Do you believe genetics can cause one to have a particular accent in a given language?
Or are accents only related to post-birth personal development?
Are there ethnicities having anatomically distinct voice boxes, that have more difficulty in emulating specific accents?
I tend to...
Scientists tend to dig out information, whether it responds to an immediate problem or not. They'll mostly be working on long-term, higher risk activity, with applications that are not necessarily obvious. It's more exploratory.
Engineers work at solving an immediate problem. Less risky, and...
Case: two chemists from 3M discovered a low tack adhesive, and made it into a product we now know as post-its.
Now imagine how many post-its are sold daily around the world.
Those two scientists never got any special treatment besides their scientist salary.
Does this bother you at all...
It seems to me like every citizen should be able to understand and interpret law, so I don't get why they limit the number of students in law schools. Surely the school administrators would be able to manage an increase in admissions. In other fields, the numbers are set naturally i.e. people...
Why are you intimidated? What's so special about a physician? It's a job like another. They limit access to their profession so as to keep a high demand, and then strip the sick from their savings. They drain society's ressources, set new standards of living that everyone else try to emulate...
It's not an opinion! Colour is determined by whichever wavelengths were in the vitreous humor! It's an extra medium after air and glass and what not. No ambiguity!
In the case of nanosecond (or less) pulses of laser, one can find crystals that create harmonics of the incident beam. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_optics
And some pulsed laser systems have a wavelength that can be tuned within a certain range (again using nonlinear phenomena), but...