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Originally posted by zeitghostThey'll be bringing back that umbrella thing anytime now.Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.Comment
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On the plus side it would mean that all the people that go on about sterilizing the lower classes will have to find something else to get a bee in their bonnet about.Comment
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"This is a very clever bacteria. If this problem isn't addressed, there is a real possibility that gonorrhoea will become a very difficult infection to treat," she said in a telephone interview.
bacterium
Alternatively, "These are very clever bacteria."
She may know a lot about the clap, but her grammar sucks.
Anyway, it's ludicrous to attribute "cleverness" to single-celled organisms, even when talking to a journalist. Why not cut straight to the chase and explain that this is an example of the Darwinian principle of evolution through natural selection?
If there's one thing I can't abide, it's people anthropomorphising a distributed random process like evolution. It may be easy to couch matters in such terms, but it conveys totally the wrong impression. It's not as if we're seeing emergent behaviour in gonorrhoeal infections.Comment
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
threadeds website, and here's my blog.Comment
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Originally posted by threaded View PostAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Originally posted by NickFitz View Post"This is a very clever bacteria. If this problem isn't addressed, there is a real possibility that gonorrhoea will become a very difficult infection to treat," she said in a telephone interview.
bacterium
Alternatively, "These are very clever bacteria."
She may know a lot about the clap, but her grammar sucks.
Anyway, it's ludicrous to attribute "cleverness" to single-celled organisms, even when talking to a journalist. Why not cut straight to the chase and explain that this is an example of the Darwinian principle of evolution through natural selection?
If there's one thing I can't abide, it's people anthropomorphising a distributed random process like evolution. It may be easy to couch matters in such terms, but it conveys totally the wrong impression. It's not as if we're seeing emergent behaviour in gonorrhoeal infections.
My bugbear is wildlife programs when they say " has perfectly adapted to it's environment" conveying that it was a consicious decision upon the orgasnisms behalf.
They reckon that blue eyes came from one mutation.But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the youngerComment
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