I don’t understand how it is more ethical to create an embryo from a stem cell than to create one from a sperm and egg. Both are viable, neither is a person. How are they different?
(Keeping the stem cell version in vitro past the the age when it would need to implant isn’t really a solution/distinction because we can do the same thing with a sperm-and-egg version.)
Thus, our results show that arithmetic is biologically-based and a natural consequence of how our perception is structured.
Arithmetic could be something completely different than what we think it is. Very cool.
You can buy card stock that has local wildflower seeds embedded in it. The idea is when the person is done with the card, they plant the whole thing so the card decomposes and the seeds sprout.
I’ve been wanting to do this ever since someone gave me one that said “You make a difference.” I treasured that card for years.
I don’t even remember what I did to help her at this point, it was something that seemed minor at the time, but she thanked me and gave me the card.
Do it! It can have quite an impact!
70,000 people without toilets… eeek.
If you run into a financial ditch and don’t have emergency funds, contact the electric, water, medical, phone, credit card, etc. billing departments right away. Don’t wait until after you’ve already missed a payment or two! Jump right to it and set up payment plans. I helped a friend through a financial crash and was impressed how much leeway billing departments will give you if you reach out before you miss a payment.
I read BBC’s website. Reading the news is less upsetting to me than hearing it or seeing it. BBC has a mix of serious and fluff that is just right to keep me from getting overwhelmed.
And if the news from BBC doesn’t bother me, I’ll read National Public Radio’s front page.
(Aleksandr Dugin waves cheerfully from behind the shrubbery)
It’s a Mars exploration vehicle!
Beehaw’s stance on downvotes is incredibly refreshing and freeing. There are no downvotes on Beehaw, and downvotes from other instances are invisible to members. You can’t just use downvotes to slash a post you don’t like, you have to reply and state your objection and start a conversation. And if a post is pointlessly nasty you can’t downvote it to oblivion, you have to articulate your reasoning for it being removed and submit it to a mod.
The lack of downvotes means you have to think and participate. You can’t just stab a button and rapidly move on to the next post like a trained monkey pressing buttons for a hit of cocaine.
This reminds me of an article about journalism and the internet, from ages ago. A class was asked how they would research for a topic (it was some recent political event, I don’t remember). The class confidently answered “the internet.” The professor struggled to get them to understand that wasn’t enough. Yes, there is all kinds of stuff about this event on the internet, but how did it get there?. And more importantly, what is missing?
Sure, all the sexy AI stuff gives us goosebumps and sounds great. But how did it get there, and what is missing? Someone somewhere has to do the actual original work first, or it’s just making collages from the same library over and over and over again.