Answering questions at Boston College O’Neill Library
There’s very little human research available on this exact point. Soy does contain significant amounts of phytoestrogens which are not the same as but may mimic human estrogen. Studies of infants fed soy formula have shown slight changes in reproductive tissue, but this does not say much about soy milk ingestion by adult males would have any role in sexual orientation.
Seems legit. All things in moderation, including moderation.
Give in. We’re all just as Helpless…
Alexander Hamilton himself was of the same mind: “You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.”
The questions will be Non-Stop?
I look forward to eventually hearing or seeing whatever this brilliant musical inspires you to create!
I’m more of a Newtonian wall, myself, so I’ll have to check in with some folks who know quantum physics before I’m able to answer.
I’ve consulted with my more learned colleagues, and they had this to say: Though physicists themselves don’t agree exactly on what’s happening in the double-slit experiment (as Philip Ball makes clear in this book review (bit.ly/nature-2doors), science writer Marco Tavora explains that a key concept developed by Feynman is path integrals, a way of describing of probabilities of multiple paths (bit.ly/tavora-feynman). Some paths are highly probable, and others (like a roundtrip to Andromeda) are highly improbable. Anil Ananthaswamy has written a brief essay about the slit experiment’s challenges (bit.ly/ananthaswamy), and we also happen to have a book by him (reviewed in the article by Philip Ball) that goes into more depth, including including a lot of material about Feynman’s approaches: Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment that Captures the Enigma of our Quantum Reality (O’Neill Library QC174.123 .A53 2018). Happy reading!
That book looks like it’s actually a pretty good starting point; it’s by a science journalist, not a physicist, so likely does a good job explaining concepts to the layperson. Always a great day when there’s more reading and learning to be done!
So sweet! Thanks for saying so, and back atcha!
The CDC just issued initial guidance today that allows for unmasked visits indoors of family members who have been vaccinated, with other unvaccinated family members not at risk for complications. (IOW, if you’re not at risk, grandma and grandpa can visit if they’re vaccinated.) https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p0308-vaccinated-guidelines.html. If we maintain current vaccination rates of 2 million/day, we would hit the lower end of herd immunity (70% vaccinated), about 100 days from now, or about mid-June, or the upper end (90%) by 135 days from now, or late July. That assumes both that we maintain current rates and that a sufficient number of people is willing to get the vaccine.
This mummy?
They’re being approved under an EUA – Emergency Use Authorization. “For an EUA to be issued for a vaccine, for which there is adequate manufacturing information to ensure quality and consistency, FDA must determine that the known and potential benefits outweigh the known and potential risks of the vaccine.” For more info see the CDC site: bit.ly/EUADetails
…Answer Wall slinks off to BC Career Center for advice on new professional directions… 😉
Gabba Gabba
That’s a sentiment we can all get on board with!
I have consulted with my 8 year old wall on this question and their suggested response is, why?
Vibin’.
My sources have not been able to give me any useful recommendations for you. It is a thorny problem! One of my helpers wondered if edibles might be a solution, but, of course, that would depend on your medical situation – so maybe a discussion with your doctor is in order? They may also have additional ideas about how to use your prescription. I’ll add that so-called “420 friendly” lodgings (hotels and such) exist, but that would be prohibitively expensive, not to mention a logistical nightmare.
Howdy!
Because the semester started late, in order to finish on time something had to give. Everyone needs spring break. It’s a hard year.
As a wall, I don’t wear pants and I don’t pee, so I’ve never had that experience. However, several of my roof colleagues have leaked on occasion.
My human assistants are all sad to see her go, and wish her the best as she takes care of her husband. Next VP? My cousin the Magic 8 Ball, who is much better at prognosticating than me, says, “Cannot predict now.”
Volcanoes are responsible for less than 1% of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. http://bit.ly/bc-volcanoes
I recommend three things about finding reliable information: 1, Use sources that document their own sources clearly. The chart you provided is part of an online course at Georgia Tech. It provides a url as a source, but that’s insufficient documentation, as the url says nothing about who created the chart and in what context. 2, use charts that have a scale adapted to describing the problem under study. The scale of the chart you provided goes back 600 million years. Humans have been alive for about the last tenth of a millimeter, the last 2 million years of a 20 million year span in which atmospheric carbon has *not* exceeded 400ppm, and all of recorded human history only goes back a few thousand years. Here’s a chart with both a more useful scale and a clear provenance: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide. 3. Be just as cautious about articles that support your perspective as you would be of articles that challenge it. What’s the nature of the journal? Who wrote it? What are their qualifications and what else have they written? The journal itself (https://www.scirp.org/journal/journalarticles.aspx?journalid=209) is open access, and lists an H-5 index (a measure of the number of cited articles) of 13, which is relatively low. (Compare: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en) The author bio on the article page (https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=62334) is “Retired patent attorney and chemical engineer.” I have nothing against patent attorneys or chemical engineers, but I would tend to limit my reading of their work to patent law and chemical engineering. Another article he’s written is about political polling, and is published in the Open Journal of Political Science, another subject outside his fields of study.
I’m going to reiterate my advice to be mindful of sources of information, with emphasis on being as critical of information that reinforces your convictions as you are of information that challenges them.
