Sorry if I wasn't clear, I meant that most people I know seem to shower for >>2 minutes, so I doubted the credibility of the comparison.
Clearly, if you are fairly consistently sticking to 2-minutes showers, that's going to be more economical than baths -- even with some degree of sharing.
Shower flow rates are somewhere of the order of 10L/min -- potentially rather more if you're talking about power showers -- so the showers-are-more-efficient-than-baths thing is only really clear cut if you take relatively brief showers. I think some of the comparisons I've seen in the past have pointed to 2 minute showers, which seems pretty rushed, especially if you have hair to wash.
If you have a family, can you share a bath (taking turns)? That's a substantial and fairly easily-achieved saving.
If you've got a garden, adding a gray-water collection system also makes things that little bit less wasteful, at least in the summer (but I suppose that would also work with a shower too...)
Also a guide to how to usr all that to interpret medical nonclemature of mutations, like c.345G>E would be handy
Those mutation descriptions are called HGVS (Human Genome Variation Society) nomenclature. In the example you give, "c." means that it's in a (protein) coding region, 345 is the position within the region, and G>E would be the change (although E isn't a valid "letter" in DNA sequence, even if you allow ambiguity codes -- you'd normally see something like G>T there instead).
Complications include:
1) You need to know which gene this is relative to.
2) The "coding sequence" for the gene isn't always perfectly defined, due to splice variation and different versions of the annotation. Ideally, you'd see this code relative to a specific splice variant (which might have an ENST identifier, from http://www.ensembl.org/). But it depends...
Being outside on my own is pretty good in general. Walking or cycling are the defaults, but maybe count as exercise? I've recently started riding a motorbike and spin on some quiet-ish open roads can be pretty rewarding...
Those were pretty much the only reasons I continued to admire Google for as long as I did. They gave hope that the company might one day have a meaningful consumer revenue stream that isn’t advertising.
They’ve gone for “cloud services” instead. Drastically, drastically, less inspiring — and also pretty competitive. What happens if Amazon drop their prices a bit?
It's not the 100k hours. It's the very large odds they will have been for nothing, and picking up whatever is left of your life after.
That's an interesting take. But my experience is that there is a non-negligible set of people who would see a lifetime spent working on their chosen problem to be well-spent, even if they don't eventually succeed.
I realise that your numbers are only meant to be illustrative, but it's worth realising that this is "only" 65 hours a week for 40 years. A lot? Yes. More then I'd be willing to work at a typical desk job[1]? Probably. But feasible for a passion project? Definitely! (and doesn't even necessarily require starting before you hit 25, although that clearly helps...). The limiting factor is not so much that nobody can do this, but that (short of independent wealth, which I think can bring its own set of constraints and expectations) very few people ever get the opportunity to do this without a lot of interruptions. I don't think it's impossible to imagine a society where that isn't true.
[1] although... "thinking" can stack surprisingly well with some activities we'd consider leisure, like walking or (at least in my case) gardening. So maybe this isn't really going to be 65hrs/week at a desk...
Definitely try some different things and see what you like, but if you're looking for mission and impact I wouldn't completely dismiss web development. The web browser is a stupendously powerful tool for "getting things in front of people", and the combination of that plus some understanding of another area can achieve a lot. There could be opportunities to branch into scientific computing, fairly complex distributed systems, and more. Pretty much every area of computing except maybe hard-core embedded systems have a web component nowadays (and the "softer" end of the embedded market could have some good opportunities... can you imagine a consumer router with an actually-nice management interface? That's primarily a web-development problem!)