You bet. They insisted he have a grounding in the humanities. At UC Berkeley they didn't much care. I tried but failed to do as well as Carl S., who was evidently forced to. Not saying he didn't want to. I mean, for one thing I don't remember taking any biology, not a bit, in high school or as a math sciences undergrad.
Actually there is one thing he wants to do, that at least on the surface sounds good. That is to stop the reliance the US has on China for drugs, or the necessary ingredients to manufacture drugs, that combined with lowering costs.
No biology? That was my favorite subject until I realized that color blindness made it quiet difficult to see the things I was supposed to see when you stain the slides. Yet, ironically, I made a living as a glorified electronics technician. But you know the absolute worse thing that color blindness hurt me career wise is the rampant use of color coding in spreadsheets. How many fn shades of green I can barely see can you come up with?
I am "total green blind." I have not one time in my life been able to look at something that's green and be able to declare, "that is green!" No green cones in my eyes. It messes you up. I have a charger that has an LED that goes from red to green when the battery is fully charged. I can't tell. The bastards should have gone red to blue, I think there would be far fewer people going WTF?
Oh, don't get me going on the single lens double color green, orange LED thing. I've seriously considered starting a web page regarding the shit us color deficient people have to put up with.
Yes, red to blue. anything but green to red or orange.
There must be an upside to being color blind, an evolutionary purpose. Otherwise, why would ~10% of the male human population be color blind? They use color blind people to spot camouflage. Whoopie. Well, maybe there's some other benefit. What could it be? Just being different has some thing to be said for it. You're not just another creep in the crowd, you have a different perspective. It may be an advantage in some subtle way. I think of these things sometimes, but it's not much solace so far. I rue being color blind every day. They sell special glasses (like sunglasses) that they say improves the color vision of some color blind people, depending on the kind they have. I don't think they would do anything for me. One of the major companies is based in my town. I've thought I should go over and try them on, but I think I failed an online test for them, so haven't bothered.Oh, don't get me going on the single lens double color green, orange LED thing. I've seriously considered starting a web page regarding the shit us color deficient people have to put up with.
Back in the 80s, the American Geophysical Union figured out that a whole heap of people are partially color-blind and mandated that figures submitted to their journals use colors that work for most forms of color-blindness. The result is that the figures in AGU journals are useful to more people (and butt-ugly).Oh, don't get me going on the single lens double color green, orange LED thing. I've seriously considered starting a web page regarding the shit us color deficient people have to put up with.
Ugly to you might not be ugly to color blind me. I am not into painting. I can go in an art museum. I like some stuff, but my dabbling in graphic art was B&W drawing! Pen and black ink or pencil on white paper. Life is different when you're color blind. We're sort of a different breed. I hate to talk to people about it because the stupid people all ask the same question when I tell them I can't see green: "What does it look like?"Back in the 80s, the American Geophysical Union figured out that a whole heap of people are partially color-blind and mandated that figures submitted to their journals use colors that work for most forms of color-blindness. The result is that the figures in AGU journals are useful to more people (and butt-ugly).
Well now I feel better, at least the right people are suffering.Back in the 80s, the American Geophysical Union figured out that a whole heap of people are partially color-blind and mandated that figures submitted to their journals use colors that work for most forms of color-blindness. The result is that the figures in AGU journals are useful to more people (and butt-ugly).
To them it looks really weird because nothing looks green (assuming the filtered out all the green or mapped it to grey or brown or mauve or some other not-green color or some combination. To us, that looks barely different.
Try and find the Sagan version of "Cosmos", if you haven't seen it. Pretty genius stuff. I bought it on DVD many years ago after it was re-issued and the science updated with new findings (the original episodes unchanged, thankfully.)
LOWERING of costs? HAH!
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