Hee hee, I love how this thread is going all over the place. I'm likening it to one of those metabolic pathways flow charts. :)
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Hee hee, I love how this thread is going all over the place. I'm likening it to one of those metabolic pathways flow charts. :)
Anyone read ( the late :( ) Jerri Nielsen's book Icebound? I thought it was a fascinating read, not just from the human interest perspective (which was very compelling), but it also gave a feel for life on a research station on the South Pole and how the people made it through the long antarctic winter (summer?).
I am educated as a journalist but not working as one. Most journalists would rather report on the real news but papers are a business and Michael Jackson's death will sell a lot of papers in a time when their market share is very small. You can't really blame the media for trying to keep themselves in business. Every professor told us the same thing "if it bleeds, it leads". One called it "fascination with the abomination", more news on the crappy economy isn't going to get the casual consumer to buy a paper but a celebrity death might. It was shocking due to his age, you know there is way more to the story (he was supposedly an addict) and he was larger than life to many people.
I have been totally sucked into this articale on a local plane that crashed in Arizona and was smuggling drugs. It is way more interesting than the lastest unemployment rates. :rolleyes:
You will never, ever convince even highly intelligent people of that. It is popular to believe that everyone in journalism is a sleazebag who has, from childhood, wanted to report on celebrities. Also, there is supposed be a magic revenue fairly who exempts news organizations from economic realities.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aggie_Ama
:D It is my belief that every journalist had bigger dreams but now are forced with reality of their business. I miss news writing but I know I couldn't do it professionally.Quote:
Originally Posted by PamNY
The fact that old & ill people die of the flu is something we should just ignore & not care about?
The # of people that die from the flu yearly is staggering.. and yeah, a lot of them are old and immunosuppressed, but I really do think we need some method that works of vaccinating them quickly or drugs that work. Because dying of the flu is so last century.
How can you do that with a virus that mutates?
Aren't immunizations made from a preceding virus?
Personally I'd rather not find some new 21st century way to die.
Like hitting your head when the airplane blows a tire? (No more zorbeez);)
I won't speak ill of the dead, but I'm not going to miss the yelling. Poor guy, though. I heard his last interview where he said he had gotten hit really hard on the head. Brain injuries are amazing. You think you're fine, then...it's too late.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fredwina
Since he lives here, I have update from our local paper (on line)
Seems it was heart disease and not neurological (or trauma)--just a coincidence???
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publics...cle1014168.ece
Was he wearing his seatbelt while seated?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fredwina
That Thriller Video is my all time favorite! I've done that dance with my students many times, and it's still the one that is their favorite. I just flat out copied the steps. (And so did the Philippine prisoners!) Don't tell. But the choreography could not have been better. And oh my, was he a dancer! Something about his music just makes everyone want to dance!
I've heard that there is a fine line between genius and insanity. Michael was so gifted, and we enjoy his genius, but too bad he had to go through so much personal torment.
The current process of making a flu vaccine is antiquitated - not to mention, the antigens being vaccinated against are predicted a year in advance... which doesn't help when there's a new flu right now this second, and growing a vaccine in chicken eggs, you can't produce it fast enough to treat an ongoing epidemic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen
Approve recombinant flu vaccines, and it doesn't take so long to produce a vaccine against a new antigen.
Viruses mutate - but there are usually common antigens - things that are required for infection, etc. that are conserved... target those sorts of antigens as much as possible.
And better drugs in general against an existing flu infection would help.
This is what the medical director where I work was telling me last week. What often happens is that people "let their guard down" and are not as vigilant with handwashing and such and in the meantime the virus as stated above has gone through several mutations which can be very deadly. He went on and on for about 30 minutes of what could happen, and the ramifications including both to the healthy and the comprimised population.Quote:
Originally Posted by Heifzilla
hey guys what do you think of this MJ cover?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs9tI2fIWaA
I love it!