esource end LONG before the Insatiable can reach the limit of the power end. Tanh always defeats Exp.
This time the enviros are right.
Enviros are lethally genocidally wrong 99% of the time. They waste trillions of dollars and kill millions of people to satisfy their murderous Carbon Cult. Meanwhile the poor old earth is TRYING TO TELL US that the warming phase is coming from INSIDE, as in magma and volcanos.
Aside from the totally non-polluting CO2, most organic "pollutants" are not worth the trouble of eradicating. Sulphur and nitrogen compounds can be harmful in sudden large quantities, but smaller amounts wash out and react out.
BUT: Serious REAL POLLUTION does exist, and real pollution is harmful. The worst real pollution is lead and other heavy metals, which are unremovable from living things.
So far Pruitt's EPA isn't slowing down the Carbon Cult, but unfortunately Pruitt is slowing down the regulation of REAL POLLUTION.
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Washington state officials say they'll look for money to monitor air quality downwind of a Canadian smelter after federal regulators declined to restart the testing.
The Spokesman-Review reports that residents petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to install air monitors in Northport, about 20 miles south of a lead and zinc smelter.
State modeling showed that Teck Resources Ltd.'s smelter could be sending high airborne levels of arsenic and lead over the border. The Ecology Department said heavy metals wouldn't pose a short-term risk to area residents but long-term inhalation could increase cancer risks.
Air quality monitoring hasn't been conducted on the Washington side of the border since 2009. Local health officials also support the monitoring. But EPA officials disagree that additional monitoring is needed. They say the risk from outdoor air is low.
In the back-and-forth about the RUSSIAN_MEDDLING witch-hunt, the D side accuses Rs of hypocrisy for approving the BENGHAZI witch-hunt but hating the RUSSIAN_MEDDLING witch-hunt. Fair charge. Both of these witch-hunts are equally evil and brainless. The RUSSIAN_MEDDLING crap is running with the Deepstate and media tailwind, while the BENGHAZI crap was running against the media wind, so got no media coverage.
I'm not R, and I'm CERTAINLY not a hypocrite on this particular issue. Other issues, yes.
I've been HAMMERING on the BENGHAZI crap for exactly five years, starting here. If you type Benghazi in the little search box above the blog, you'll see the sequence. The search misses a few items where I used the GIF without putting the word in text. Near as I can tell from a more detailed archive search, I've hit the BENGHAZI nonsense 24 times in 5 years.
Earliest version of the GIF:
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Saturday, May 05, 2018
This week I'm working on a courseware chapter about the cerebellum. Making animations forces me to (partly!) learn what's going on. In the brainstem and cortex, we have a fairly good sense of how things work, partly because the cortex is divided into visible sections with specific functions. The cerebellum is more mysterious, partly because it's not neatly modular and partly because its function seems to depend on waves and resonance.
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The cortex has folds on its surface that correspond closely to areas of function. You can see the sensory strip, the motor strip, the speech reception area, and so on, as hills or bumps.
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The cerebellum just has uniform unmarked folds, called folia or pages. One folium is lined in green.
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Here's a super-simplified piece of one folium:
The main players are the granule cells (blue) and the Purkinje cells (purple).
Granule cells (blue) are small, simple and NUMEROUS, making up 80% of ALL the neurons in the WHOLE brain. They are scattered densely through the interior of the cerebellum. Each granule cell picks up signals from the input mossy fibers (green). Most of the input is from the body via the spine; some is from eyes, ears, balance mechanisms, and cortex. The output of each granule cell splits into a T-shaped parallel fiber, which runs along the length 