DE-EXTINCN BY CLONING

//////////////////////////Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) is more effective than oxygen therapy for reducing dyspnea in patients with end-stage cancer, and it allows them to use lower doses of morphine, according to a feasibility study published in the March issue ofLancet Oncology.



////////////////////////Science is the reason why Earth is no longer at the center of the Universe. We humans used to be so significant. Everything revolved around us until Science and it's meddling, pesky purveyors got in the way. Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo couldn't leave well enough alone. They simply had to burst our geocentric bubble of superiority


///////////////////////// researchers looking at weather patterns since the end of the last Ice Age predict that average surface temperatures will be at their highest point in human experience by the end of this century.



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REPRODN OF FITTEST

/////////////////////////Princeton biological anthropologist Alan Mann told io9 that in most cases, "survival of the fittest" has been replaced by the term "reproduction of the fittest," or "differential selection." This holds particularly true in discussions concerning mammals — humans, especially. Mann says there are two main reasons for this.



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///////////////////////Methuselah star."

Around the year 2000, estimates for the star's age were about 16 billion years. But the universe is about 13.8 billion years old, based on a meticulous calibration of the expansion of space and analysis of the microwave afterglow from the big bang. Hubble data and improved theoretical calculations were used to recalculate the star's age and lower the estimate to 14.5 billion years, within a measurement uncertainty of plus or minus 800 million years. This places the star within a comfortable range to be younger than the universe.

SORRY NEMO, FOOD CHAIN IS NOT FAIR

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1968 INNCNT CHLDHD ASHOK AVENUE

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1968 INNCNT CHLDHD ASHOK AVENUE

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BOOKS AND PROUST

//////////////////////I believe that reading, in its original essence, [is] that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. —Marcel Proust

Learning involves the nurturing of nature. —Joseph LeDoux

///////////////////Reading can be learned only because of the brain's plastic design, and when reading takes place, that individual brain is forever changed, both physiologically and intellectually. For example, at the neuronal level, a person who learns to read in Chinese uses a very particular set of neuronal connections that differ in significant ways from the pathways used in reading English

////////////////Joseph Epstein put it, "A biography of any literary person ought to deal at length with what he read and when, for in some sense, we are what we read."

///////////////Janeane Garofalo once quipped, "I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth."

//////////////////////The assemblage of plants and animals in a particular setting (for instance, a lake, forest, or meadow) and the interactions of those plants and animals result in an intricate, dynamic community termed an ecosystem. Intermeshed with the flow of energy among the various life-forms of an assemblage is the equally important cycling of matter between the nonliving and living components of such a community. One characteristic pattern is the cycling of elements between the living and nonliving components of an ecosystem. Such cycles are termed biogeochemical cycles. Gaseous cycles, those involving nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen, for example, have the earth's atmosphere or hydrosphere (the oceans) as the nonliving reservoir. The much slower sedimentary cycles, which involve elements such as phosphorus, sulfur, or iron, have the lithosphere (the earth's crust) as the reservoir.

The availability of vital elements, such as nitrogen or phosphorus, greatly influences the distribution and abundance of plants. An element, generally present as an inorganic compound, is picked up initially by green plants and incorporated into structural components such as sugars, lipids, and proteins. When plants are eaten by animals, the element may eventually find itself enmeshed in the structure of the animal. When plants and animals die, the element, often converted into complex organic compounds that form most of the structural features of plants and animals, must be pulled apart so that it can be taken up again by plants. Here is where those decomposers, the bacteria and fungi, play their vital role in biogeochemical cycles: they convert organic matter into inorganic compounds, the form available to plants. Since the amounts of individual elements present on the planet have not substantially changed since the earth's formation, it is clear that the matter of the planet has been recycled for billions of years.

//////////////ECO NICHE FITTEST=The organisms that interact in an ecosystem carry out a particular role or function within the grand patterns of energy flow and matter cycles; that is, they fill a niche in the ecosystem. A useful analogy may be to think of the habitat in which an organism lives as its "address" and the niche as its "occupation." Some species have narrow niches; these "specialists" may live in only one microhabitat or set of conditions

//////////////////..........Going to the hospital for surgery is a lot like taking a plane trip. The experience is potentially dangerous, but you trust the pilot—or the surgeon—to have the knowledge and expertise to keep you safe. Flight attendants—and healthcare workers in the hospital—will deal with any problems that develop

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pe life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

— Jack Handey

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SEA INSIDE AND BOY WTH STRPD PYJMAS SN CNMA

/////////////////////Bruno: I don't understand. One man caused all this trouble? 



//////////////////Bruno: He used to be a doctor once, but gave it all up to peel potatoes. 




