians they're distinct due to their skin color to be associated. Whereas if you're white, the assumption of not being illegal is there. However, that is incorrect because they blend better since they're white.
    Fu*kin retarded for even not think that.
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from Peikko in Obama Visits & Praises Ethanol Plant Without Even Thinking Of Consequences   
    Let me say this to everyone. China is investing more than 80 billion dollars to research ways of reusing energy. In case the conservatives don't know, now is the time to know it. I think China invests like 300 billion dollars already just for the decade long three gorges dam. Then, they are contributing to research far outweighs the amount the US is spending.
    In the end, if the conservatives stop this tactic of stopping the US from consuming energy that is not renewable, then we would not be relying on the dam deisal and gasolines.
    How dumb can conservatives be.
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r in Are Nukes Needed to Deter Cyber Attacks? Bachmann Says 'Yes'   
    Morons to lead the way.
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from George W. Bush in Science Races Ahead of the Law in Genetic Testing   
    By: Lee S. Goldsmith
    The author, an attorney and medical doctor, is a partner with Goldsmith Ctorides & Rodriguez in Englewood Cliffs.
    Medical science is advancing rapidly in the field of genetics. Watson's and Crick's Nobel Prize-winning discovery of gene strands in the form of a double helix has evolved into a science where individual genes are being located and the effects of the particular genes are either known or in the process of being discovered. As a race, we are standing at the threshold of developing treatments where individual genes may be altered to the benefit or the detriment of the individual. Cloning, which has received so much publicity as of late, will allow for the genetic clone or genetic identical twin of any animal to be produced.
    However, as always in medicine, there is a gap between the discovery of a new technique or procedure and the time when it is placed into practice. Medical researchers knew about bacteria long before cures in the form of antibiotics were discovered. The medical community knows that viruses can and do cause the common cold, but no cure has been discovered for common viral ailments. We have now discovered specific genes that are causally related to specific diseases, but cannot alter and "cure" the genetic defect.
    With the advent of the ability to identify and classify human genes, many moral, ethical, legal and economic questions have been raised. The questions not only affect the practice of medicine, but also how the individual must approach the physician to receive treatment.
    Reading the Genes
    There are many genetic disorders. One that has received a great deal of attention is Tay-Sachs disease. The gene that causes this condition is a recessive gene, meaning that the individual who has one such gene on one of the spirals of the double helix will be a carrier of the condition but will not have the disease. If this individual were to marry an individual who is also a carrier of the condition, then statistically, 50 percent of their children would receive one abnormal Tay-Sachs gene and one normal gene from their parents and be carriers but not have the disease. Twenty-five percent of the offspring would receive two normal genes and not be carriers of the disease. The final 25 percent of the children of the union would have received a recessive gene from each parent, be afflicted with the disease and probably die of a debilitating neurological disorder before they reach their fifth birthday.
    Individuals can be tested for the gene before they marry. Indeed, some Orthodox Jews advise prospective couples to be tested before marriage so that a decision can be made as to whether or not they will marry at all. An alternative is to have the couples tested after marriage so that the presence of the gene is known. If both parents have the gene, then the parents have the option to abort the fetus if it is a carrier of two Tay-Sachs genes. If the parents do not wish to have the fetus aborted, then the health insurance carrier may be required to spend thousands of dollars on the care and treatment of this infant in an attempt to prolong a life of limited duration that will have no quality.
    There are many other recessive genes in the human population gene pool. Some, such as the gene for blue eyes, lead to benign results, while others will always present problems when recessive genes are doubled.
    There are also what are called dominant genes. In these situations, the individual with the gene will have the trait that is specific for that gene as will the offspring of a marriage that receives that particular gene. Statistically, offspring of such a marriage will have a 50 percent chance of receiving the dominant gene. One recent report referred to a family in which such a gene caused certain neurological problems but only when the particular individual reached an age of between 55 and 65 years. Since in years past the life expectancy was not as great as 55 years, this dominant and problematic gene presented few problems for the family and was not recognized. However, with life expectancy being extended, the presence of this gene became a problem. The particular gene has not been identified. What is currently known is that it is a genetic condition, that it does affect a large number of the members of this family, and that at some point in time, someone will do the research to discover the particular gene.
    Even when the particular gene is pinpointed, the researchers still will have to develop a treatment for the problem. Until then, neurologists will have to treat the members of the family symptomatically as they age and are identified as carriers of the gene.
