L. Marcus Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . The server is built outta them . . . ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER No, RPGs, silly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER We went to a baseball game last night. My son got a baseball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER ... And better still, there is no lab this afternoon!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Memo to self: creating homework solutions for the students is a great way to combat insomnia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Try studying histology in the quiet reading room. Five minutes to ZZZ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Actually, I found it frustrating rather than sleep-inducing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Nah, it's not too bad. At least if you can look in a microscope rather than look at pictures -- more interactive, so to speak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well, I was interested in statistics, in terms of a population model of a disease. No microscopes, no pictures, nothing; just trying to count cases and wedge incidence and mortality statistics into a form which I could use. While dealing with some rather vague histology designations and clear lack of rigor in the initial data in assessments of histology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I see. That's headache-inducing, fo' sho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatinKitty Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER What is Histology ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Wiki's page on histology Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER What Wiki said. Basically, looking at slices of parts of people with a microscope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER What Wiki said. Basically' date=' looking at slices of parts of people with a microscope.[/quote'] Examining lunch meat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Wouldn't surprise me if there was such a sample slipped into the test next term. It has been known to happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER What is Histology ? From the point of view I had, cancers (even of the same organ) with different histologies ... that is, which arise in different types of tissue ... are different diseases. They have different treatment schemes and different probabilities of recovery, and they may have different probabilities of being detected if they are present. The work I was doing at the cancer research center (it's over, the grant ran out, the PI is retiring) was doing an economic model for cancer screening. Right now it is not economically beneficial to screen for ovary cancer, because with existing early detection methods, there are way too many false positives and therefore way too many dollars spent on surgery for women who aren't ill. We ended up breaking the disease into four different histologies (that is, different types of tissue in the ovary had gone cancerous) and two different grades ("grade" is a classification into how badly "warped" the cancer cells are; in low grade cancers the cells are recognizeable in terms of what their origin was, and the abnormalities are few in number; in high grade cancers the appearance of the cell may be so bizarre that you can't tell even what tissue or organ the cell started out in; in general, higher grade cancers are more aggressive and invasive, harder to treat, and have a poorer prognosis) and handling each of those eight bins separately in terms of the statistics of survival and detection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Looks like we are headed for El Nino conditions now (link). What this means for you depends on where you live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Looks like we are headed for El Nino conditions now (link). What this means for you depends on where you live. Hmm, maybe if I give that page more than a few minutes, I'll understand what it's saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well, it assumes a lot of knowledge, which is elsewhere among his pages. That one page gets updated monthly with comments about current state and trends ... the new stuff is always towards the bottom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I don't know if the effects of the Kid are large enough to notice for us up here . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Hard to say. It's correlated with a shift in the position of the Aleutian Low over the north Pacific, giving our part of the world cooler, wetter winters. I don't know North Atlantic climate patterns well enough to know if there's any appreciable effect in northern Europe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 11, 2009 Report Share Posted June 11, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I obviously have succeeded in instilling fear. A deputation of three came in with questions an hour and a quarter before the final starts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER PRE +20, Only To Instill Fear, Invocations (must speak). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Yeah, but it's sharply limited, only vs Students. Maybe even only vs Students In Your Classes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Mighty cost-effective! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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