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WCDT strips 4081-4085 (2nd-6th September 2019)

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sitnspin:

--- Quote from: Wingy on 03 Sep 2019, 09:07 ---
--- Quote from: Tyr on 03 Sep 2019, 00:20 ---Fun fact: Two students at Northumbria university were accidentally dosed with twice the LD50 for caffeine for their body weight because of a misplaced decimal. they were supposed to get 3 cups of coffee worth of caffeine. they got 300.

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"which would make introversion a genetic trait, not an acquired one."

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That's a dodgy argument there. Correlation is not causation. There are any number of unaccounted for variable there.

Wingy:

--- Quote from: sitnspin on 03 Sep 2019, 09:15 ---That's a dodgy argument there.
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Yeppers.  That's why I couched it the way I did.  OTOH, introversion/extroversion is often reported by parents in the behavior of their newborns, so a genetic link is probable.  Whether such a gene(s) will ever be identified - who knows? 

My expectation is there is a handful of genes that influence such things and nurture simply enhances their effect.  But then, I was raised by a strong intro- and an ambi-vert.  I might've got it either way.  What I do know is all the effects people report caffeine having on them I don't experience.  I can drink a Mountain Dew and then go to sleep a short time later, where the uncaffeinated - having had their fix - can't nap out.

Mr_Rose:

--- Quote from: Wingy on 03 Sep 2019, 09:07 ---
--- Quote from: Tyr on 03 Sep 2019, 00:20 ---Fun fact: Two students at Northumbria university were accidentally dosed with twice the LD50 for caffeine for their body weight because of a misplaced decimal. they were supposed to get 3 cups of coffee worth of caffeine. they got 300.

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For those who don't know, an LD50 dose has a 50% chance of being deadly, as in Lethal Dose 50% of the time.

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It means lethal in 50% of the studied population, and, usually with humans not even that because the dose is an extrapolated estimate, not least because getting funding to do a study where you feed a group of people poison until they die is extremely hard to get funded these days. Unless you’re selling it to them first, of course.

Thrudd:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 01 Sep 2019, 23:17 --- I kind of like the idea of Sam ending up as the runner/gofer for some semi-responsible researchers! :-D

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responsible researchers!
Those two works. They don't go together they way you think they go together.
This is from someone who has enough contact with that type without having to deal with them on a daily basis.
A bit of a rant and a story follows (click to show/hide)When it comes to R&D it is the devils entrails when it comes to responsibility, good sense, self preservation, safety regulations, et al.
You could put up a sign in 48 point type "Do Not Open - Validation in process", lock the door, tape it closed, put the cart in front and have the room locked and STILL someone will go and open it up when nobody else is around because THEY NEEDED to use it RIGHT THEN when a three minute walk would have solved their problem.
Then get them to admit they just wasted your time and someone else's money and it is going to come out of their budget.

How about a lab fridge where samples are stored - labelled "samples" and covered with a plethora of advertising and fun type stickers and magnets - Open it up and discover bio-hazardous materials, toxic solvents, flammable liquids, and radioactive tracers. This all determined by reading the hand written labels and knowing what these items are. Nothing anywhere mentions any of the hazards involved and nothing is labelled as per code. None of the health and safety regs were being followed. Half those materials were not supposed to even be in a general use fridge. Of those some were not supposed to even be there due to lack of licensing for those materials.

Solution - keep the nosy tech out and get someone else, an outside contractor, to do the work - They call the ministry since they noticed the radioactive tracers. Oops.

BenRG:
Well, I did say "semi-responsible". There has to be a limit to how responsible Jones and Chimevera could be, given that they equipped a large and dangerous animal with an active adaptive optical camouflage system and then managed to lose it!

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