Not until the day Mr. Armbruster died did a laboratory culture identify the organism that had infected him: Acinetobacter baumannii.
The germ is one of a category of bacteria that by some estimates are already killing tens of thousands of hospital patients each year. While the organisms do not receive as much attention as the one known as MRSA — for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — some infectious-disease specialists say they could emerge as a bigger threat.
No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted
Aesop
The effete still exist, Ms. Gies
White Man March To Glory
Ten Things that Make Human Special
The Role of Insanity
Our Possible Future
YET we have not answered this question:
What is Consciousness
A defendant’s fMRI brain scan has been used in court for what is believed to be the first time.
Brain scan evidence that the defense claimed shows the defendant’s brain was psychopathic was allowed into the sentencing portion of a murder trial in Chicago, Science reported Monday. Brian Dugan, who had been convicted of the rape and murder of a 10-year old, was sentenced to death, despite the fMRI scans.
“I don’t know of any other cases where fMRI was used in that context,” Stanford professor Hank Greely told Science.
While the possibility of using fMRI data in a variety of contexts, particularly lie detection, has bounced around the margins of the legal system for years, there are almost no documented cases of its actual use. In the 2005 case Roper v. Simmons, the Supreme Court allowed brain scans to be entered as evidence to show that adolescent brains work differently than adult brains.
And the Calvinist of our Nation, want to dismiss evolution and did a good job in the last 20 years.
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AND! They have; YET, to find a distributor for the film on Charles Darwin, born Feburary, 12, 1809, for public viewing. And we wonder why our children, lag in International School Competions. The Calvinist still rule paradoxically in hedonist America. We need to take our evoutionary freedoms, seriously. Or we will lose them.
From Rome to Britain to America
PARIS (AFP) Yahoo News
Norway takes the number one spot in the annual United Nations human development index released Monday but China has made the biggest strides in improving the well-being of its citizens…
The index compiled by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) ranks 182 countries based on such criteria as life expectancy, literacy, school enrolment and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita…
Norway, Australia and Iceland took the first three spots while Niger ranks at the very bottom, just below Afghanistan…
The UNDP said the index highlights the grave disparities between rich and poor countries.
A child born in Niger can expect to live to just over 50, which is 30 years less than a child born in Norway. For every dollar a person earns in Niger, 85 dollars are earned in Norway.
This year’s index was based on data from 2007 and does not take into account the impact of the global economic crisis. The United States ranks 13th, down one spot from last year.
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We Fell into a Stupor
yet, let us blame the black man
for, all before did no harm
yet, let us blame the first black man
for, we were all close to g_d
As a young High School student, I read a short story in Playboy, where the man was actually having sex with an android and telling himself he was falling in love with a female machine. Re-calling it from my memory well, because of how time has passed and the movies that have depicted humans and robots. This must of been around 1968.
Some are now saying this is the end of the Human Era, meaning that our mindfulness and technology have a life of its own and the present future and future humans will live with these phenomena’s as we once lived with nature. We have become g_ds yet we have more to learn, for our rash and selfish desires have created some very serious problems for the next 50 years. Since 1947, our creation of automates and artificial intelligence has made leaps and bounds. There is now a major marker in Space/Time/Events
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am 35 years olds, never been involved before and used to War
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
Hannah Arendt
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell
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Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
Ambrose Bierce