Interesting. That page says "few vertebrae", but the image makes it look to me like a full set.
On the other hand, if I found an animal with no ribs and pelvis and only the rudimentary limbs typically found in fish, I'd tend to say that the skeleton was missing. Or at least, ahem, skeletal.
Thanks. My first impression was that there was some funny business, but then I found what I thought was a decent article.
Are you serious? They really have what amounts to an exoskeleton? Or maybe it's more accurate to call it a whole-body rib cage?
Just searched and found this fun article. Not really a skeleton but a collection of really stiff hairs or feathers (loosely: the genes are the same ones responsible for "other skin appendages" in vertebrates).
All great things start in a bar. Or coffee shop. Or in the shower. Or in a dream. But never in a meeting.
New word! Thanks.
I made a half-assed guess as to its meaning based on the fact that I've heard of an elite basketball player by that name. I got pretty close, according to urban dictionary.
All roads lead to PIE. Or is that from? Oh, and maybe not "all."
But seriously, I went through a linguistics phase in my reading and came away with the sense that Proto Indo European is a lot closer to us than it seems at first glance.
Gotta lock those cells, even when the sheet never leaves your control.
I used to teach Excel at an adult vocational college. When I moved into the corporate world, I quickly learned why the University of Hawaii's research found that well over half of spreadsheets have critical errors. Even the people treated as Excel experts were often clueless.
I'm not saying that spreadsheets should be banned from the workplace, but they definitely need to be very tightly controlled.
Oh, and always, always lock formula cells, even in sheets that never leave your control. :) If possible, make use of Excel's native data forms, too.
There word "sticks" is being used in the sense "adheres". So the "coo" doesn't bounce around in a series of reflections, but instead remains attached to the first surface it strikes.
Current forecast for my location in southern Saskatchewan is 11°C (52F) for a high. About 6 weeks ago, we got a proper start to winter with a few cm of snow (maybe 1.5 in) and thought was given to plugging in the block heater. That was it.
Since then, temperatures have been a bit below freezing overnight and a bit over freezing during the day, with quite a few days like today, where it's way above freezing. Any sloughs and dugouts that had started freezing over are now pretty much ice free. The last few days have been nice enough for people to put their boats in to go fishing.
We heat with a pellet stove. So far, our pellet consumption is about 50% of last year's, about 30% of our worst year, and about 35% of our 15 year average.
And apart from a "cooler" day tomorrow with a small chance of snow, there is no end in sight. Even assuming that we get back to something normal by Xmas, it could be February before it's safe to go ice fishing.
I wasn't clear. My fault. I was referring to power, landline, natural gas, and water networks.
Virtually every developed country has managed to get power and landline service to the vast majority of those who live outside urban centres, including farmers and ranchers. In addition, places like Saskatchewan managed to do likewise with natural gas and, occasionally, with water suitable for inexpensive municipal and even in-home treatment.
I'm not a telecommunications engineer, so I could be way, way off base, but it strikes me that a similar project could get real broadband into every household that is hooked up to the power grid.
It doesn't have to be wire or fibre to the home. Modern terrestrial wireless technologies can probably get the job done quicker and simpler in many cases. Although I think it's worth pointing out that SaskTel was laying so much fiber in the 1980s to support its own production facility. If short-sighted government hadn't killed that project, I'd probably have had fibre a decade ago instead of waiting on appropriate terrestrial wireless technologies that still show no sign of getting here. We don't have any cell service and we're actually getting further away in a sense, since every upgrade has reduced range and new towers are not being built to fill the gaps. Instead we've been stuck with crap like ExploreNet and now Starlink.
Developing countries and truly remote areas are already leapfrogging physical connections to go direct to wireless.
My cousin has a farm in Saskatchewan that is 5 km from the nearest neighbour, 20 km from the nearest village, 60 km from the nearest town, and 150 km from the nearest city. That farmhouse had power before WW2, telephone by 1950, and natural gas by 1970. They still don't have proper broadband, despite having had dial-up internet at the same time and for the same price as anyone in our largest cities.
You've had a couple of pretty good responses. I would add that the very fact that you can ask that question demonstrates a failure of the education system and the fundamental problem of depending on business ideals to manage society.
In the first case, a proper education would have included, at all grade levels, examples and discussion of the various purely intellectual pursuits that ultimately proved critical to some technological advance that improved quality of life.
In the second case, the naive "businessification" of society means that any pursuit that doesn't make clear at the outset what practical (ie profitable) goal is being pursued is dismissed as folly unworthy of funding and support and education. (See my point above.)
I read that as:
For decades, Nestle has been patenting milk proteins.
They've been doing it for a long time, not somehow getting extra-long patents.