She died in March of 2024 and I miss her a lot.
1What antidepressants do for me is make bullshit and setbacks much more tolerable. This is not necessarily a good thing if the bullshit is the kind that one ought not to be tolerating in the first place.
"It's not what I'm getting paid to do" is probably what most people outside of academia would answer. IIRC Hamming worked at Bell Labs which I think gave people much more freedom to work on whatever they chose than your typical corporate R&D department...
If I have a solid idea of what acidic and alkaline solutions are, I should have great difficulty imagining a solution which is both at once!
Or at least one that is both at once for more than a very short period of time, as the relevant ions will quickly react to make "neutral" water until one runs out...
People that disclose a conflict of interest usually aren't any less biased in practice than people who don't disclose the same conflict, even though they're generally perceived as more trustworthy. :/
Possibly pointless nitpick:
When it comes to things like lesbian firefighters, beware base rates! There are a lot more heterosexual women than homosexual women, so it can still be true that, even though the percentage of lesbians who become firefighters is greater than the percentage of straight women who become firefighters, most women that are firefighters are not lesbians.
Duncan was very unhappy with his experience and his treatment as a CFAR employee and his interactions with Anna Salamon in particular, including being pressured into doing things against his better judgment. If he prefers not to go into details, I'll respect his wishes, but after following him for a while I've got somewhat of a handle on what happened.
This is definitely a warning shot, but it's not quite there yet. Being able to infect and kill cells in a lab isn't necessarily enough for a virus survive "in the wild"; it has to be able to survive environmental conditions and immune responses, reproduce itself inside the cells, and then be transmitted to new hosts. Still, this could definitely end up being pretty scary in a hurry.
Weight is such an extreme determinative factor in combat sports that an untrained 250-pound couch potato could walk into any boxing gym and absolutely demolish a 100-pound opponent with decades of training.
You later link to a video of an early UFC match in which a much heavier person is beaten by a much lighter person when the lighter person kicks him in the face. But yes, that doesn't happen very often, especially when both are fighting in the same style.
Um, plants and fungi?