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There is a tremendous environmental component to height. Women in South Korea have gained 8 inches in height, on average, in the past century. They are now taller on average than Korean men a century ago, despite no genetic differences.

He studied mathematical biology. A PhD/MS should never indicate expertise outside of the field of study.

People will pay for medicine. They won't pay for apps.

Direct replication is a waste of time. Move forward, later when there is better technology/data, it will either agree or disagree.

Is it homophobic? I assumed the personal trauma being referenced was the public outing by Gawker.

In Boston it's practically the opposite experience. Cabbies almost always know exactly where I'm going and the fastest way to get there, because they've logged the hours necessary to learn Boston's confusing street system. Uber drivers are usually flipping between at least 2 GPS systems, and frequently get lost, confused, and turned around. The rider experience has really dropped off now that any Joe can make a few bucks as a part-time Uber driver.

Except "Saudia Arabia financing HRC" is not a factual statement.

These efforts are actually more related than you might think. One problem with the current state of molecular biology is that mechanisms are represented as graphs comprised of nodes (genes and molecules) and activities (inhibition, activation, catalysis, etc.); however, these graphs are generally representations at whole-genome scale. Within each single cell, only a subset of the genome is expressed, which greatly limits the size and complexity of the graph in actual incarnations within cells and therefore simplifies the problem.

Sure it's a nostalgic sound, but I can't tell you how many college lectures are punctuated at some point by this sound.

You don't need a $25 adaptor, just a $25 cable!

http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK0X2AM/A/usb-c-to-lightni...

Seriously though the next iPhone/iPad will surely going to use USB-C also and ditch Lightning, which will dramatically simplify the connector situation going on at Apple.

The touch bar doesn't have haptic feedback.

A quick google would reveal that he did in fact give this advice:

"He did write former Secretary Clinton an email memo describing his use of his personal AOL email account for unclassified messages and how it vastly improved communications within the State Department," a Powell spokeswoman said.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/colin-powell-hillary-c...

Just ask a human teenager.

Why not just hold your tongue instead of saying a joke about rape? Doesn't really seem like that much of a limitation of your freedom, and it might really have a positive impact on someone who has been through a terrible and traumatic experience. Doesn't really seem like not joking about rape is pushing the line out too far.

Danielle probably doesn't want to work with you either.

In that case, Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" seems like a funnier joke while simultaneously avoiding the whole rape thing.

Why can't we merely strive to live in a world without workplace harassment?

Is your position that people should be able to say whatever they want in the work place?

Right? Like no one could actually be proud to work in an inclusive environment.

The idea that you can't interact casually without risking personal offense is just a knee-jerk reaction. If restricting work conversations about personal appearance, sex, gender, race, religion, rape, etc. is equivalent to eliminating all personal interactions, your conversations must be quite impoverished.

Telling you that your jokes are offensive would indeed be harassment---if you worked at a late night show or another joke-telling profession! Otherwise, no, telling you that your jokes are offensive is in fact not a form of workplace harassment.

Also, you might want to reflect on why making friends, telling jokes, laughing, and enjoying life requires you to say racist and/or sexist things at work.

This particular comment could be perceived as being insensitive to victims of sexual violence, which disproportionately effects women.

However, I can think of a lot of things that would completely avoid any chance of being perceived as offensive! How about,

> 8:53:41 AM Person1: so am I the only one who feels uncomfortable/unsafe everytime Person2 warns us of undisclosed persons in the building?

> 8:53:41 AM Person1: so am I the only one who takes a coffee break everytime Person2 warns us of undisclosed persons in the building?

> 8:53:41 AM Person1: so am I the only one who wonders why there are so many undisclosed persons in the building everytime Person2 warns us of undisclosed persons in the building?

Lots of things are sold legally and commonly known, but are still not acceptable to discuss in a workplace.

Person1 should have just held their tongue. Both Person1 and Person4, along with others potentially, would have benefitted from the 8:53:41 AM message merely having never been sent.

Can anyone express the argument against this position?

Why shouldn't people be expected to remain professional at work? Why is the difficulty of the job an excuse?

Don't see how it's going to extremes. I sit at a table with 6 others and manage a team of 8, have followed this for years and enjoy constant conversations and have good relationships with all my co-workers. Maybe I just have a richer personal life than others, and have plenty of other things to talk about?

It's almost hard to read the comments on here.

"It's a stressful environment---people have to blow off steam."

"Is X comment really that offensive?"

"Joking around is important to office culture."

"The real damage is punishing people who said the offensive thing when he/she didn't mean anything by it."

It's really not that complicated. Act professionally at work. Working at a job isn't easy, but part of the responsibility of work is to _act_ professionally, and delivering genius code doesn't give anyone a pass to act unprofessionally. When you feel an impulse to talk or joke about physical appearance, politics, religion, sex, gender, rape, racial issues, nationality/ethnicity, etc., just hold your tongue! Or write it in a little book and save it for when you're at the bar with friends. If you do say something, and inevitably get that little "I shouldn't have said that" prickle in the back of your brain---simply immediately apologize and move on! If you don't get that prickle, and a co-worker or manager says something, just take it at face value that what you said was not professional, because professional actions never raise the possibility of personal offense. That is the bare minimum you are required to do.

If you're a little more social justice oriented, you might even become aware of the ways women and minorities are treated unfairly, and take special actions to fix this. Take notice the next time you're in YAAMM -- "yet another all male meeting" -- and think about whether there are any women who could contribute but were not invited. If you hear a good idea, give credit to the originator when you repeat it. It's actually not that hard.

Is your position that "food critic" is not a legitimate job, or that there is no value in NYT restaurant reviews?

Once you admit there is, then by definition someone's job involves a lot of eating. I think that's pretty much all he meant by saying that his body is not his own. If anything, the better comparison is with football PLAYERS, who also make bodily sacrifices in the practice of their chosen profession.

Most universities have limits on the number of hours undergraduates can work, and federal work study also limits the number of hours weekly. Graduate students have no such institutional protection. Nearly all undergrads are allowed to remain on their parents health insurance, or are provided health insurance by the university student health. Graduate students often have to purchase their own insurance and are too old to remain on parental plans. Treating graduate students and postdocs as students, rather than workers, also means that many of these people don't receive any kind of institutional retirement planning until they're 30+ years old.

You could argue that in today's environment graduate students are artificially under-priced, creating incentive for universities to use them as a cheap form of labor while training more than the job market can support.

In the life sciences you're never really doing "your own research." The PI has the grant, usually tells you what to do, oversees your results, and puts his/her name in the final spot on the publication. Yet that is "purely doing research."