    There is another category of genes that are known to be associated with genetic problems, but unlike the dominant gene, it is not an all-or-nothing function. These genes may be affected by other genes, for while they are associated with specific problems, all individuals with the gene do not develop the condition. There is no method currently available to predict, who will get the disease and who will not. Included in this group are BRCA-1 and BRCA-2, known to be associated with the occurrence of breast cancer. Apolipoprotein E4 is known to be associated with late onset Alzheimer's disease while E280A Presenilin-1 Mutation is associated in part with early onset Alzheimer's disease.
    Who Should Know?
    Would you want to know whether or not you have a particular gene? If you do want to know, what use will be made of the information? If you find out that there is a genetic problem, who else will want to have that information and what uses could these other entities legitimately and legally make of the information?
    There are many reasons to want to know if there is a deleterious gene present. In the Tay-Sachs situation, decisions can be made as to whether or not to get married or have an abortion. If the problem is not Tay-Sachs but perhaps glaucoma, then closer observation could lead to earlier treatment and control of the problem. In the future, earlier diagnosis may lead to genetic alterations before the development of the serious aspects of a disease. As individuals, you can make your own decisions based on the information that is currently available.
    The problems that remain are not the decisions that you make but those decisions made by others that will affect your ability, and those of your offspring, to live and work normal lives.
    Currently, the Mayo Clinic gives patients the option to be tested for a genetic abnormality and, if the results indicate an abnormality, whether or not they wish the information to be entered in their medical records. The clinic's concern is that, depending on the problem and the potential abnormality, that the health insurance carrier will restrict, limit or bar insurance for the individual. Health insurers may construe a genetic defect as a pre-existing condition.
    State of the Law
    Two cases exist that are tangentially associated with this topic. First in Katskee v. Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Nebraska, a patient was found to have a 50 percent likelihood of developing breast and/or ovarian cancer because of her genetic makeup. She had surgery performed to prevent the disease and the carrier denied payment because no cancer was currently present. The Court** found that the carrier was responsible for the costs. The decision as based on the probability that the defective gene would cause a problem and would therefore, be an illness.
    In a second case, an insured was denied coverage for the medical bills associated with a retinal detachment. The carrier based the decision on the fact that the medical problems leading to the detachment constituted a pre-existing condition. The carrier was found responsible for the bills based on the theory that the condition was unknown to all of the parties at the time the policy was entered into.
    New Jersey has begun to address the issue in two statutes. The first is the Law Against Discrimination, N.J.S.A. 10.5 et seq., which was amended in 1992 to include the term "familial status." This statute refers to discrimination in the work place and areas other than in the availability of health insurance. The second is an act titled Hereditary Disorders, N.J.S.A. 26:5B-1 et seq., under which the Department of Health is to promulgate regulations and "[c]onsult with the Commissioner of Insurance in identifying arbitrary and unreasonable discrimination against persons with hereditary disorders and their families in insurance coverages." N.J.S.A. 26:5B-4e.
    However, it is unclear what "arbitrary or unreasonable" will mean when that phrase finally is interpreted.
    Would it be unreasonable if the insurer were to know with a 100 percent certainty that all of the insured would be affected by the problem? Would it be arbitrary to request a genetic profile of the insured before writing a policy or perform a physical examination or demand an AIDS test? Would it be unreasonable to deny coverage to a family where Tay-Sachs-affected children were born and needed care before they died?
    Every genetic abnormality constitutes a pre-existing condition. The prevalent fear in the medical community is that affected individuals will be denied medical insurance. The absence of reported cases today does not mean that the problem does not currently exist or that it will not be present in the future, only that there are no reported cases
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from George W. Bush in Science Races Ahead of the Law in Genetic Testing   
    Bump...
    Need to educate a few more right wing nuts.
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from Ms. Squirrel in Crowley, Texas - Newborn Baby Denied Insurance Due To Heart Defect   
    Hmm...
    I pray for all Republican offspring to have a genetic defect (I know I'm going to hell on this one). In fact, I know that there are plenty. So, they care about life? Nope.
    I got a question, if the so called opposers of HCR are concerned about risk, then, what about those people repeatedly get into car accidents. Why are they still covered?
    You want to talk logic now?
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    Niels Bohr got a reaction from Ms. Squirrel in Crowley, Texas - Newborn Baby Denied Insurance Due To Heart Defect   
    We'll see what happens...chances are, if things does get costly, it will be reformed again. MA for the longest times had set the prices for car insurance, now they stopped that.
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