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Jan. 13th, 2004
Poll: Public Tepid on Bush Space Plan
On Wednesday, Bush is scheduled to spell out details of his proposal to use an outpost on the moon as a jumping off point for more remote destinations such as Mars or asteroids.
Those most likely to favor the plan to expand space exploration were men, young adults, people with more education and those with higher incomes.
It made a difference who was said to be behind the plan. When half the poll sample was asked about a "Bush administration" plan to expand space exploration instead of the "United States" plan, opposition increased.
Just over half of Democrats' opposed the plan by "the United States." Once it was identified as a "Bush administration" plan, Democrats opposed it by a 2-to-1 margin.
On Wednesday, Bush is scheduled to spell out details of his proposal to use an outpost on the moon as a jumping off point for more remote destinations such as Mars or asteroids.
Those most likely to favor the plan to expand space exploration were men, young adults, people with more education and those with higher incomes.
It made a difference who was said to be behind the plan. When half the poll sample was asked about a "Bush administration" plan to expand space exploration instead of the "United States" plan, opposition increased.
Just over half of Democrats' opposed the plan by "the United States." Once it was identified as a "Bush administration" plan, Democrats opposed it by a 2-to-1 margin.
Mammoth Skull Discovered Near Gulf Coast
The skull of a woolly mammoth unearthed here has been tentatively dated to an age of 38,000 years, paleontologists say.
The remains were unearthed in a sand pit by Texas A&M University students and the Brazosport Archaeological Society. No mammoths had earlier been discovered on the Texas Gulf Coast, Brian Miles, paleontology curator at the Brazosport Museum of Natural Science, told The Brazosport Facts in Tuesday's online edition.
[...] A backhoe operator, Joe Kimble, said he was working in the pit in November 2003 when he came across a tusk, said Kenny Vernor, president of Vernor Material and Equipment Co. Kimble, 46, ran into a single tusk, but the scientific community had little interest in the discovery, said Vernor.
But he found a pair of tusks a short distance away about a week later. Researchers were down the next day, Vernor said.
The skull of a woolly mammoth unearthed here has been tentatively dated to an age of 38,000 years, paleontologists say.
The remains were unearthed in a sand pit by Texas A&M University students and the Brazosport Archaeological Society. No mammoths had earlier been discovered on the Texas Gulf Coast, Brian Miles, paleontology curator at the Brazosport Museum of Natural Science, told The Brazosport Facts in Tuesday's online edition.
[...] A backhoe operator, Joe Kimble, said he was working in the pit in November 2003 when he came across a tusk, said Kenny Vernor, president of Vernor Material and Equipment Co. Kimble, 46, ran into a single tusk, but the scientific community had little interest in the discovery, said Vernor.
But he found a pair of tusks a short distance away about a week later. Researchers were down the next day, Vernor said.
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Jan. 13th, 2004 07:57 pmThis is an amazing article featuring a virtually unheard of sexual deviancy called GSA, Genetic Sexual Attraction, a phenomenon that commonly occurs between siblings or parent and child who reunite after years of separation due to adoption.
Yes, commonly.
It's an amazing article.
Yes, commonly.
It's an amazing article.
first impressions
Jan. 13th, 2004 08:39 pmSo... how did you guys find me? This journal, I mean.
(My RL friends, of course, need not answer this question. :)
Satisfy me! Erm, I mean, satisfy my curiosity!
(My RL friends, of course, need not answer this question. :)
Satisfy me! Erm, I mean, satisfy my curiosity!
revealing a bit about me
Jan. 13th, 2004 09:01 pmI like working in an office. I like working independently. It's nice to have a routine, to learn a routine, and then do it your way.
It's changing the system to fit you.
The way that I do breakdowns (title insurance lingo for collating documents) surely differs from the total procedure that the person who trained me followed. He seemed surprised that I took the files back to my desk at certain times; I did things that to him probably seemed "out of order".
But I did them my way, the way I knew how to be the most efficient.
It's fun. I like working in an office.
It's changing the system to fit you.
The way that I do breakdowns (title insurance lingo for collating documents) surely differs from the total procedure that the person who trained me followed. He seemed surprised that I took the files back to my desk at certain times; I did things that to him probably seemed "out of order".
But I did them my way, the way I knew how to be the most efficient.
It's fun. I like working in an office.
Ok...I work in medical research. I read a poster outside of a lab today that is interesting in vision, etc. The poster was about the neuroprotective effects of delta-9-cannabinol.
Basically, they cultured rat retinal cells (your retina are the cells in the back of your eye that have the rods and cones that process images) in dishes. They would treat the cells with glutamate, which is associated with cell toxicity by allowing calcium into the cells, which would then set off a chain reaction leading to a greater chance of cell death. This is how diseases such as glaucoma work on the cellular level.
To counter the effect of glutamate, they added delta 9 THC to the culture also. Adding the THC blocked the toxic effects of the glutamate. Now, this was a really limited study done with cells in a dish...not in a real animal. I also don't know how the dose of THC given to the cells would relate to what we would smoke in a single joint. Of course, not all of it would get to our eye cells.
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Basically, they cultured rat retinal cells (your retina are the cells in the back of your eye that have the rods and cones that process images) in dishes. They would treat the cells with glutamate, which is associated with cell toxicity by allowing calcium into the cells, which would then set off a chain reaction leading to a greater chance of cell death. This is how diseases such as glaucoma work on the cellular level.
To counter the effect of glutamate, they added delta 9 THC to the culture also. Adding the THC blocked the toxic effects of the glutamate. Now, this was a really limited study done with cells in a dish...not in a real animal. I also don't know how the dose of THC given to the cells would relate to what we would smoke in a single joint. Of course, not all of it would get to our eye cells.
here