/////////////////////Padre Francisco: Freedom without a life is not freedom. 
Ramón Sampedro: A life without freedom is not a life. 

//////////////////////Joaquín: There's only one thing worse than having your son die on you... him wanting to. 

////////////////////////Ramón Sampedro: When you can't escape, and you constantly rely on everyone else, you learn to cry by smiling, you know? 

////////////////////////////Rosa: Love is an impulse. You can't rationalize it. 

//////////////////////////ROWAN 100 YRS AFTER TUNGUSKA

//////////////////////////IDEA DTR EDU- HMWRKS OVER WKENDS

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///////////////////////////////L BRMSTRONG= George Orwell, “serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, with jealousy, with boastfulness, with disregard for all rules, and with sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.”

////////////////////////////// spirit of finding a “middle way” à la Siddhartha Gotama, somewhere between a self being all there is and there being no self at all, I think Nietzsche’s conception of the self is an adequate model

//////////////////////////Is the Nietzschean self merely a congeries of desires, drives, and affects that inhere in a given body, or is there something more to it? The correct response, I contend, is that both answers capture an aspect of Nietzsche’s full position. He thinks of the self as minimally the collection of desires, affects, and drives inherent in a given body, but he reserves a special, honorific status for selves that exhibit wholeheartedness.

///////////////////////////////Researchers have electronically linked the brains of pairs of rats for the first time, enabling them to communicate directly to solve simple behavioral puzzles (credit: Duke University)

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dieting makes you feel guilty about food but doesn't make you thinner

/////////////////////////////In many countries, women are dying during childbirth -- not because they lack proper health care, but because the delivery room is too dark

////////////////////////// fragile X syndrome, turns some brain cells into chatterboxes, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report. The extra talk may make it harder for brain cells to identify and attend to important signals

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If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

— Albert Einstein

/////////////////////// base rate was cut to its record low level of 0.5 per cent in March 2009 the cost of borrowing on mortgages and personal loans has fallen dramatically, while savings rates have shriveled horribly.

/////////////////////////A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.

///////////////////A group of porcupines is called a prickle.

/////////////////THE KINDNESS OF BEASTS

//////////////If you spell out numbers in order, the first time you get to the letter “a” is at one-thousand.

/////////////// “Thought Process” (Vidhee-Jitta) described in Buddhism over 2,500 years ago. With the initial step of “Pure Perception” (Sanna), followed by “Biased Perception” (Sanna-Cetana), as 2 sequential steps, which can be interrupted by Mindful-Awareness. It has been called “I-tag” in modern science (Brain Lancaster, Liverpool Polytechnic), or what Prof. Antonio Damasio, Head, the Brain and Creativity Institute, USC, described as, “In parallel with generating mental patterns for an object, the brain also generates a sense of ‘self’ in the act of knowing.” 

//////////////SOUTH GEORGIA ANTARCTICA

//////////////////Nature reports that a viral predator of the cholera bacteria has stolen the functional immune system of bacteria and is using it against its bacterial host. The study provides the first evidence that this type of virus, the bacteriophage ("phage" for short), can acquire a wholly functional and adaptive immune system.

////////////////////////SWING TO THE RT= BOLT THE DOOR

/////////////////////////////MUFFLED NOT CRISP

//////////////////////WEIRD=XSTRN, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic

/////////////////////////The way a book smells when you thumb through it. The way quiet winter air makes you feel like no one else exists. The smell of the woods after a thunderstorm. That split second before your chair tips back. The feeling right before you cry. The euphoria before the heartbreak. That moment when you wonder if they think of you the way you think of them. These things, I live for.

— Katie Humphreys

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I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.

— Mitch Hedberg

///////////////////////////EPICUREAN PARADOX=

If God is willing to prevent evil, but is not able to

Then He is not omnipotent.

If He is able, but not willing
Then He is malevolent.

If He is both able and willing
Then whence cometh evil?

If He is neither able nor willing
Then why call Him God?

/////////////////////////////////////////////In forensic science, Locard's principle holds that the perpetrator of a crime will bring something into the crime scene and leave with something from it, and that both can be used as forensic evidence.

///////////////////////////////CAC predicted stroke in both men and women independently of the presence of atrial fibrillation or Framingham risk factors. It was more predictive in persons younger than 65 years and in those at relatively low cardiovascular risk

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High Sugar Consumption Linked To Diabetes

from The New England Journal Of Medicine, American Family Physician ...

/////////////////////////////FOOTBALL COACH= He is well paid in a trade where interimness is a permanent condition

////////////////////////////SN CNMA IDA 2011=old "I lost my memory and horrible things happened" scenario

//////////////////////ALL IN THE END GAS, DUST AND ROCKS

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