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Open Question: Can anyone recommend a good place to get a Massage in Los Angeles? Preferably in Hollywood or Studio City? and more... Open Question: Can anyone recommend a good place to get a Massage in Los Angeles? Preferably in Hollywood or Studio City?Open Question: Where's a good neighborhood for me to move to?I'm an aspiring screenwriter and I am thinking about down to Los Angeles (from San Francisco). I don't know the districts very well so I want to know where a good neighborhood would be for me. I'm 22, I want to be in or near the center of the Hollywood action, and I want a moderately nice studio (i'm not very poor). I'm looking on craigslist and don't know the difference between places like West Hollywood, North Hollywood, Westwood, etc. So where do I want to be? Thanks. Open Question: Linda Vista Hospital--Is It Really Haunted? Los Angeles, California?I was watching the Travel Channel a couple of evenings ago and came across the haunted hospital in Southern California which is now defunct (and has been) since 1991. Can anyone verify if this location truly is haunted and if you've have personally experienced anything of the extraordinary could you share? Thanks so much! **Also, have you ever had weird goings-on after watching documentaries pertaining to hauntings (either from YouTube, regular TV etc.) Thans so much. Open Question: Union Electric Tattoo-- Anyone have any work done at Union Electric Tattoo in Los Angeles?Ive looked up their website and the work is sick! I really want to get a tattoo there. If you've gotten a tattoo there, which artist would u recommend, how was the overall experience and how was he pricing? Let me know... Thanks! Open Question: Economics and society help?Based on the article, consider chimp culture and society. Explain why it makes sense that chimps will not engage in high risk trade. ScienceDaily (Feb. 5, 2008) — For thousands of years, human beings have relied on commodity barter as an essential aspect of their lives. It is the behavior that allows specialized professions, as one individual gives up some of what he has reaped to exchange with another for something different. In this way, both individuals end up better off. Despite the importance of this behavior, little is known about how barter evolved and developed. This study is the first to examine the circumstances under which chimpanzees, our closest relatives, will exchange one inherently valuable commodity (an apple slice) for another (a grape), which is what early humans must have somehow learned to do. Economists believe that commodity barter is one of the most basic precursors to economic specialization, which we observe in humans but not in other primate species. First of all, the researchers found that chimpanzees often did not spontaneously barter food items, but needed to be trained to engage in commodity barter. Moreover, even after the chimpanzees had been trained to do barters with reliable human trading partners, they were reluctant to engage in extreme deals in which a very good commodity (apple slices) had to be sacrificed in order to get an even more preferred commodity (grapes). Prior animal behavior studies have largely examined chimpanzees' willingness to trade tokens for valuable commodities. Tokens do not exist in nature, and lack inherent value, so a chimpanzee's willingness to trade a token for a valuable commodity, such as a grape, may say little about chimpanzee behavior outside the laboratory. In a series of experiments, chimpanzees at two different facilities were given items of food and then offered the chance to exchange them for other food items. A collaboration of researchers from Georgia State University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the U.T. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center found that the chimpanzees, once they were trained, were willing to barter food with humans, but if they could gain something significantly better -- say, giving up carrots for much preferred grapes. Otherwise, they preferred to keep what they had. The observed chimpanzee behavior could be reasonable because chimpanzees lack social systems to enforce deals and, as a society, punish an individual that cheats its trading partner by running off with both commodities. Also because of their lack of property ownership norms, chimpanzees in nature do not store property and thus would have little opportunity to trade commodities. Nevertheless, as prior research has demonstrated, they do possess highly active service economies. In their natural environment, only current possessions are "owned," and the threat of losing what one has is very high, so chimpanzees frequently possess nothing to trade. "This reluctance to trade appears to be deeply ingrained in the chimpanzee psyche," said one of the lead authors, Sarah Brosnan, an assistant professor of psychology at Georgia State University. "They're perfectly capable of barter, but they don't do so in a way which will maximize their outcomes." The other lead author, Professor Mark F. Grady, Director of UCLA's Center for Law and Economics, commented: "I believe that chimpanzees are reluctant to barter commodities mainly because they lack effective ownership norms. These norms are especially costly to enforce, and for this species the game has evidently not been worth the candle. Fortunately, services can be protected without ownership norms, so chimpanzees can and do trade services with each other. As chimpanzee societies demonstrate, however, a service economy does not lead to the same degree of economic specialization that we observe among humans." The research could additionally shed light on the instances in which humans also don't maximize their gains, Brosnan said. Open Question: Better apartments in Los Angeles or Orange County?Now its not which one is better but good area with good pricing. West L.A is really nice but the pricing is high. Anaheim I seen really good homes but dont know the average cost there. Looking for at least 2 Bedrooms... Thanks Open Question: What is the latest news insofar as banning ethanol?Was ethanol another knee-jerk reaction to a need for cleaner air and less reliance on foreign oil..... that has shown itself to be a failure? Wouldn't it be smarter to wait until something is developed and proven to be safer..... BEFORE it is literally forced on us? Stanford Report, December 14, 2009 Stanford researchers: Ethanol results in higher ozone concentrations than gasoline Vehicles running on ethanol will generate higher concentrations of ozone than those using gasoline, especially in the winter, Stanford researchers have found. That could create new health concerns in areas where ozone hasn't been a significant problem before. BY LOUIS BERGERON Ethanol, often promoted as a clean-burning, renewable fuel that could help wean the nation from oil, would likely cause more ozone-related health problems than gasoline, especially in winter, according to a new study led by Stanford researchers. E85, a blend of gasoline and ethanol that is 85 percent ethanol, produces different byproducts of combustion than gasoline and generates substantially more aldehydes, which are precursors to ozone. "What we found is that at the warmer temperatures, with E85, there is a slight increase in ozone compared to what gasoline would produce," said Diana Ginnebaugh, a doctoral candidate in civil and environmental engineering, who worked on the study. She will present the results of the study on Tuesday, Dec. 15, at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. "But even a slight increase is a concern, especially in a place like Los Angeles, because you already have episodes of high ozone that you have to be concerned about, so you don't want any increase." But it was at colder temperatures, below freezing, that it appeared the health impacts of E85 would be felt most strongly. "We found a pretty substantial increase in ozone production from E85 at cold temperatures, relative to gasoline, when emissions and atmospheric chemistry alone were considered," Ginnebaugh said. Although ozone is generally lower under cold-temperature winter conditions, "If you switched to E85, suddenly you could have a place like Denver exceeding ozone health-effects limits and then they would have a health concern that they don't have now." There are other pollutants that would increase in the atmosphere from burning E85 instead of gasoline, some of which are irritants to eyes, throats and lungs, and that can also damage crops, but the aldehydes are the biggest contributors to ozone production, as well as being carcinogenic. The research was funded by NASA, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/december14/ozone-ethanol-health-121409.html More Recent Articles
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