Proof that vaccination makes you a zombie
An example of a boat is the Titanic. But given the tendency to burst into flames, perhaps the Felicity Ace or the Moskva might be more accurate.
A squirrel?
It's all perfect until the wheels come off
It might well be, but I'm a member of this community, not that one, and have no interest in learning its rules. Sorry to be negative, but I'm happy discussing things here
The explanation is not actually correct, and misses a key mechanism in genetics.
A major observation about evolution is that it's completely improbable that a new gene for something could appear in the genome by random mutation (this is the famous watchmaker argument, or the hurricane in a scrapyard making a 747). So how do new genes come about?
One mechanism is by gene duplication - this occurs by accident during DNA replication for example by an error in recombination. Basically a chunk of DNA that may include one or more genes ends up duplicated in an offspring so the offspring has 2 copies of one or more genes.
Because this duplicate gene creates a protein that already exists in the genetic plan, it probably won't be too bad for the child, and so the offspring survive and may produce offspring of its own, 'fixing' this duplication in the population
Now mutation and selection can go to work and push one copy of the gene one way and the other in a different way, creating two different genes. Offspring carrying this new gene gain a selective benefit and so the gene becomes positively selected for and animals without the gene disappear from the gene pool.
This process occurs a lot, which is why we have families of hormones such as the steroids which handle both stress (eg adrenalin) and muscle growth (anabolic steroids) and immune system suppression (corticosteroids like prednisone) and sex steroids (estrogen, testosterone) - very different things but very similar chemically and genetically. It also explains why steroids in one family often have side effects such as weight gain, mood alteration and affecting sex drive.
Another example is the colour receptor in the retina of the eye. Fish, lizards and birds all have 4 colour receptors leading to fantastic colour definition from near infrared to low ultra-violet. Mammals lost two genes and in general can only see in 2 colours, red and blue.
Apes however duplicated the red receptor gene and the copy has gone through a few million years of mutation and selection that has drifted it up to detect green - humans see in red, green and blue. Our colour vision is possible only because of a gene duplication.
It's a corollary of the other famous expression that science advances one funeral at a time. This came from Max Planck and predates Clarke:
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it ...
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth.
Max Planck, Scientific autobiography, 1950, p. 33, 97
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal the Cannibal
Here's one that I enjoyed and covers a critical period of modern East Asian history: "The Gate" by François Bizot.
It's him recounting how he travelled to Cambodia and was captured by the Khmer Rouge. He survived ... just ... By forming a relationship with Comrade Duch who
as the Chairman of Tuol Sleng (S-21) prison camp, and head of the Santebal, Kang Kek Iew was responsible for the interrogation and torture of thousands of individuals, and was convicted for the execution of at least 12,272 individuals, including women and children [Wikipedia]
While he covers the history of the Khmer Rouge period, his writing is highly empathic and discusses the suffering of himself and hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens at the hands of other ordinary citizens and how could this possibly happen. It's a highly emotional book.
Best of luck with your reading!
No toilet rules me - my alone time is ungovernable!
But the last thing I need is a spring loaded giant fish, especially in my toilet.
Yes!
But the covid situation is way worse than you think. The government stimulus was really helpful to the poor and middle class, but they spent all that money.
And who profited from that? The asset owners. Covid stimulus essentially was a direct transfer from the government to company owners and house rentals. These rich guys then used it to buy other assets such as more houses, equities and businesses. That's why the stock market went up - your money went straight into it.
Spotted an owl in the woods in Bishan Park in central Singapore early in the evening. Logically this makes it a spotted wood owl.
Sorry for the low quality - it was at the limits of my Pixel 6 camera.
In the UK there were a number of cancer clusters of rare cancers and then the speculation started. One idea was that all the cases were near electric substations, but again, there are a lot of people who live or work near those. In the end, I think it was decided it was just chance.
One way of visualising this that they showed on the program was to scatter a handful of M&Ms or dried beans or similar on a tabletop. When you scatter, there's a very high probability that several end up very close together just by chance - and there we have our cancer 'cluster'.