Definition: In Webster's 1828 dictionary, a mandarin was a magistrate or governor of a province in China. (Mind your history, now—Webster's was speaking of the imperial government, long before Mao Zedong). From that root, the meaning of "mandarin" took on a disapproving tone in modern English until it came to refer to a behind-the-scenes powerbroker in government. It also means a member of an elite intellectual group or one who believes in rule by the cultural elite.
//////////////////'Ebola Cousin' Marburg Virus Isolated From African Fruit Bats (August 2, 2009) -- Infection with Marburg virus and the related Ebola virus can produce severe disease in people, with fever and bleeding. During outbreaks, as many as 90 percent of those infected have died. The natural reservoir for Marburg virus, and its cousin Ebola virus, has been the subject of much speculation and scientific investigation.
/////////////////LUCAS DID MOT/SVCE/PROMISED REASONABLE CHRGE TO FIX ARBG AND ECU
/////////////////AXDNT= IN A MMNT OF MADNESS
///////////////....he subject of vestigial organs in the HUMAN body, like the third eyelid, the appendix, the coccyx. I suppose even the fingernails could be considered as vestigial. They certainly don't have a lot of practical use today as they can no longer be desccribed as claws.It's useful when I'm tussling with a xtian about organs being redundant, even in the human body - They usually challenge me with "WHAT organs ?" - Do you know - some of them don't even know we have the stump of a tail !
//////////////////MD EST ABRHMC FTHS GCK UP THE WRLD
///////////////////RDF=........no longer referring to it as "Darwins THEORY". I think it would be better described as his DISCOVERY of evolution. After all, it was around before Darwin came along. It also fits in better with all the other discoveries in science. Off hand, I can't think of many that were first described as a theory of something.
///////////////.....t is indeed pathetic - that, in 2009, people still need to be convinced of something so self-evident.
////////////////BAATEIN YA LAATEIN
///////////////GOOD THING= The only problem with this is that it ends!
/////////////////BTO-KOSM-
/////////////////FLR-KOLE-KEEP OWN LRNING EXPRNC
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"Vestigiality describes homologous characteristics of organisms which have seemingly lost all or most of their original function in a species through evolution."
/////////////////.....roper way to use all the possible pronouns to refer to a dty is s/heeee/it!
/////////////////SAYING NOTHING IS AN OPTION
/////////////////EVOLN IS A FACT-DONT HAVE TO BELIEVE IT-IT IS THE TRUTH PERIOD
/////////////////////.......... never much liked the abiogenesis/evolution divide myself. There was almost certainly a gradual appearance of the accurate replication of (mainly) DNA that we see today, and if the RNA model of the origin of life is right, then there would have been selection pressures based on nucleotide sequence as soon as the first self-replicating molecule appeared.
////////////////////........."abiogenesis". It pretty much explicitly recommends the outdated idea that "life" is something special and magical and irreducible that is either present in an organism or is not.
What is life? My answer would simply be "complexity". Perhaps "Chemical complexity of a specific sort" would be more recognisable, but I don't see why similarly complex non-organic processes could not be considered alive (sufficiently advanced computers for instance).
Once you abandon notions that life is irreducible and see it as complexity, the problem of the beginnings of life becomes just another "how many beans make a heap" problem.
////////////////THE SAME SUN/MOON SEEN BY ALL ORGANISMS ON EARTH
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Does 'sexual selection' mean species select partners who appear genetically healthy, so that when they mate with them their offspring will likewise be healthy?? If that is so, then it implies that there are universal characteristics that are attractive??? But then in humans culture becomes an issue??
///////////////A NEW PERSONAL LOWPOINT
//////////////////DNCIO-SIO-DO NT CRY ITS OVER,SMILE IT OCCURRED
////////////////RLGS ILLOGIC
//////////////////MKK-VK-IND-VRY KIND-DNCIO-SIO
//////////////////THATS ALL FOLKS
FMS LST WRDS-
Is it not meningitis?
~~ Louisa M. Alcott, writer, d. 1888
//////////////Am I dying or is this my birthday?
When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside.
~~ Lady Nancy Astor, d. 1964
///////////////Nothing, but death.
When asked by her sister, Cassandra, if there was anything she wanted.
~~ Jane Austen, writer, d. July 18, 1817
/////////////////MERE AKHROT
///////////////Now comes the mystery.
~~ Henry Ward Beecher, evangelist, d. March 8, 1887
////////////////Friends applaud, the comedy is finished.
~~ Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, d. March 26, 1827
///////////////Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.
~~ Lord George Byron, writer, d. 1824
///////////////I'm bored with it all.
Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.
~~ Winston Churchill, statesman, d. January 24, 1965
/////////////////That was a great game of golf, fellers.
~~ Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby, singer / actor, d. October 14, 1977
//////////////////I am not the least afraid to die.
~~ Charles Darwin, d. April 19, 1882
/////////////////I must go in, the fog is rising.
