Nope! This research is all done in rodents, to my knowledge. I'm always like "wow what a cool and maybe lifesaving discovery!.. for people in like a decade+!" 🙃
That is so funny... tbh I know I'd get shit for this professionally, but it definitely frustrates me that we don't allow people with few other choices to have access to crazy, left field treatment stuff.
My best friend died of a specific and rare cancer this year. We know exactly how that cancer works on a molecular level, and we've found a few chemicals that interfere with the function of those cells in vitro while not seeming to harm average cells.
Sure, it's a huge risk to take that drug that's only been tested in a dish, and it wouldn't be worth it for most people. But he was going to (and did) die within a year of diagnosis. It's not like he had other options.
Well, you'll also be happy to know that they started this work on allergin way before working on autoimmune disease, and in my opinion, the evidence that it works for allergies is much stronger than how it works for autoimmune diseases! Not necessarily because it won't work for auto immune stuff... just that they have done less confirming.
I have severe allergenic asthma so I was excited about it too 😁
The article only barely mentions orthodontics like braces, retainers, etc. and not as the substance of her major criticism. I don't think she's trying to call out the groups that you are mentioning, and in fact, the doctor she rhetorically highlights as "good" is the one recommending braces over veneers.
It's the veneers and crowns she is mostly critiquing. She also unpacks how the standards for beauty are affected by celebrities doing this as a trend. Specifically, the procedures she is critiquing make an effect that is only achieveable by paying for the procedure, and the cost of getting and maintaining it makes it a class signifier. The financial elite set the standard.
You're valid and your thoughts are a valid contribution to the discussion, but I figured I could clarify that in case you or other people didn't see that in the article.
This article is garbage but I'm a molecular biologist and the publication they're talking about is really neat.
The "ELI5 to the point of maybe reducing out the truth" way to explain it is that the researchers can add "flags" to proteins associated with immune responses that make cells pick them up and examine them. This is shown to work for allergins (so say, add a flag to peanut protein and the cells can look at it more closely, go "oh nvm this is fine" and stop freaking out about peanuts) as well as autoimmune diseases (where cells mistake other cells from the same body as potential threats).
It's not nearly to a treatment stage, but tbh this is one of the more exciting approaches I've seen, and I do similar research and thus read a lot of papers like this.
There's a lot of evidence that we are entering a biological "golden age" and we will discover a ton of amazing things very soon. It's worrysome that we still have to deal with instability in other parts of life (climate change, wealth inequality, political polarization) that might slow down the process of turning these discoveries into actual treatments we can use to make lives better...
Still, don't doubt everything you read! A lot of cool stuff is coming, the trick is getting it past the red tape
Love this quote, but struggling to look the book up. Do you by chance mean "The Prophet" by the same author? There's a painting by his cousin (with the same name) called "The Prince" so I could totally see the names getting confused.
If it's really The Prince, can you link it? I just love this quote a lot
Actually... If an animal you own/trained makes art... you did get to have the copyright to the art, until recently with these same legal developments. Now it's less clear.
I also agree more with the other posters interpretation in general. We copyright art made by random chance emergent effects (Polluck et al.), process based art (Morris Louis et al.), performance art (so many examples.. Adrian Piper comes to mind), ephemeral art, math art, and photography, as the poster says. None of those artists are fully in control of every aspect of the final project- the art makes itself, in part, in each example.
If a human uses a math equation for the geometric output of a printer, and they tweak the variables to get the best looking output, we consider that art by law. Ai is exactly the same.
It's funny, I find that illustrators hate ai art, but "studio" artists (for lack of a better term) usually adore it
You said it yourself-- the reason those people need to make weird choices like trying to find any way to qualify for more government assistance is because historically their income came from industries that don't and can't exist anymore. They don't have any other choice. The solution is actually more availability of assistance resources so people from those places can have enough stability to be able to make choices like learning new skills or moving to a new place. Why can't people like him-- who see this happening to the people around him, his neighbors, his family-- empathize?
lol, like 2.5% of the USA are programmers and even if we say twice that number have experimented and taken programming classes, that's like 1 in 20 people who would even have ever encountered a for loop. This nsf report says ~70% of highschoolers have taken Algebra 2 or a more advanced math course, which is when sum notation is usually introduced. I think 70% is a little greater than 5%!
I have an honest question for all the commenters saying "I'd rather not use reddit": where do you get niche information from other than reddit?
I don't want to give reddit traffic, but I find myself constantly looking for information that would necessarily only be available on a platform like reddit. Examples:
Product info and reviews
Niche troubleshooting for odd hobbies (fermentation, video games, diy)
Travel advice from locals/regulars (do I need wetsuit to swim here? Where are restaurants that won't harass my partner and I for being queer?)
Advice, when the "official" recommendations on SEO websites were clearly written for a litigation-happy American society (some healthcare, some law, etc.)
I consider myself pretty information-access savvy but a lot of these things require a "crowdsource" aspect that blogs and other websites can't provide.
I have an honest question for all the commenters saying "I'd rather not use reddit": where do you get niche information from other than reddit?
I don't want to give reddit traffic, but I find myself constantly looking for information that would necessarily only be available on a platform like reddit. Examples:
Product info and reviews
Niche troubleshooting for odd hobbies (fermentation, video games, diy)
Travel advice from locals/regulars (do I need wetsuit to swim here? Where are restaurants that won't harass my partner and I did being queer?)
Advice, when the "official" recommendations on SEO websites were clearly written for a litigation-happy American society (some healthcare, some law, etc.)
I consider myself pretty information-access savvy but a lot of these things require a "crowdsource" aspect that blogs and other websites can't provide.
The father's sister (the 19 y/o's aunt) said that he was terrified to go and was only doing it because his dad was obsessed with the Titanic and it was near father's day. I feel bad for him.
Kids die all the time (like the migrant kids) and at least this kid got to live a 1%er lifestyle for 19 years. Not much of a consolation prize for an early death, though...
Your comment and post both kinda seem like bait, but in case you're serious (and for anyone else curious)-- this artist's content features racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic themes. He has made comics parodying healthcare response standards for covid, and supporting the police state during times of social disrest (such as in the wake of the George Floyd protests).
That's my factual take; my subjective one is that he's an ignorant asshat that doesn't deserve platforming in any way, even if some of his jokes end up being funny in ways he didn't intend. I would be happier if I never saw any of his content again.
Nope! This research is all done in rodents, to my knowledge. I'm always like "wow what a cool and maybe lifesaving discovery!.. for people in like a decade+!" 🙃
(thanks for the book rec!)