“Pinkeye” has two definitions: bovine pinkeye is a specific bacterial disease that only affects cattle; otherwise, “pinkeye” is a generic synonym for conjunctivitis.
Dogs can’t get bovine pinkeye, but they can and do get other types of conjunctivitis. It may just be less noticeable in dogs because the white sclera of their eyes isn’t as prominent as humans’.
They’re not selling gasoline, they’re selling the experience of living in an alternate reality.
Wouldn’t being mixed-race imply that half their family is white, and the other half at least associates with white people?
Over 50% of the U.S. population is white. That means that if everyone chooses a partner at random—or at least without bias due to race—people from all groups will end up with white partners most of the time. So that statistic means nothing with regard to your dating possibilities.
I mean, the Whig party hasn’t lost an election in 100 years…
It depends on how you (or the Supreme Court) defines “persons”.
They might technically have to become corporations.
Think of particles as bundles of conserved quantities like charge, energy, mass, etc.
In interactions, these quantities can be shuffled around and re-bundled into different particles—but the re-bundling isn’t creating or destroying the conserved quantities themselves.
Virtual particles appear and disappear in the course of interactions between real particles. The general phenomenon of particles appearing and disappearing in interactions happens with both real and virtual particles—but the interactions are such that momentum, charge, etc. are always conserved. So the things you should expect to see persisting in existence aren’t particles themselves, but those conserved properties.
Every egg that hatches was previously fertilized (at least for sexually-reproducing organisms). The animal that hatches from the fertilized egg became a genetically distinct organism when its egg was fertilized, not when the egg was hatched or laid.
In the case of chickens, eggs are fertilized (if at all) before being laid; and when we talk about “unfertilized eggs”, we usually mean eggs that were laid without being fertilized. Such eggs were not part of the discussion until you introduced them.
A quote isn’t “literal” if you insert a word that completely negates its meaning.
What’s your point? Unfertilized eggs don’t hatch, so they’re not part of the scenario in question.
No, but the fallacy is in thinking the new species appears when the egg hatches, rather than when it’s fertilized. The egg is already the new offspring.
The egg is the same organism as the individual that hatches out of it.
It’s like saying “which came first, the infant or the adult”?
This is the earthquake from last week, in case anyone’s alarmed.
There’s not a hard-coded wiring diagram of how the neurons from the brain connect to the rest of the body—everybody’s wired a bit differently, and the brain normally figures out how to work with what it’s got during development. So there’s no one-to-one way to connect the nerves from one person’s brain to those in another person’s body—and if it doesn’t get the signals it’s expecting, it will just seem like noise.
Besides which—if I remember correctly, you can’t generally reconnect severed nerves. Instead, the remaining portion of the nerve cell has to grow a new axon that retraces the route of the old one, and it can only trace the old path for a limited distance (like, if it’s close enough to receive chemical signals from the original site). But I’m not sure I’ve got all the details right on that.
Given that birthright citizenship has been the rule since the Civil War, is he saying that all of subsequent American history is an example of these “grotesque results”?
If you use a plate carrée projection (in which all lines of latitude and longitude are rectangular and equal), it’s a simple linear formula:
x = (longitude + 180) * (map width / 360)
y = (-latitude + 90) * (map height / 180)
(Assuming west and south coordinates are negative, and all degrees are expressed as decimals.)
Plus caffeine, carbonation, and way more sugar.
Sure, but you’re forced to fall back on parsing words letter-by-letter—you can’t read whole words at a glance like normal.
One thing that might be a factor is the Bernoulli effect (moving air has lower pressure than still air). When your head is in moving air but your chest is in relatively still air, that would create a pressure differential that makes it harder to draw air into your lungs. On a motorcycle, your whole body is in moving air so the pressure differential wouldn’t exist.