~~ Emily Dickinson, poet, d. 1886
//////////////////It is very beautiful over there.
~~ Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, d. October 18, 1931
/////////////////LUCAS GAVE ME SOME RELIEF-GONBU
/////////////I've never felt better.
~~ Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., actor, d. December 12, 1939
///////////////I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.
~~ Richard Feynman, physicist, d. 1988
///////////////////120K PPL DTH EVERY DAY
///////////////I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.
~~ Errol Flynn, actor, d. October 14, 1959
//////////////////Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark.
~~ O. Henry (William Sidney Porter), writer, d. June 4, 1910
//////////////////I see black light.
~~ Victor Hugo, writer, d. May 22, 1885
////////////////////Why do you weep. Did you think I was immortal?
~~ Louis XIV, King of France, d. 1715
/////////////////Let's cool it brothers . . .
Spoken to his assassins, 3 men who shot him 16 times.
~~ Malcolm X, Black leader, d. 1966
/////////////////MUJHE DEGREE CHAIYE,DIPLOMA NEHI
///////////////Nothing matters. Nothing matters.
~~ Louis B. Mayer, film producer, d. October 29, 1957
///////////////It's all been very interesting.
~~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, writer, d. 1762
///////////////////Good-bye . . . why am I hemorrhaging?
~~ Boris Pasternak, writer, d. 1959
////////////////Get my swan costume ready.
~~ Anna Pavlova, ballerina, d. 1931
////////////////Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
~~ Alexander Pope, writer, d. May 30, 1744
////////////////I have a terrific headache.
He died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
~~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US President, d. 1945
/////////////////Put out the light.
~~ Theodore Roosevelt, US President, d. 1919
///////////////CHNS MARTIAL ARTS LONG PREPN
//////////////Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.
Spoken to his nurse.
~~ George Bernard Shaw, playwright, d. November 2, 1950
///////////////Don't worry chief, it will be alright.
~~ Rudolph Valentino, actor, d. August 23, 1926
/////////////////I am ready.
~~ Woodrow Wilson, US President, d. 1924
////////////////Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
~~ Florenz Ziegfeld, showman, d. July 22, 1932
////////////////////KNOW IT MOST-LET ME GO-KIM/LMG
//////////////////COSMIC KICK
/////////////////SORT OUT OWN HEAD-REST FOLLOWS SIMPLE
////////////////......... think society should put way more emphasis on *learning* than *teaching*. The former is a brain motivated by its own interest while the latter is a group of brains externally sort of forcing knowledge upon others (usually in a broken bureaucratic way). There shouldn't even be any tests (which distract from learning and just tend to measure easily forgettable mnemonic creating ability anyway).
We humans *have* brains; its in our very nature to be interested in stuff and enjoy learning, but the educational system practically has the opposite effect by taking the poetry out with mundane repetitive time-bloated pointlessness, especially public schools which some argue are just holding pens to keep adolescents from interfering with society (it sure felt that way to me and the entire 'learning' aspect of public school was a joke- maybe you learn how to deal with people socially for a future job in fast food but that's about it). An individual can learn so much quicker by reading books/encyclopedias/dictionaries on their own than spending chunks of time in mass social learning under a teacher (yeah, the authors of books are teachers too, but an individual who reads due to their own genuine interest can go at their own pace, focus on what interests them (fine tuned to each individuals unique neural paths) and skip things they've already learned and aren't pointlessly distractingly 'tested' on what they learn).
For example I think most people would be smarter if they read whatever happened to interest them on wikipedia 1 hour a day as opposed to going to public school's obsolete holding pen for 8 hours a day.
Actually, one only has to look at how colleges rape students by using the tactic of continually churning out new 'editions' of required $100 books, thus removing the 2nd hand market to keep book prices artificially high, to see how college is another money seeking parasite on top of society. Book prices are a slap on the wrist relative to the tuition itself.
'You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.'- good will hunting
///////////////////MEN -RESTORATION/WMN-LOSS
GUTSOLAD
/////////////////BIOLOGY/ATHEISM
///////////////////. “Peace in our time” turned to bloody conflict.
That’s what happens when bullies are appeased.
////////////////////.......Thin ice of "religious compatibilism".
//////////////////On a diagram of the solar system to scale, with the Earth reduced to about the diameter of a pea, Jupiter would be over 300 metres away and Pluto would be two and a half kilometres distant (and about the size of a bacterium, so you wouldn't be able to see it anyway). On the same scale, Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, would be 16,000 kilometres away....
- Chapter 2 : Welcome to the solar system
(A Short History of Nearly Everything)
////////////////////////.......the one thing "planned" by natural selection is obsolescence - individuals and species are not built to last.
still, i suppose like all vehicles the model (phenotype) eventually becomes outdated by the demands of the consumer (mother nature) forcing the manufacturer (dna) into fashioning new and improved models which are more suitable (better adapted) to those demands and will sell (replicate).
//////////////////DOM Q OR DOM V OR DOM-IED--NCP TIME OUT--NCP-TO
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