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History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library / Re: Native American History
« on: July 02, 2014, 12:04:57 AM »
I'd bet my future house on the fact that Tibetans etc. are not well represented.
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The Union debate tonight was on the motion "This house regrets the Arab Spring."
Defeated 168-59, which I was quite pleased about; a Kievan discussing it afterwards was noting the important similarities.
Humans also respond to pathogen specific motifs, maybe not the same ones as plants do. I don't know very much about plants to be honest.
Humans have the disadvantage of having cells that are much easier to infect, which is kind of countered by immune cells, but it seems to me to be less effective. But I'm biased, plant pathogens are something of an obsession of mine!
It is also possible that this disorder evolved as a genetic response to endemic malaria.
The population there (black people) usually shrugs it off very easily.
Related: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/27/brian-cox-science-funding-grants-nonsensical
Coming from someone in the final year of their degree and looking for masters funding (having found it nigh on impossible) this hits pretty badly. only hope Osborne doesn't go further and start cutting research funding, heck funding applications are already annoying enough, if you work on animals mention cancer, if you work on plants mention food security. If you can't do either, you're in trouble!
What are peoples views? Do you think we're approaching a crisis of science funding? Or do you think that science has to pay a price in the current austerity-obsessed climate?